GUILTY

Verdict is in. No on rape, yes on sexual abuse. $2 million in damages.

Correction: 5 million. FIVE.

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12 responses to “GUILTY”

  1. Mike Haubrich Avatar

    Good news. May it be the first of many guilty verdicts to come.

  2. Harald Hanche-Olsen Avatar

    Huh?

    Ah, checked the NY Times. So it’s Trump. I lost track of the number of lawsuits he’s facing.

    Apparently, he called the verdict a disgrace. Ooh, that’s a surprise.

  3. Brian M Avatar

    Wonder if there will be a panicked phone call to the Kremlin begging for money to pay the “billionaire’s” judgment?

  4. maddog1129 Avatar

    Liable. Not “guilty.”

  5. What a Maroon Avatar
    What a Maroon

    And defamation.

    I doubt she’ll ever see the money, but it’s a good moment nevertheless.

    And maddog, I suspect Ophelia was alluding to a classic Doonesbury cartoon.

    https://readingdoonesbury.com/2017/10/25/this-week-in-doonesbury-guilty-guilty-guilty/

  6. Ophelia Benson Avatar

    Kind of, but also just liking the sound of it better.

  7. maddog1129 Avatar

    It does sound better.

    It’s the lawyer in me that makes me niggle-pick.

  8. Ophelia Benson Avatar

    No that’s a good thing. Especially on law issues. Err on the side of niggle picking.

  9. Francis Boyle Avatar
    Francis Boyle

    Not. fuckin’. Enough*. But it’s a start. Let’s hope the next one will be an actual criminal conviction.

    *About a billion would be right. I’m not sure this will even hurt him financially. But you never know with a liar.

  10. iknklast Avatar

    Francis Boyle @9:

    Does that mean you think he’ll actually pay it?

  11. Jim Baerg Avatar

    So I read that article about the Doonesbury cartoon & how the Post yanked that 1973 strip. I was reminded of reading Pogo strips from before I was born & how newspapers sometimes wouldn’t print the parodies of the McCarthy hearings.

  12. Francis Boyle Avatar
    Francis Boyle

    He won’t, but that doesn’t mean he can’t be destroyed financially.