District Judge Lewis Kaplan has said it multiple times: Donald Trump raped E. Jean Carroll in 1996. Kaplan wrote it in May 2023, when he presided over one of the trials against Trump. And he reminded jurors of the rape this week, during the latest proceedings in the multi-layered, winding rape and defamation cases brought against Trump by Carroll.

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    5 months ago

    I am not a lawyer, but according to this site: https://www.lawyers.com/legal-info/bankruptcy/bankruptcy-basics/will-filing-for-bankruptcy-stop-a-civil-lawsuit.html

    “Bankruptcy will stop almost all civil litigation matters except for family court cases involving domestic support obligations, at least temporarily.”

    He’s looking at about 400 mill from the New York Fraud trial.

    This is civil litigation. He’s going to pull the Rudy G. maneuver.

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      5 months ago

      It wouldn’t even be the first time he’s had to declare bankruptcy. For the ultra wealthy, bankruptcy doesn’t mean you’re financially ruined; It just means the bank has a bad day when they find out you aren’t repaying them.

      There’s an old saying along the lines of “If you owe the bank $100k and can’t repay it, you have a big problem. If you owe the bank $100M and can’t pay it back, the bank has a big problem.”

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        Bankruptcy doesn’t mean you don’t have to pay the debts, it means the court is given control of your finances and decides who gets paid from it if you don’t have enough to pay everyone. Declaring bankruptcy would result in his accounts being wiped out.