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A known anti-Trump, Democrat mega-donor financed a lawsuit built on allegations from decades earlier to assassinate the character of a sitting president.
The Department of Justice purportedly launched a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, according to a CNN exclusive published Wednesday, and corporate media rushed to decry the supposed “weaponization” of justice against the writer who accused President Donald Trump of sexual assault. Though the exact nature of the investigation remains uncertain, it’s well worth revisiting the facts that undermine Carroll’s half-baked anti-Trump hit job.CNN reported that the investigation is centered on whether Carroll committed perjury. Prosecutors, CNN said, are focusing on a deposition Carroll provided in 2022 in which she said she received no outside funding for her lawsuit. Despite her testimony, it turns out billionaire Democrat donor Reid Hoffman paid some of her legal fees and expenses.
U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros said in a statement that the Northern District of Illinois “has not opened — and has never opened — a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll,” though CNN said its “sources reaffirmed the investigation to CNN.” A source told Axios that the DOJ is actually investigating the Hoffman nonprofit organization that paid some of Carroll’s legal fees, and that Carroll “is not the subject of the investigation.”
Whether this reported investigation goes anywhere remains to be seen. But it does remind Americans just how deeply flawed and politically charged the entire case was from the very beginning.
Carroll accused Trump of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman and then sued him for defamation when he denied it in 2019. Carroll notably declined to press criminal charges against Trump because, according to her, she “would find it disrespectful to the women who are down on the border who are being raped around the clock.” Carroll then filed a second lawsuit in 2022 after the state of New York temporarily changed a statute of limitations law.
That was only one of many suspect aspects of the crusade against Trump.
Suit Was Bankrolled by Dem Mega Donor
The funding for Carroll’s lawsuit seems to be at the heart of the DOJ’s alleged investigation — even though, as CNN reported, Carroll once testified that she received no outside funding for her lawsuit.
In fact Carroll’s lawsuit wasn’t merely a private legal dispute; it was part of a broader political effort backed by a Democrat billionaire. Hoffman helped bankroll Carroll’s suit against Trump, according to The New York Times (which cited court documents), while Forbes reported that the Hoffman-backed nonprofit American Future Republic provided funding for the suit. Hoffman has helped fund lawsuits against Fox News and Newsmax, as well as a false information campaign that used “Russian tactics” to try and hurt a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate.
Carroll Could Not Identify When the Alleged Incident Occurred
Carroll alleged the incident took place at Bergdof Goodman “23 years ago,” according to an excerpt from her book What Do We Need Men For? published in The Cut in 2019. That would place the alleged incident around 1996. New York Magazine also reported that “Carroll places the ensuing incident in late 1995 or early 1996.”
In other words, Carroll couldn’t give any specifics on when the alleged incident occurred. Trump himself pointed this out, saying: “She has no idea what day, what week, what month, what year” the alleged incident occurred. Trump’s lawyer Joe Tacopina argued, “Give me a date. … There’s calendars. There’s schedules. … We could see where he was. But of course, with no date, no month, no year, can’t present an alibi. Can’t call witnesses.” --->READ MORE HERE
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