The author E.J. Carroll won a big award from a jury as compensation for defamatory remarks made by the former President Donald Trump. The jury awarded her $83 million after the second trial. Immediately after the first trial, Trump defamed her again, eliciting a second trial, and second multi-million-dollar award for damages. Together with her two female attorneys she was interviewed by Rachel Maddow.
Carroll is an 80-year-old author who had been sexually abused by Donald Trump. That was determined by the jury in a private tort trial. It was not a criminal trial. The government’s Department of Justice did not start the claim. Teh jury reached the conclusion on the basis of a balance of probabilities. This was not a case of the “deep state” nor “started by Biden’s corrupt Department of Justice” as Trump is so quick to claim in other cases. Carroll admitted she was terrified before the trial. She was so scared she lost her voice and could not speak. But she had been sexually abused by Donald Trump and did not want to let him get away with it. As Carroll said triumphantly on the Rachel Maddow show “We’ve planted our flag. We’ve stood up to the man…He is not there…He is like a rhino snorting.” She emasculated the bully.
At the trial Carroll realized Trump was a bully, and like so many bullies “he was nothing. We don’t need to be afraid of him.” Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan said after the verdict had been rendered, “We can stand up to the US’s biggest bully. We are not afraid of him.” The other lawyer for Carroll, Shawn Crowley who gave the summation to the jury asked them to consider “How much does he have to pay in order to stop him.” The first verdict was $5 million in the first case. But Trump could not keep quiet and defamed her a second time right after the first verdict. He just refused to follow the rules. Crowley said about the jury, “They just saw it with their own eyes.”
Roberta Kaplan, the other lawyer for Carroll, said,
“Our thesis in this case was that Donald Trump was a bully who is incapable of following the rules. Then during the trial he acted like a bully and showed that he was incapable of following the rules. We almost didn’t need to say anything. The jury just watched him.”
I wish the Trumpsters had seen him. The case exposed the former president as a weak bully!
I really don’t care about Trump. I do care about people who vote for him. I know some Americans like bullies. They want a bully as President. But I really think a majority don’t like bullies. Let’s wait and see. The election will tell the story. This upcoming election will tell us a lot about who the electors like. If they like Trump, you know they like bullies.