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Former President Donald Trump on Saturday stood by his 2019 statement that writer E. Jean Carroll made a “totally false accusation” against him, despite similar claims resulting in him losing a defamation case in January.

Campaigning at a rally in Rome, Georgia, Trump referenced the $91.6 million bond he posted on March 8, three days before his deadline to pay $83.3 million in damages to Carroll for defaming her in statements he made as president after denying her accusation that he’d raped her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s.

Carroll first came forward in 2019 with sexual assault claims against Trump before another civil trial in May 2023, where a New York jury found that the former president sexually abused Carroll but didn’t rape her.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 8 months ago (6 children)

The lack of empathy with Trump supporters should be studied. Because I would love to know what drives them to this man so much. He has the strongest collective of meat riders in human history.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (2 children)

My hypothesis is lead poisoning.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

I remember reading at the start of Covid in the US, when the government was saying “masks are dumb”, but local churches were going “masks save lives”, the churches were surprised at how much pushback they were getting.

Turns out raising someone from a young age to believe without questioning, and look up to one person as their only source of truth, and ignore compelling scientific evidence, is pretty hard conditioning to break.

Shockedpikachuface.jpg, #leopardsatemyface, etc.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

My hypothesis is lead poisoning.

Im sorry but how did you rule out Asbestos??

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Doesn't asbestos just give you mega asthma and giga cancer and not turn you into a soulless piece of shit?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Doesn’t asbestos just give you mega asthma

I believe its also a carcinogen

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

That's what causes the aforementioned giga cancer.

Eighties and nineties peeps will remember:

Do you or someone you know have mesothelioma?!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Hey dont rule us youngers out of knowing about those commercials, I remember them as late as 2009 or so.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Asbestos, while it has negative health implications, does not have a mind-altering component like lead poisoning.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Asbestos is more cancer-causing while lead does more of the developmental delay thing.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's called fanaticism, which is when people stop liking someone because of their actions/oratory and start liking the actions/oratory because they came from the person.

Americans have been conditioned such that they're fallible to this bullshit.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Did we forget the Arabs, Swedes, Japanese, Russians, Canadians, Mexicans, need I go on?

Human nature is a human nature thing, not an American thing.

Sincerely,

Someone not a fan of useful idiots pushing needless division.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Well, firstly, I didn't say other people haven't been brainwashed, just that americans had. Secondly, the american brand is very strong. Not a ton of countries would've allowed a specimin like trump to get anywhere near high office, let alone elected them president, all while crowing to all and sundry about what a utopia the usa is and how much better they are than everyone else!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago

America is full of assholes. Trump is their King. King of the assholes and hero to the stupid.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

I agree, but I think it's more than that. Even if you think Trump is telling the truth and all of this is a made up lie (even though there are other signs like cheating on his wife to sleep with porn stars and being caught on a mic saying he just grabs women by the pussy), IT'S EXTREMELY DUMB for him to keep talking about it!

Trump should be renamed to Xenu.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

It's like they're drawn to the warmth of a book burning.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

They all wish they could be him. These are people who would act JUST LIKE TRUMP if they could get away with it. They aren't into him because of the policy, they are into him because they are jealous.