Is There Anything More Foul than Siccing the Justice Department on Your Own Sexual Abuse Victim?

A New York jury found in 2023 that Donald Trump deliberately and forcibly penetrated E. Jean Carroll’s vagina with his fingers, causing immediate pain and long lasting emotional and psychological harm. The civil verdict avoided the word “rape” under New York state law, instead describing the conduct as sexual abuse. Carroll later won a defamation lawsuit against Trump and he returned to the White House. Reports now say Carroll is the subject of a criminal investigation by the Justice Department. The investigation is described as focusing on alleged perjury, tied to whether Carroll misrepresented financial backing for her lawsuit while testifying, including backing associated with Reid Hoffman.

"A New York jury weighed the evidence of the assault on Carroll that occurred in the mid-1990s in an NYC department store, and found in 2023 that Trump had, without question, forced himself upon the woman. The only reason the verdict of the civil lawsuit did not technically include the word “rape” is that the jury merely found that Trump had, in the words of Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, “convincingly established ... that Mr. Trump deliberately and forcibly penetrated Ms. Carroll's vagina with his fingers, causing immediate pain and long lasting emotional and psychological harm,” which somehow does not count as “rape” in the eyes of New York state law, but merely “sexual abuse.”"

"And then, you know, the American people ignored that result, as well as Carroll successfully suing Trump again for defamation, and returned him to the White House so he could seek revenge on all his enemies with impunity, Carroll included. The 2024 election, everybody: America's finest hour."

"And now, the revenge tour has landed at the door of E. Jean Carroll, as numerous outlets have reported that she is now the subject of a criminal investigation by the Trump-dominated Justice Department. Not with some kind of goal of overturning the results of her own lawsuits against him, mind you-although Trump has been leaning on the U.S. Supreme Court to do exactly that for years, as the Court has repeatedly deferred on getting involved."

"Rather, the new DOJ investigation of Carroll is said to center around accusations of perjury, essentially accusing Carroll of having misrepresented the financial backing of her lawsuit against Trump while on the stand by failing to acknowledge having received the financial backing of Reid Hoffman, the billionaire co-founder of LinkedIn and a prom"

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