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.
Really makes you wonder how these people would handle real adversity in their lives; you know - like being stalked, hounded and slandered constantly. Having someone trying to ruin them financially, makes you think doesn't it? Somehow, refusing to enable their childish cosplay is worse than any of that.
@kangminlee It doesn't matter in the long run. Ideally we need to excise this tumor, alternately this is finally prompting new pipelines.. something that should've been done decades ago.
@akuareindorf@EHRC Its rare to even make eye contact in the men's lavatory. Unless someone goes out of their way to announce their presence no one gives a damn who is in there.
Do your business, wash your damn hands and leave.
"Jason Reza Jorjani, a philosophy PhD and science fiction writer, recently claimed that he spoke with a retired US Army sergeant who served as a 'psychic spy' and knew of the government's secret program to hunt down individuals with extraterrestrial DNA."
Did we really need to go past the second paragraph?
And? If that is what the parishioners of those churches believe there is nothing I or you can do about it.
What do you propose? A Holy War? Another couple centuries of violence between Christians because you don't like their politics? May be if we torch a few the rest might fall into line, right?
It never ceases to amaze me how we spend so much time and energy criticizing each other over a particular interpretation of the Bible or dogma in general rather than promoting Christianity as a whole.
While amusing at the theological level, this is the type of holier than thou nonsense that drives people away from the church.