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General Category => Trump Legal Investigations => Topic started by: mystery-ak on April 14, 2023, 01:19:09 pm

Title: LinkedIn founder and Dem megadonor ‘quietly bankrolling’ E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit against Trump
Post by: mystery-ak on April 14, 2023, 01:19:09 pm
LinkedIn founder and Dem megadonor ‘quietly bankrolling’ E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit against Trump
April 14, 2023 | Tom Tillison

There’s no questioning the fact that former President Donald Trump has some powerful enemies in the United States, people who will go to any length to ensure he never sits in the Oval Office again.

One such enemy appears to be Reid Hoffman, the billionaire behind LinkedIn. Citing court records, the Daily Beast reported that Hoffman has been “quietly bankrolling” E. Jean Carroll’s rape case against the former president.

Carroll, a longtime Elle magazine advice columnist, claims Trump raped her in the dressing room of a luxury Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s. She wrote a tell-all memoir about the alleged rape when Trump was president and he not only denied the accusation but called Carroll a “whack job.”

“The woman, there’s something wrong with her in my opinion, okay. But it’s a false accusation. Never happened, never would happen,” Trump said at the time.

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https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/04/14/linkedin-founder-and-dem-megadonor-quietly-bankrolling-e-jean-carrolls-lawsuit-against-trump-1349833/
Title: Re: LinkedIn founder and Dem megadonor ‘quietly bankrolling’ E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit against Trump
Post by: Kamaji on April 14, 2023, 01:31:26 pm
The normal American rule on court costs is that each side pays its own legal fees.  However, it seems to me that if one person's lawsuit is being bankrolled by someone else - something that used to be called champerty and maintenance, and that used to be illegal - then the person doing the bankrolling should be permitted to continue only so long as he or she agrees to cover the other side's legal fees and expenses if the other side prevails.
Title: Re: LinkedIn founder and Dem megadonor ‘quietly bankrolling’ E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit against Trump
Post by: catfish1957 on April 14, 2023, 01:33:00 pm
Wonder if they would notice if about 10M professionals deleted their accounts?
Title: Re: LinkedIn founder and Dem megadonor ‘quietly bankrolling’ E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit against Trump
Post by: Smokin Joe on April 15, 2023, 12:48:29 pm
Wonder if they would notice if about 10M professionals deleted their accounts?
That was my thought as well.
Title: Re: LinkedIn founder and Dem megadonor ‘quietly bankrolling’ E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit against Trump
Post by: mountaineer on June 20, 2023, 12:57:26 pm
Just Joe hanging out with fellow pedophiles.
https://twitter.com/teddyschleifer/status/1670937334303322114