After less than three hours of deliberation, a Manhattan jury has found Donald Trump guilty in the E. Jean Carroll civil lawsuit trial — not of clinical rape (which they felt had not been proved) but of (a) battery by way of sexual abuse and (b) lying on Truth Social that Carroll’s accusations about having been assaulted by Trump inside a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in early 1996 and therefore defaming her by calling her charge “a complete con job” and “a hoax and a lie.”
No, the jury said — Trump is the would-be con artist, not Carroll. And so they’ve awarded Carroll $5 million in damages, which Trump will presumably have to cough up.
The country (including MAGA voters) has long believed that Trump is an arrogant sexual opportunist and conquistador and has behaved that way for quite some time. But a jury specifically finding him guilty of sexual battery in a civil trial and declaring that he’ll have to shell out $5 million in damages…this is an excellent thing.
And the best prosecutions (i.e., Trump and pallies conniving to fix the Georgia vote and Trump inciting the MAGA faithful to attack the Capitol building on 1.6.21 in an attempt to stop the electoral college affirmation of Joe Biden‘s victory in the 2020 election) are yet to come. In the words of the late Ricky Nelson, “I got a feeling” that things are starting to pan out against this diseased sociopath, and that everything’s starting to “come up roses”, so to speak. The beast is clearly taking serious hits, and if nothing else his actions and karma are finally starting to catch up with him in a legalistic courtroom sense.
