Donald Trump on Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to once again step into his messy legal brawl with magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll, appealing an $83.3 million jury verdict for defamation on the grounds that, as president, he is immune from the litigation.

The appeal, which has not yet been docketed at the high court, relies heavily on the court’s 2024 decision granting the president wide immunity for actions taken in office.

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    He is enriching himself on the back of the american taxpayers by the hundreds of millions, if not billions, and he is still too cheap to pay off a court ordered amount. I hope this doesn’t become a pattern. /s

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    This motherfuckers extremely fragile ego can’t handle any sort of loss, no matter the reason. That’s why he can’t fucking let go of the 2020 election bullshit along with this. The fucker has drawn this case out for years, and now when all the courts are done with his bullshit and forced him to pay out, he still can’t let it go.

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    Isn’t the E. Jean Carroll trial from before he was president? Also isn’t the president only immune to litigation when it comes to his duties as president? Like if the president’s dog ruins my favorite pair of pants does that mean I can’t take him to small claims to pay for a new pair of pants?

    After all the hemming and hawing about not being ruled by kings Americans have just gone ahead and legislated themselves a king anyways.

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    As president he should be held more liable for defamation. You should not be using an official nation wide platform to bash and insult people, deserving or not.

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    Wait, so is he saying that defaming her was a presidential act?

    Will this case then decide if there is a difference between a presidential act and a personal one, and if they rule it was presidential then that seals the king deal?

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    This guy is the definition of a vexatious litigant. IMHO, we need a randomly selected pool of judges to determine if any case or complaint he makes can even be heard in court, and if he fails to make it to court, he automatically pays damages to the party he was pursuing legal action against.

    We need a special system just to deal with assholes like this.

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    Y’know what? It’s just occurred to me that after reading about this man and then thinking “how did this happen?” for the millionth time…I think Trump is actually a bigger cunt than Hitler. He’s quite possibly the biggest cunt on the planet. And top 3 of all time? Possibly the likes of Vlad the Impaler and Genghis Khan were worse?

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      I think Trump is actually a bigger cunt than Hitler.

      trump is a tremendous asshole having caused permanent damage to the USA and the world along with indirect deaths from cuts in humanitarian aid (USAID) plus the deaths of civilians in Iran in an unnecessary war, but lets not forget that Hitler was the man that caused WWII in Europe and made literal gas chambers for mass killings of millions of Poles, Jews, LGBT, Belarusians, Blacks, Greeks, Italians, Roma, Russians, Serbs, Ukrainians, his political opponents and others.

      Hitler is still worse than trump.

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        Trump is worse he isn’t out of office and not causing harm. He just hasn’t got to the gas chamber part of his plans yet. But it fucking coming if he allowed to retain power.

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          Trump is worse he isn’t out of office and not causing harm.

          In 1938 Hitler seized the Sudetenland (modern day Slovakia and Czechia) that was just before the gas chambers. If trump seizes Greenland, then I’ll say he’s on track to be worse than Hitler. As it stands, as horrible as trump is, he barely ranks against Hitler so far.

          I know trump is abhorrent, but don’t downplay the inhuman sins Hitler committed against the world and the people of 20th century Europe.

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    He’s never paying. He could live to be 300 years old and he’ll delay it for the duration while nobody forces him to do it. The big bitch baby will never see consequences for anything and that’s why this country is dead.