President Trumps first 100 days;

Distant Lover · Mar 7, 2024

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'You're on the verge of spending some time in lock-up': Habba warned as trial resumes
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-habba-e-jean-carroll/

Alina Habba again threatened with 'consequences' as she launches closing arguments
https://www.rawstory.com/alina-habba-trial-2667097233/

Habba's closing 'did the seemingly impossible' and made Trump's 'position worse': expert
https://www.rawstory.com/alina-habba-trump-2667098379/

'Classless, obnoxious': Legal experts sum up performance of Trump's now infamous attorney
https://www.rawstory.com/classless-obnoxious-alina-habba-s-performance-has/
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This is what Trump gets for preferring a pretty lawyer to a competent one.

She seems to have a Trump like personality.

stumbler · Mar 8, 2024

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E. Jean Carroll lawyer scoffs at Trump's effort to dodge $83.3M ruling in new court filing

Kathleen Culliton
March 4, 2024 10:23PM ET

Writer E. Jean Carroll and former President Donald Trump. Photos by GWR/Star Max/GC Images and Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images

E. Jean Carroll's lawyer Monday slapped back after former President Donald Trump demanded a stay on the $83.3 million a federal court order him to pay the woman he was found liable for defaming, court records show.

Roberta Kaplan filed a letter to Manhattan federal court Judge Lewis Kaplan challenging Trump's motion on a stay of execution in no uncertain terms.

"He (incorrectly) claims that we mischaracterized Second Circuit law," Roberta Kaplan writes.

The case in question involved a Long Island strip search case in Nassau County in which the defendant was allowed to stay the ruling because they proved they could come up with the cash, the attorney writes.

She explains the problem she found with Trump's interpretation.

"The requesting party must offer some 'alternative means,'" writes Kaplan, "the whole point of which is to make sure the appellee will be made whole in the event she succeeds on appeal."

Kaplan then chastises Trump — also found liable for more than $450 million in fraud — for providing no proof that he'll have the damages he was ordered to pay Carroll.

"In Nassau, those alternative means consisted of a dedicated and readily collectible governmental appropriation," Kaplan writes. "Here, in stark contrast, Trump offers no alternative means other than his own unsubstantiated say so that he will have $83.3 million available when Carroll prevails on appeal."

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-e-jean-carroll-2667428377/
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Trump denied stay on E. Jean Carroll verdict — judge cites 'his own dilatory actions'

Matthew Chapman
March 7, 2024 5:33PM ET

Former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Waco Regional Airport on March 25, 2023, in Waco, Texas. - Brandon Bell/Getty Images North America/TNS

Former President Donald Trump has lost his bid to get another extension on having to pay the judgment in the E. Jean Carroll verdict.

According to Politico's Kyle Cheney, Judge Lewis Kaplan has stated that Trump only has himself to blame for his current financial difficulty in paying the damages he owes to Carroll.

"Mr. Trump's current situation is a result of his own dilatory actions," he wrote in his order. "He has had since January 26 to organize his finances with the knowledge that he might need to bond his judgment, yet he waited until 25 days after the jury verdict — and only shortly before the expiration of Rule 62's automatic 30-day stay of any judgment — to file his prior motion for an unsecured or partially secured stay pending resolution of post-trial motions."

ALSO READ: ‘We're wounded:’ Speaker Mike Johnson struggles to lead GOP after ‘unnecessary purging’

The ruling means that Trump will have to put up a bond for the judgment while he tries to appeal to a higher court.

Trump was found liable for $83.3 million in a series of defamation and sexual abuse findings from cases brought by Carroll, who alleges the former president raped her in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s. Trump has denied the allegations, claiming he doesn't even know who Carroll is and that she is fabricating the claim to advance her writing career — which formed the basis for her defamation claim.

This comes as Trump also tries to hold off on paying the even larger $464 million judgment in New York Attorney General Letitia James' civil fraud suit for lying about the valuation of Trump Organization properties.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-denied-stay-e-jean-carroll/

stumbler · Mar 8, 2024

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Trump’s White House Was ‘Awash in Speed’ — and Xanax
Under Trump, the White House Medical Unit was “like the Wild West,” and staffers had easy access to powerful stimulants and sedatives, sources tell Rolling Stone
By
Noah Shachtman, Asawin Suebsaeng
March 3, 2024

Then-President Donald Trump speaks in the White House on April 1, 2020 in Washington, D.C. Win McNamee/Getty Images
If you ever looked at the actions of the Trump White House and wondered, ‘Are they on drugs?’ — the answer was, in some cases, yes. Absolutely, yes.

In January, the Defense Department’s inspector general released a report detailing how the White House Medical Unit during the Trump administration distributed controlled substances with scant oversight and even sloppier record keeping. Investigators repeatedly noted that the unit had ordered thousands and thousands of doses of the stimulant modafinil, which has been used by military pilots for decades to stay alert during long missions.

The report didn’t say why so many of those pills had been given out. But for many who served in the Trump White House, the investigation highlighted an open secret. According to interviews with four former senior administration officials and others with knowledge of the matter, the stimulant was routinely given to staffers who needed an energy boost after a late night, or just a pick-me-up to handle another day at a uniquely stressful job. As one of the former officials tells Rolling Stone, the White House at that time was “awash in speed.”

Knowledgeable sources say that samples of the stimulant were passed around for those contributing lines to major Trump speeches, working late hours on foreign policy initiatives, responding to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, coping with the deluge of media inquiries about that investigation, and so much more. (Trump’s campaign did not respond to an email seeking comment for this story.)

Modafinil — also known by its brand name, Provigil — wasn’t the only controlled substance that Trump officials young and old routinely acquired. “It was kind of like the Wild West. Things were pretty loose. Whatever someone needs, we were going to fill this,” one source with direct knowledge of the matter recalls.

The anti-anxiety medication Xanax was also a popular, easy-to-get drug during the Trump years, three sources tell us. Neither Xanax nor its generic, alprazolam, is mentioned in the Pentagon report, which notes that it is not a comprehensive list of the controlled substances ordered during the Trump years. Two people with direct knowledge of the situation recall senior officials getting Xanax from the White House Medical Unit — and sharing it with colleagues.

The Trump administration was well known for its chaotic, often-erratic approach to policymaking — and for its atmosphere of paranoia, where staffers regularly spilled their colleagues’ secrets and bureaucratic factions often spent as much energy attacking one another as addressing matters of state. It’s impossible to know how much of that was fueled by the widespread availability of drugs like Xanax and Provigil. But what’s clear is that there was a breakdown of medical standards and safeguards at the highest levels of the American government; some staffers even believed that confidential information about their mental health was at risk. With Trump pushing to return to power on an agenda even more vicious than his first, a full accounting of the misuse of powerful stimulants and sedatives by his staff isn’t just a matter of historical interest. It’s a preview of a very possible future.

During Trump’s presidency, two sources say, senior staffers would repeatedly down Xanax with alcohol. Such a combination increases the risk of “serious, life-threatening side effects,” according to the National Library of Medicine. Nevertheless, senior officials would use Xanax and alcohol together to soothe themselves while enduring the sky-high levels of stress that come with working at the highest pressure environment job in America — with the added pleasure of serving the whims of the infamously volatile, intemperate Trump.

As one former senior administration official puts it: “You try working for him and not chasing pills with alcohol.”

THE WHITE HOUSE MEDICAL UNIT has been handing out prescription medications to staffers for decades — especially when they’re traveling abroad, and need to combat jet lag. “I think any White House staff knows that overseas trips are very grueling,” Stephanie Grisham, Trump’s former White House press secretary, recalls. “For us, you’d be on a flight with a president who never sleeps, and then you hit the ground running in a foreign country, and you have to be alert and ready for the president and other foreign leaders.”

She describes a procedure broadly familiar to staffers across administrations: On overseas trips, physician to the president Dr. Ronny Jackson “would come around Air Force One asking Donald Trump’s senior staff if they needed anything. This included Provigil and [the sleep aid] Ambien, and he would hand them out, typically in the form of packets with two or three pills in them. When this happened on Air Force One, a nurse would be trailing him, writing down who got what.”

It’s back home where things got sloppier, the Defense Department investigation and our sources note. Pills were often handed out without a specific need or diagnosis. Black-and-white procedures that doctors and pharmacists routinely follow when prescribing controlled substances were ignored. Orders for pills were often written down incorrectly, or not at all. One former White House Medical Unit staffer told Pentagon investigators that the unit “work[ed] in the gray… helping anybody who needs help to get this mission done.” Another said, “Is it being done appropriately or legally all the time? No. But are they going to get to that end result that the bosses want? Yeah.”

So while prescription drugs have long been in the White House — John F. Kennedy reportedly took a cocktail of uppers and downers to fight back pain, and Richard Nixon allegedly took an anti-epileptic drug “when his mood wasn’t too good” — they have rarely been dispensed as widely as they were in the Trump years.

Then-President Donald Trump participates in a briefing at the White House on April 21, 2020. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
The anything-anytime-anywhere approach inspired a sense of entitlement among Trump staffers. Some senior administration officials would casually mention their Xanax intake, one source with direct knowledge of the matter recalls. The source describes a time when an aide to Melania Trump walked into the White House Medical Unit and said, “‘Could you prescribe me Xanax.’ She just came in and demanded it.” The source wasn’t a doctor or pharmacist, however, and wasn’t allowed to prescribe the anti-anxiety drug. The source politely turned the aide down. “She stormed out,” the source says.

This is not, to put it mildly, how these drugs are ordinarily handled. “We tightly track controlled substances like this because they’re addictive or can cause overdoses,” says Dr. Beata Lewis, a psychiatrist based in Brooklyn. “It sounds like with all of these substances, people could get whatever they wanted. That puts people at risk for addiction.”

She adds: “The significant thing is these rules apply to everyone … except for the White House. It’s a culture of entitlement and being above the rules to the point of putting people in danger.”

There wasn’t much the medical unit staffers could do, even if they wanted to hold the line. Several told Pentagon investigators “they feared they would receive negative work assignments or be “fired” if they spoke out.

ADDING TO THE CLIMATE OF FEAR was the sense that even private therapy sessions would not be kept private in the Trump White House. The medical unit provided psychological counseling on request. But White House staffers were instructed to be on their guard. One former senior administration official tells Rolling Stone that within the first two years of the Trump presidency, they were warned by a colleague against divulging anything during a private White House medical session that they “would not want to be used against” them. At the time, this source notes, this puzzled the official, who was then told that under Trump, the office had a reputation for being more porous with private information “than you might expect.”

The former administration official didn’t think much of it at the time. The source shrugged the warning off as mere gossip and moved on. However, according to other individuals with intimate knowledge of the matter, it was hardly an idle rumor. Immediately after counseling sessions, therapists were pressed for information about what they were told.

“They’d say, ‘We need you to see this person.’ They’d walk me over there. I’d see this person. Then as soon as I got out, they would ask, ‘Hey what happened?’” one of these sources tells us. To this source, this was a blatant violation of patient confidentiality. The source would try to be as vague as possible in their responses to the questions, but in the Trump White House, “it was all kind of open kimono,” they say.

Keith Bass, who led the White House Medical Unit from 2017 to 2019, confirms that these sorts of debriefs did, in fact, happen after counseling sessions. But he says they never went into details; they were merely to determine whether a “medical/behavioral health event” would prevent a “military/DoD staff” member “from performing their duties or impac[t] their ability to maintain a [top secret] clearance while assigned to the White House,” Bass says in an email. “Detailed clinical notes were not required from the psychologist; only a broad overview to determine fitness for duty status.”

Our source says that’s not entirely accurate. For starters, these debriefs happened after therapy sessions with civilian staffers as well. And while the questions may have been “seemingly innocent,” the source says they could be seen as the start of a “slippery slope,” which would then “drif[t] down into asking for information that was not appropriate.”

The White House Medical Unit’s often casual approach to giving out controlled substances didn’t exactly inspire confidence. “The sloppiness around handing out medications had me highly concerned about the protection of behavioral health information — medical information at large. There was no protection of sensitive patient information, period,” the source says.

Any attempts to add more rigor were entirely unwelcome, the source adds. “The more I held to professional standards” — the more the source objected to the pressure to divulge details about therapy sessions, and to keep patient information private — the worse it got. White House staffers “ostracized me,” the source says. “Nobody would talk to me. The culture was toxic as fuck.”

MODAFINIL WAS DISCOVERED in the 1970s by French scientists and was first handed out to pilots to help keep them awake and on task in the 1991 Gulf War. The U.S. military started to use modafinil in earnest around the 2003 invasion of Iraq. At the time, it was heralded as a massive improvement over previous stimulants: stronger and more effective than caffeine, less physically addictive than amphetamines. “These medications aren’t stimulants like the old military ‘go pills,’ there are few if any side effects when taken as prescribed. They simply stave off drowsiness until the medication wears off, then you naturally fall asleep,” one knowledgeable source writes.

But that “taken as prescribed” caveat is crucial. When handed out willy-nilly, outside a doctor’s supervision, modafinil can pose serious risks, notes Dr. Rachel Teodorini, a researcher at London South Bank University’s division of psychology who has examined the drug and its effects. “If people have cardiovascular problems, heart problems, or blood pressure issues, it could cause things like strokes or heart attacks,” she tells us. And while modafinil doesn’t appear to physically hook patients, “there’s an element of at least psychological dependence. Tolerance builds up, and you need more and more.”

Modafinil tablets. Alamy Stock Photo
As a recent study in the journal Military Medicine notes, “although modafinil was initially said to comprise no risk for abuse, there are now indications that modafinil works on the same neurobiological mechanisms as other addictive stimulants.”

And just like with other stimulants, the overuse of modafinil can lead to the perceived need for anti-anxiety medications like Xanax. “Effectively, you’re using one drug to get you up and another to get you down,” Teodorini said.

Some former Trump staffers tell Rolling Stone they didn’t get these drugs directly from the White House Medical Unit. One former Trump White House aide concedes they “borrowed” some modafinil from “a friend,” who said they’d gotten it from the unit. “I had a lot going on in my life and I wanted some,” they say.

In other administrations, modafinil was used “99 percent of the time” for jet lag, one source notes. The Trump White House was a free-for-all. Two other sources each independently compared the White House during those years to college campuses where students cramming for finals or pulling all-nighters would pass around Adderall and other drugs, prescriptions be damned. But it wasn’t just the administration’s junior staffers — the recent college grads — who partook. The sources add that midlevel and certain senior officials — including those who reported to then-President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump — came to rely on modafinil, as well. The sources and former senior Trump officials, who all requested anonymity to discuss sensitive matters, recall instances of staff casually slipping the medical unit-provided stimulant to one another, in efforts to stay focused and help navigate the exhausting chaos of the Trump presidency.

It was “ironic” that Trump’s White House was “one place the war on drugs wasn’t being fought,” one of the former officials sardonically notes, given Trump and many of his lieutenants’ zeal for waging the international war on drugs.

NEARLY EVERY SOURCE INTERVIEWED for this story traced the problems with the White House Medical Unit back to Jackson, who joined the team during the George W. Bush administration and became physician to President Barack Obama in 2013. Before then, he was known as an eccentric. Afterward, he became a menace, as several Defense Department investigations detail.

On a trip to Argentina in March 2016, one of those reports notes, Jackson’s “intoxicated behavior in the middle of the night, pounding on [a female subordinate’s] hotel room door, screaming, yelling, and overall loud behavior in his hotel room exhibited less than exemplary workplace conduct while on official travel to provide medical care for the President.” The Pentagon interviewed 60 of Jackson’s former subordinates; 56 “experienced, saw, or heard about [him] yelling, screaming, cursing, or belittling subordinates.” During a six-week stretch in 2018, a Defense Department hotline received 12 complaints” about Jackson.

Jackson’s office did not respond to a request for comment. After this story was published, he complained on X that Rolling Stone is “nothing but a liberal rag,” and demanded the names of our sources.

His nomination to become Secretary of Veterans Affairs that same year was derailed over accusations he handed out pills to White House staffers like a “candyman.” (In one case, a Senate report noted, medical staffers fell “into a panic” because he had given such “a large supply” of Percocet pain pills to a member of the White House Military Office.)

Then-President Donald Trump looks to White House physician Ronny Jackson during an event at the White House on Aug. 3, 2017. Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty Images
Jackson briefly returned to the White House as Trump’s “chief medical adviser” in 2019 before running for Congress. But no matter what position he held, several sources tell us, his influence dominated medical care at the Trump White House, and Jackson’s “minions” and “loyalists” ran the White House Medical Unit in his stead. “Any practices existing at that time were all set up by Jackson, who’d been there for a dozen years. Though the med unit was led by an administrator, little happened without his say-so,” one of those sources say.

The source adds, “Unit leadership did slowly start making appropriate changes, but due to [the] complicated nature of missions, individual expectations within the organization, a self-imposed cone of silence and fear of being held liable for sins of the father, it took a long time to find the right way forward.”

OUR INTEREST IN THIS STORY was sparked, in part, by a handwritten ledger reprinted on page 14 of the January inspector general’s report: a tracking form for the controlled substances ordered by the White House Medical Unit. In addition to the thousands of pills of Ambien and Provigil listed are even more potent sedatives and pain pills: morphine, hydrocodone, diazepam and lorazepam (better known by their brand names, Valium and Ativan), fentanyl, and even ketamine.

Jackson, now a Republican congressman from Texas, told the Washington Post that his team prescribed narcotics “less than five times” across his tenure. And according to the paper’s sources, drugs like fentanyl were “kept on hand for extreme emergencies — such as a White House fence jumper impaling themselves on a spike.”

That’s a ridiculous example, a well-placed source tells us. “Someone just made up something. If there was a jumper, someone would call 911,” the source says. The jumper would then be transferred to a nearby civilian hospital.

But there was a grain of truth to the idea that the medical unit retained fentanyl and the like for extreme events. In the wake of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, there was a desire to bring the advances in battlefield medicine to the White House. If the president or vice president were to get shot in a remote location, far from any hospital, the unit’s physicians wanted to be able to insert a breathing tube into the VIP almost instantaneously, a process known as “rapid sequence induction and intubation.” Doing that requires sedating the patient in a hurry with powerful drugs.

“The unit employed the world’s standards in pre-hospital trauma care, as directed by the DoD’s Joint Trauma System & Committee on tactical-combat casualty-care guidelines. That includes the use of ketamine, fentanyl, etc. for pain management,” a second knowledgeable source writes. “The whole mission is contingency planning for providing most/best possible care for the worst/craziest scenarios.”

Needless to say, they never encountered a scenario that nuts. And we didn’t uncover any evidence that ketamine or fentanyl were handed out to White House staff the way Xanax and Provigil were.

But as the handwritten ledger shows — and our sources confirm — the medical unit’s procedures had grown so sloppy, so lax, that it’s impossible to prove the negative, that these sedatives and dissociatives weren’t given to White House staff. “In our analysis of the White House Medical Unit’s controlled substance records, we found that medications, such as opioids and sleep medications, were not properly accounted for,” the inspector general’s report reads. “These records frequently contained errors in the medication counts, illegible text, or crossed-out text that was not appropriately annotated.”

That might sound like minor errors in paperwork. They’re not. They’re the kind of transgressions that turn patients into addicts, and doctors into ex-doctors. “If you’re sloppy even a little bit with controlled substances, you’ll lose your [medical] license,” one source notes. Without proper record keeping, there’s no way to say just how much of the Trump White House was on drugs. There’s no way to tell how they might use — and abuse — prescription medications if they come back to power. “Nothing is written down,” another source says of the unit’s drug distribution during the Trump years, “because we will always get to yes.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politi...ump-white-house-drugs-speed-xanax-1234979503/
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Trump's ex-doctor demoted by Navy for inappropriate behavior in White House

Travis Gettys
March 7, 2024 10:27AM ET

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee to be U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Navy Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, meets with Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) at his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., April 17, 2018. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX), the former White House physician, was demoted by the U.S. Navy following an inspector general's report that found he acted inappropriately while serving under then-president Donald Trump.

The Navy demoted the two-term congressman from a retired admiral to captain, which carries serious financial implications and a social stigma among military circles, after the Pentagon inspector general faulted him for creating a hostile work environment and drinking and taking drugs while on duty as the president's doctor, reported the Washington Post.

“The substantiated allegations in the DoDIG [Department of Defense Office of Inspector General] investigation of Rear Adm (lower half) Ronny Jackson are not in keeping with the standards the Navy requires of its leaders and, as such, the Secretary of the Navy took administrative action in July 2022,” said Lt. Cmdr. Joe Keiley, a Navy spokesperson.

Keiley declined to comment on Jackson's current rank or confirm his demotion, but the GOP congressman continues to refer to himself as a retired rear admiral, as do the former president and other Republicans.

ALSO READ: ‘Worst scenario’: Republican senator feeling used and abused by MAGA

“While it is possible that others will mistakenly refer to him as ‘Admiral’ in perpetuity, he himself should not make that mistake,” said Katherine L. Kuzminski, a military policy expert at Center for a New American Security.

A Navy official confirmed the service branch took unspecified action against Jackson in response to the 2021 inspector general report, which found that he berated subordinates, “made sexual and denigrating statements” toward a woman who served under him, and took the sleep drug Ambien and drank alcohol with subordinates while on duty.

The annual pension payment for a retired one-star admiral, as Jackson was when he retired in December 2019, is more than $15,000 higher than what a retired captain would draw, according to Kuzminski, and that gap will likely widen over time with periodic rate increases.

https://www.rawstory.com/admiral-ronny-jackson/
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I wonder if the Navy can't and/or won't do something about Candyman Jackson lying about his rank. He is not a "rear admiral." He's been busted all the way back down to Captain and should not be allowed to lie about that. Its a form of stolen valor.

Trump’s Favorite Doctor Has Been Lying About His Military Rank: Report
Nikki McCann Ramirez
Thu, March 7, 2024 at 9:14 AM MST·4 min read
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Former White House physician and current House Rep. leaving the page." data-wf-tooltip-position="bottom" data-wf-reset-every="90">Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) left the West Wing in 2019 amid a fog of allegations of inappropriate workplace conduct and alcohol abuse while on the job. Since his departure, he’s claimed the rank of a retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral in his public statements, but according to a report from The Washington Post, Jackson was quietly demoted in 2022 to the rank of Captain after the release of a scathing report on his behavior by the Pentagon’s inspector general.

In 2018, the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (OIG) received a slew of complaints regarding Jackson’s conduct as the White House physician. The department opened an investigation into the allegations of alcohol abuse, unchecked rage, and sexual harassment towards other staffers. The investigation was stalled for some time over objections from the Trump administration, but the report released by the OIG in 2021 ultimately found that Jackson’s “overall course of conduct toward subordinates disparaged, belittled, bullied, and humiliated them, and fostered a negative work environment”; that Jackson “made sexual and denigrating statements” about his female colleagues; and “engaged in inappropriate conduct involving the use of Alcohol.”

According to the Post, in the aftermath of the report’s release Jackson was demoted from his rank as Rear Admiral, which he held through his retirement in 2019. A current Defense Department official and a former U.S. official anonymously confirmed the previously unreported sanction to the Post. A demotion of that nature would carry severe financial penalties for servicemembers, including a massive decrease in their retirement pension.

Trump and Jackson maintained a close relationship while the former president was in office, and through the physician’s career in Congress. Jackson infamously delivered a lengthy press conference in which he gushed about Trump’s health and cognitive abilities, praised his “good genes” and claimed that if Trump had eaten a little less fast food he “might live to be 200 years old.” As a candidate for office, Jackson leaned heavily into Trumpsim, at one point lauding the former president as the “MAGA King.” To this day, Trump often cites Jackson when defending his health and mental acuity.

Jackson himself has maintained that the allegations of misconduct against him and the OIG’s findings were little more than a political hit job intended to punish him for supporting former president Trump, and still refers to himself as a retired Rear Admiral on his website.

While Jackson ultimately left the White House and made a successful run for Congress, his actions as White House physician have continued to haunt him even before he left Trump’s employment. In 2018, Jackson’s nomination for a position as Secretary of Veterans Affairs fell apart after the allegations of his misconduct — and his not-so-secret- reputation as the White House’s drug “candyman” — threatened to tank his Senate confirmation.

In January, a report from OIG found that in the years Jackson served as the president’s physician, the White House Medical Unit’s pharmacy acted as a poorly regulated pill mill for administration staffers, distributing prescription medication with little oversight, inappropriate record keeping, and spending absurd amounts of money on brand name medications.

White Jackson was not directly implicated in that investigation, Rolling Stone recently reported that medications like Xanax and Modafinil were available practically over the counter to staffers. Stephanie Grisham, Trump’s former White House said Jackson “would come around Air Force One asking Donald Trump’s senior staff if they needed anything. This included Provigil and [the sleep aid] Ambien, and he would hand them out, typically in the form of packets with two or three pills in them. When this happened on Air Force One, a nurse would be trailing him, writing down who got what.”

Many of the staffers who spoke to Rolling Stone pointed to Jackson as the source of the dysfunction in the White House Medical Unit. “Any practices existing at that time were all set up by Jackson, who’d been there for a dozen years. Though the med unit was led by an administrator, little happened without his say-so,” one source said

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-favorite-doctor-lying-military-161426154.html

shootersa · Mar 8, 2024

Wonder if they pay american hater when he just repeats the same old lies over and over.
They must.
That new laptop won't be paying for itself, eh american hater?

stumbler · Mar 9, 2024

'Sit this one out': Trump 'pill mill' doc called out for saying Biden is 'overmedicated'

Matthew Chapman
March 8, 2024 9:48PM ET

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee to be U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Navy Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, meets with Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) at his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., April 17, 2018. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

President Joe Biden's State of the Union Address was broadly well-received by viewers and pundits alike — and did a lot to challenge worries that he lacked the energy at his age to mount an energetic campaign for the White House. In fact, he was so energetic that Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) had a conspiracy theory about why.

"Wow! They over medicated him! Angry, confused, and yelling," Jackson posted to his social media. "I think Hunter may be prescribing his drugs now!"

Jackson's statement earned him heaps of scorn from commenters on social media — most of whom reminded him he was the last one who should be talking, as reporting alleged he handed out drugs freely and was drunk and doped up on Ambien on the job when he served as the White House doctor.

ALSO READ: 'What a piece of work': Marjorie Greene's 'childish' SOTU response trashed by Senate Dems

"Perhaps the guy who ran a pill mill out of the White House and was demoted from Admiral for chasing Ambien with booze on the job should sit this one out," posted Allison Gill, a veteran and comedian better known as Mueller, She Wrote.

"Ronny Jackson handed fentanyl out like it was candy when Trump was in White House," posted "JoJoFromJerz."

"If anyone knows about over medicating, it’s you Captain," wrote former CIA officer and national security analyst John Sipher.

"Hey captain! my captain! (now that the Navy has demoted you)" wrote photojournalist Pete Souza. "The only ones medicated are the Trump staff members that you fed drugs to without a prescription. Did you also drug Trump too? The Washington Post is on it."

"Irony is OFFICIALLY on life support," posted celebrity hairstylist Elgin Charles. "Focus on your sobriety instead of trying to make quips that will please Mango Mussolini."

https://www.rawstory.com/ronny-jackson-pill-mill-biden-overmedicated/

shootersa · Mar 9, 2024

Not "Trump pill mill doc"
But "Obama pill mill doc"

Cause, as we've pointed out several times now, Obama hired the doc at issue, not Trump.
And had 8 years to find and fix the problem.
But Obama didn't, did he?
Trump fixed the problem in two years, although that wasn't his intent, was it?

But whatever.
When its american hater and he's copy N pasted wrong story we always know there's more to the story.

Always.

And its fun to point it out sometimes, cause american hater starts twirling and peeing himself in frustration that yet another propaganda piece has been exposed.

Oh, and by the way, the pill mill doc is right.
brandon was so clearly over medicated.

mstrman · Mar 9, 2024

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stumbler · Mar 9, 2024

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Trump denied stay on E. Jean Carroll verdict — judge cites 'his own dilatory actions'

Matthew Chapman
March 7, 2024 5:33PM ET

Former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Waco Regional Airport on March 25, 2023, in Waco, Texas. - Brandon Bell/Getty Images North America/TNS

Former President Donald Trump has lost his bid to get another extension on having to pay the judgment in the E. Jean Carroll verdict.

According to Politico's Kyle Cheney, Judge Lewis Kaplan has stated that Trump only has himself to blame for his current financial difficulty in paying the damages he owes to Carroll.

"Mr. Trump's current situation is a result of his own dilatory actions," he wrote in his order. "He has had since January 26 to organize his finances with the knowledge that he might need to bond his judgment, yet he waited until 25 days after the jury verdict — and only shortly before the expiration of Rule 62's automatic 30-day stay of any judgment — to file his prior motion for an unsecured or partially secured stay pending resolution of post-trial motions."

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The ruling means that Trump will have to put up a bond for the judgment while he tries to appeal to a higher court.

Trump was found liable for $83.3 million in a series of defamation and sexual abuse findings from cases brought by Carroll, who alleges the former president raped her in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s. Trump has denied the allegations, claiming he doesn't even know who Carroll is and that she is fabricating the claim to advance her writing career — which formed the basis for her defamation claim.

This comes as Trump also tries to hold off on paying the even larger $464 million judgment in New York Attorney General Letitia James' civil fraud suit for lying about the valuation of Trump Organization properties.

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'Matter of national security': Entity behind Trump’s $91M bond guarantee draws scrutiny

Carl Gibson, AlterNet
March 9, 2024 7:35AM ET

Scott Olson/Getty Images

After US District Judge Lewis F. Kaplan denied his petition for a stay, former President Donald Trump finally posted a $91.6 million bond for his appeal of writer E. Jean Carroll's judgment on Friday.

That $91.63 million includes the full $83.3 million judgment, along with a 9% statutory interest the State of New York tacks onto surety bonds. That money has been set aside in a court-managed account to be paid to Carroll in the event Trump loses his appeal. The ex-president's bond was guaranteed by the Federal Insurance Company — a New York-based subsidiary of the company Chubb Group LLC, which is headquartered in Switzerland. In 2018, Chubb CEO Evan Greenberg served on a trade advisory committee in the Trump White House. The Washington Post reported that "it was not clear from court records what collateral Trump presented to obtain the bond from Chubb."

The environmental nonprofit group Rainforest Action Network (RAN) noted on its website that Chubb does business around the world, including with several major American adversaries. The group pointed out that Chubb is "insuring oil and gas extraction and transport in Russia, fueling Russia’s war on Ukraine."

ALSO READ: A criminologist explains why half of America does not care about Trump's crimes

"In fact, Chubb called Russian oil and gas 'one of the most promising activities' of its Russian operations,'" RAN wrote. "The insurer was recently backing Nord Stream 2, a massive, controversial natural gas pipeline built by Gazprom, the world’s largest producer of gas and a majority Russian state-owned fossil fuel company (which also happens to be funded by JPMorgan Chase)."

Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann tweeted Friday that while Trump is "$90M down, $400M to go," the details of the bond agreement are murky and that "the public has no idea who may have actually put up the money or provided a guaranty to support the bond."

"But one thing’s sure: Trump is beholden to someone for a lot of money," Weissmann wrote.

In response to Weissmann's tweet, attorney and journalist Daniel Miller expressed concern, opining that the bond guarantee was a "matter of national security," adding "the public has to know this information before voting in November."

Notably, the Post reported Chubb's CEO was vocal in his disdain for the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol, condemning "the violence and display of demagoguery we witnessed in our nation’s capital."

"We should all hope for a new era of respect and decency as we meet the many common challenges facing our nation," Greenberg said the day after the capitol riot.

Trump has yet to post his bond for appealing the $454 million civil judgment that he's been ordered to pay to the State of New York after losing his civil fraud case. Earlier this week, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said Trump may seek out foreign help to pay that judgment, particularly since American financial institutions may hesitate to give a loan to an adjudicated fraudster. In February, a judge denied Trump's request to pay a $100 million bond, suggesting Trump may not have the cash to cover the judgment on his own despite his multibillion-dollar net worth.

"What does that mean if a candidate for president is is on the hook for multiple, multiple millions of dollars to a foreign source? Because that, it seems to me, is the most likely source," Toobin said.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-e-jean-carroll-bond/

shootersa · Mar 9, 2024

Whatever it takes.
Illegal
Immoral
Unethical

Whatever it takes, eh american hater?

stumbler · Mar 10, 2024

Everyone either knew or should have known Trump is too mentally ill to not keep defaming E Jean Carroll. And I am betting she and her legal team are going to pounce.

Trump's E. Jean Carroll bond in danger after he hands her lawyers new ammo: expert

Tom Boggioni
March 10, 2024 9:42AM ET

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 3: Former U.S. President Donald Trump appears in the courtroom with his lawyers for his civil fraud trial at New York State Supreme Court on October 03, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Shannon Stapleton-Pool/Getty Images)

At a rally in Georgia on Saturday night, Donald Trump launched a fresh attack on writer E. Jean Carroll that may hand the New York writer's lawyers reason to file a new lawsuit against him as well as kill the $92 million appeals bond he just posted on Friday.

Appearing with the hosts on MSNBC's "The Weekend," legal analyst Lisa Rubin was stunned at the former president creating new problems for himself after the judge in the two trials gave Carroll's attorneys the option of opposing the bond.

"You would think at this point, Lisa Rubin, we would no longer be surprised by his lack of discipline. But the thing we kept coming back to when this sum was ordered, is this number big enough to make him stop? We now have an answer," co-host Alicia Menedez prompted the analyst.

ALSO READ: A criminologist explains why half of America does not care about Trump's crimes

"You're right we do have an answer," Rubin replied. "It was enough to make him stop until he was past a point that the judge could no longer order more, have any further consequences for it. I mean, I'm struck by the fact, Alicia, he said these things the night after he posted a bond, filed his notice of appeal the judge has long past finalized."

"Should E. Jean Carroll and her team want any further relief now their only option is to file another case," she added. "The punitive damage was as great as it was because Donald Trump kept saying it after the initial judgment. The argument they made was that he was not deterred by the first award, and in fact, continued to say it again and again and again."

Asked "What is E. Jean Carroll's recourse now?" she replied, "You know, I wish I could get into their heads right now. I think her recourse here is to sue again or at the very least to oppose the bond, which is an option that Judge [Lewis] Kaplan gave them. Judge Kaplan said if they want to oppose the bond in any respect, they have until Monday. That's tomorrow,at 11:00. If they do oppose it, it will be in Manhattan federal court."

Watch below or at the link.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-e-jean-carroll-2667477539/

Lxv200 · Mar 10, 2024

stumbler said: ↑

'Matter of national security': Entity behind Trump’s $91M bond guarantee draws scrutiny

Carl Gibson, AlterNet
March 9, 2024 7:35AM ET

Scott Olson/Getty Images

After US District Judge Lewis F. Kaplan denied his petition for a stay, former President Donald Trump finally posted a $91.6 million bond for his appeal of writer E. Jean Carroll's judgment on Friday.

That $91.63 million includes the full $83.3 million judgment, along with a 9% statutory interest the State of New York tacks onto surety bonds. That money has been set aside in a court-managed account to be paid to Carroll in the event Trump loses his appeal. The ex-president's bond was guaranteed by the Federal Insurance Company — a New York-based subsidiary of the company Chubb Group LLC, which is headquartered in Switzerland. In 2018, Chubb CEO Evan Greenberg served on a trade advisory committee in the Trump White House. The Washington Post reported that "it was not clear from court records what collateral Trump presented to obtain the bond from Chubb."

The environmental nonprofit group Rainforest Action Network (RAN) noted on its website that Chubb does business around the world, including with several major American adversaries. The group pointed out that Chubb is "insuring oil and gas extraction and transport in Russia, fueling Russia’s war on Ukraine."

ALSO READ: A criminologist explains why half of America does not care about Trump's crimes

"In fact, Chubb called Russian oil and gas 'one of the most promising activities' of its Russian operations,'" RAN wrote. "The insurer was recently backing Nord Stream 2, a massive, controversial natural gas pipeline built by Gazprom, the world’s largest producer of gas and a majority Russian state-owned fossil fuel company (which also happens to be funded by JPMorgan Chase)."

Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann tweeted Friday that while Trump is "$90M down, $400M to go," the details of the bond agreement are murky and that "the public has no idea who may have actually put up the money or provided a guaranty to support the bond."

"But one thing’s sure: Trump is beholden to someone for a lot of money," Weissmann wrote.

In response to Weissmann's tweet, attorney and journalist Daniel Miller expressed concern, opining that the bond guarantee was a "matter of national security," adding "the public has to know this information before voting in November."

Notably, the Post reported Chubb's CEO was vocal in his disdain for the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol, condemning "the violence and display of demagoguery we witnessed in our nation’s capital."

"We should all hope for a new era of respect and decency as we meet the many common challenges facing our nation," Greenberg said the day after the capitol riot.

Trump has yet to post his bond for appealing the $454 million civil judgment that he's been ordered to pay to the State of New York after losing his civil fraud case. Earlier this week, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said Trump may seek out foreign help to pay that judgment, particularly since American financial institutions may hesitate to give a loan to an adjudicated fraudster. In February, a judge denied Trump's request to pay a $100 million bond, suggesting Trump may not have the cash to cover the judgment on his own despite his multibillion-dollar net worth.

"What does that mean if a candidate for president is is on the hook for multiple, multiple millions of dollars to a foreign source? Because that, it seems to me, is the most likely source," Toobin said.

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Shekels or Roubles?

Distant Lover · Mar 10, 2024

stumbler said: ↑

'Matter of national security': Entity behind Trump’s $91M bond guarantee draws scrutiny

Carl Gibson, AlterNet
March 9, 2024 7:35AM ET

Scott Olson/Getty Images

After US District Judge Lewis F. Kaplan denied his petition for a stay, former President Donald Trump finally posted a $91.6 million bond for his appeal of writer E. Jean Carroll's judgment on Friday.

That $91.63 million includes the full $83.3 million judgment, along with a 9% statutory interest the State of New York tacks onto surety bonds. That money has been set aside in a court-managed account to be paid to Carroll in the event Trump loses his appeal. The ex-president's bond was guaranteed by the Federal Insurance Company — a New York-based subsidiary of the company Chubb Group LLC, which is headquartered in Switzerland. In 2018, Chubb CEO Evan Greenberg served on a trade advisory committee in the Trump White House. The Washington Post reported that "it was not clear from court records what collateral Trump presented to obtain the bond from Chubb."

The environmental nonprofit group Rainforest Action Network (RAN) noted on its website that Chubb does business around the world, including with several major American adversaries. The group pointed out that Chubb is "insuring oil and gas extraction and transport in Russia, fueling Russia’s war on Ukraine."

ALSO READ: A criminologist explains why half of America does not care about Trump's crimes

"In fact, Chubb called Russian oil and gas 'one of the most promising activities' of its Russian operations,'" RAN wrote. "The insurer was recently backing Nord Stream 2, a massive, controversial natural gas pipeline built by Gazprom, the world’s largest producer of gas and a majority Russian state-owned fossil fuel company (which also happens to be funded by JPMorgan Chase)."

Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann tweeted Friday that while Trump is "$90M down, $400M to go," the details of the bond agreement are murky and that "the public has no idea who may have actually put up the money or provided a guaranty to support the bond."

"But one thing’s sure: Trump is beholden to someone for a lot of money," Weissmann wrote.

In response to Weissmann's tweet, attorney and journalist Daniel Miller expressed concern, opining that the bond guarantee was a "matter of national security," adding "the public has to know this information before voting in November."

Notably, the Post reported Chubb's CEO was vocal in his disdain for the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol, condemning "the violence and display of demagoguery we witnessed in our nation’s capital."

"We should all hope for a new era of respect and decency as we meet the many common challenges facing our nation," Greenberg said the day after the capitol riot.

Trump has yet to post his bond for appealing the $454 million civil judgment that he's been ordered to pay to the State of New York after losing his civil fraud case. Earlier this week, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said Trump may seek out foreign help to pay that judgment, particularly since American financial institutions may hesitate to give a loan to an adjudicated fraudster. In February, a judge denied Trump's request to pay a $100 million bond, suggesting Trump may not have the cash to cover the judgment on his own despite his multibillion-dollar net worth.

"What does that mean if a candidate for president is is on the hook for multiple, multiple millions of dollars to a foreign source? Because that, it seems to me, is the most likely source," Toobin said.

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I don't care what they get Trump on. I want them to get him really good and hard. On election day in November I want Trump to be serving a life time sentence in solitary confinement in a maximum security prison. I want him to be denied the ability to communicate to the poorly educated people he pretends to love. I want Trump to be stripped of his money, if he has any, and his property.

stumbler · Mar 11, 2024

I think this would be the tip of the iceberg of investigations Bill Barr killed, Although most fo them were of curse to protect Trump.

Bill Barr accused of 'derailing' huge DOJ investigation after Trump appointment: report

Tom Boggioni
March 9, 2024 8:21AM ET

Bill Barr

Department of Justice employees are raising questions about a massive investigation into tax avoidance by heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar that fell apart after Donald Trump appointed Bill Barr to be his Attorney General.

According to a report from the New York Times, the DOJ was working hand in hand with the IRS on an extensive criminal investigation of the company only to be blocked from interviewing a key witness that helped cause the case to fizzle.

As a result, the Times is reporting, "The interview was never rescheduled, and the investigation would limp along for another few years before culminating, in late 2022, with a victory for Caterpillar. The Internal Revenue Service told the giant industrial company to pay less than a quarter of the back taxes the government once claimed that Caterpillar owed and did not impose any penalties."

Now questions are being raised about the timing of the interference that reared its head after Barr was selected by the former president.

ALSO READ: A criminologist explains why half of America does not care about Trump's crimes

According to the report, lawyers for Caterpillar "met with senior federal officials, including the Justice Department’s top tax official, Richard Zuckerman," to complain about the inquiries being made by investigators. Following the appointment of Barr, Zuckerman ordered agents to back off.

The Times is reporting that set off alarms within the DOJ.

Last year agent Jason LeBeau wrote to the department's inspector general, “It appears that Caterpillar was given special political treatment that the average U.S. citizen cannot obtain."

The report notes that Barr was affiliated with the company before his DOJ appointment and had argued that the DOJ and IRS should end the investigation.

Barr's earlier involvement raised eyebrows in the DOJ with the Times reporting, "In May 2018, Mr. Barr escalated the matter" in a letter that, "... argued that the investigation violated a requirement that federal criminal tax investigations be approved by the Justice Department’s tax division. And it took particular aim at Mr. LeBeau, saying he had a 'basic misunderstanding of the relevant tax rules' and was pursuing a 'conspiracy theory.' The attacks were an unusual effort to undermine the credibility of an individual investigator."

The report adds, "Kevin Sweeney, who spent six years in Justice Department’s tax division, said in a recent interview that the situation sounded 'very unusual' based on The Times’ description. 'I would not expect the tax division to stop an investigation based on representations made by defense counsel without first having a discussion with the lead prosecutor,' he said."

You can read more here.

https://www.rawstory.com/rs-exclusive/bill-barr-investigation/

stumbler · Apr 7, 2024

stumbler said: ↑

Everyone either knew or should have known Trump is too mentally ill to not keep defaming E Jean Carroll. And I am betting she and her legal team are going to pounce.

Trump's E. Jean Carroll bond in danger after he hands her lawyers new ammo: expert

Tom Boggioni
March 10, 2024 9:42AM ET

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 3: Former U.S. President Donald Trump appears in the courtroom with his lawyers for his civil fraud trial at New York State Supreme Court on October 03, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Shannon Stapleton-Pool/Getty Images)

At a rally in Georgia on Saturday night, Donald Trump launched a fresh attack on writer E. Jean Carroll that may hand the New York writer's lawyers reason to file a new lawsuit against him as well as kill the $92 million appeals bond he just posted on Friday.

Appearing with the hosts on MSNBC's "The Weekend," legal analyst Lisa Rubin was stunned at the former president creating new problems for himself after the judge in the two trials gave Carroll's attorneys the option of opposing the bond.

"You would think at this point, Lisa Rubin, we would no longer be surprised by his lack of discipline. But the thing we kept coming back to when this sum was ordered, is this number big enough to make him stop? We now have an answer," co-host Alicia Menedez prompted the analyst.

ALSO READ: A criminologist explains why half of America does not care about Trump's crimes

"You're right we do have an answer," Rubin replied. "It was enough to make him stop until he was past a point that the judge could no longer order more, have any further consequences for it. I mean, I'm struck by the fact, Alicia, he said these things the night after he posted a bond, filed his notice of appeal the judge has long past finalized."

"Should E. Jean Carroll and her team want any further relief now their only option is to file another case," she added. "The punitive damage was as great as it was because Donald Trump kept saying it after the initial judgment. The argument they made was that he was not deterred by the first award, and in fact, continued to say it again and again and again."

Asked "What is E. Jean Carroll's recourse now?" she replied, "You know, I wish I could get into their heads right now. I think her recourse here is to sue again or at the very least to oppose the bond, which is an option that Judge [Lewis] Kaplan gave them. Judge Kaplan said if they want to oppose the bond in any respect, they have until Monday. That's tomorrow,at 11:00. If they do oppose it, it will be in Manhattan federal court."

Watch below or at the link.

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Trump is mentally ill. So on the one hand he can't accept E Jean Carrol has already beaten him in court twice. But on the other hand Trump can't grasp the consequences for his own actions and keeps defaming Carroll. Who will probably sue hm again because Carroll is determined to hold Trump accountable until he shuts up about her.

Trump launches new attack on E. Jean Carroll — then compares himself to Nelson Mandela

Tom Boggioni
April 6, 2024 1:37PM ET

Writer E. Jean Carroll and former President Donald Trump. Photos by GWR/Star Max/GC Images and Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images

Saturday afternoon, just hours before he is set to host a gala fundraiser at his Mar-a-Lago resort, Donald Trump lashed out at three New York judges in a three-part furious rant about how he has been treated by the legal system.

Along the way, he also attacked New York writer E. Jean Carroll who successfully sued him for defamation and was awarded $91 million in damages over two trials.

Pushing the boundaries of a recent gag order put in place by Judge Juan Merchan, the former president first took to his Truth Social platform to rant, "Crooked Judge Juan Merchan is not allowing me to talk, is taking away my First Amendment Rights, he’s got me GAGGED, because he doesn’t want the FACTS behind the Gag to come out. How many Corrupt, Biased, Crooked Joe Biden-'Protection Agency' New York Judges do I have to endure before somebody steps in?"

ALSO READ: A neuroscientist reveals how Trump and Biden's cognitive impairments are different

He then lashed out at Judge Lewis Kaplan who oversaw the E. Jean Carroll trials and included her in his diatribe without using her name.

"I had New York Federal Judge, Lewis Kaplan, with a woman who I never knew, and had nothing to do with, until she sued me for 'defamation.' She did not know what day, month, or year the supposed 'incident' took place - She knew nothing. Kaplan, a Hillary friend, wouldn’t even let my lawyers put on a proper case, made it two cases instead of one, took away my American Right to defend myself, and was a Crazed Bully as his wife and friends sat in the Courthouse, every day in their little roped off section, and prodded him on in awe. This mysterious lady, who said rape is sexy, got $91 Million Dollars," he wrote.

In a second post he continued, "Then, of course, we have Arthur Engoron, a total lunatic, whack job, who ruled that I should pay an almost $500 Million Dollar “fine” for having done nothing wrong (No Victims, No Damages, Ironclad Disclaimer, ONLY SUCCESS!), in fact, he was the one who committed fraud when he purposely, at the direction of Racist, Corrupt A.G. Letitia James, undervalued Mar-a-Lago at $18 Million Dollars."

Not content with that, he added a third post where he wrote, "Now, we have Merchan, who is not allowing me to talk, thereby violating the Law and the Constitution, all at once. It is so bad what he is trying to get away with - How was he even chosen for this case??? I heard he fought like hell to get it, and all of the rest of them also! If this Partisan Hack wants to put me in the 'clink' for speaking the open and obvious TRUTH, I will gladly become a Modern Day Nelson Mandela - It will be my GREAT HONOR. We have to Save our Country from these Political Operatives masquerading as Prosecutors and Judges, and I am willing to sacrifice my Freedom for that worthy cause. We are a Failing Nation, but on November 5th, we will become a Great Nation again. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-e-jean-carroll-2667709646/

stumbler · Apr 25, 2024

$80 million.

Federal judge upholds verdict in E. Jean Carroll case and denies Trump’s motion for a new trial
Kara Scannell and Michael Williams, CNN
Thu, April 25, 2024 at 12:34 PM MDT·3 min read
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A federal judge on Thursday upheld the verdict and award in lea>E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against former President Donald Trump and denied Trump’s motion for a new trial.

Judge Lewis Kaplan, in a written opinion, said Trump’s legal arguments are without merit. The judge also found that the punitive damages the jury awarded to Carroll “passes constitutional muster.”

Carroll’s attorney Roberta Kaplan said in a statement that her legal team is “pleased with though not surprised by the Court’s decision.”

“As the Court explained, it was entirely reasonable for the jury to award E. Jean Carroll $83 million in damages given Donald Trump’s continued defamation of Ms. Carroll during the trial itself, as well as his conduct in the courtroom where his ‘hatred and disdain (were) on full display,’” Kaplan said.

Carroll, a former magazine columnist, alleged Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s and then defamed her when he denied her claim. In a separate case, a jury last year found Trump liable for the sexual assault.

The second case stems from remarks Trump had made denying Carroll’s allegations in 2019. He was found liable for defamation last year, and a jury earlier this year ordered him to pay $83.3 million in punitive and compensatory damages.

Trump’s legal team had argued that the damages awarded to Carroll in the defamation case were excessive. Kaplan dismissed that argument in his opinion released Thursday.

“Mr. Trump’s malicious and unceasing attacks on Ms. Carroll were disseminated to more than 100 million people,” Kaplan wrote. “They included public threats and personal attacks, and they endangered Ms. Carroll’s health and safety.”

“The jury,” Kaplan added, “was entitled to conclude that Mr. Trump derailed the career, reputation, and emotional well-being of one of America’s most successful and prominent advice columnists and authors.”

Trump has maintained that he did not sexually assault Carroll, and in 2019, said that Carroll was not his “type.” Those denials formed the basis of the defamation lawsuit.

He sat in court for portions of the defamation trial, earning rebukes from the judge after he was heard making comments during Carroll’s testimony. As Carroll’s lawyers delivered their closing arguments, Trump abruptly and dramatically stood up and left the courtroom.

Kaplan referenced that episode in his opinion: “Mere minutes after (Carroll’s) counsel began her closing argument, Mr. Trump conspicuously stood and walked out of the courtroom for no apparent reason save to evidence his disapproval.”

Aside from the eye-popping monetary amount, the judgment brought another point into stark clarity: A jury of regular citizens – not the politicians or their appointees that Trump constantly claims mistreat him – held him accountable.

The judgment comes as Trump sits in another courtroom – this time, a criminal one – awaiting another jury of regular New Yorkers to decide his fate on charges that he falsified business records to cover up an affair ahead of the 2016 election.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/federal-judge-upholds-verdict-e-163333296.html

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