Conservative commentator Victor Davis Hanson believes the $83.3 million judgment handed out against former President Donald Trump last week is just the beginning.
“The civil suit serves as a mere preview of four additional left-wing criminal prosecutions, left-wing judges, and left-wing juries to come — all on charges that would have never been filed if Trump had either not run for president or been a liberal progressive,” he wrote in a Fox News column published Sunday.
He also shared the column to the social media platform X:
83 million?
Donald Trump in furor stormed out of a New York courtroom for a while, in the defamation suit brought by author and dating/boyfriend/sex-advice columnist E. Jean Carroll.
It was just settled against Trump for $83.3 million! The Carroll suit was largely subsidized by…
— Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) January 27, 2024
Undergirding the column was a belief that the $83.3 judgment against Trump and for leftist columnist E. Jean Carroll was just plain wrong.
“She, the alleged victim, did not remember even the year in which the purported sexual assault took place, nearly three decades ago,” Hanson wrote. “Observers have pointed out dozens of bizarre inconsistencies in her story, some of them seemingly exculpatory of Trump.”
“It was never clear what the preliminaries were that supposedly (Trump denies meeting her) led both, allegedly, willingly to retreat together to a department store dressing room, where during normal business hours, the alleged assault took place. Moreover, the sexual assault complaint came forward decades post facto — and only after Trump was running for and then became president,” he added.
Unable to target Trump criminally because of the statute of limitations, Carroll then sued him for defamation.
“She claimed that Trump’s sharp denials and ad hominem retorts led her career and reputation to ruin [at ELLE magazine],” Hanson noted.
“But the loss of a column for anyone at 76 does not seem such a rare occurrence, and the absence of a salaried job for four years in one’s late seventies does not seem to equate to an $83 million hit,” he added.
And this effort of E. Jean Carroll might also be of some interest.https://t.co/3qe46e3wKs
— Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) January 27, 2024
Also, ELLE magazine reportedly denied that her feud with Trump was the cause of her termination.
But then something else “strange” occurred. The New York Legislature passed a law in 2022, “The Adult Survivors Act,” that allowed sexual assault survivors who were assaulted “long ago” to sue their perpetrator specifically for the act committed against them.
“That unexpected opening suddenly gave Carroll’s prior unsuccessful efforts a rebirth. And she quickly [filed suit] with the help of arch-Trump-hating billionaire [Reid] Hoffman,” Hanson noted.
This was no coincidence, Hanson believes. As evidence, he pointed to the anti-Trump bias of the legislator, Democrat state Sen. Brad Hoylman-Siga, who’d introduced the bill.
“Hoylman-Siga had earlier introduced and had passed another Trump-targeted bill. That ‘TRUST’ act empowered particular federal Congressional committees to access New York State’s once-sealed tax returns of high-ranking government elected officials — such as Trump,” according to Hanson.
“That bill’s generally agreed subtext was a green light for anti-Trump members of Congress to obtain legal access to Donald J. Trump’s tax returns,” he explained in his Fox News column.
Based on all this, Hanson concluded that the legislature passed the legislation specifically to target Trump. And that, he continued in his column, is very disturbing.
“While these are not quite bills of attainder, there is something unsettling if they are post facto laws aimed at targeting the most famous and controversial man in America and the leading candidate for the presidency,” he wrote. “In essence, they were targeted statutes designed to make Trump’s prior legally unactionable behavior suddenly quite legally actionable.”
Moving forward, Hanson expects Trump to face the same biased bull this upcoming summer and next fall thanks to prosecutors Alvin Bragg, Letitia James, Jack Smith, and Fani Willis.
“Trump again will face left-wing big-city prosecutors, judges, and juries on charges that are politically driven, involving alleged behavior that is either usually not criminalized or not to the same degree as in Trump’s case. (Do we remember the nearly $375,000 federal fine belatedly leveled at an exempt Obama but only five years after his 2008 efforts to avoid identifying all the names of contributors to his campaign?),” Hanson wrote.
“The stakes are higher each day as Trump closes in on the Republican presidential nomination and thus becomes the hope of half the country to end the Biden madness,” he added.
He concluded his column by urging Trump to remain calm and keep campaigning against President Joe Biden.
“Still, Trump will have to soldier on. He must stay controlled amid the tsunamis, not play into the hands of his accusers, and remember that he may soon be the only eleventh-hour hope to stop this mockery of American law, customs and traditions,” he wrote.
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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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