Trump warned about using campaign funds to pay E. Jean Carroll
Former President Donald Trump was recently warned against using his 2024 campaign funds to pay E. Jean Carroll, after being ordered to pay the former columnist stemming from a defamation lawsuit.
On Monday, Dave Aronberg, the state attorney in Florida's Palm Beach County, appeared on MSNBC's Morning Joe and spoke about the recent jury ruling in New York, which ordered Trump to pay Carroll $83.3 million for defamatory statements he made about her in 2019.
"He's got to post a bond just to appeal within 30 days of the judgment. So E. Jean Carroll will get her money at some point," Aronberg said. "He can try to get money from his supporters, but he's got to tell them what it's for...He can't say, 'Help me with my re-election fund' and then divert the money to E. Jean Carroll, that would be a crime."
Trump was previously ordered to pay Carroll $5 million after he was found liable for sexually assaulting the former Elle columnist in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. Trump repeatedly denied the allegations, bashed Carroll and said she wasn't his "type," prompting the second lawsuit she brought against the former president.
Looks like "I didn't know I couldn't do that" Is out as a defense when he inevitably does that.
That's basically the cornerstone of their legal defense
Funny how that's not a valid excuse for literally every other citizen of the United States.
"Ignorance of the law is no excuse, unless you were a Republican president"
That's not true. Cops also dont need to know the law.