I went out Friday night for a couple of drinks and ran into a friend. I call him a friend but I'm not close enough to him to have him over or even to give him my number. He's just a drinking buddy, I suppose. I don't remember how it came up but he told... Continue Reading →
Litigious Condiments
A Manhattan jury ordered Donald Trump to pay writer E. Jean Carroll $65 million in punitive damages and another $18.3 million in compensatory damages for her suffering. The lawsuit was over Trump defaming Carroll in 2019 after she accused him of raping her decades ago. Carroll's lawyers argued a large amount was necessary to stop... Continue Reading →
Defamation Donny
Donald Trump is countersuing E. Jean Carroll for her claims that he raped her. A jury determined last month that Carroll proved Trump sexually abused her nearly 30 years ago in a dressing room of the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan, but they did not find that he raped her as she claims. However,... Continue Reading →
The Groper Candidate
David French asked a couple of very good questions in his column titled "A Guilty Ex-President" in today's New York Times. He points out that Republicans will either ignore the jury's verdict that Donald Trump sexually assaulted and defamed E. Jean Carroll or they'll claim, without evidence, the jury was biased against Trump. Marco Rubio... Continue Reading →
Just His Type
When E. Jean Carroll's allegation that Donald Trump raped her in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s first emerged, his first defense was that she wasn't his type. Trump told a news outlet in 2019, "I’ll say it with great respect: Number one, she’s not my type. Number two, it never happened." It... Continue Reading →
Lawsuits For Touchy Republicans
E. Jean Carroll is suing Donald Trump for defamation and Disney is suing Ron DeSantis over what it calls a "relentless campaign to weaponize government power" and attacking free speech. Carroll took the stand yesterday in a New York City courtroom and testified, "I’m here because Donald Trump raped me, and when I wrote about... Continue Reading →