Commentary
When I read that E. Jean Carroll, during court testimony, state that Donald Trump had “shattered her reputation,” claiming that he had defamed her during his presidency, by publicly impugning her honesty, her motive, and her sanity after she published a story accusing him of sexual abuse, I too, questioned her motive.
Known for her “Ask E. Jean” advice column in Elle magazine from 1993 through 2019, she was awarded $5 million in damages when a jury, on May 9, 2023, found Trump liable for defamation and sexual abuse.
What is her motivation now in seeking $10 million in compensatory damages and millions more in punitive damages if it is not timed politically to interfere with the 2024 presidential election?
A Politically Driven Case
The quote in the headline above is not Carroll’s; it was Raymond Donovan’s comment after he was acquitted of fraud charges that forced him to resign as labor secretary in the Reagan administration five months after being indicted.
Amidst a vicious attack, Donovan denied wrongdoing and called the charges baseless, believing the then Democrat Bronx district attorney politically motivated to seek a high-profile Republican scalp. Sound familiar?
An Election Year Blunder
In October 2008, then Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska, who was up for reelection the following month, was charged with seven felony charges of corruption and lost.
It was later learned that a prosecutor had failed to turn over documents favoring Stevens’ defense. On April 7, 2009, the judge dismissed the case following a motion by Attorney General Eric Holder.
After four decades in the Senate, Stevens was killed in a plane crash in Alaska on August 9, 2010. The following month, one of the prosecutors of Stevens hung himself.
A headline in the August 17, 2008 edition of The Hill read, “Sen. Stevens: An Innocent Man,” with the writer’s comment about the headline, “I’ll bet shocks a number of people,” referring to the pre-trial media hype that produced the public impression that “Stevens must be guilty of … well, something.”
The writer, ironically, was Lanny J. Davis, who served as special counsel to former President Clinton.
The Year Ahead for Trump
Former President Trump has been, and will continue to be, in and out of courtrooms in the months ahead, defending himself against charges with more gravity than that brought by Ms. Carroll, however, he easily won in Iowa and polls show him leading in New Hampshire, South Carolina and nationally.
Trump supporters see how the left has painted him guilty of the various charges brought against him, primarily by vengeance-seeking district attorneys and prosecutors.
Their motives have been clear. New York’s attorney general Letitia James openly campaigned for office with remarks of “getting Trump.” Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg is known to be a member of George Soros’ “progressive prosecutor” movement, having received $1,072,000 from Soros.
It is estimated in “Justice for Sale” that Soros prosecutors have jurisdiction over 72 million Americans, including 25 of America’s 50 most populated cities and counties.
Unequal justice, I believe emanating from our own Department of Justice, is now so pervasive that the Capital Research Center has published a “Living Room Pundit’s Guide to Soros District Attorneys.”
The words, EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW is emblazoned over the main entrance of the Supreme Court, where justices must soon make it clear that the name of Donald Trump must appear on state election ballots.
“The rogue prosecutor movement is dangerous, well-funded, and systematically destroying America’s communities,” noted analysts of the Heritage Foundation.
Georgia’s Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis is now facing charges of her own, alleged ethics violations that include misuse of funds and an affair with a lead prosecutor she hired.
Paul Butler, a black contributing columnist with the Washington Post blames Trump for his “race-inflected venom for black government lawyers who threaten his liberty and wealth.”
They happen to be black, but Special Prosecutor Jack Smith is white. Butler chooses to forget that anti-Trumpers, having failed to impeach him twice, are now driven to keep him from returning to the White House with politically driven motives.
Of course, Butler saw no problem in President Biden’s boasting that he “appointed more black women to the federal circuit courts than every other president in American history, and we’re going to keep going.”
Finally … regarding the headline over this blog … Trump will continue to make his case against district attorneys and prosecutors, black and white, drawing on his accomplishments in office. He has to live with any “wrongdoing” found against him. We only need to live with those that affect our lives.
Voters must weigh the charges against him and the reputations of those bringing them, while recognizing that his opponent, President Biden, not only faces corruption charges, but won in 2020 with the aid of DOJ Deep Staters.
May God continue to bless the United States of America.
