'There Is No Bottom...Trump Sics DOJ on Famed Victim of His Sexual Abuse' [View all]

(TPM) "I wish I could say we have reached the nadir of President Trump’s abuse of his office and debasement of the Justice Department. But the news, first reported by CNN, that the Trump DOJ has launched a criminal investigation of E. Jean Carroll, the high-profile victim of Trump’s sexual abuse, feels like a downward spiral with no end in sight."

"The top-line outrage here is clear but it’s so astounding that it bears repeating: The president is using the powers of his office to settle not just political but private scores against someone adjudged by juries to be a victim of his sexual abuse and defamatory attacks. Carroll, 82, has been awarded nearly $90 million by juries in the two Trump cases, whose verdicts he is still appealing."

"It is abuse heaped on top of abuse."

"As with the other Trump II retributive investigations and prosecutions, the predicate to the Carroll investigation is bogus, but is it especially tenuous here. The DOJ is zeroing in on conduct that even if true (and it’s not) is rarely if ever prosecuted, federally or otherwise: perjury in a civil deposition."

"Trump already tried and failed to make Carroll’s incorrect deposition answer an issue at trial, but the judge flicked it away as a nonstarter, and a unanimous appeals court agreed."

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