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 Trump remains the only president impeached twice, even though he escaped consequences both times. He may escape Carroll the same way, and talk the Supreme Court into erasing the $88 million he owes her. But a jury found him liable for sexually abusing her and for defaming her when he denied it, and the courts upheld every word. Everything else is just him trying to weasel out of the consequences again.
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Source: CBS News
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Source: The Santa Fe New Mexican
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Source: The Associated Press
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Source: UPI
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Source: The Associated Press
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Justice Department refers Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll for criminal prosecution in Chicago over her funding testimony.
Source: The Chicago Sun-Times
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Source: The New York Times [gift link]
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Source: The Washington Post
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Source: The New York Times
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Source: Newsweek
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Source: The Independent
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Source: WTOP Washington
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Source: USA Today
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