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What Happened Today – May 27, 2026

E. Jean Carroll smiling with her arms outstretched at the 2025 Montclair Film Festival

Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, who won judgments after a jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming her, now faces a criminal investigation from his Justice Department. (Photo by Neil Grabowsky / Montclair Film, CC BY 4.0)

Donald Trump’s Justice Department is criminally investigating the 82-year-old woman who won a sexual abuse case against him. They claim E. Jean Carroll lied in a deposition about who paid her legal bills. An appeals court called that a nonissue. Hers was a civil case, and now they want her charged with a crime. Donald … Read more

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