So Trump didn't rape Carroll, but he defamed her by not raping her??

The multiple peculiarities of the E. Jean Carroll verdict add up to the most bizarre case in modern legal history. Someone's lying.

E. Jean Carroll in 2006

The Allegation

Almost thirty years ago, the future 45th President raped E. Jean Carroll at the high-end Bergdorf Goodman department store. Then Donald Trump denied it and thus “defamed” the alleged victim. Yesterday, in a civil suit brought in Manhattan the jury found that Donald Trump did not in fact rape Carroll, but had sexually abused and defamed her name and thus awarded her almost $5 million in damages. A strange decision and a strange case. Here's why.

The Timing

Carroll revealed her story about the department store incident in an article she wrote for New York Magazine in the Summer of 2019, the rape having allegedly occurred decades earlier in 1995 or 1996. She couldn't remember in which year.

Given the amount of time that had passed, the statute of limitations had long since expired. That is, until a very peculiar thing occurred.

Thanks to Kathy Hochul, the Governor of New York, a very unusual law was brought in the Empire State.

Last year, Hochul signed the Adult Survivor’s Act into law. Well temporarily. The change to New York’s code allows alleged victims of sexual offenses, such as sexual assault and unwanted sexual contact in the workplace, to file civil suits between November 24, 2022, and November 24, 2023 this year. You read that right. This transitory super law magically voids the statute of limitations for these crimes, but just for 12 months? Strange no?

Remember Governor Hochul is an avid Trump-hater, who detests all Republicans and prefer they leave “her state.”

Why did Carroll wait almost 30 years? And what is the quality of “justice” provided from a trial that would have been impossible to bring in 2021, and will be impossible top bring in 2024? Surely all victims matter. Or perhaps some matter more than others. Depending on who they target with their accusations?

The Victim

E. Jean Carroll is a strange figure by even Manhattan’s outré standards. Beyond her inability to even know the year if her alleged rape, and waiting decades to take any action at all, she has rather strange views about men in general, and young boys in particular, as well believing people think rape is “sexy.”

I suggest you watch her public statements and make your own judgment. Her interview with Anderson Cooper is especially worth your time. You decide.

The Backer

You may have read that the Manhattan DA that brought the recent charges against President Trump was funded to the tune of a million dollars by Trump-hater George Soros. Surely there’s nothing like that involved with this civil case? Wrong. Even the left-wing gutter Press couldn't hide the fact that the billionaire LinkedIn founder, and Trump-hater Reid Hoffman, has been secretly funding E. Jean Carroll suit against Donald Trump.

The Verdict

After only 3 hours the jury of nine (6 men, 3 women) brought their verdict. And a strange verdict it was.

Carroll was there to prove, by a “preponderance of evidence,” which is the significantly lower standard a civl action prescribes (as opposed to the “beyond a reasonable doubt of a criminal case), that President Trump had raped her and then defamed her by denying said rape.

Well the jury decided that Donald Trump did not rape E. Jean Carroll on that day in 1995. Or 1996. He was found not guilty of rape, a headline you will not find in the legacy media. However, they did find that the accused had sexually assaulted Carroll. Let that sink in. The jury didn’t believe Carroll’s story about being raped by Donald Trump. But instead believed her about sexual assault. Does that mean she was deemed too have lied about her original story published in New York Magazine? More than peculiar.

Then the jury found that President Trump’s denying he had raped Carroll had done damage to her reputation and awarded her close to $5 million in compensatory damages. In other words, the jury is forcing Trump to pay Carroll millions of dollars because he said he didn’t rape her, despite the fact they they don’t believe her story that he did rape her.

This counts as justice in 2023.