Two Decisions This Week That Inch Trump Closer To Being Held Accountable
This week’s highlights include a continuation of Trump’s losing streak in both state and federal courts.
Consistency may be Trump’s only virtue.
E. Jean Carroll
E. Jean Carroll is back in the news. You may recall, she accused Trump of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-90s. She disclosed her allegation against then private citizen Trump after he was president.
As Trump does when women credibly accuse him of sexual assault, he declared Carroll a “total liar.” Despite photographic evidence to the contrary, Trump claimed they’d never met. Trump also defended his personal honor by assuring the public that Carroll wasn’t his “type,” which means she did not fall within the group of women he would have been interested in — raping. He made these denials to two news outlets and issued a written statement claiming her accusations were totally false, politically motivated, and to sell a book.
Carroll didn’t take well to being called a “total liar” by her alleged rapist. In November 2019, she sued Trump as a private citizen in New York state…