The left's assault on Trump
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... (Victor Davis) Hanson shredded the sham trial in an op-ed Friday, saying that this would have never happened – and nor would many of the other pending legal actions against the former president – were he not running for the top job again and threatening the progressive worldview.
He started by talking about the former president storming out of the courtroom Friday:
The subtext of Trump’s rage, aside from the outrageous monetary size of the defamation ruling, is that he was facing — and angered — a left-wing claimant, a quite hostile left-wing judge, and a left-wing New York jury.
The civil suit serves as a mere preview of four additional left-wing criminal prosecutions, left-wing judges, and left-wing juries to come — all on charges that would have never been filed if Trump had either not run for president or been a liberal progressive.
Of all the litigation against Trump, Hanson says the E. Jean Carroll case is the craziest. Carroll's allegations just don't make sense:
The E. Jean Carroll case is the most baffling of all five. She, the alleged victim, did not remember even the year in which the purported sexual assault took place, nearly three decades ago. Observers have pointed out dozens of bizarre inconsistencies in her story, some of them seemingly exculpatory of Trump.
It was never clear what the preliminaries were that supposedly (Trump denies meeting her) led both, allegedly, willingly to retreat together to a department store dressing room, where during normal business hours, the alleged assault took place.
Moreover, the sexual assault complaint came forward decades post facto — and only after Trump was running for and then became president.
Hanson concludes that Trump will have to keep a level head because these dubious lawfare attacks are going to continue throughout the campaign, and that they are much more serious than even the phony Russia Collusion allegations:
We are way beyond all that. The legal system itself, hand-in-glove with left-wing politicos (compare campaign boasts of [New York Attorney General Letitia James] and [Fulton County, GA District Attorney Fani] Willis or prosecutorial visits to the January 6 committee and the White House), is turning the process of balloting and elections into an embarrassing farce.
Still, Trump will have to soldier on. He must stay controlled amid the tsunamis, not play into the hands of his accusers, and remember that he may soon be the only eleventh-hour hope to stop this mockery of American law, customs and traditions.
In my previous article about the staggering verdict, I argued that the whole thing reminded me of the Brett Kavanaugh saga, where we were supposed to blindly believe a woman who had few facts, zero evidence, no eyewitnesses, and contradicted herself numerous times. Although this trial was about defamation, and Carroll chose not to pursue charges of sexual abuse or rape, I don't understand how you can convict Trump of defamation for declaring his innocence.
Moreover, the massive award makes no sense – even if you believe he defamed her, how is that worth $83 million plus?
It's truly scary the lengths they're willing to go to in warping our legal system just to stop one man. It's one of the major reasons Trump is cruising so far in the race for GOP nomination – people are sick of this dirty pool.
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This looks more like Democrat dirty politics than a search for justice. Calling a defendant who pleads "not guilty" as defamation is one of the most absurd verdicts I have seen in my legal career. There is something very wrong with the court system that could reach such a conclusion. This looks like an escalation of the Russian collusion hoax by the left. These people appear to hate Trump more than they love the truth.
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Let’s follow the trail back to its origins, like a trail left by a dog that has a bladder problem. Governor Hochul of New York signs into law the Adult Survivors Act, a law that allows survivors of sexual assault to sue their abusers regardless of when the abuse occurred. At face value, it sounds like a good and righteous law. One of the first to file was E. Jean Carroll. She had no evidence except what she said and what she told a few friends, which was eerily similar to an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. She also had a photograph of her and Trump in a crowd together. President Trump claims to this day he never met her. (Do you remember everyone who was in a crowd when you were in the picture?) Nevertheless, the evidence, which was virtually nonexistent, was irrelevant. President Trump could never get a fair trial in NYC. He was found liable for sexual abuse and ordered to pay $5 million.
Of course, President Trump fumed about this. Wouldn’t you fume about a law that was specifically designed as a political attack against you and allowed no possibility of defending yourself and required no evidence?
Now another NYC jury has found Trump guilty of defamation and ordered him to pay $83.3 million. They intended to send a message, but the message they sent has the exact opposite meaning of what they intended. The whole process has proven beyond all reasonable doubt that the justice system now exists to oppress Trump, oppress his family, oppress his closest associates, and oppress his supporters.
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