The Dems can wave it around like a bloody shirt. The lawsuit was not for the purpose of giving Carroll some free cash for her “injuries,” but to amplify questionable allegations in front of a biased jury for political purposes. They got that. They’re not going to let it go, and they’ll treat a payment as proof of guilt. So you fight law-fare with law-fare. Appeal every pre-trial ruling or trial court ruling that has any chance. Claim that while individually these are harmless error, but cumulatively they are reversible error. And when the first level of appellate court shoots that down, go one higher, to the Court of Appeals, then find a federal issue, and so on and so forth and dooby dooby dooby. When E. Jean Carrol is old and in a nursing home, what’s left of her award can be used to pay off the Medicare lien on her old home, so her grandkids can have a hang-out pad. And President Barron Trump will instruct his personal attorney, Andrew Giuliani, to liquidate some asset or other on behalf of his late father’s estate to give her some senile satisfaction.
Fine. Whatever. Nice fantasy. But the pendency of the appeal does not stop the collection of the judgment. He can ask for a stay, but the court doesn’t have to grant it and, if it does, it will probably require a bond as in the Oberlin College case