The E. Jean Carroll case against President Trump is one of the strangest civil cases in American history. The foundational problem is this: Carroll could not identify when the alleged incident occurred — not even the year with any precision.
That should have killed the case as dead as a skunk on the road right there.
Without a temporal anchor, no defendant — regardless of guilt or innocence — can mount an alibi defense. Trump, who has maintained detailed calendars and staff records for decades, was denied the most basic tool of self-defense: the ability to establish where he was. That is not a technicality. It is a due process violation at the constitutional level.
Then Carroll produced the one piece of physical evidence she claimed corroborated her account — the dress she wore during the alleged incident. It was subsequently established that the dress was designed after the incident could have occurred. The sole corroborating evidence falsified her timeline.
The case proceeded anyway.
The resulting verdict was then weaponized in a defamation suit — where Trump was held liable for denying the allegation, while being procedurally barred from defending against it, because it was already "proven" in another court, regardless how flawed the procedure was. He was punished, in effect, for asserting his own innocence.
Compounding everything: coordinated professional and physical threats so thoroughly intimidated the legal community that attorneys refused these cases regardless of available fees. When you systematically destroy a defendant's ability to retain counsel of choice, you forfeit the right to a legitimate verdict.
An allegation is not evidence. Process without substance is not law. And a verdict produced under these conditions carries no legitimate authority — whatever its formal status.
Not only is it the right move to investigate Carroll, but every other person involved as well. Trump is owed serious damages here, and there may be a few people who belong in prison for their roles in the case.
When I was in my 20’s I was on a TV show. When Karen Bass was in her 20’s, she was training in terrorist tactics and guerrilla warfare with communists in Cuba. Back when the LA Times was still in LA, and used to tell the truth…
@MichelleMaxwell Most people lack the fine motor skills necessary to remove the tick with tweezers and will sever the mouth parts (or worse) in the process.
Use a gloved hand, and grasp the tick by its head, easing the mouth parts out of the skin.
Retain the tick for testing.
@NotOllieHolt@mazemoore We were told both things.
The video makes it clear that the promoters of the vaccine are over selling its effectiveness, and yet don’t believe what they are saying.
If it was effective they would have had nothing to fear.
@mazemoore@Dan_in_HI Even in the context of the time their argument made no sense:
IF the vaccine worked, why would the vaccinated have anything to fear from the unvaccinated?
Remember when the media and elites told us communist China was going to be number 1 and we had to manage our decline and become just another member of the new world order and kiss the globalists' asses and than we told them to get bent and elected Trump? Good times, good times.
@CynicalPublius When I started grad school, I lived with roommates. We ate dinner together, each taking turns buying and cooking food. Our budget of a dollar a dinner usually covered soup, some canned vegetables, and occasional meatloaf, which we kept refrigerated and parsed out for a week.
@TulsiGabbard@ODNIgov Best wishes to you and your husband. God grant him a speedy and complete recovery.
You have done a wonderful job, and will be missed.
Gilles, je vais démonter ta prémisse de départ, parce que tout le reste de ton argument s'effondre avec elle.
Tu pars du principe qu'il faut une « sensibilité de gauche » pour ne pas laisser créver les gens de faim. C'est l'inverse total de ce que dit l'histoire économique des 50 dernières années.
Les chiffres bruts.
1990 : 2,3 milliards de personnes en pauvreté extrême. 38% de l'humanité.
2025 : 831 millions. Environ 10%.
1,5 milliard d'êtres humains sortis de la misère absolue en 35 ans. La plus grande réduction de souffrance humaine de toute l'histoire de l'espèce.
Qui a fait ça ?
Pas l'aide internationale. Pas les ONG. Pas les programmes de redistribution. Pas la « sensibilité de gauche ».
Le marché. L'ouverture commerciale. La Chine de Deng en 1978 qui abandonne le maoisme. L'Inde en 1991 qui libéralise. Le Vietnam, l'Indonésie, le Bangladesh qui s'ouvrent au capitalisme.
Les seuls endroits où l'extrême pauvreté a EXPLOSÉ sur la même période ? Le Vénézuela socialiste : de 27% de pauvres en 2008 à plus de 80% en 2018, avec une inflation de 130 000% et un Vénézuélien moyen qui a perdu 11 kilos par dénutrition. La Corée du Nord. Cuba. Le Zimbabwe de Mugabe.
La gauche ne nourrit pas les pauvres. Elle les fabrique.
Le capitalisme produit tellement de richesse que même ses « perdants » américains vivent mieux que la classe moyenne soviétique. Un pauvre US a un frigo, une voiture, un téléphone, l'air conditionné, internet. Un pauvre cubain attend du riz.
Ton argument selon lequel « le social aux USA est un désastre » repète une légende française. La réalité : le PIB par habitant américain est de 80 000$. Français : 45 000$. Un Mississippien — l'État US le plus pauvre — a un revenu médian supérieur au Français moyen.
La vérité que la gauche française refuse de regarder : dans un système libéral, il y a plus de richesse créée, plus largement distribuée, et beaucoup moins de pauvres. Partout. Sans exception. Sur toutes les périodes mesurées.
ÊTRE de gauche en 2026 face à ces données, ce n'est pas avoir de la « sensibilité ». C'est ignorer 35 ans de preuves accablantes. C'est préférer la posture morale au résultat.
La compassion sans résultats, ça s'appelle de la vanité.
🚨 This afternoon, a former managing assistant U.S. Attorney who supported Jack Smith’s politicized investigation of President Trump has been charged with stealing the confidential investigation documents.
Carmen Lineberger allegedly emailed the confidential material to her own personal email, disguising them as dessert recipes to conceal them from record searches.
Lineberger is charged with four felony counts in the indictment.
This FBI will not hesitate to bring to account those who violated the trust of the American public in an investigation that should’ve never been brought to begin with.
This pilot calling 911 from the top of a tree sounds almost unreal 😳 After crashing short of the runway, he ends up stuck high in the branches calmly telling dispatch he doesn’t even need an ambulance… he needs a tree climber, and fast.
What gets me is how composed he sounds considering his plane is literally hanging in the trees. You can hear the mix of frustration and disbelief in his voice like he knows this is going to become a story nobody will ever let him live down.
Honestly, the outcome could’ve been so much worse. The fact he was able to make that call at all feels incredibly lucky ✈️🌲
Senate gop gone come 2027
1. Tillis
2. McConnell
3. Cassidy
4. Ernst
5. Armstrong
6. Daines
7. Lummis
8. Tuberville
9. Mullin
Possibly not coming back...
10. Cornyn
Almost 20% of the current gop controlled senate will be replaced this year.
Thats a sea change in and of itself and sonething not seen since at least 1980.
Hold on. Change is coming.
Anyone that wanted deportations and a secure border who is still supporting Massie is an idiot.
He voted NO to the border wall, he voted NO to fully funding border security and ICE for 4 years. He voted NO on the MAGA immigration agenda.
If you wanted a secure border, an active deportation effort then you can not support Massie because he voted NO to all of that.
When you tell a Massie nasty that their high clown voted against the OBBB, they get a bit defensive.
It's hard to support a person that voted no to kicking 1.6 million illegals off of medicare. It's hard to support a person that voted with every democrat to raise your taxes. It's hard to support a person that voted No to fully funding border security and immigration enforcement for the next 4 years. It's hard to support a person who says one thing and votes a different way.
Or sure, they will say but he voted against it for X, y, or Z and that he really really fingers crossed supported all of the above but he just voted No because of debt or some other stupid reason.
It doesn't matter why he voted No on all of the above. He can tell you sweet little lies on why he voted No but he cant lie about the fact he voted NO to all of the above. The why doesn't matter. What matters is the vote.
If Massie was sucessful the OBBB would have failed. The gop would have been unable to pass anything remotely favorable to MAGA because they would have then needed dem votes in the senate and after 2 shutdowns we see how that would have went.
If Massie was sucessful at defeating the OBBB, the entire election would have been null and void as far as codifying any of the MAGA agenda.
He voted NO on the most consequential bill in a generation. He voted with every single dem to deny much of the MAGA agenda from being codified.
Forget the pinecone jokes, the boner phone cringe, all the other NO votes and all the sweet little lies. That one NO vote on the OBBB is reason enough for him to be excommunicated from the gop party in DC.
It was a career defining moment for him and something he can't sweep under the rug. He voted NO to all of the MAGA agenda within that bill.
There would be no funds for a secure border. Ice would be defunded right now as the dems shutdown the DHS for months. All deportations would have stopped if Massie was successful with his NO vote.
77 million people voted for a secure border and deportations and Massie voted No on the one major bill that would deliver those things.
He voted NO and slapped 77 million votes in the face.
That type of stupidity deserves consequences.
Fraud vitiates everything.
All the democrats in my life, won’t talk politics with me because I force them to confront the lies themselves.
I don’t take the bait on their TDS.
I don’t need to defend Trump.
His legacy will be spoken of throughout history by many coming generations.
I make them defend Biden.
Every single one of them, wants to completely forget about him and pretend that he was never president.
I ask them if they really think he got 81 million votes.
13 million more votes than Obama?
They love Obama and you can see the brain freeze happening because it makes no sense.
Then I hit them with; “the democrats stole the election” and Trump is not only right about that, it’s going to be proven.
And when it is, a whole lot of democrats are going to go to prison.
The democrat party will forever be known as “cheaters.”
I often throw in the cherry on top.
Biden was suffering from dementia.
But he still got over 6 million more votes in 2020 than Kamala got in 2024.
I look them in the eye and say that Biden is the most popular democrat president in history, according to his vote total, and almost no democrat wants to talk about his achievements or defend him.
Why?
That’s been typically the last conversation I have with democrat friends on politics.
Election fraud is about to be exposed.
It will be the beginning of the end, for the democrat party.
My hope, is that my democrat friends will then see the light.
I will do my best to encourage them and help unite the country.
I do believe this country is going to be more unified than it has been in many generations.
It’s coming.
When the people causing all the division are removed, including in the media, everything is going to change.
Elon Musk just defended America better than every politician in Washington combined.
Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?”
One nation on earth held a weapon nobody else had.
Total dominance. Zero competition. No risk of retaliation.
Every empire in history that held that kind of advantage used it.
Rome. The Mongols. The British. The Ottomans.
They conquered until they collapsed.
America had a bigger advantage than all of them combined.
And it rebuilt the countries it just defeated.
Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.”
Almost unprecedented?
It had never happened before. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded history.
The Marshall Plan wasn’t foreign aid.
It was the most radical act of restraint any superpower ever committed.
America turned its enemies into allies. Turned rubble into economies. Turned surrender into partnership.
Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a generation.
Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth.
Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin.
A city in the heart of the nation that just tried to destroy it.
That’s not policy.
That’s a civilization deciding what it is at the exact moment it has the power to be anything.
You’re being told a story right now.
That America is the villain of history.
You hear it everywhere. Media. Universities. Social platforms.
Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.”
Every nation on earth has dark chapters. Every single one.
The difference is what a country does when nobody can stop it.
And when nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities.
Musk: “The history of China suggests that China is not acquisitive. Meaning they’re not going to go out and invade a whole bunch of countries.”
Probably right.
China has historically built walls, not fleets.
But the real question isn’t about borders anymore.
We’re approaching a moment that mirrors 1945 in ways nobody has fully processed yet.
AI is going to give a handful of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look quaint.
If someone is going to hold that kind of power, who do you want it to be?
The country that conquered when it could? Or the one that rebuilt when it didn’t have to?
Every alliance. Every trade route. Every economy.
Billions lifted out of poverty.
All of it traces back to one act of restraint that had never been done before.
And carries no guarantee of being repeated.
The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb.
It was what it didn’t do after.