Some post-award analyses

To have a meritorious appeal, you have to preserve a reversible error at the trial level. This is why you hire competent counsel. You need someone who actually knows the rules of evidence and procedure.

Alina Habba had no clue what was occurring throughout the trial. She not only failed to preserve any remote grounds for appeal, like a moron, she repeatedly and unintentionally waived them over and over.

For example, she kept saying "no objection" as exhibits were entered into evidence.

[...]

There's no appeal here. And because people have asked me in the past, no, there is no such thing as an incompetent counsel defense in civil cases. That's for criminal matters.

  Brian Manookian

Yeah, they don't like losers.

Mr. Trump can pay the $83.3 million to the court, which will hold the money while the appeal is pending. This is what he did last year when a jury ordered him to pay Ms. Carroll $5.5 million in a related case.

Or, Mr. Trump can try to secure a bond, which will save him from having to pay the full amount up front.

A bond might require him to pay a deposit and offer collateral, and would come with interest and fees. It would also require Mr. Trump to find a financial institution willing to lend him a large sum of money at a time when he is in significant legal jeopardy.

[...]

Mr. Trump has tapped his political action committee’s coffers to pay for his own legal fees and other expenses stemming from his criminal indictments and civil trials.

Yet $83.3 million eclipses the amount in his political accounts. The verdict on Friday will require Mr. Trump to reach into his own pocket.

Still, if the verdict survives Mr. Trump’s appeals, Ms. Carroll should eventually be paid.

[...]

He has enough cash to cover the verdict in various accounts, a person close to him said. In recent years, Mr. Trump has unloaded several assets, including his Washington hotel, which sold for $375 million.

Yet the verdict on Friday is not the only payout upcoming for Mr. Trump. The New York attorney general is seeking a $370 million penalty from the former president and his family business as part of a civil fraud trial that wrapped up this month.

The judge in that case is expected to issue a decision in the coming weeks.

  NYT

Couldn't happen to a more deserving person.

Or his attorney.  Jesus Christ, this woman.

UPDATE 01/27/2024:

How'd that go for you, beautiful?

P.S.  I expect Jared might come across with Trump's dollar damages.  After all, it's because of Trump that he got $2 BILLION from the Saudis.

UPDATE 

I don't think there is a number big enough to shut him up.  I still think he'll get the money to pay damages from MAGA dupes and Jared, who got $2 BILLION from Saudi Arabia because of his relationship to Trump.

UPDATE 01/28/2024:

I don't think there is a number big enough to shut him up.  I still think he'll get the money to pay damages from MAGA dupes and Jared, who got $2 BILLION from Saudi Arabia because of his relationship to Trump.