Trump Goes Even Lower With Criminal Investigation Into E. Jean Carroll
Trump is still fighting to not pay the woman that he sexually assaulted. After his appeals were denied, Trump now has his Department of Justice criminally investigating E. Jean Carroll.
The dominant feature of Trump’s second presidential administration is his effort to rewrite history. Trump has tried to rewrite the history of his attempt to overthrow the government with a mass pardon of 1/6 criminals. Trump's effort to erase the stain of 1/6 continues with the establishment of a slush fund to compensate people who tried to overthrow the government with taxpayer funds.
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At every turn, one person has consistently defeated Donald Trump.
E. Jean Carroll has won judgments against Trump for defamation and sexual assault. Donald Trump has refused to pay Carroll, and with his latest appeal denied by the federal courts, Trump is now abusing the power of the presidency to target Carroll with a criminal investigation.
The investigation is focused on whether Carroll committed perjury in testimony tied to her two civil lawsuits against the president – one alleging he sexually abused Carroll in a New York department store in the mid-1990s, and a second for defaming her when in 2019 he repeatedly denied the assault, said she wasn’t his type and claimed she made it up to boost sales of a book.
Prosecutors’ theory hinges on a 2022 deposition statement by Carroll, 82, that she received no outside funding for her lawsuit, though it was later revealed that billionaire Reid Hoffman had paid some legal fees and expenses.
