Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!Ok.
well aware of all content in your first two paragraphs as they really only dovetail into mine. You raised the point about us damages being punitive for a purpose of dissuading certain groups. I gave an answer as to why that wasn't and couldn't be the case, this was in a discussion about Trumps verdict in a thread about Trumps legal problems for context. To be fair the concept of "compensation", for rape is equally floored. One truth in your unusually constructed conversationo, is that civil cases are easier to win and that's in many ways a good thing, the bar of
"is it more likely that an event happened" does though have understandable flaws and could never be used where life or liberty is at stake.
Trump workers at Mar-a-Lago moved boxes of papers day before FBI visit – report
Former president and aides also allegedly carried out ‘dress rehearsal’ for moving sensitive papers before receiving subpoena -snip
Trump employees at Mar-a-Lago in Florida moved boxes of papers the day before a visit by FBI agents looking into the former president’s retention of classified documents -snip
prosecutors had also gathered evidence that Trump “at times kept classified documents in his office in a place where they were visible and sometimes showed them to others”. -snip
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