The judicial farces against Donald Trump continue. But, as I will point out at the end of this blog, the results are far more than farcical.
As you may be aware, a Democrat judge, and a jury from a venue that is almost all-Democrat, has awarded e. jean carroll, who claims that Donald Trump raped her, a total of $88,000,000 in damages. Yes, that number is correct, it is not a typo.
And what did Donald Trump do to generate this kangaroo-court show trial and beyond-belief massive monetary award? He denied that the rape took place and said insulting things about carroll.
At this point, let me remind you that e. jean carroll provided no evidence of any kind that a rape took place, could not identify the day or even year it took place, only that it occurred a quarter of a century beforehand (the statute of limitations was conveniently waived), gave an absurd account that it happened in the women’s dressing room of a major department store during the business say, but no one saw or heard a thing, and explained why she didn’t cry out or in any way call attention to what was happening by saying “I’m not a screamer”.
Oh, did I mention that the almost exact same “rape” scenario took place on a Law & Order SVU episode – a 2012 episode suggesting the same kind of rape in the same department store, Bergdorf-Goodman – that carroll, a self-professed binge watcher of Law & Order, almost certainly watched (though she now, conveniently, claims she only watched “Law & Order”, but not the “Law & Order SVU” series)?
Here, watch the key scene for yourself.
If you want a full account of this farce, you need go no further than this short article at thenationalpulse.com….and the analytical piece by Raheem J. Kassam, titled “The Trump-Carroll Case is Blatantly the Greatest Miscarriage of Justice in Modern American History.” Here is how it begins:
The awarding of nearly $90 million to the second-rate advice columnist E. Jean Carroll will doubtless be remembered for generations as the greatest miscarriage of justice in contemporary American history. Jean Carroll’s case was not just ludicrous on the face of it, but between the judge, the “experts” who testified, and the mechanisms by which the case even came to be, it’s impossible for any ordinary person in the West to see this as anything more than the continuation of a series of hoaxes perpetrated on former President Donald J. Trump with the desire to keep him from re-entering the Oval Office in January 2025.
THE ‘RAPE’.
During the latest episode of this trial, Carroll admitted she wasn’t doing very well financially and needed to find a way to sell more books. The testimony appears to be the basis for the very first claim she ever made, in New York magazine’s The Cut, in the summer of 2019.
Far from a compelling claim, the 80-year-old writer initially laid out the story that her supposed rape occurred either in 1994, before altering the day to be “in the fall of 1995 or the spring of 1996.” She couldn’t remember the specifics. What she did remember was that she was wearing a “Donna Karan coatdress and high heels but not a coat.” She later refused to produce said coat for DNA testing despite admitting to still owning it, describing it as “unworn and unlaundered since that evening.” It later came to light that the coatdress was not made in 1994 or 1995.
It didn’t matter to Carroll, who has accused multiple men of sexually assaulting or raping her throughout her life, including a babysitter’s boyfriend, a dentist, a camp counselor, an unnamed college date, an unnamed boss, and CBS chief executive Les Moonves.
Carroll also appeared to remember specifics such as the emptiness of the Bergdorf Goodman department store in the early evening – a detail she called “inconceivable” – as well as admitting that it was her who wanted to sexually harrass Trump originally because she wanted a “funny story to tell” about getting the then-infamous New York City developer to put on women’s lingerie.
I don’t know that this qualifies as the greatest miscarriage of justice in contemporary American history. But I definitely see it as an astonishingly dishonest, fraudulent abuse of the legal profession – “lawfare” in the first degree” – that, as Trump correctly says, is:
“Absolutely ridiculous! I fully disagree with both verdicts and will be appealing this whole Biden-directed witch hunt focused on me and the Republican party. Our legal system is out of control and being used as a political weapon. They have taken away all first amendment rights. THIS IS NOT AMERICA!”
I don’t always agree with Donald Trump. Not by a long shot. But, in this, he is correct.
Think about what this insane verdict means. What its implications are.
Does this mean that every time someone insults someone else, whether in politics or not, that person can make unsubstantiated, unevidenced, unprovable accusations against that person and successfully sue for massive amounts of money?
Is the fact that, to get this insane verdict, Trump had to go through millions of dollars in attorney’s fees mean that anyone else who supports Trump can be accused of something as absurd and know that she or he will need huge amounts of money to mount a defense? Is that why several people have pled guilty to the equally insane charges leveled against Trump in Fulton County (Atlanta), Georgia rather than go bankrupt even if they won their cases?
And here’s one for the people – and be assured there are plenty of them – who are cheering this get-Trump justice masquerade on: what happens when right wingers who hate Democrats start pulling the same thing on your heroes – i.e. suing in venues where they can expect a politicized judicial system to rule in their favor? What will you say then?
What goes around comes around. And have no doubt that the precedents being set to go after Trump will be used by the other side.
Trump ended his reaction to the e. jean carroll verdict by saying “THIS IS NOT AMERICA!”.
Sadly, he is wrong. The witch hunts against him prove it. Due to the Trump haters’ lust for carnage, as of now this IS America.
God help us.
