Posted on 04/27/2023 11:04:33 AM PDT by Red Badger
Donald Trump’s lawyers gave their best indication yet Thursday of how exactly they’ll attack journalist E. Jean Carroll.
The former president’s lawyers cross-examined Carroll on Thursday, and they mirrored his claims that the accusation is merely a “scam.”
The word seems to be a conscious decision, as Trump’s lawyers repeatedly went after Carroll for an odd email to a friend where they discussed the need to stop Trump—and said they had a “scheme” in mind.
Following hours of emotional testimony where Carroll described what she called Trump’s “violent” attack at a department store nearly three decades ago, defense lawyer Joe Tacopina began to cross-examine her with questions meant to poke holes in her story.
While asking about how Carroll developed her book, which marked the first time she made that startling accusation, Trump’s lead defense attorney pointed out an exchange she had with a close friend, the fellow journalist Lisa Birnbach.
“This has to stop,” Birnbach suggested in a Sept. 23, 2017 email about Trump. “As soon as we’re both well enough to scheme, we must do our patriotic duty again.”
“TOTALLY!!! I have something special for you when we meet,” Carroll responded.
Two weeks later, Carroll started a cross-country road trip to gather material for an upcoming book in 2019 about nasty men—one that ultimately included a bombshell account of Trump allegedly raping Carroll in the dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman.
Tacopina—who is known for his hostile bravado and hulking frame underneath his closely cut suits—visibly held back his aggression as he interrogated Carroll about the word “scheme.” Noting that she is a longtime author, he asked her to define the word.
On the witness stand, Carroll downplayed her friend’s use of the word “scheme” with an immediate caveat that it had no “evil… connotations.”
Carroll countered that she initially had no intention of including Trump in her book, What Do We Need Men For?: A Modest Proposal, which included a list of “the most hideous men in my life.” She testified that her decision only came five weeks after starting to write the book in October 2017. She said the pivotal realization happened when she read the groundbreaking New York Times story documenting the way Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein abused his power to sexually assault women, which inspired her to do the same.
“The light dawned. I thought we could actually change things if we tell our story,” she said, recalling how she asked herself, “Wait a minute, can we actually speak up and not be pummeled?”
But she was pummeled—by Trump from the White House. When an excerpt of her book detailing the alleged rape ran in June 2019, Trump denied it ever happened. He has since described it as a political ploy to fabricate an event that’s meant to stop his aspirations to reassume the presidency.
Those comments led Carroll to sue him for defamation and battery, civil charges that a New York jury will consider when deciding whether Trump should pay her for damages.
Leftist sluts.
So now we are posting from the Daily Beast cesspool?
Scheme...not evil? When you put it in context...it sure is...
She's a worse liar than "baby voice" Ford.
Have we even come up with a date that this occurred?
Not that I’ve heard...................
Unless I’m thinking of some one else , this woman was on some left wing news station and she didn’t seem like she was playing with a full deck.
Bump for an ulterior motive.
5.56mm
I saw a story this morning on Newsmax that outlined that one major problem Carroll had with her story is that she doesn’t know within two years of when the crime occured.
One would think that she would know the day she was attacked but not being able to nearing it down to two years is unbelievable. Where do these people come from?
It remind me of the crazy people that always show up everytime a male conservative is up for the Supreme Court,
It happened on the 5th of Never.
I have had car and motorcycle accidents that are traumatic events, and I can tell you what day it was..............
Is Conspiracy no longer a crime? How come no one is never charged for Criminal Conspiracy anymore?
If she feels, in her convoluted mind, that it is her Patriotic Duty to take Trump down, she would not think that lying about rape is evil. In her mind, it makes her a noble Patriot.
What ever became of Tara Reade?
She cannot remember what year it happened.
I have heard of zero evidence from this woman. All we have is an accusation about an alleged event that is decades ol.
Such an accusation could be made about anyone. Allowing this one would jeopardize all of us.
The accusation itself is absurd. Somehow a world famous, 6’5” male billionaire, grabbed a woman by the hair in a department store in daytime, dragged her into a dressing room, had zero noise, and penetrated a standing, struggling, unwilling female, all in a matter of minutes.
Then it wasn’t mentioned for decades. No reports, no complaints, no confrontations.
It is obviously a fabrication.
Are they going to use her interviews where she talked about fantasizing about other famous men raping her and discussed being raped as some kind of fun thing? I recall CNN or somebody had to stop and interview with her and look shocked when she said it.
I think she got cut off from saying something really dumb, can’t recall it exactly.
I do remember them cutting to a commercial quickly.
I think this is the claim that exactly mirrored an episode of Law and Order SVU.
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