E. Jean Carroll claims former President Donald Trump’s “followers” harassed her after she accused him of sexual assault, but Trump’s defenders say she’s a lair.
As previously reportedly, Carroll, a columnist, sued Trump years ago claiming he’d sexually harassed and assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman fitting room in 1996 and that he’d also defamed her by alleging that the claim was a “complete con job.”
Trump lost the case, but then Carroll sued him again alleging that he’d defamed her once more after the verdict.
This is E Jean Carroll, the woman that the left believes has “credibly” accused Trump of sexual assault in the dressing room of the Bergdorf Goodman Department store.
— Mr Reagan (@MrReaganUSA) January 17, 2024
Now fast-forward to Tuesday, when Carroll’s attorney Shawn Crowley argued in court that Trump had “unleashed his followers” on her in remarks made in October of 2020.
“He was president, and when he spoke, the world listened,” Crowley said. “He had the biggest microphone on the planet. And the next week, he used it to tear her reputation to shreds, to defame her.”
Trump did this through a series of “vicious attacks” against her, the attorney added.
“He said he had no idea who she was,” Crowley continued. “He accused her of lying and making up a story to make money … and threatened her. He said she should pay dearly for speaking out against him. He unleashed his followers to go after her online, to attack her character, to threaten her life.”
Thanks to these words, the attorney claimed, Carroll was inundated with messages calling her “ugly,” stating she should be jailed and raped, and “threatening that she should die all because she had the courage to speak out about what Donald Trump had done to her.”
“She’s afraid – afraid that someday someone will make good on their threats,” Crowley alleged.
In response, the former president’s attorney Alina Habba made the case that Carroll hasn’t suffered “harm” and has in fact been prospering ever since she went public with her accusations and became a hero to anti-Trumpers.
“She doesn’t want to fix her reputation, ladies and gentlemen. She likes her new brand,” the Trump attorney said.
Habba also alleged that the so-called “damage” Carroll had suffered consisted of nothing more than “mean tweets from Twitter trolls.”
“Regardless of a few mean tweets, Ms. Carroll is now more famous than she has ever been in her life,” she said, adding that regardless, her client had been “merely defending himself” the whole time.
Just a reminder that Trump’s accuser E. Jean Carroll once told Anderson Cooper that rape is “sexy” and a “fantasy.”
…and it creeped him out so much that he cut her off and threw to commercial. pic.twitter.com/KU9Ir6KJ2u
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) January 16, 2024
Speaking of Trump defending himself, Crowley also complained about him posting mean things while sitting in the courtroom during jury selection earlier that day.
“He sat in this courthouse this morning. And while he was sitting there, he posted more defamatory statements, more lies … 22 posts just today,” the attorney said. “Think about that, think about that when you consider how much money it will take to get him to stop.”
But Trump’s defenders say this is all much ado about nothing. Consider Kari Baxter Donovan, a writer who claimed in a tweet posted Tuesday that Trump was “the kindest gentleman” when she met him years ago.
“When I was 16 years old, Mr. Trump and I were on a flight to Clearwater, Florida, at the same time,” she wrote. “He was in First Class, and I was WAAYy in the back. The restroom in first class wasn’t working.”
“He passed me on his way back from the restroom to talk to me.. and he was the kindest gentleman. He stopped to ask me why I was reading a Wall Street Journal. He encouraged me to go into business. He was so thoughtful and encouraging. I hate E.Jean Carroll.. she is a liar about him,” she added.
Look:
When I was 16 years old, Mr. Trump and I were on a flight to Clearwater, Florida, at the same time. He was in First Class, and I was WAAYy in the back. The restroom in first class wasn’t working. He passed me on his way back from the restroom to talk to me.. and he was the…
— Kari Baxter Donovan (@Saorsa1776) January 16, 2024
In a blog post, Donovan also offered her take on Carroll’s suit.
“According to a spokesman for the Presidential candidate, Trump is being denied his right to tell people he didn’t rape Carroll,” she wrote. “And that seems to be just exactly how Carroll wants it to be. She appears to want a powerful man to be tied up in court and told that he can’t do anything but obey her.”
“It all sounds like a feminist fantasy over men- to be honest,” she added.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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