Just another normal day in American politics. We read about how a Fox News anchor’s use of the C-word led to his sudden termination and how a former president was kneed in the groin by the woman he was attempting to rape. This is normal in 2023.
Donald Trump is really not okay with E. Jean Carroll’s civil rape trial. Not one bit. He had his cell phone in hand today and was going bonkers as only he can bonk. And he may well invite charges of witness intimidation if he keeps this up. Swell. Flex those thumbs and keep going, Donald, we want to see you hasten your departure for the House Of Many Doors, which is the only big house you truly belong in.
Here’s what Trump said that got the ball rolling. Stupid is as stupid posts.
That was stupid and it was met with this.
Witness intimidation, maybe a citation for contempt of court. Where are Trump’s lawyers and do they do nothing to control him — or he’s just flat out, out of control?
And of course it gets worse. Trump has already made an ass of himself by criticizing E. Jean Carroll as “not his type,” which is particularly hilarious, seeing as how she was virtually a dead ringer for his second wife, Marla Maples. Today he attacked her age.
She was in her late 40’s. And the point Trump is attempting to make here, which is obvious, is that she was too old for Trump to be attracted to her. Too old, too ugly. Hey, Donald, she was younger then than Melania is right now. And you’re going to trash her for being too old?
In any event, here’s what Carroll has testified. And this creep wants to be our next president. Washington Post:
Carroll said the attack took place when she ran into Trump at Bergdorf Goodman, an upscale Manhattan department store, in the mid-1990s. They were both public figures who, Carroll said, ran in similar media circles: Trump was a celebrity real estate magnate and tabloid fixture, while Carroll was an advice columnist with a cable news TV show.
They recognized each other, Carroll said, and their encounter started off light and fun. Trump was “very personable,” she said. He wanted help picking a gift for another woman, Carroll said, and she was “delighted” to come along.
But things quickly turned dark, she said.
Carroll testified that she went into a dressing room with Trump. Then, she alleged, he restrained her and forced his fingers inside of her. It was “extremely painful,” Carroll said. She testified in graphic terms about this assault and Trump raping her. Carroll escaped after kneeing him and fleeing the room, she said.
This was a violent encounter. There are levels of gradation to forced sexual encounters. Most guys will stop when told stop. Clearly, Trump isn’t one of them. And it’s amazing that he would have initiated this situation, let alone kept going, in a public place. What that tells me is that he enjoys the violence and degradation part, the spectacle, if you will, of a situation like this. Trump is a low life who doesn’t belong anywhere near the Oval Office, except maybe on a White House tour.
Trump’s attorney, Joe Tacopina, is expected to question Carroll on Thursday. He will likely ask questions meant to undermine her credibility, including possibly highlighting a passage in her memoir where she describes being unaffected by Trump’s attack. Much of Carroll’s testimony on Wednesday — conducted as part of direct examination by one of her attorneys, Michael Ferrara — appeared aimed at fending off anticipated challenges by Trump’s side.
Let’s see what Trump posts on his social media site tomorrow. Maybe he’ll hang himself more. And of course, this is only one of a handful of legal trials. Trump’s still dealing with Leticia James on the Trump Organization fraud lawsuit, he’s still dealing with Alvin Bragg on the falsification of business records vis a vis the Stormy Daniels’ payment and he’s still dealing with jack Smith’s investigation of both Trump’s efforts to block the transition of power in 2020 and the documents which were found at Mar-a-Lago.
The man is a walking criminal compendium. It might be easier to write down which laws he hasn’t broken. It would certainly be quicker.
And of course Trump denies all wrongdoing in all of these cases. Maybe that helps him with his guilty conscience. Who knows? The other posts on Truth Social today were videos of Trump blaming Joe Biden, the press, and all the usual scapegoats for his problems.
Yet, incredibly, against all logic and sanity, forget human decency, this man is the frontrunner for the Republican party’s nomination for president in 2024. Historians yet unborn are going to be mesmerized by this time in history.
I’ve a strange feeling he wants to give ‘evidence’ (or what passes in between his scattered brain cells as evidence) without the bother of actually going into the witness box and being made to take that pesky oath to tell the truth. No oath – no perjury
Besides which he’s going to inflict us here in Ireland with his presence early in May. The welcome committee is getting ready:
God love the Irish. So far they’ve told Mike Pence what a hypocrite he is, told Trump off, and embraced Joe Biden. Works for me.
Hope they follow him with the cardboard cutout of Obama and the Baby Blimp. Make his vacay hell!
You left out Fani Willis in Georgia…
Sorry to nitpick, but wouldn’t one need a conscience in order to have a ‘guilty’ conscience?
How come those “3 strikes and you are out” laws don’t apply to fat @ss? Or is it only for people who don’t have a sister that was a corrupt “Federal judge”?
I understand that for regular folks, if you commit 3 misdemeanors, the 3rd one is automatically considered to be a felony and you go to felony prison, not the county lock up.
A lot of folks are asking, “what’s up with that”.
Many regular folks also understand that if you go to prison with a bad attitude, they have a way to fix that.
Perhaps if fat @ss would have been locked up at 15 as he should have, we would not be blowing BILLIONS of dollars prosecuting the fat f4ck today.
By the way, who is going to pay for prosecuting fat @ss and his pals?
How about the national republiCLOWN party of deadbeats? We need a special tax for republiCLOWNS…. A “stupidity tax”….