Nightmare
How would you feel if you were the victim of a street mugging, and the mugger took all your money, your watch, jewelry, even your clothing. The perpetrator is found and arrested and tried and convicted. Then a few years later, he sues you for ruining his life and brings perjury charges against you for lying in court about what he did.
That is almost exactly what is happening to E. Jean Carroll today, only the mugger is a rapist, and what was taken from her wasn’t worldly things but rather her dignity and sense of personal safety and physical and mental health. The man behind the investigation and possible prosecution of Carroll is the former attorney for the rapist who lost his case in court. Donald J. Trump sexually assaulted Carroll in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room and lost not one but two lawsuits filed by her. She filed the first one against Trump for defaming her when he accused her of lying about the assault. She won that suit and a judgement of $5 million against Trump.
Carroll filed the second lawsuit for defamation when soon after losing the first case, Trump accused her of committing a “hoax and a lie” and “making up” the story. In the second suit, Carroll added a charge of “battery” after New York had passed “The Adult Survivors Act,” allowing victims of sexual assault to file civil lawsuits beyond the statute of limitations. Carroll won the second suit as well, with the jury taking only three hours to find that Trump had again defamed her and had committed sexual assault on her. The jury this time awarded Carroll $83.3 million -- $7.3 million in emotional damages, $11 million for damages to her reputation, and $65 million in punitive damages, for Trump having continued to defame her even after he had suffered the judgement that he had defamed her the first time.
The depositions and trials and maneuvering by Trump around both cases are complicated. He went through a long process trying to get the Department of Justice to act as his lawyer because he claimed that his comments defaming Carroll had been made “in the scope of his office” and came under presidential immunity. Trump had to put up a bond of $91.63 million in order to file notice that he would appeal both verdicts. In September of 2025, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Trump’s appeal, and on April 29, less than a month ago, the Second Circuit rejected a motion by Trump that his appeal should be heard en banc, by the entirety of the Second Circuit’s judges. The Second Circuit did grant Trump’s request for a stay, so long as Trump increased his bond amount by $7.46 million for interest that would accrue while Trump appeals the verdicts against him to the Supreme Court.
That is where things stood until today when Trump’s Department of Justice, which under his orders established an “Office of Weaponization” to go after his critics and enemies, launched a criminal investigation of Carroll for perjury. The allegation appears to be that during depositions, she said that she had not received outside money to support her lawsuits against Trump. She was asked about support from Reid Hoffman in a deposition, and her response to the questions was sealed.
What is of course going on here is that Donald Trump lost the lawsuits filed against him by E. Jean Carroll because two juries and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals found that he shot his mouth off and lied about her and defamed her repeatedly. Trump tried to drag the whole thing out until his right-wing friends on the Supreme Court gave him presidential immunity. When that didn’t work, his lawyers even tried to invoke the “Westfall Act,” which would have substituted the United States as the defendant in the lawsuits against Trump. That would have mooted the entire matter, because the federal government cannot be sued for defamation under Westfall. That didn’t work with the Second Circuit, either.
When Trump lost every gambit he had tried to pull against Carroll in a desperate attempt to avoid having to pay her nearly $100 million for defamation, he got his law-poodle, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, to go after her. Blanche, who represented Trump during part of Carroll’s lawsuits, had to recuse himself from the investigation of Carroll, so he fobbed it off on Andrew S. Boutros, the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. You may recall Boutros as the dimwit who had to appear in federal court in Illinois last week to answer questions from the judge in the case against the “Broadview Six,” the protesters who were arrested outside an ICE detention facility, because of a series of lies and errors in the documentation of the charges against them. The judge dropped the charges and castigated Boutros for incompetence and obvious dissembling and said she was considering whether to refer charges against lawyers from Boutros’ office to the Illinois State Bar.
So there we have it. The lesson of this whole thing is what it has always been for women. Try your best not to be sexually assaulted and or raped, and if it does happen, know that the legal system will do everything in its power to discredit you and cause further harm to your emotional well being and reputation in an attempt to silence and punish you for being a woman.
E. Jean Carroll is as fearless as Trump is evil and his DOJ is incompetent and corrupt. Hopefully, justice will prevail for her. In the meantime, she deserves all the support and appreciation we can send her way.
EJean does not deserve this perverse thin skinned man who treats his regime as if he’s a wannabe dictator. She’s a fantastic human and deserves all of our support and respect. Drumph is a poisonous snake who has no good qualities or abilities. He wants to destroy the US for Putin and his own profit. He’s a traitor and a criminal
I am in awe of her strength. Thank you for your solid support of a woman who is being attacked by the biggest bastard in the world. If his dead body lay out in the woods not one vulture would touch its poisonous fat. Satan won’t take him either.