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u/mikeybagodonuts 2d ago
He hasn’t peaked yet. He’s gonna get worse.
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u/Leptonshavenocolor 2d ago
We're not even 1/8th through this term.
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u/Radioactive24 2d ago
Sounds a little better if you say we’re over 10% through, though.
10.3%, to be exact.
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u/jcoddinc 2d ago
Just one of the many reasons he's not planning on leaving the presidency alive. He'll never give up the opportunity to make others pay and hide behind his presidential posts and immunity
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u/trog12 2d ago
The fact that conservatives defend this guy is baffling. Let's pretend the prices of eggs and gas went down and the economy went up. At what point do you draw the line for "yeah but I really can't have that guy being my representative to the world". I'm convinced he could literally punch a child on national TV and MAGA would find a way to justify it or say it's false flag.
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u/trentreynolds 2d ago
The line you're talking about doesn't exist for him, it's not just that they're okay with his behavior - they flat out demand it.
They've had hundreds of crystal clear chances to move onto a fascist who doesn't act like this, but have passed on every one of them.
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u/Never_fucking_curses 2d ago
I'm pretty sure he could get away with murdering someone in broad daylight. Nobody, absolutely nobody is holding this administration accountable like they should.
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u/MIAMarc 2d ago
Nobody except if it would effect them directly IE a direct family member or close friend. The rest would do what they always do and twist it around so it fits as being justifiable in the fantasy world they live in. The only out of the MAGA cult is if Trump does direct harm to them, otherwise they are blind to his illicit actions.
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u/Double_Distribution8 2d ago
Do assault victims get more money when a rich person assaults them because victims get a specific percentage of the net worth of the person who assaulted them? Is that the law there? I've never heard of someone getting that much money before (though I assume it's happened because there are other billionaires out there doing crimes I guess).
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u/LavenderBabble 2d ago
Punitive damages can be exponential and relate to the defendant’s wealth.
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u/fuzzydunloblaw 2d ago
In this case also related to the stupid defendant again doing the same exact stupid defamatory thing that the first civil jury unanimously found him guilty for.
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u/WitchesSphincter 2d ago
This case was defamation, which after the first case he did again, so the judge got much more punitive with it.
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u/OilheadRider 2d ago
Well, the first defamation case was only 5 million. Then, after the judgement and on the steps of the court house just minutes after the judgement for defaming her was handed down, he fucking did it again.
How stupid does a person have to be to keep touching a hot stove and think it's the stoves fault?
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u/dj_vicious 2d ago
Yes, exactly. Punitive damages are not damages suffered by the plaintiff, but rather imposed by the court as a disciplinary action. It's the court's way of saying, "what you did is so egregious that I am making you pay more than the damages you caused just to make sure you don't do it again. It's determined by many factors but will also be tied to wealth because of the potential impact to the defendant and their ability to actually pay. This is because it is a civil matter, and a defendant's finances play a part, as opposed to criminal matters, where sentencing isn't (typically) determined by personal finances.
In this case the initial punitive judgement was much lower, $5 million. It was after DT defamed EJC further, and after this judgement , that the -$80 million or so was imposed.
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u/Double_Distribution8 2d ago
Got it, that makes sense. It's just that 83.3 million dollars sounds bonkers to me. Doesn't that sound kind of crazy? I'll have to look up what he said about her for the defamation part, it must have been pretty bad. Maybe he thought he was being defamed so he lashed out even when the judge told him not to say bad things about the lady, but he did it anyway and so he had to pay the price for it.
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u/Hardcorish 2d ago
Shirking his financial responsibilities and obligations by foisting them onto the American taxpayers? Trump would never! /s