by Victor Davis Hanson
Donald Trump in furor stormed out of a New York courtroom for a while, in the defamation suit brought by author and dating/boyfriend/sex-advice columnist E. Jean Carroll.
It was just settled against Trump for $83.3 million! The Carroll suit was largely subsidized by Reid Hoffman the billionaire capitalist, and mega-donor to the Democratic Party and leftwing causes.
The subtext of Trump’s rage, aside from the outrageous monetary size of the defamation ruling, is that he was facing—and angered—a leftwing claimant, a quite hostile leftwing judge, and a leftwing New York jury.
The civil suit serves as a mere preview of four additional leftwing criminal prosecutions, leftwing judges, and leftwing juries to come—all on charges that would never had been filed if Trump either had not run for president or been a liberal progressive.
Yet here we are.
The E. Jean Carroll case is the most baffling of all five. She, the alleged victim, did not remember even the year in which the purported sexual assault took place, nearly three decades ago. Observers have pointed out dozens of inconsistencies in her story.
It was never clear what were the preliminaries that supposedly (Trump denies meeting her) led both, allegedly, willingly to retreat together to a department store dressing room, where during normal business hours the alleged violence took place.
Moreover, the sexual assault complaint came forward decades post facto—and only after Trump was running for and then president.
Carroll eventually sued him for battery, but well after the statute of limitations had expired and thus the case seemed defunct.
Her claims of defamation injuries arise from being fired from her advice column job at ELLE magazine.
She claimed that Trump’s sharp denials and ad hominem retorts led to her career ruin. But the loss for anyone of a column at 76 does not seem such a rare occurrence, and the absence of a salaried job in one’s late seventies for four years does not seem to equate to a $83 million hit.
And note the allegation that her dispute with Trump led to her firing was strongly denied by the very magazine that cut her loose.
But then another strange thing happened. In 2022, a new law (“The Adult Survivors Act”) was passed in the New York legislature. It also post facto established a twelve-month window (beginning six months from the signing of bill) that permitted survivors of long ago alleged sexual assaults suddenly to sue the accused long-ago perpetrator—regardless of the previous statute of limitations.
That unexpected opening suddenly gave Carroll’s prior unsuccessful efforts a rebirth. And she quickly refiled with the help of arch-Trump hating billionaire Hoffman.
Yet the bill may have been introduced with Trump particularly in mind—given the legislator who introduced it, Brad Hoylman-Siga, was known as another Trump antagonist.
More interestingly, he had earlier introduced and had passed another Trump-targeted bill. That “TRUST” act had empowered particular federal Congressional committees to have access to the New York State once sealed tax returns of high-ranking government officials—such as Trump.
That bill’s generally agreed subtext was a green light for anti-Trump members of Congress to obtain legal access to Donald J. Trump’s tax returns.
So there is an eerie feeling that the New York legislature may have abruptly passed legislation that was aimed at the past conduct of Donald Trump but only after he entered the political arena.
While these are not quite bills of attainder, there is something unsettling if they are post facto laws aimed at targeting the most famous and controversial man in America and the leading candidate for the presidency.
In essence they were targeted statutes designed to make Trump’s prior legally unactionable behavior suddenly quite legally actionable.
Trump will be subject to such special treatment all summer and fall.
Prosecutors Bragg, James, Smith, and Willis will synchronize their court business for maximum effect.
Trump again will face leftwing prosecutors, judges, and juries on charges that are politically driven, involving alleged behavior that is either usually not criminalized or not to the same degree as Trump’s case. (Do we remember the nearly $375,000 federal fine belatedly leveled at an exempt Obama but only five years after his 2008 illegal garnering of, and not reporting, foreign campaign contributions?)
The stakes are higher each day as Trump closes in on the nomination and thus becomes the hope of half the country to end the Biden madness.
Somehow Trump will have to stay calm, give no opening to his legion of hostile prosecutors, while conducting a nonstop campaign against Biden (and for a while Hayley), and while fighting to keep his name on various state ballots.
So what we are witnessing is not even the extralegal efforts of Steele/Fusion GPS, Perkins Coie/DNC/Hillary Clinton in 2016, or the 2020 “Russian disinformation” ruse/change the voting laws/infuse half a billion dollars to absorb the work of the registrar machinations against Trump.
We are way beyond all that. The legal system itself, hand-in-glove with leftwing politicos (compare campaign boasts of James and Willis, or prosecutorial visits to the January 6 committee and the White House) is turning the process of balloting and elections into an embarrassing farce.
Still, Trump will have to soldier on. He must stay controlled amid the tsunamis, not play into the hands of his accusers, and remember that he may soon be the only eleventh-hour hope to stop this mockery of American law, customs and traditions.
Specifically, Carroll couldn’t even put a date or YEAR on her claims against Donald Trump, but that really didn’t matter in a civil case where the New York state legislature literally wrote a new law that permitted the lawsuit against Donald Trump. WATCH:
How possibly can one defend oneself when the accuser cannot give a specific date or time? This was a frame up for sure. An msdnc reporter said the quiet part out loud when she hope the fraud case with the unhinged judge would render a judgement in excess of 370 million. Then couple with the 83 million would force Trump, who allegedly has 400 million of cash liquidity, to liquidate other assets to meet the judgements together.
The E. Jean Carroll Trial: Sex and the City Reboot from Hell (substack.com)
This piece goes into the background of the characters in this framing of President Trump.
That’s what legislatures do.
The point was to allow victims of very old sexual abuse to do something about it, and he got caught by it. It’s unfortunate for your boy that the statute of limitations got opened up again and put his tail in a crack, but I suppose that that’s what one should be prepared for when one commits sexual assault.
And unless you were there, don’t bother telling me he didn’t do it. You don’t know. All you have is your slavish adulation for, frankly, a disgusting human being.
Many are moving out of the Big Apple, Seed Brain way too much Crime and Corruption
But… if Carroll has no evidence of the “attack”, can’t remember the date and has no witnesses that can verify when or if it happens, how can we tell if it falls within ANY statute of limitations? The law might as well been named, “Law to Open A 12 Month Window For E. Jean Carroll to Make Up An Accusation Against Trump”.
Why can’t one expect the same support the left gave Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden when Tara Reade made credible accusations against him? They just called Reade a liar and let it drop, even though she actually made complaints at the time and says there is evidence in Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden’s Senate records. Hell, she even knows when it happened!
Passing a law targeting a single person is lawfare, not justice.
There is a reason for the statutes of limitation. It is to prevent exactly cases like this where no reasonable evidence can be submitted to the court. But New York thinks it is above all reasonable law.
But even though you were NOT there, you know that Carrol is telling the truth? How so?
And what about these things:
Was she telling the truth when she claimed she was sexually assaulted by a babysitter’s boyfriend, a dentist, a camp counselor, an unnamed college date, an unnamed boss, and CBS chief executive Les Moonves?
Speaking of Moonves, Carrol wrote:
“He steps into the elevator behind me,” Carroll writes, “and his pants bursting with demands, goes at me like an octopus. I don’t know how many apertures and openings you possess, Reader, but Moonves, with his arms squirming and poking and goosing and scooping and pricking and prodding and jabbing, is looking for fissures I don’t even know I own, and — by God! — I am not certain that even if I pull off one of his arms it won’t crawl after me and attack me in my hotel bed. Hell, I am thrilled I escape before he expels his ink.
You really think a sane person wrote that?
I guess you also believe Paula Jones and Tara Reade, right?
Sounds like a wannabe porn star. Maybe someone SHOULD have banged her. She sounds like she needed it.
Idiot. Fool. Moron. One doesn’t have to be there to make a determination. Was the Judge there? Was the jury there? Was the media there? No… in fact, NO ONE was there. It never happened.
These cases almost NEVER have eye witnesses. They rely on evidence. Here, here’s a little help because I don’t think you know what it is.
ev·i·dence
[ˈevəd(ə)ns]
NOUN
Now, in the E. Jean Carroll case, where is the $83 million worth of evidence? Hmmm? See, you love this because you hate Trump. WHY do you hate Trump? Well… because you hate Trump. You have no reason, so you have to create reasons… like Trump raped E. Jean Carroll. Like he called veterans “losers”. Like he is a Russian asset. So on and so forth. You hate because that is how you think. You hate because Trump supports America.
Kinda like bigotry and prejudice. It’s how fascism exists.
What is your obsession with how people look?
Why is that woman wearing my grandmas old kitchen rag rug?
From which Collage of Snowflakes did you graduate from?
What is your attraction to fascism?
A Twice divorced, childless person showing signs of schizophrenia should never be giving advice to anyone, what was the rag mag editor thinking, oh books how to land a man, then when that fails who needs one. Wonder if the Judge was in the Jury room puffing the 12 to 83 million?
Well dont think the lunatic who lives in a rodent infested pigsty will see a red cent, if this ever gets a fair appeal.
I thought the Engoron case was the ultimate example of a gross political abuse of the judicial system to attack a person based solely on politics, a “fraud” case where there was no fraud, where exculpatory evidence is denied, where the defendant’s testimony is suppressed, where there is no victim, no losses, no harm. But… dang. THIS one takes the cake. Can the Democrats make it any more clear how they regard the justice system as their personal weapon and how they make a total mockery of it? No doubt, they WILL try.
She’s not going to gat a dime…
Of course not. But the spectacle is an embarrassment for the entire nation and, no matter what, leftists love being fed these lies.
Leftists almost never show enough honor and respect to recuse themselves.
1/29/24 – Haley defends verdict against Trump in Carroll case: ‘I absolutely trust the jury’ –
Of course nimrata does, it is a democrat.
What was the evidence that convicted Trump?
Trump hasn’t been convicted. He lost a defamation law suit and was ordered to pay damages. The trials involving personal criminal indictments will be coming up in the near future.
The judgement will be overturned on appeal. The whack job (unt will never see a dime.
He HAS been convicted. He was convicted of “sexual assault”, even though, apparently, E. Jean Carroll lied about the rape. The alleged defamation only could happen if Caroll wasn’t lying; otherwise, Trump is telling the truth (which, of course, he is). So, what was the evidence that convicted him?
There was no conviction because there were no criminal charges. E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit was filed in civil court. Carroll sued Trump for damages done to herself and her reputation.
OK, “liable” for sexual abuse. Without that judgement, there is no “defamation”. What is the evidence? What makes Trump’s statements “defamation”?
“If Your Honor truly worked with Ms. Kaplan in any capacity—especially if there was a mentor/mentee relationship—that fact should have been disclosed before any case involving these parties was permitted to proceed forward,” said Habba.
Shawn Crowley (Source: Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP)
Adding to the controversy, it was revealed that Shawn Crowley, one of Carroll’s lead counsels, is reported to have served previously as a law clerk for Judge Kaplan.
Furthermore, it has been disclosed that the judge co-officiated Crowley’s wedding.
This is a leftist, fascist, lawfare joke. It is embarrassing for the entire nation. This is probably the worst situation this nation has ever faced, a true threat to the sanctity of our entire Justice system.
Photo surfaces of E. Jean Carroll as college cheerleader, at Indiana University. Embarrassing moment for Hoosiers.
Wasn’t that when she was saying, “There is no ‘I’ in ‘insane'”?