Lynn C French

DC Home Girl, Activist, Historian, Black Lives Matter, Chicago Panther, Democratic Committeewoman, Chocolate City Forever — Dum Spiro Spero.

[Howard W. French @hofrench]

Coming to bookstores February 2.

[Council of DC @councilofdc]

This is clearly not acceptable

[Bonnie Boden @designergirla]

HE CAN BE BEATEN.

E Jean Carroll is a “profile in courage.”

BREAKING: E Jean Carroll publicly humiliates Donald Trump by revealing that his disgusting body odor and bizarre behavior "mesmerized" the jury during the trial that resulted in her $83 million defamation win.
These details are hilarious as they are gross...
“I don’t understand how people can be afraid of a fat, elderly man who wears apricot makeup, his hair done up like Tippi Hedren in The Birds, and sits in a courtroom and moans and groans and complains and snorts,” Caroll told The Daily Beast podcast.
“They were mesmerized. You have never seen anything like it,” she said of the jury. “He never sat still, and he talked the entire time within earshot of the jury. He belittled Alina Habba, his own attorney. He would spit as he was talking. He didn’t smell so good.”
She recounted how her attorney Roberta "Robbie" Kaplan really got under Trump's skin...
"He stood up with steam coming off his back and hot air blowing out his ears because Robbie Kaplan was giving the final argument, and she was asking the jury how much it would take to make him stop," said Carroll.
“She drove him so crazy, he stood up in the courtroom and left,” she explained. "When a man is innocent, he doesn’t storm out of a courtroom; he stays and fights. He turned tail and stormed out of the courtroom. He lost right at that second. He couldn’t have looked more guilty."
Caroll credibly accused Trump of raping her and he was ultimately found civilly liable for sexually assaulting her. She was awarded $5 million but then Trump continued defaming her in public and denying her story, eventually resulting in her massive $83.3 million victory.
“When the jury heard the evidence, it wasn’t very hard,” Kaplan told the Daily Beast.
“The clerk opens it up, reads it, frowns, shakes his head, folds it back up, and then hands it to Judge Kaplan,” said Caroll. “And Judge Kaplan opens it up, and his eyebrows rise up towards his hairline, and he frowns, and he says, ‘Madame forewoman, what does the M stand for?’”
The forewoman explained that "m" stood for "million.
“That was a moment,” said Carroll. “I left my body. As I say, I felt like Peter Pan who flies around the ceilings. And quite frankly, I’ve never come down from that. That win was so enormous and so powerful, not for me, not for Robbie, but for everybody in the country who had sort of lost hope that he could ever be beaten.”
“We’re still feeling the good victory of that. It’s happened. And we’ve proved—Robbie proved, and I proved—that Trump can be beaten,” Carroll continued. “He can be beaten.”
E. Jean Caroll is right. Trump shouldn't be feared. He can be defeated. All it takes is the courage to fight back.
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[Sam Plo Kwia Collins, Jr. @SamPKCollins]

A @WashInformer update about @trayonwhite's federal bribery trial from earlier. Day four has since wrapped up.

[Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump]

This is exactly what everybody should have been saying to Donald's face, publicly and privately, since 2015, because he can't handle being told the truth about himself--that he is an unaccomplished, failed loser.

[Howard W. French @hofrench]

Great series of talks at Johns Hopkins yesterday about my two most recent books. Thanks to the historian, Madina Thiam, for pulling it all together.

[Sam Plo Kwia Collins, Jr. @SamPKCollins]

A @WashInformer update from earlier today about @trayonwhite's federal bribery trial. More to come soon in written word.

[Howard W. French @hofrench]

Arriving in Baltimore for a day of speaking and engagements about The Second Emancipation and more at Johns Hopkins.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

OH. MY. GOD.

If you have EVER fantasized about what you'd tell trump to his face if you had the chance, Rep. Joyce Beatty just DID that.

He thought he was going to call her names. And he found out.

So good. 🔥 🔥 🔥

[Lynn C French @frenchdaughter]

Monk!!

[Howard W. French @hofrench]

Some exciting (and early) book news. Coming in February. https://t.co/RbJcnu7ih2

[Howard W. French @hofrench]

Some exciting (and early) book news. Coming in February. https://t.co/RbJcnu7ih2

[Lynn C French @frenchdaughter]

@maustermuhle Congratulations!!!

[bill rice @ricebilldc]

Happy bday, Charlene 🎂🎉🔝

[Mitch Ryals @mitchryals]

Lindsey Parker, adviser and former chief of staff to @MayorBowser, was named the new executive director of the Maryland Stadium Authority. She starts in September. Reporting by @HayesGardner:

https://t.co/z9GBBefW9G

[Lynn C French @frenchdaughter]

May we all be blessed by the memory of Alyce F Gaither.

[Lynn C French @frenchdaughter]

@CharlesGaither Heartfelt condolences. Your mother was a wonderful and amazing woman.

[Councilmember_RobertWhite @CMRobertWhiteDC]

Your electric bill fight just took a turn.

The D.C. Court of Appeals just vacated Pepco’s multi-year rate plan and sent it back to regulators.
https://t.co/YZQH945ZeC

[D.C. Housing Authority @DC_Housing]

SCAM ALERT: The DC Housing Authority is warning District residents about social media accounts that are claiming to administer DCHA voucher programs in exchange for a fee. DCHA does not charge fees to receive a housing voucher or be pulled from a waitlist.
Learn more: https://t.co/DJ2WuVdM6b

[Tom Sherwood @tomsherwood]

Whoomp, there it is. Washington Post Exec Editor Matt Murray makes it plain at reduced-staff meeting: “We don’t want or need to do every story or jump on everything that happens,” Murray said. “We’re not a paper of record; there’s no such thing anymore in today’s world.” (WSJ report)

[Howard W. French @hofrench]

Some thoughts about Washington's mounting designs on Cuba. https://t.co/gMRwYmrIEQ