Tuesday, May 09, 2023

I Guess We All Know What Happened

It might have been helpful if you’d shown up in court to make that defense.
It took just a little over three hours for the jury to come to a conclusion. 
While the jury said that he didn't "rape" her, it said she was sexually abused and awarded her $2 million in damages. 
Trump was also found liable for defamation for a social media post in Oct. 2022 in which he denied attacking her, calling her allegations "a hoax and a lie" and "a complete con job." For that, they awarded Carroll $1 million. 
They also called for $1.7 million for a "reputation repair program." 
Another $20,000 was awarded for actions that were "negligent, reckless, or done with a conscious disregard of the rights of Ms. Carroll, or was so reckless as to amount to such disregard." 
The total award for Carroll was a little less than $5 million.

So, just enough time to pick a foreman, ask if anybody didn’t think he did all of it, and then decide on damages.

One has to wonder if this isn’t premonitory about verdicts to surely come.

“And one of the things I think is really interesting here is that they didn't find that there was intercourse between Mr. Trump and E. Jean Carroll. That's the difference between the rape and the sexual abuse components of battery, but they did find that we touched her in an unwanted way in either of her sexual or intimate parts for the purposes of gratifying himself, and that is a meaningful, meaningful finding.”

Now to fit that on a bumper sticker….

The GOP can’t, of course. Which makes this even more delicious. Well, when you put it that way: the judge was anti-Trump. Or does that answer the question?
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