Guest Post by Victor Davis Hanson
Donald Trump in furor stormed out of a New York courtroom for a while, in the defamation suit brought by author and dating/boyfriend/sex-advice columnist E. Jean Carroll.
It was just settled against Trump for $83.3 million! The Carroll suit was largely subsidized by Reid Hoffman the billionaire capitalist, and mega-donor to the Democratic Party and leftwing causes.
The subtext of Trump’s rage, aside from the outrageous monetary size of the defamation ruling, is that he was facing—and angered—a leftwing claimant, a quite hostile leftwing judge, and a leftwing New York jury.
The civil suit serves as a mere preview of four additional leftwing criminal prosecutions, leftwing judges, and leftwing juries to come—all on charges that would never had been filed if Trump either had not run for president or been a liberal progressive.
Yet here we are.
The E. Jean Carroll case is the most baffling of all five. She, the alleged victim, did not remember even the year in which the purported sexual assault took place, nearly three decades ago. Observers have pointed out dozens of inconsistencies in her story.
It was never clear what were the preliminaries that supposedly (Trump denies meeting her) led both, allegedly, willingly to retreat together to a department store dressing room, where during normal business hours the alleged violence took place.
Moreover, the sexual assault complaint came forward decades post facto—and only after Trump was running for and then president.
Carroll eventually sued him for battery, but well after the statute of limitations had expired and thus the case seemed defunct.
Her claims of defamation injuries arise from being fired from her advice column job at ELLE magazine.
She claimed that Trump’s sharp denials and ad hominem retorts led to her career ruin. But the loss for anyone of a column at 76 does not seem such a rare occurrence, and the absence of a salaried job in one’s late seventies for four years does not seem to equate to a $83 million hit.
And note the allegation that her dispute with Trump led to her firing was strongly denied by the very magazine that cut her loose.
But then another strange thing happened. In 2022, a new law (“The Adult Survivors Act”) was passed in the New York legislature. It also post facto established a twelve-month window (beginning six months from the signing of bill) that permitted survivors of long ago alleged sexual assaults suddenly to sue the accused long-ago perpetrator—regardless of the previous statute of limitations.
That unexpected opening suddenly gave Carroll’s prior unsuccessful efforts a rebirth. And she quickly refiled with the help of arch-Trump hating billionaire Hoffman.
Yet the bill may have been introduced with Trump particularly in mind—given the legislator who introduced it, Brad Hoylman-Siga, was known as another Trump antagonist.
More interestingly, he had earlier introduced and had passed another Trump-targeted bill. That “TRUST” act had empowered particular federal Congressional committees to have access to the New York State once sealed tax returns of high-ranking government officials—such as Trump.
That bill’s generally agreed subtext was a green light for anti-Trump members of Congress to obtain legal access to Donald J. Trump’s tax returns.
So there is an eerie feeling that the New York legislature may have abruptly passed legislation that was aimed at the past conduct of Donald Trump but only after he entered the political arena.
While these are not quite bills of attainder, there is something unsettling if they are post facto laws aimed at targeting the most famous and controversial man in America and the leading candidate for the presidency.
In essence they were targeted statutes designed to make Trump’s prior legally unactionable behavior suddenly quite legally actionable.
Trump will be subject to such special treatment all summer and fall.
Prosecutors Bragg, James, Smith, and Willis will synchronize their court business for maximum effect.
Trump again will face leftwing prosecutors, judges, and juries on charges that are politically driven, involving alleged behavior that is either usually not criminalized or not to the same degree as Trump’s case. (Do we remember the nearly $375,000 federal fine belatedly leveled at an exempt Obama but only five years after his 2008 illegal garnering of, and not reporting, foreign campaign contributions?)
The stakes are higher each day as Trump closes in on the nomination and thus becomes the hope of half the country to end the Biden madness.
Somehow Trump will have to stay calm, give no opening to his legion of hostile prosecutors, while conducting a nonstop campaign against Biden (and for a while Hayley), and while fighting to keep his name on various state ballots.
So what we are witnessing is not even the extralegal efforts of Steele/Fusion GPS, Perkins Coie/DNC/Hillary Clinton in 2016, or the 2020 “Russian disinformation” ruse/change the voting laws/infuse half a billion dollars to absorb the work of the registrar machinations against Trump.
We are way beyond all that. The legal system itself, hand-in-glove with leftwing politicos (compare campaign boasts of James and Willis, or prosecutorial visits to the January 6 committee and the White House) is turning the process of balloting and elections into an embarrassing farce.
Still, Trump will have to soldier on. He must stay controlled amid the tsunamis, not play into the hands of his accusers, and remember that he may soon be the only eleventh-hour hope to stop this mockery of American law, customs and traditions.
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The soft Bolshevik invasion of the USSA is nearly complete… Chip
The federal level theatrics are a complete waste of time, that ship has sailed. Start locally and work outwards from that.
Reid Hoffman donated a quarter of a million dollars (that we know about) to Nimrata. Two sides, same coin. It’s all theatre. Exit left.
I’d like some of that “theater” cash. No way that leftist cunt is worth an $83 million legal award for a 30 year old he said she said insult; I’d like to hear an $83 million insult. Move the appeal to Iowa.
“Legally unactionable behavior?”……
So if it was legal behavior THEN,It STILL IS!
if the law changes what was either not spelled out or LEGAL(in other words)…..
It is a POST FACTO law and repugnant to the Constitution!!!!Statutes of limitations are there for EXACTLY this kind of legal perversion and to prevent it!
The courtroom is supposed to be the place where the TRUTH is discovered and JUSTICE is meted out or scales balanced.
“Judge”Kaplan(them again)is a tyrant not a judge!
I firmly believe that you shouldn’t be sued civilly of you weren’t held CRIMINALLY.
An EXTREME perversion of justice…..
If discovery and truth doesn’t matter in a courtroom in AMERICA…..we have fallen into true tyranny!Current SCOTUS ruling merely affirm that determination.
And the people in this country don’t seem to know or WANT to know the difference…..(particularly the “educated”)…..
You cant preserve that which you know NOTHING ABOUT…..To the writer…..you really need to check your language,words mean things you know……..get a dictionary….and old one!
VDH should have retired a decade ago or more.
Stanf0rd does that to the brain – atrophy- sometimes.
I agree with most of what you wrote, but not being able sue somebody without being “held criminally” (not sure that means charged or convicted too, I would assume the later), would create all sorts of problems, and not for the good, it would seem mostly.
A tort isn’t the vast majority of the time even a criminal act. And that is just tort law. Is breach of contract a criminal offense? It certainly could be I suppose, under the right circumstances, but most often it is not.
On the other hand, civil actions can lead to criminal prosecution from the discovery process. And ex post facto applies only to criminal law it would seem. Applying to civil law might create even more of a real nightmare, adding just one more layer of never ending reasons for putting off restitution, and more delay and expense (depends on what side of the “debate” you’re on whether good or bad). And keep in mind too, that the civil law isn’t just about monetary damages, it is also a powerful tool to hold (bad) public actors to the law, if only we ever learned to use it.
And that is the problem, we think being invited to a gunfight, means us with no guns and both hands tied behind our backs. Or worse, we hire somebody to use US as a human shield (with no gun and hands tied behind our backs) as a stand in.
This is a problem for the “right.” I’ve noticed that lawyers on the right, while being fairly competent in their area of expertise, really aren’t that good of litigators. The difference between theory and practice, and way to many on both sides are little more than glorified paralegals, doing cookie cutter work (bankruptcies, wills, trust, divorces, etc.), and even some minor criminal defense.
But good litigators are few and far between on the right, if litigators at all. The left has lots if litigators, mosts of them not that good. Why? Because they never have anybody (good or with integrity) challenge them, they are sloppy. They are used to doing what they want and they make all sorts of “mistakes.” Mistakes to cover up crimes, or skirt, bend and break the law, but a lot of mistakes, or short cuts (mistakes), because of being lazy and not that good too.
What does that mean? It means we have a missile gap that doesn’t take that much effort to fix. All we have to be is just a little better / smarter than the other missiles, which aren’t very good.
Every local / area resistance community should or does have a law committee established for disseminating theory and practice of law.
And once you start using those tools, you will also find out there are many friends (and certainly enemies too, but those enemies really doesn’t like going after armed folk. that means mexican standoff maybe that is why they go after trump so much? he has shit lawyers) that are on our side, that you wouldn’t otherwise know in power, that can work towards common goals.
That’s called self government. It is funny how we complain about them doing self government, when we refuse to govern ourselves. You know what else is neat the way the FFs set up this system of self-rule?
You have almost infinite places to fight that battle. In fact, in some places there wouldn’t even be a fight, because you are the government with no adversary to contend with. Yes, we have the closest thing to a functional anarchy the world has ever known, and we refuse to work (key word) it.
Go back and watch some of the old westerns. It wasn’t just about out gunning them physically, it was about outsmarting them on the legal front too. Even Tombstone was a lot was about them leveraging the law.
College boy!…..
Try again.
Where does the Constitution say ex post facto law ONLY applies criminally????
The “left”captured the legal schools a long time ago and have twisted the document or flat ignored what it actually says.
That’s why there are NO “Conservative/traditionalists lawyers out there.
The old westerns are “progressive propaganda”no different than anything written Norman Lear…
What did Spock always say?”The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few”……..pure socialist ideology.
The same guy did “Wagon Train”….they spout the same crap……
Good post tho,thanks for the convo…
Calder v. Bull
So using the law to defend rights and hold government (actors) accountable is a socialist thing? So I guess the alternative is to just go in and shoot everything up anytime we have a disagreement? Good luck with that.
The drama man, the fucking drama.
Welcome to another episode of As The Stomach Churns!
Some dee-jay was found decapitated. Pity the person who has to clean it up.
Trump runs his mouth and pays the price for it. Plain and simple.
He is dumb enough to talk about grabbing women by the pussy in front of a camera, and then wonders why his adversaries, who have no scruples, morals and an eternal flame of burning hatred for him, base a lawsuit around that comment, sue him and win tens of millions in a judgment.
That’s your boy, MAGA.
What he said was a METAPHOR to illustrate his wealth and how WOMEN would throw themselves at him.
You OBVIOUSLY neglected to READ the article
“It is better to be silent and APPEAR “stupid”,than to open it and remove all doubt”!…..
“It is better to be silent and APPEAR “stupid”,than to open it and remove all doubt”!…..
Can your boy Trump please take that message to heart? The man creates needless problems and is often his own worst enemy.
Like most in politics, he was simply born “wrong”. That type gravitates to political power. Something inside them starves for it.
Right!?!and no……your a “mean tweets” softie huh?Neocon much?
OK, Slobbeldyknob. Take your own advice and wait until you have half a clue about what you want to say. Jeeze, what mongoloids we have running around loose these days.
Is ad-hominem all you have??????musta touched a nerve….. .
MY misquote …..correction….
Better to appear FOOLISH……
Yes, Mentor. He cannot keep the pie-hole closed: he thinks he has enough “fuck you” money. Plus LOCKING-FUCKING-DOWN the USSA and being the proud father of “Big, Beautiful, Vaxxines.”
And he’s NOT the worst. Jesus help us.
“Leave God out of this. He wants no part of what comes next.” – Riddick
Yes.
If Trump had fired Fauci or forced him out, he’d actually be able to use the “I was duped” but I did something about it argument.
But no, the man famous for firing people couldn’t find it in himself to fire anyone, anywhere, involved in any way with covid.
That’s your boy, MAGA.
Ever try to fire someone protected by Civil Service?
They work FOR US……
Live by the sword die by the sword. Trump has committed lawfare with money for years. It ain’t right but that is the way it is.
Not on the scale that Soros money has persecuted Trump and his associates; and don’t forget the thousands of J6 political prisoners; but I think TPTB have gone so beyond the pale, they will have elected Trump even if 80 million dead and imaginary votes are cast for the democrat in Nov2024.
You hear “Soros funded DA,all day long!
Is it not foreign money and illegal?
Why is that accepted?D
The DA’s are subverting our God given rights and our “reps at the state level will do nothing….the People,being ill-informed dont know.
“. . . all on charges that would never have been filed if Trump either had not run for president or been a liberal progressive.”
Trump is a liberal progressive. But putting an “R” after one’s name and reciting right-wing talking points is sufficient to fool most of the sheeple, an both the left and the right, into believing that a liberal progressive is a conservative. It worked for George W. Bush, so why not Trump.
But regarding the $83 million judgement, it will ultimately help Trump far more than it will hurt him. It will increase his poll numbers, just like every previous indictment. It is all theater. The $83 million will be covered by an increase in donations from the MAGA rubes and special interest donors. Trump will win the Republican primary and the general election.
The hussy will never see the money.
The yiddish ashkenazi are good at keeping secrets, that have their puppets and no one is aware who those puppets are. They also have puppets on both sides of all the political oppositions, they watch the chess board and control both sides. Trump has been groomed since he was in military school by the New York Russian jewish mob: “people who would shoot someone just to see if their gun works:”. Roy Cohn, was Trump’s mentor. He made him rich and did so to make him owned and useful to the russian jewish mafia (chabad lubavitchers) as their president.
Just as Moislinsky used Biden’s son, making him a crackhead, and getting Joe ‘comprinised’ and he also became their president. All his money they bribed joe with was used to turn it around on him and extort him and his entire family. They all know joe is dead.
They also sold off his graft blackmail info to Chine for them to use against Joe.
They want to destroy the USA and will use China and Russia to get it done for them.
They use others to do their dirty work, if it takes more effort because they are lazy and the sin of sloth lives in them.
The big secret is that they always own both sides of the chess board in every game they play, not only so they always win, but also being the sadistic malignant grandiose narcissists, that all jews are, they enjoy inflicting the pain that they “chess games” wars in all levels of society cause to the goyim.
There is a war on your freedom, your health, your rights, your DNA, your economy, your morals and values and traditional way of life, and your souls, going in all at the same time orchestrated by the jews who own both sides so they can completely destroy both sides that is ALL of you.
That is how they always take down any society or nation.
They hate you, they lie, they deceive and they destroy.
Your pain, suffering, grief, and impoverishment (they did the great depression of 1929) gives them not only sadistic pleasure, but when they take you down they can swoop in and buy up everything you once had for pennies on the dollar, until they own it all.
Biden had been dead since before he was elected.
They jews killed him and replaced him.
He is played by a clone and several actors.
The jews in his cabinet are the real president
They needed him to win so they rigged the election.
Democrats are the least moral and most power hungry, so they bribed them easily to steal the election.
You have no president, they are the ones raiding the treasury and taking all your money to Ukraine and Israel and for migrants. They want to bankrupt america permanently by destroying your health morals the economy and then bringing a civil war a revolution from the migrants and the left homos and trannys.
5G is going to bring disease X.
There will be no more elected presidents, they will kill them, and replace them with actors because it worked so well with Joe. Whoever wins the election will be the easiest for them to kill.
The jews are your president now and will be the next one too.
Then america will fall in WW3 to the Russians and China, the jews have promised them this nation and more of they do the bidding of the wicked jewish mafia.
They own teh banks and they can bribe or blackmail or kill and replace anyone they choose.
Even Putin is just actors playing him working for the real power in Russia: the Chabad Lubavitchers, just like joe, the real Putin died long ago. Even his wife has openly said so.
There is no more america or Russia, they are jew owned. They also totally run and and own China.
The rockefellers and Rothschilds the big money central bankers own and run all the jews who do their bidding, and all the leg work for them, all the set up scams and con games that make the jews feel so superior when people at high levels fall into their traps and then they use them until their souls die completely, and or they just kill and replace them.
It’s a great time to be a lawyer!
Cuckoo, Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.
Didn’t OJ Simpson only have to pay 33 million?
“Inflation” factored in for tRump.
When neocons start siding with Trump, then I know he’s a shit. VDH is a neocon asshole who wouldn’t piss on Trump unless Trump was a neocon-safe candidate.
That woman is a total NUT.
I seriously don’t get why courts are entertaining sexual assault claims from decades ago when there is no evidence just someone’s word. I also don’t get why these feminist types act they are so strong and powerful except when it comes to filing a police report then suddenly they are weak and helpless. If you don’t report it when it happens oh well…..
E. Jean Carroll is going to use this windfall to finance a unicorn breeding facility…hopefully she won’t be raped.
ANYONE, who still “Be-LIE-Ve” this faked war between Russia/Ukraine/USA is all BS to make money for ALL of them is Foolish beyond belief!
Remember that meeting between Russia…Britain…USA during WW2???
At That meeting the THEY were on the SAME side…and HAVE BEEN EVER SINCE THEN!
There was NEVER a so-called “Could War” as the “Public’s” been LIED to about.
There was, however that “Operation Paper-clip”…where “German assets” were redistributed BETWEEN themselves!
Among the “White Race” there ARE NO ENEMIES!
AWAKEN folks!…THEY ALL SUPPORT “ZIONISM”!
i HAVE MANY PHOTOS AS PROOF THEY DO.
WHY do you think NOT one of them has come to the rescue of the poor “Palestinian’s” YET???
Strange thing that a person with the kind of money that Trump has ,and the connections he has garnered through out those years in big time construction projects, would let those commies walk all over him without some very bad “accidents” occurring .
He must’ve forgotten to tip her the usual quarter for her services. Now’s he’s on the hook for $83 million.
That verdict won’t stand. The first appeal hasn’t been filed yet.
Statute of limitations is there for a reason. And this accusing someone and that making them guilty with zero proof is horse shit.