The current round of ridiculous Trump-related litigation that the media is obsessed with involves E. Jean Carroll. Back when she first came out, the media gave her some face time and then quickly ran the other way.
It’s not hard to see why.
CARROLL: I think most people think of rape as being sexy.
COOPER: Let’s take a short break —
CARROLL: They think of the fantasies.
COOPER: We’re going to take a quick break. If you can stick around we’ll talk more on the other side.
CARROLL: You’re fascinating to talk to.
The scene of the supposed assault takes place in a Bergdorf’s department store where, in Carroll’s own words, “no one is present” even though she concedes that makes no sense and the dressing rooms would have been locked if there hadn’t been an attendant. It wouldn’t matter if there were tapes of it, she writes, because “the struggle might simply have read as ‘sexy.’”
But the media is eagerly reporting on her Trump lawsuit because it shifts the onus of credibility to Trump and that way the media doesn’t have to actually talk to Carroll. And any development is implausibly embraced as another attack by the media. No matter how much of a stretch. Even if it proves the opposite of what it claims to.
Donald Trump mistook his sexual assault accuser E. Jean Carroll for his ex-wife Marla Maples when shown a photograph from the 1990s in a deposition at Mar-a-Lago last year, potentially undermining one of the common defenses he has used to deny an attack.
It sounds like it supports his previous claim that he’d never met her.
“That’s Marla, yeah. That’s my wife,” Trump said under examination from Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan, in a new selection of excerpts from the deposition that was unsealed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
Trump’s blunder in a sworn deposition was quickly corrected by his attorney Alina Habba, who told him it was Carroll, not Maples, an actress and singer who was married to Trump from 1993 to 1999.
If not recognizing your accuser is a blunder, it’s a pretty good blunder.
Trump has denied having ever known Carroll, and in response to the photo’s existence, he has said in the past that he was often introduced to people at events that he didn’t know. In the deposition, he said the photo appeared to show him on a “receiving line,” possibly at a charity event, where he met and greeted guests.
Only the media could turn Trump’s inability to recognize the woman suing him as evidence that he attacked her.
If we employ leftist logic, then Trump has raped the entire world! Still using leftist logic, that means Trump’s popularity will soar!
Have to avoid nutsos who make false accusations against a man. Hard to disprove.
Defendants have no burden of proof. That burden is entirely upon the accuser (plaintiff in civil cases or the state in criminal cases via the district attorney). The big problem here was her recitation of the alleged event smacked of rape fantasies and mental illness. There was nothing to rebut because her own testimony tended to show mental instability and incoherence.
But, I know exactly what you mean. If she had been credible, the accusation would have had more weight. Then, the only obligation of the accused would be, in a criminal case like rape, to raise doubt that is reasonable – not convincing or overwhelming.
The January 6th cases show that we are losing every concept of justice belonging to western civilization. No presumption of innocence. No swift day in court, but long detentions in inhumane facilities without trial. No juries of peers –not if you are conservative. Now, we have political prisoners in Washington D.C.
Yeah, that’s the weird thing, people tend to believe accusations, hence the need for the accuser to show proof, and the presumption of innocence, which people seem to have forgotten about.
Always a winning strategy for Dems because conservatives are sensitive to suggestions of impropriety while impropriety just makes Dems look like bold community freedom fighters.
We’ve been through all of this with Roy Moore which was a significant moment in the Trump presidency and the more it gets results the more of it we’ll get.
After that Trump ditched Bannon and the course was set for our present fabulous situation. Dems understand what works because Republicans show them. The fine folks of Tennessee showed them in that instance.
Republicans are not above picking up on these tricks but of course they play them on mainly on fellow Republicans because that involves less risk and because Dems are largely immune as mentioned.
Thanks Una! The Roy Moore thing was a good example of the way the Democrats used the media to fool the voters and gain control of the Senate.
So if he doesn’t recognize her in a photo that proves he knew her and raped her. Makes sense to me.
Once again the crumby News Network proves why its not real news just leftists propaganda just like 60 Minutes, CBS Sunday Morning and the rest of the daytime and nighttime news is 99/44&100% Fake News we get from them all
Am I the only one suffering from Democrat hypocrisy and fraud fatigue?
If there’s any place just to take a break from evil, lying Democrats,
I need to go there.
God bless President Trump for staying strong, persevering, fighting back. . .
And what about when Obama forced a Military Wedding to relocate just so he could playa few holes of golf where was the Crumby News Network then?