The Carroll case rested on a sequence of legal maneuvers with no precedent in American civil litigation. Democratic legislators passed a retroactive temporary law eliminating the statute of limitations for decades-old accusations that could not be dated, located, or defended with alibis. The day the temporary law took effect, Carroll filed her pre-prepared lawsuit, the first in the state to do so.
A Democratic mega-donor secretly funded the plaintiff’s legal costs through a nonprofit. The arrangement stayed hidden until one of Trump’s lawyers discovered it. A Clinton-appointed judge then sealed all records so the jury never learned the billionaire backer had publicly committed to Trump’s political destruction. Every participant in the legislative, funding, and judicial steps operated inside the same political network, and each decision produced the same cumulative result.
The jury explicitly checked “no” on the verdict form’s specific rape question. The judge ruled rape proven anyway, claiming the jury had used a common rather than statutory definition… an impossibility, since their rejection under the common definition precludes rape by any standard. Trump’s team was barred from arguing innocence before a second jury, which awarded $83.3 million ($65 million punitive) on the rape finding the first jury had rejected.
A defendant was sued for defamation over denying an accusation, prevented from asserting that denial as a defense, tried before a judge who concealed the plaintiff’s political funding, and hit with a nine-figure verdict built on facts the jury itself refused to find.
No comparable sequence exists in recorded U.S. civil litigation history.
I'm going to say this again, real simple. And I will keep saying it until enough people realize what it means.
Why Doesn’t the FBI and DHS stop this violent, organized, national activity?
Don’t make it complicated. Just look at things as they are, as they present themselves to be, and ask the most obvious questions.
“Domestic Tranquility?” Why are violence and chaos permitted?
How can a group within America openly threaten police, use violence against police, throw Molotov cocktails, bricks and explosive fireworks at police. Use batons, shields, bats and physical violence against police and federal law enforcement; destroy vehicles, set cars on fire, destroy property, trash and block the streets and create chaos, completely without consequence?
It doesn’t matter where it is happening, that’s irrelevant. Think plainly and simply.
How does any individual or group get to do this without being arrested?
It doesn’t make sense, unless….
…. Unless…. The group conducting the violence cannot be arrested.
Day after day; night after night, in most major metropolitan areas around the nation, the group known as “Antifa” operate with impunity. They are organized; they are funded; they communicate locally, regionally and nationally. They mobilize in designated and coordinated areas of operation, and they are exceptionally violent and dangerous.
So how is it they can operate?
They build encampments outside federal facilities and openly fight with federal officials and law enforcement. Yet, nothing is done. Why not?
If the FBI did not support Antifa, quite simply Antifa would not exist. They are right there, highly visible, doing illegal things on camera, repeatedly, all over the country, and the FBI doesn’t lift a finger to stop them. Why?
The only thing that makes sense is that the FBI wants this activity to take place.
If they did not want it to take place, they would stop it and arrest the lawbreakers who are attacking federal buildings and officers.
The visuals of trashed streets, barricades, smoke bombs, riots, semi-frequent baton clashes in the streets, etc. etc. must serve some purpose for the FBI and DHS or they would stop it.
This is not misdemeanor behavior.
Arrest the participants and put them into federal prisons. This is not complicated.
The FBI and DHS support Antifa. If they did not support them, the FBI and DHS would stop them.
Remember this.
There were various ways President Trump could have approached the Anti-Weaponization Fund. He could have taken the money he was owed and distributed it however he saw fit. He could have kept it for himself. He could have set up a private trust. He could have pursued any number of less transparent arrangements. But instead, he chose a process where the money would be distributed to victims of government weaponization through a formal and transparent system.
There was never going to be a scenario with no money at all, because President Trump is owed compensation for the documented abuses he suffered, including at the hands of the IRS.
So out of the many available options, he chose the most proper and generous option possible, and of course the haters still cannot help themselves from trying to destroy it all anyway. It is the same story we have watched play out for the past decade, and nothing has changed.
Opinions on motivations are harder to discern. Both Barnes and Sachs speak authoritatively about Trumps motivations. In reality, Robert Barnes grossly exaggerates his connections to Trump, and Jeffrey Sachs has entered stage 5 TDS, and always opts for the least charitable reading of everything Trump does and the reasons for it.
As head of U.S. intelligence, the most useful thing that @DNIGabbard could do right now is disclose every journalist -- dead or alive -- who has ever been on the @CIA payroll.