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LOOZER Judge upholds $83m E Jean Carroll defamation verdict against Trump Source: The Guardian Thu 25 Apr 2024 14.32 EDT A federal judge on Thursday upheld the verdict and award of more than $83m to the writer E Jean Carroll in a defamation case against Donald Trump after he called her a liar for accusing him of sexually assaulting her. Judge Lewis Kaplan, a senior district judge on the US district court for the southern district of New York, denied Trump’s motion for a new trial and affirmed that Carroll suffered harm caused by Trump’s 2019 public statements. “Mr Trump’s argument is entirely without merit both as a matter of law and as a matter of fact,” Kaplan wrote in his opinion released on Thursday. Carroll, a journalist and advice columnist, first sued Trump in 2019 for sexually abusing her in a New York department store changing room around early 1996. A jury awarded her with $5m in compensatory and punitive damages last year. Less than a year later, Carroll won a separate defamation lawsuit against the former president after he accused her of lying about the sexual abuse and participating in a political operative. She filed suit over these denials in 2019, claiming they ruined her reputation. Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/25/e-jean-carroll-trump-defamation  

The whole thing is a disaster….    

Get into a point where there’s a stalemate, have peace talk, define new borders, the remainder of Ukraine  becomes the 3rd country to join NATO as a result of Russia’s invasion.

Fried eggs, home fries, sausage and some wheat toast with apple butter.

Why is he a Karen when he points out issues in our manufacturing economy? I prefer to buy parts made by my friends and neighbours, but it is becoming far more difficult to do so. I bought a used Kubota tractor a couple years ago. It’s well built, Japan is one of our solid allies and the dealer close to me had already served me well on other machines. I avoid Chinese shit as much as I can.  My industry has gone down that road. It will pay the price of cheap vs quality. I see that daily. Poor quality Chinese components.    At least I’m just the guy fixing it…the anger can go towards the manufacturers.