It’s so weird how Donald Trump just can’t stop defaming the one woman who’s ever held him legally accountable for his sexual violence. Trump just can’t be told “no,” so he keeps appealing the case that writer E. Jean Carroll famously won against him after enduring years of his well-documented defamation, both online and off, after she accused him of sexually abusing her — which a jury later found him civilly liable for.Even though he keeps losing the appeals, he’s never stopped defaming her for daring to tell the truth about him. I keep a screenshot on my phone of a Washington Post headline: "Judge clarifies: Yes, Trump was found to have raped E. Jean Carroll," because far too many of the MAGA trolls who gleefully continue to blame and shame all of Trump’s victims don’t understand what a court ruling meansYeah, they don’t like this one because Trump said he didn’t do it. It’s that simple for them. The truth messes with their cult ideal of Dear Leader, as well as their self-identities; they just couldn’t have been wrong about him all along.They hate it when you remind them about this L from last year — his bid to overturn the $83 million damages awarded to Carroll was lost in September, then an appeals court refused to rehear the case in April this year.So, here we go again.The pesky thing about the truth is that it’s always true, whether a cult wants to believe it or not. If they were capable of reading anything longer than a Truth Social post full of the lies they feed on, they could actually (GASP) learn truthful things. I know the truth actually doesn’t matter to them, and there are a lot of things they don’t know about Trump because no one’s ever told them. For example, Carroll shares previously unreleased details about the trial in her excellent memoir, Not My Type, the title of which co-opts Trump’s most infamous claims of his innocence, as if a woman’s physical attractiveness is the deciding factor when it comes to committing physical violence against them. Aside from cataloguing the amazing outfits she wore to court, Carroll takes the reader through the entire process, from voir dire to the jury’s unanimous decision to award her $83.3 million in damages. One of my favorite details from the book that MAGA doesn’t know is that one of the jurors had revealed during voir dire that he got his news exclusively from MAGA podcaster Tim Pool. Carroll's lawyer, the unbreakable Robbie Kaplan, tried to have him dismissed, but Trump’s lawyers argued for his inclusion to keep the jury “fair and balanced.” When questioned by Judge Lewis Kaplan (no relation to Robbie), the juror testified under oath that he’d only listened to Pool's podcast “three or four times” in the preceding six months. He testified that he considered the show "balanced," had never heard of Carroll before the trial, and was confident he could remain fair and impartial. And then he voted with the other jurors to award Carroll her big money, which she’s still waiting for as Trump’s legal team repeatedly keep appealing the ruling at his behest. MAGA still can’t cope with the decision and continues to parrot Trump’s disparaging remarks about her credibility, from bagging on her looks to pointing out that she named one of her cats after female anatomy. I guess because they think that word is worse than what Trump did to her in a Bergdorf dressing room. They love to blame all of Trump’s victims of sexual violence, from Carroll to any potential connections in the Epstein Files, because they just can’t allow themselves to consider that they might have been wrong about Trump. They still believe Bill and Hillary did the unspeakable things with Epstein, and yet they have no answers when I ask them why Trump hasn’t testified like the Clintons did. Innocent people have no problem showing up to testify about their innocence.Trump is now weaponizing his Department of Justice against Carroll, forcing it to launch a manufactured criminal investigation into the trial. He’s never once even threatened to sue anyone who’s accused him of being in the Epstein Files, or demanding the arrest of anyone named in them. He’s not using his DOJ to get a do-over for his 34 felony fraud convictions. Nope, he’s fully fixated on this one blemish on his spotty record, thanks to this one woman.And right before this new investigation was announced, Trump rewarded his disgraced former Attorney General, Pam Bondi, with a new job in the White House, right before she was called to testify about the Epstein Files again. Weird timing, huh? This is the kind of “witch hunt” Trump whines about the Democrats launching against him any time anyone dares to call him out. This goes deeper than “Trump can’t be wrong” about anything; it’s yet another confession that he covers up with accusations. Trump is also siccing his DOJ on anyone who supported Carroll, like LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman.
