In addition to the ocean of legal peril continuing to mount against Donald Trump from the likes of the Manhattan District Attorney, Georgia’s Fulton County District Attorney, and the US Department of Justice, the scandal-ridden ex-president is also currently battling a civil lawsuit from the world-renowned American advice columnist, E. Jean Carroll, who has publicly and infamously accused the now-former president of brutally raping her in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store in the 1990s.
That civil suit trial officially began this week, with Carroll taking to the stand yesterday with this powerful statement:
I’m here because Donald Trump raped me, and when I wrote about it, he said it didn’t happen; he lied. He shattered my reputation, and I’m here to try to get my life back.”
Trump did what Trump does best in the days before the trial officially began, taking to his social media account and posting incessant, nasty insults that left the judge on the case, the honorable Lewis Kaplan, highly unamused. Trump’s rhetoric and behavior were, in fact, so deplorable that his own attorney, Joe Tacopina, promised the court that he would “try to address” the deeply disgusting, slanderous, and neverending public social media posts “with my client.”
“Well, I hope you’re more successful,” Judge Kaplan stated to Tacopina before noting that the former president “may or may not be tampering with a new source of potential liability. … And I think you know what I mean.”
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But, in true Trump fashion, it seems this threat of additional legal recourse has only served to further ignite the ex-president’s truly disgusting behavior.
This afternoon, Trump spoke with reporters who had assembled at his golf course in Ireland, where he raged about having to leave Ireland and Scotland earlier than he intended to travel back to New York where he claimed he plans to “confront” his rape accuser, E. Jean Carroll, who he openly referred to as a “disgrace,” as well as “extremely hostile” Judge Lewis Kaplan:
I have to leave Ireland and I have to leave Scotland where I have great properties. I have to leave early. I don’t have to, but I choose to. Will you attend the trial? Mr. President, I’m probably attend and I probably will and i think its a disgrace. It’s a disgrace that it’s allowed to happen against a rich guy or in my case, against a famous, rich and political person that’s leading the polls by 40 points. And I have to go back for a woman that made a false accusation about me, and I have a judge who is extremely hostile and I’m going to go back and I’m going to confront this. But this woman is a disgrace and it shouldn’t be allowed to happen in our country. You go to work.”
Watch the clip here:
“I’m going to confront this woman.” Trump bashes rape accuser E. Jean Carroll and the judge presiding over her case against him. Time for a gag order on this monster. (Video: Stephen Murphy) pic.twitter.com/NhaLb0RA2K
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) May 4, 2023
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