When Donald Trump posted the $91.6 million bond on Friday allowing him to appeal the E. Jean Carroll decision without paying her immediately, it set off an interesting scramble to unpack why Federal Insurance Companyāa subsidiary of Chubb Insurance Companyāwould lend to a notoriously unreliable borrower.
But there was also some fine print in the bond that would have, curiously, given Trump an additional 30 days to come up with the moneyāas well as another 30 days for FIC to come up with the money if Trump failed to pay. That meant Trump had found a way to unilaterally stall paying up, pending the consent of the court.
It looked like just the latest way Trump had, like Darth Vader before him, altered the deal. And for three days, it seemed as if Trump had gotten away with a minor tweak in court paperwork that would have created a two-month delay in having to pay a cent to the journalist he defamedāeven if he lost the rape defamation case on appeal.
But over the weekend, Carrollās attorney spotted the odd jumble of legalese and pressured Trumpās legal team to give up the ploy for extra time. On Monday, she alerted U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan of the new deal. And in a sign of just how interested he is, the judge immediately responded in a handwritten note scribbled over her letter to the court.
āThe parties shall submit revised documentation promptly,ā the judge wrote back.
While notable, I wouldnāt pay any heed to the method in which the judge delivered this news, as the last line suggests. Itās not unusual for a judge to issue responses and quickly written notes on motions. Theyāre reading stacks of papers a day and just jotting their shit down and moving on.
Really? Thatās your nitpick? Not the elbow-jab-har-har Darth Vader analogy hur-dur? š¤®
edit: apologies, I just looked at the source. Fuck, I wish there was a way to filter out every post that cites that endless squirt of lukewarm shit called The Daily Beast.
Yes, my nitpick was correcting the obviously mistaken conclusion drawn from benign facts and not policing jokes. If you prefer to discuss the non-substantive parts of the article, then you can go into a bathroom, take a shit, and have a conversation with opinions that reflect your own.
I am stealing that last dig.
Aww, arenāt we precious.
What a wonderful retort. I can see youāve been practicing in the bathroom often with your quality of conversation.
This guy is terminally online with 100+ comments over the last day. Assuming youāre arguing with a functioning member of society is misguided. Trolls gonna troll. Donāt feed them.
Or do feed them so they waste more time in a thread where they arenāt going to convince anyone of anything instead of getting more chances to join a fresh thread where they might start out with a more compelling take.