Just days after E. Jean Carroll won her sexual assault and defamation case against the Malignant Loser in a Manhattan courtroom, the deranged perp was busy defaming her again in the infamous CNN "town hall" / campaign rally. Perhaps the reckless and entitled Malignant Loser, who lacks impulse control and decency, thought in his ignorant mind that he can't be sued again for defaming her. Carroll's attorney Roberta Kaplan has news for him and his despairing attorneys (from Dahlia Lithwick's interview here):
"I knew he would continue to deny it. But once the jury came back and the CNN Town Hall was on, we knew they were going to ask about it. And we knew he wasn’t going to say, 'OK, now I admit it, I was wrong. I’m so sorry E. Jean, that I did that to you.' We knew that wasn’t gonna happen.
I think I was a little stunned that he used exactly the same language. He basically repeated the defamation in ways that make it very easy for us to not have to prove a future case on the merits, because we’re gonna get what’s called collateral estoppel or issue preclusion. So that wasn’t maybe wisest thing for him to do." (our emphasis)
Kaplan is keeping an eye on the Malignant Loser's statements both in speaking and on his failing social media site:
"...it didn’t surprise me at all that he did it. I’m watching to see if he keeps doing it, though. I mean, I think the threat of [losing] more and more money may ultimately tone down what he says at some point."
Threats won't work against the Malignant Loser, because he sees them as challenges to his damaged ego. And he's not given to toning down statements when he's playing the victim, which is constantly. However, as Kaplan knows, the one thing that the Malignant Loser responds to is money, either making it or losing it:
"One thing Donald Trump understands is money, and $5 million for Donald Trump is not nothing. And there’s really no viable appellate argument. So he’s going to have to pay that $5 million with interest sooner than he thinks he’s gonna have to pay it. [snip]
He’ll have to pay interest from the time of the judgment. Yeah. That’s 9 percent … I’m not even sure he’s got $5 million in liquidity. He may have to sell something to pay you the $5 million." (our emphasis)
As is his pattern, he'll delay and delay, counter sue and counter sue, but in this instance, he is on the hook to pay, whether it's pay now or pay later.
(photo: Trump at the CNN "town hall")
