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The election is over, Trump has been reelected, but the lawfare continues nonetheless. On Monday, a federal appeals court that must have been under the influence of some psychotropic drug upheld Trump’s liability for supposedly sexually abusing the partisan fantasist E. Jean Carroll in a Bloomingdale’s dressing room sometime in the 1990s. Carroll’s story has more holes than a slice of Swiss cheese that has been used for target practice, but despite lacking any evidence, she keeps winning in court — believe all women, doncha know, even the crazy mendacious ones. Trump’s team is going to keep on appealing, and that’s good. Maybe sanity will prevail at some point.
Fox News reported recently that the appeals court’s is “a blow to the president-elect,” and leaves him “on the hook for the $5 million payout ordered by the jury.” An unnamed panel of three judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which consists of 27 judges in all, issued an unsigned ruling claiming that Trump’s attorneys had not succeeded in establishing “that the district court erred in any of the challenged rulings.” The Trump team “has not carried his burden to show that any claimed error or combination of claimed errors affected his substantial rights as required to warrant a new trial.”
In the immortal words of Peter Lorre in the cinematic classic “All Through the Night,” “But that’s silly!” Back in Sept. 2024, the Post Millennial reported that Trump attorney Will Scharf, “speaking at Trump Tower in New York City after a hearing to ask to overturn the final verdict against Trump in the E Jean Carroll case,” pointed out quite correctly that the alleged victim’s story “at its heart is an utterly implausible, he said she said story.”
Serious allegations of this kind are supposed to be established on the basis of evidence and witnesses, but Scharf noted that in this case, there was “no corroboration for anything” that Carroll claimed about what went on between her and Trump. The fix was in from the beginning: Carroll’s attorneys never produced any “corroborating witnesses” or “confirmatory DNA.” She filed no police report at the time of the supposed incident, and couldn’t even say when exactly her encounter with Trump was supposed to have happened. “No surveillance evidence or witnesses have ever been found or come forward confirming any asked of E Jean Carroll’s story.”
Even worse, the case only went to court in the first place because corrupt leftists changed the rules so that they could get Trump. As PJM’s Ben Bartee noted back in Apr. 2023, Carroll was only able to file her case at all because of “an exception carved out in the New York state legal code that many speculate was crafted especially to enable the prosecution of Trump.”
New York Magazine explained at that time that Carroll was able to file her suit “because of the Adult Survivors Act, a new New York state law that went into effect that same month giving adult survivors of sexual misconduct a one-year window to file civil cases that would otherwise be outside the statute of limitations.” So New York changed the law to get Trump, Carroll took immediate advantage and now the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit is playing along with this vicious and partisan charade.
There are more problems besides all that. In 2019, Carroll appeared on the cover of New York Magazine beside a large headline that read: “This is what I was wearing 23 years ago when Donald Trump attacked me in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room.” Yet the Donna Karan dress she was wearing on the magazine cover wasn’t manufactured at the time of the alleged encounter between Trump and Carroll. And while the magazine cover is certain that the “attack” took place in 1996, Carroll has never been that definite.
This sort of thing should have gotten the case thrown out of court on the first day, but that would require those who brought it into court in the first place to be interested in justice when all they really wanted to do was get Trump. And get him they did: Fox notes that the appeals court’s ruling “comes after a New York jury last year found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll, a former Elle magazine advice columnist, in the dressing room of a Bergdorf Goodman store in the mid-1990s—and for subsequently defaming her when she came forward with her story during his first term in office.”
This isn’t over. Steven Cheung, a Trump transition spokesman and incoming White House communications director, stated: “The American People have re-elected President Trump with an overwhelming mandate, and they demand an immediate end to the political weaponization of our justice system and a swift dismissal of all of the Witch Hunts, including the Democrat-funded Carroll Hoax, which will continue to be appealed. We look forward to uniting our country in the new administration as President Trump makes America great again.”
So do we, Mr. Cheung. We look forward to the day when all the plotters against our free republic are unmasked, and E. Jean Carroll is publicly known as what she really is. Are there still courts that are free enough of corruption and politicization to bring that day closer?
She’s an obvious nutcase but a New York jury would convict Trump of anything. There has to be some recourse against biased juries.
The jury more than likely was entirely made up of Trump-hating DemocRATs, hand picked by the prosecutor.
Trump should throw all the malefactors in prison on day one of his new term. Those people are all lying criminals and need to be treated as such. No mercy.
Move the damn case out of NYC already. Or simply refuse to pay her.
At some EJC will f*ck up and make such an ass of herself that the public, even in NYC, will see what a grifter she is.
Typo alert: “At some point”
MAGA-hatred. Alas, they’re all in on it!
I don’t believe Donald Trump tapped that …
…because Trump is a teetotaler …
…and a man would need to be drunk to bed a dog that ugly.
this never happened. I live in NYC and the dressing rooms in bergdorf goodman have an employee at entrance who counts the number of items going in and gives customer a tag with a number on it. they may scan now i haven’t been there in awhile and generally a saleswoman who works on floor takes them in with customer. aside from that men do not go in. So Donald Trump no less, known by sight to every NYer since the 70s was permitted entrance and there was no employee who noticed this ? Please. Never mind just resistance would have been overheard and immediately responded to
Did Trump’s defense use your argument? It seems quite plausible that the store would safeguard their merchandise.
I’m not a fan of Trump, but it’s gratifying to see him refuse to let these lawfare eagles and liars-for-hire feast off of him. America is for too long awash in the “get something for nothing” mentality, fostered by the tort industry.
The most absurd case in American history. Trump is and was then always surrounded by bodyguards. He’ was already a NYC celebrity who was flocked by paparazzi and sales people anywhere he went in stores as I personally witnessed. Somehow he managed to force a woman into a dressing room with all the attention he receives and nobody heard or saw anything? It’s absolutely impossible for an unknown to do this is a fancy dept store like this let alone a famous Trump who always travels with a posse.
Particularly disturbing in this case is that the statute of limitations guidlines were changed specifically for this case to proceed. That should scare the heck out of any freedom-loving, rational citizen. Today Trump, tomorrow…?
This case as well as hundreds of others is the #1 reason to vote against Democrats. The Democrat party sees constitutional rights impediments to achieving their agenda.
Trumps attorney should show up in representation and simply inform this idiot that their client has prior pressing engagements and business of national importance to attend to. And that his court does not hold legitimate precedence at this time. They should emphasize however that they would be glad to make an appointment for him at their clients earliest convenience.
So EJC didn’t know the date, except that the offence occurred in the 90”s. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that DJT did not spend the entirety of the 90’s in NYC, nor spend that decade in the vicinity of Bloomingdale’s. EJC without giving a specific date made it impossible for Trump to produce evidence that he was elsewhere at the time of the assault.
What could possibly be the lasting effects of this legal precedence?
May I suggest President Trump’s attorneys sue the plaintiff for defamation of character and, perhaps, the State of New York for false imprisonment?
Trump was found guilty of 2 things, sexual battery and defamation. The bottom-line is this is a he said / she said case with the plaintiff bring no corroborating evidence or witnesses to backup her claim. Not only that but most importantly, Carroll could not even remember the exact date this incident happened. If I was on the jury, I would have voted not guilty for the defendant for one reason. People who suffer traumatic events remember the date and down to the minute this life altering event happened to them. Such people also relive the trauma via having no control of their subconscious that keeps pushing it up to the surface, it’s called post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Carroll never brought up she had PTSD, went to sexual survivors’ group meetings or sought help from a mental health professional to deal with her emotional trauma.
The second conviction of Trump being liable for defamation is beyond laughable. So a strange woman comes out of nowhere and now 3 decades later accuses you of inappropriately sexually touching her. Sorry – you’re not allowed to call this woman a kook?
Did I just wake up in the Bizarro World?
Such low standards of evidence make every American vulnerable to lawsuits without due process. The New York Bar Association should have stepped in before this got out of hand. The legal system is a disgrace because of cowards who won’t take a stand for the truth. This trope is obviously not playing with a full deck but that doesn’t justify such obvious abuse by judges and lawyers entertaining hearsay while ignoring the facts of the case. The entire court system in New York and Georgia should be investigated federally and those who lied or exaggerated should be treated for what they are, criminals. The courts should not have so much power with so little competence. It is time to cleanse the system and start from scratch with the constitution.