Trump may have defamed E. Jean Carroll again, one day after posting a $91.6 million bond for last case
https://lemmy.world/post/12975850
Trump may have defamed E. Jean Carroll again, one day after posting a $91.6 million bond for last case - Lemmy.World
Former President Donald Trump on Saturday stood by his 2019 statement that
writer E. Jean Carroll made a “totally false accusation” against him, despite
similar claims resulting in him losing a defamation case in January. Campaigning
at a rally in Rome, Georgia, Trump referenced the $91.6 million bond he posted
on March 8, three days before his deadline to pay $83.3 million in damages to
Carroll for defaming her in statements he made as president after denying her
accusation that he’d raped her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s.
Carroll first came forward in 2019 with sexual assault claims against Trump
before another civil trial in May 2023, where a New York jury found that the
former president sexually abused Carroll but didn’t rape her.
Supposed adults are no longer content to claim they were “traumatized” by hearing words they found objectionable. We have to regress even further, by claiming that we were “sexually abused”, even when we were 30something years of age at the time of the incident
Is your position that sexual abuse cant occur to an adult, that when it occurs it can and should be laughed off (what other physical abuses should be treated the same) or a third position entirely?
In the not too distant past, when we were over tye age of 18 and got felt up by someone we didn’t fancy, we saw this as an obnoxious experience, and didn’t dwell on it, much less pretend to be “traumatized”. Today, entirely too many of us are pretending to be more fragile than fine china
Correct me if I’m wrong, but wouldn’t you say that meekly taking any abuse, violence, assault, harassment etc without standing up to the perpetrators would be the weak thing to do? Today we ain’t taking shit from people who think they can exert power over us and the people who used to get away with it don’t seem to like that much.
E. Jean Carrol didn’t have to take shit from Trump back when this incident allegedly happened either. Last anyone heard, girl wasn’t trying on a straight jacket in that dressing room, and could’ve decked him. Or, if this wasn’t practical, headbutted, kicked, or bitten him
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