Former President Donald Trump on Saturday stood by his 2019 statement that writer E. Jean Carroll made a “totally false accusation” against him, despite similar claims resulting in him losing a defamation case in January.

Campaigning at a rally in Rome, Georgia, Trump referenced the $91.6 million bond he posted on March 8, three days before his deadline to pay $83.3 million in damages to Carroll for defaming her in statements he made as president after denying her accusation that he’d raped her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s.

Carroll first came forward in 2019 with sexual assault claims against Trump before another civil trial in May 2023, where a New York jury found that the former president sexually abused Carroll but didn’t rape her.

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      9 months ago

      Its likely in the works, but first go back to the court who gave you 83 million and ask them to shut him up first, hold him in custody till there is a hearing where the judge tells him, “shut up or else”.

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        9 months ago

        IANAL, but I don’t think you can face jail/prison time over a civil suit. UNLESS the judge finds him in contempt of court.