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To its everlasting shame and (one hopes) the abiding disapproval of historians for generations to come, the Biden regime weaponized the justice system against President Donald Trump, and much of the damage has yet to be undone. On Monday, Trump asked the Supreme Court to undo one of the most egregious miscarriages of justice he suffered for the crime of being the leader of the opposition against Old Joe Biden and his leftist henchmen: the civil judgment that he sexually abused the partisan fantasist E. Jean Carroll in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room sometime in the 1990s, and subsequently defamed her in speaking about the case.
Carroll’s story has more holes than a slice of Swiss cheese that has been used for target practice, but despite failing to produce any evidence to substantiate her claims, she kept winning in court — believe all women, doncha know, even the crazy mendacious ones. But Trump’s team kept on appealing, and who knows? Maybe sanity will finally prevail at the Supreme Court.
The Associated Press reported recently that Trump’s lawyers “argued in a lengthy filing with the high court that allegations leading to the $5 million verdict were ‘propped up’ by a ‘series of indefensible evidentiary rulings’ that allowed Carroll’s lawyers to present ‘highly inflammatory propensity evidence’ against him.”
Indeed they were. Back in Sept. 2024, Trump attorney Will Scharf pointed out quite correctly and in considerable detail that the alleged victim’s story “at its heart is an utterly implausible, he said she said story.” Serious allegations of the kind that Carroll made 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 pinpoint 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 aspect of E. Jean Carroll’s story.”
Even worse, the case only went to court in the first place because corrupt leftists changed the rules solely in order to get 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 when New York changed the law to get Trump, Carroll took immediate advantage. And it was even worse than 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 case should have been thrown out of court on the first day, but that would have required those who brought it into court in the first place to be interested in justice, when it was quite clear that all they really wanted to do was defame and destroy Trump. In taking the case to the Supreme Court, Trump attorney Justin D. Smith correctly termed Carroll’s whole story a “politically motivated hoax.” Trump’s lawyers also charged the trial judge, Lewis A. Kaplan, of misapplying rules of evidence in order to strengthen Carroll’s “implausible, unsubstantiated assertions.”
Smith explained: “President Trump has clearly and consistently denied that this supposed incident ever occurred. No physical or DNA evidence corroborates Carroll’s story. There were no eyewitnesses, no video evidence, and no police report or investigation.” And so there should have been no judgment against Trump, and the Supreme Court should throw the whole thing out. If it doesn’t, we have much, much bigger problems than a question of what really happened, if anything, in a Bergdorf Goodman’s dressing room sometime in the 1990s.
“Find me the man, I’ll find you the crime.”
said Joe Stalin
Said Lavrentya Beria.
These dumbass leftists inadvertently mimic historical crimes. (They have similar scheming patterns & zero shame.)
Said Lavrentya Beria.
These dumbass leftists inadvertently mimic historical crimes. (They have similar scheming patterns & zero shame.)
One salient point omitted from this article is E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit wasn’t organic; it was artificially derived by Reid Hoffman’s personal hatred of Donald Trump. Carroll was just used as a medium for Hoffman to exercise his personal vendetta against Donald Trump. It’s Hoffman that approached Carroll and it’s Hoffman that was Carroll’s financial backer, allowing her to hire a high-priced legal firm to represent her to sue Trump. As a billionaire, I have no doubt that it was Hoffman who threw enough money via political contributions to New York State politicians that they voted to change the statute of limitations of sexual assault for adult victims from 5 years to 20 years. Also thrown in as a bonus to the Adult Survivors Act (ASA), which your article touched on was a 1-year extension to file a lawsuit on the passage of the ASA.
Lastly and most bizarrely, Carroll’s original lawsuit was regarding her allegations of sexually assault against Donald Trump. This is the crux of her entire case against Trump, yet this never went anywhere obviously because it came down to a he said / she said with zero evidence being offered by Carroll. So then Hoffman backed a weaker case of defamation for Carroll and unbelievably she won! I hope the US Supreme Court takes up this case because Trump didn’t defame Carroll, he verbally expressed his outrage that some lunatic was accusing him of sexually assault. That’s a far cry from defamation, where to be convicted of such a crime, the proof must be met that the defendant knew he/she was lying about the character of the plaintiff.
In a custody case between 2 separated parents, if the mother knowing lied and told people her ex-husband was a drug addict and a gambler when he was neither, that’s defamation. But that’s not what Trump did, he didn’t think Carroll was a smart brilliant woman, he thought she was a kook. That’s his personal opinion opposed to him fabricating lies about Carroll’s character and publicly attempting to sully her reputation. If the US Supreme Court doesn’t take on this case and overturns the verdict then basically a legal precedent has been made in Carroll’s verdict, which blurs the line between personal opinion and defamation. After this, anyone could be found guilty of defamation just for calling someone crazy based on his/her honest opinion.
How on earth is the Statute of Limitations now 20 years? That’s absurd.
New York’s Adult Survivors Act violates the 5th Amendment and should be struck down as unconstitutional, because it is.
I gave you #16 thumbs up. Thank you for posting such intelligent comments. This is not always the case with other commenters on this platform. Please make comments in the future.
Thanks Robert, I don’t drink beer very often but when I do I drink….sorry, I meant to say that I don’t make many comments online but when I do, Front Page is one place I do post them.
Nowadays its not the truth that matters. Its what one wants the truth to be that does.
Partially. The one who can afford the best mouthpieces (attorneys) prevails. But Carroll is garbage pure and simple and the lawsuit is garbage that needs to be dismissed with prejudice. Carroll should never be allowed in a courtroom again except as a defendant!
Quite frankly, after Trump’s ” miscarriage of justice” towards Israel, I simply don’t care. Here’s why:
Treacherous Trump stabbed Israel in the back over his UN vote to wrest control from Israel in Gaza, inserted last-minute wording saying “pathway to Palestinian state”, is now selling fighter jets to Saudia therefore weakening Israel’s air superiority, Trump is agreeing with the Syrian terror dictator that Israel should get off Mt. HERMON, he forced Israel to free the 200 Hamas terrorists in the tunnels under Israel’s troops, he talks about skipping the “Hamas disarming” stage, and now he is even defending antisemites Carlson and Fuentes, etc….
Now we know why Witkoff and Kushner threw Bibi under the bus on 60 Minutes -it was part of a well planned ambush to force Israel to capitulate to their demands – even as those demands seem to be existentially threatening.
Trump and his advisors Vance (aka Carlson proxy), Witkoff and Kushner all have big financial dealings with Qatar. This corruption and Trump’s involvement shows that yes, Trump is just as corrupt as Pelosi, and “doing g Israel” in a manner that will make Obama proud.
SHAME!!!!
I read and respect your opinion, but I am not yet ready to accept your analysis of events. I believe that politically speaking, Qatar is the key player. In his first term, Trump sidelined Qatar effectively and got the Abraham Accords on the rails. My suspicion is that, during the Biden years, Qatar effectively rebuilt and fortified their political position buying not just the Democrats but key conservative voices. i believe that the solutions being pursued are a higher order of chess than your analysis reveals. I believe that Iran will have a revolution, and that Saudi Arabia will operate out of economic self-interest. I would love to see an assessment by one or two experts with differing opinions here on Front Page.
Trump just wants a quick, glitzy solution so he can brag. He’s the most Pro Israel President we have had in a long time. He has done a lot of great things for Israel and Jews. His response to persecution of Jews in higher education is obviously heartfelt, He does a lot of weird, inexplicable things. I think not so secretly he still feels that his handling of Covid is something we should all laud and he was wildly successful with supporting Fauci and allowing clot shots to be forced on everyone, along with masking, etc.. His interaction with slime terrorists at the white house is embarrassing.
Sometimes the simpler answer, instead of the conspiracy rant wastes less time. Besides Israel has never had a problem being independent of the US. it needs to make it decisions on it’s own and most likely is doing that. Anyway it’s responsible. The US can’t threaten it.
Best friend of Israel, SOMETIMES. Throwing Israel under the bus at the 60 minutes interview was not friendship. It negated all the pro-Israel comments he spoke about at the Knesset 2 days prior. Now, selling the Saudis fighter planes cancels Israels air superiority – and to denigrate Israel further, Trump said to reporters, “Israel would “like you [Saudia] to get planes of reduced caliber,” Trump told the Saudi prince, as reporters looked on. “I don’t think that makes you too happy.”
Disrespectful and showing apathy for Israel’s security. TRUMP HAS FLIPPED!
Even acknowledging Trump’s inexact speaking style, the comment was unsettling. Perhaps he meant Israel would have preferred respectable, but lesser planes going to Saudi Arabia like the F-16. They certainly won’t be getting F-35’s like Israel has, as those are locally modified versions. Saudi Arabia would instead get the bog standard version everyone else does, tethered to US control, and likely maintained by US contractors. And they likely wouldn’t be delivered until 2030 at the earliest.
That said, it’s still a foolish idea. (And selling them to Turkey, today quite hostile to Israel, would be at least as foolish.) The technology could easily leak to China, Russia or Iran. And even in standard configuration, it’s still stealthy, almost invisible to Israeli radar, so a hostile pilot with stand-off weapons could still do a lot of damage.
WTF does this have to do with a rape case??? You don’t like Trump? Fine. But a kangaroo case such as this has implications that eventually affect the rest of us.
I think anyone who followed this story knows it was totally fabricated to get Trump. Disgrace.
Hoffman clearly financed this case solely as an exercise of lawfare with zero admissible evidence
Time to end this Witch Hunt by the Dems as well as Soros and the UN/CFR/Globalists
This Adult Survivors Act is a clear violation of due process and the 5th Amendment, and should be struck down as unconstitutional, because it is.
The main issue I have with this sordid affair is I have a problem spelling the word “kangaroo.”