Exclusive: Justice Department launches a criminal investigation into Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll | CNN Politics
21d 4h ago by lemmy.world/u/Catma in news from www.cnn.com
The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, the former magazine columnist who accused President Donald Trump of sexual assault, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
What good is being president if you can’t instruct your justice department to investigate the woman you raped? Excuse me! I thought this was America!
All pretenses of not being a personal bludgeon have been dropped.
Was there any pretense before?
Well corporate media outlets held a pretense to toe the line and try to keep social democratic movements from gaining popularity by pretending all is normal, all is well.
Sure, when it comes to media, but the pretense of the doj not being a cudgel is what i meant
Actually she is his adjudicated rape victim, not accuser
CNN is owned by a MAGA billionaire shithead and the use of the word "accuser" instead of "sexual assault survivor" is likely intentional.
Make corporate media responsible for spreading misinformation again.
MCMRFSMA!
Rolls off the tongue like a fine ... rusty school bus.
Literal political weaponization to go after a victim of your leader. The Republican party is so despicable...
BOtH SiDeS tHo
"I know, Kamala definitely would have done the same kinds of things!"
-- Maximalist online armchair leftist
I voted Kodos.
iTs TrUe ThOuGh.
sOrRy, bIdEn WaS aLsO sHiT
Democrats couldn't even raise minimum wage. Useless.
ETA this post is now my most unpopular, unseating the former champion, "fuck the pope". You've been a terrific audience, thank you!
Democrats don't do anything.
Republicans do evil things.
Yeah, one side is fucking worse.
Sure. I've voted D for last two national elections.
But... they're still absolutely shit. Two different turds, one is less runny. Good job.
Over 70% of voters want universal healthcare, Ds can't be bothered. Our "labor party" can't even manage to keep our wages and benefits above those of POLAND. Un-fucking-believable, we've been surpassed by eastern europe.
Biden couldn't even manage ONE stand alone minimum wage bill. Didn't even bother. You should be ashamed to defend him, that was his platform. What he did there was an evil thing.
He didn't need 60 votes. They can use the "nuclear option" whenever they'd like, for example, passing judges just requires 50 votes. (which 8 Ds just crossed the aisle to vote for an individual who refuses to say that Biden won the 2020 election). Excellent work again, Ds.
Trent Lott the Republican came up with the "nuclear option" term, and bOtH pArTiEs adopted it immediately, because it scares the shit out of dummies. Before 2000s, that simple majority vote was known as the "constitutional option". They can do this whenever they'd like. They had minimum wage in the fucking bag for first two years. Are you blind?
Listen, I'm the first person to point out that the D party has it's fucking problems. But saying "both sides suck" is just bullshit. A sprained ankle and and amputated leg both suck, but let's not fucking equivocate here.
Oh fuck you, you sack of garbage. Biden or Harris would never do the vast majority of the fucked up shit Trump has already done.
Other than, you know, funding and defending a genocide, declaring that the most contagious neurological and immune compromising viruses to have ever been made in a lab was 'over' because billionaires were losing too much money.
to have ever been made in a lab
Yeah, right. You'd best get back on Qanon.
Yep, definitely just a schizo right wing story and has no basis in reality.
https://brownstone.org/articles/did-ralph-baric-at-unc-create-sars-cov-2/
Absolutely no evidence to suggest that the virus (accidentally or otherwise) originated as a gain of function experiment in a lab.
Besides that, my main point is that the democratic administration downplayed the ongoing pandemic to protect moneyed interests, and not as a result of actual eradication of the virus.
TO CLARIFY: I do not support the current administration IN ANY WAY. Denying wrongdoing on the part of the democrats, however, is either wilfully ignorant or naive at best.
Please never vote again
But I like the illusion that my vote can change something
I vote every election, and voted for Harris and Biden before that.
Ds are a minority now for a reason... less than a third of voters, just like Rs. It's because you're both absolute shit parties.
Over 70% of voters want universal healthcare and higher minimum federal wage for example.. voters have wanted this for years.
Independents are now 40%+ of voters. You require our votes to win any national election.
Please stop treating those who help you like garbage, and at least pretend to be a reasonable person. You're only fucking yourself and your own party over. Good job, professor.
p.s. Oh, and knowing my voting is against your wishes makes it all the sweeter, thanks! I would feel awful if someone like you agreed with me.
less than a third of voters, just like Rs. It’s because you’re both absolute shit parties
Ive seen the entire country go red, a few times in fact, Ive never seen it go all blue. Maybe lets try that once just to see what happens. Maybe the reason dems suck is because they never been given the power to do anything.
Ds are a minority now for a reason…
Because dumbfucks like you continue to equate them with Republicans.
Over 70% of voters want universal healthcare and higher minimum federal wage for example… voters have wanted this for years.
I guess that's why so many Americans considered even Obamacare to be "death panels". You're full of shit, you goddamn fucking dumbass.
I appreciate you self identifying this way
Imagine thinking deplorable doesn't define a republican, especially with actions like these and days like Jan 6th under their belt.
Accuser makes it sound like he was not found guilty of rape. If Trump is not impeached the US will be rightly viewed as an autocratic banana republic.
I feel like we blew past banana republic a while back and are onto deciding whether we're a nation of laws at all anymore. The idea that the US is a democracy is laughable.
sure it is, poors get one set of laws and rich get the other, as is tradition for the "roman model" of governance
The fact that democracy put us here is what's laughable.
to be fair, the amerikkkan version of democracy has always been corperatocracy or christocracy.. never was or ever will it be real democracy
How do you people write that without cringing yourself to death? It's like tweens writing Micro$oft. Waow you really showed em with that original twist in the name
For the record, I hate this place as much as you - if not more.
Thanks for edgelord nonsense. The US is, by definition, a democracy.
It's still a Democracy as long as we have elections. Once MAGA cancels elections, it's Civil War.
it’s Civil War.
Unless there's something better on TV.
Elections are not the defining trait of democracies. Technically they are not even a requirement. This is why plenty of autocracies can actually have a ton of elections.
Elections are not the defining trait of democracies
Obviously, he meant free and fair elections, not show ones in dictatorships. Legitimate elections define democracy.
I agree, but again. Elections are not even technically required. There are democratic decision making structures that don't rely on election of representatives or voting. Specially on direct democracies, it's but one of the many ways to ensure the prevalence of democratic values.
Oh, we'll have elections.
They are just trying to decide how convincing they can get away with making it look like a free and fair election without letting it actually be free and fair.
Putin for example has decided that 88% support is "close enough" to a free and fair election.. for now.
how convincing they can get away with making it look like a free and fair election
I believe all elections in the US going forward will be putin style elections, the rethugs will just issue a decree that the supreme leader won again and this time he going 95% of the votes. All hail king turd
You think Congress has the power to enforce an impeachment even if they rule that way? We’re beyond banana and full mango.
Accuser makes it sound like he was not found guilty of rape
He wasn’t. It was a civil lawsuit. He was found liable.
Guilty and Liable are just different legal words for different kinds of cases, but they both mean the same thing:
HE DID IT!
but they both mean the same thing
No, they don't. Being intentionally stupid doesn't help your cause.
Frankly, the continuing inaction to do nothing at all to even admonish the administration for openly corrupt behavior turning everything into a personal benefit for trump is depressing even if someone implemented 'other methods'.
As bad as Trump is, it's more worrying that no one is even vaguely willing to go along with ousting him. The handful of GOP that was even vaguely on the fence has been ousted at this point. Since the supreme court has ruled that openly politically aligned and outright racist districting is ok, and challenges about each state's districting are only ever valid if the challenge would strike down a democrat plan...
He was found liable not guilty, and if you don't understand the difference you should read instead of commenting.
pull the mushroom out of your sphincter
Pull the fingers out of your ears and accept the free Middle School vocabulary/ civics lesson.
Guilty and Liable are just different legal words for different kinds of cases, but they both mean the same thing:
HE DID IT!
He definitely did it, but liability is not guilt and you shouldn't say such ignorant things in public.
fighting the good fight for the rapist pedophile, are we? you should be so proud of your good deeds, good character, and integrity
Nope, I'm fighting the good fight against ignorance. I already said he totally did it.
Really, I think the current state of the world is the result of idiots proliferating. People who don't understand the difference between liability and guilt, for example.
First he raped her. Then he violated her. Now he will try to kill her. I want her on a coin.
She should get the entire slush fund.
^ This.
Cannot wait to see some reporter or politician ask Todd Blanche if she's eligible for the money.
Fuck you
we skidded out of that timeline years ago. there's no way back.
Skibidi’d out of that timeline
Is this the same administration that said Biden weaponized the DOJ?
Every accusation is a confession of either what the Repedopublicans are already doing, or what they plan to do.
Every. Time.
Every accusation is an admittance or precursor to truth from this despot. tRump Derangement Syndrome is what he considers his supporters to have and levies as an insult to others who hate him.
Hahaha I'm going to spell his name weird, that'll show him
The dude makes up names for people, calls women and people he doesn't like low IQ, and you have a problem with me changing his name so the word rump is prominent? Feign some more incivility. Odd that MAGA goons always have a problem with the smallest, most inconsequential things (like calling you weird), yet have no issue overlooking the same when it's someone they agree with. If your identity is so entwined with a single politician that modified names cause discomfort, maybe it's time for some self-reflection.
MAGA goons
lol k
STOP. CALLING. IT. THE. JUSTICE. DEPARTMENT.
It is the JUSTIFICATION Department.
Persecution department? Department of litigation?
Federal Bureau of Payback.
Phantom Limb voice: “THE REVENGE SOCIETY”
A better word is Rationalization, but it doesn't fit your justice/justification construction.
While both words involve giving reasons for an action, to justify means to prove that an action is right, moral, or valid. To rationalize means to invent socially acceptable or seemingly logical excuses for an action after the fact to make it appear reasonable.
It is the Department of Rationalization.
But "Department of Justification" is still "DoJ".
I hear ya. I only recently discovered the difference between the two words, and I love using them in their proper context.
Every day, worse.
It really is fucking astounding how every day finds a way to be worse than the one before...
As it will, until people organize and push back.
Will you have more capability to do that tomorrow, or less?
"And then, things got worse", used to be a joke about the arc of Russian history. Things sure have changed quickly.
The GOP just HATES the law. They must despise having a Constitution which establishes a country of laws since they allow this kind of autocratic dictator shit to keep going on under their seal of approval.
Wilholt's law:
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
The irony of him drawing more attention to this through his vendetta.
He isn't smart enough to think things through to the next step. We all know that he's not played 4D chess
Yeah but he aced THREE cognitive tests. How many has Biden aced???
He even got "cow" and "giraffe" right, I heard him brag. So about a 3 year olds level of cognition.
Thousands for all we know. But we do know he isn't fucking stupid enough to brag about it.
Attention and then... what? There's no consequences for this horrible man or his administration's illegal acts. I console myself by hoping victims get justice in the next life...
What can we do? You're exactly right but we as the people need to claw onto what little power we still have.
True. Sorry for being defeatist. We definitely have to resist. Shit just sucks...
Good thing they just created a fund for people who are victims of a weaponized justice system.
/s
OK, but if she wins again Trump gets hanged. Deal?
Nah, the fix is in. Trump's administration doesn't even pretend to be on the up and up. Openly corrupt and the conservative wing has lost its mind more than usual to approve the behavior, whether it's in courts or congress.
They are going to toss her in prison for daring to inconvenience dear leader.
This justice department is very incompetent. The only political prosecution they ever got to a trial I can remember is the guy who threw a sandwich at one of their thugs, and the jury threw that shit out.
Everything else has been dismissed because this is the worst bunch of lawyers to ever lawyer.
2 years ago, career attorneys with decades of experience would drop everything to get a job in the justice department because it was so prestigious. Now they're having trouble recruiting kids straight out of law school graduating at the bottom of their class.
And federal judges are DONE with these clowns. It's not just a presumption of innocence for the defendant. The justices's default assumptions are increasingly that the justice department is actively lying.
I didn't rape that woman, I only rape children. I didn’t loose the 2020 election. My very fine phone call with Georgia proves that. 🫲🍊🫱
Someone please make this end
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"Solve this five-letter word, starting with T and ending with P*."
*Coincidentally, worth less than soiled toilet paper.
Will no one rid us of this turbulent priest Todd Blanche?
God I'm so sick of this entire corrupt administration and their fucking childish vindictive bullshit.
"Babe wake up, new most corrupt thing ever just dropped"
MamaMiiiia
Remember all the assholes in the Tone Police from the "liberal media", as well as all the reactionary centrists, as well as a few self-styled online leftist revolutionary types were all spending lots of time and energy wagging their fucking fingers at Biden pardoning his family?
Seems he knew full well what a goddamned monster Pumpkinhead and his crime wave really are. If I were to criticize this action, it's that he didn't spread the net much wider.
Just because Trump is a shit doesn't mean Biden should be allowed to be. This is the problem with the democrats, they figure as long as they are a hair better than fascists they should be respected. Hunter is a peice of shit crackhead who made a career lobbying for foriegn interests based on his connection to his daddy. 2 in 10 Americans supported Bidens decision to unconditionally pardon his idiot of a son. The problem here is that the pardon exists at all. There should be checks and balances against it being abused.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/americans-depressed-economy/687278/
We all know that Pumpkinhead would have gone full lawfare on everyone in Biden's family otherwise. And for a big nothingburger. He was a crackhead? He sold paintings based on his name recognition?
Meanwhile, Pumpkinhead pardoned terrorists so that some of them could go on to commit more crimes - like molesting children.
Don't compare the two things; it's patently ridiculous. Biden only had to do this because he knows just what a vindictive asshole Pumpkinhead is and so very butthurt that he LOST to Biden.
Thanks for clarifying that you've allowed the American Nazis to take power unopposed, to once again spite the Dems.
Humanity deserves to die.
Hasn't he given her enough money? You already know she's unforgivably litigious, so you give her another reason to sue, after the judge inevitably throws out this case, like they've thrown out every one of these cases?
He hasn't paid a cent
And it sounds a lot like you're accusing her of being vexatious
Why the fuck shouldn't she be vexatious? Doesn't that just mean angry? I think she's justified in being angry.
Vexatious in this contexts implies vexatious litigation which is a form of abuse against the legal system and very much what he wants people to think she's doing
But isn't he initiating this litigation?
The law is not written in stone. Different DOJ's interpret things differently, from other DOJ's. That is why a "well-written" law is ambiguous, so it can potentially generate large amounts of legal costs and fees.
this poor woman will never have peace until she is dead.
I hope she 86s his ass, this time.
Because of what she did, he will never have peace. He will be recorded in history as a Rapist President for the rest of time. It is a permanent part of his legacy.
Which, if dumpy has any say in it (he does), it will be sooner rather than later
Political weaponization/slush fund compensation incoming? No? What do you mean corruption?
Heh. The United States has a king.😂
I think he thinks he's dying and he doesn't want a rape on his record before he dies. Whether or not he's actually dying, is anyone's guess.
I think he's just getting angrier, like dementia patients often do. Also, he needs a distraction from the Iran war, which was a distraction from the Epstein files, which was a distraction from...
Can confirm. My dad had dementia before he passed, and it exaggerated all of his worst qualities. Lashing out at loved ones, increasingly isolating himself, frequent denial of his deteriorating state, refusing to partake in any activities unless he was self-motivated or was coaxed excessively into doing things.
Trump is NOT making it to 2028. Hence the acceleration of all his dumb plans.
Dont threaten me with a good time
I doubt he lasts to the end of the year before a stroke or MI takes him out.
Maybe, but he's having his republicans and the DOJ go around trying to clean up his past.
We're all dying, but Trump is such a failure he can't even do that efficiently.
He's 80 years old, in terrible shape, and eats awful food. of course he's dying.
I meant in the next month or two.
I think when he talks about weaponizing the justice department he means himself.
Oh wait till after he dies. They can heap on all the ones he's never faced in trial.
Well, some people no doubt thought the orange buffoon was preferable to a woman in a powersuit with a funny laugh...
What would France do?
Not elect Trump in the first place.
Whatever israel tells them to do, same as the US, maybe to a lesser degree. The Epstein honeypot swept up leaders across the globe, including in France. Pretending France, Germany, the Uk, Denmark, etc are free of their bribing and compromat influence is wishful thinking.
Someone should ask Todd Flintstone if Carrol, Comey, James, and the rest are eligible, and watch his head explode.
You're surprised when fascism does fascism?
Not surprised, just... disappointed in humanity
Now thats an excellent reactionmemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com
she can use that fund to protect people from presidents that weaponize the justice department no?
I don’t think he’s payed up yet
Threatening a mosquito with a tank. This is so obviously djt threatening the entire public that nothing serious can come out of it. This is the circus they voted for.
Open, rampant corruption. We are watching the disintegration of the "Great Experiment" in real time.
Economic collapse and balkanization will follow, and that's for the best, really. Our state governments are much more effective at governing, and the feds have become too power drunk, greedy, and frankly ridiculous to hold office any longer, let them go.
We have at least four nations within our borders, time to divide into smaller, more efficient governments. The largest fleet on Earth needs to be dismantled, we can't afford our world police delusions. We tried, sorry kids.
I feel fortunate to live in my state. It is far more coherent and democratic than the bullshit of the Federal government.
If hell is real (fat chance), I wish Trump and all his cronies to rot for eternity there stubbing their toes on a coffee table and stepping on Legos every day when they get out of bed each morning.
Oh for fuck's sake...
Fuck Trump
It seems that a surefire way for the doj to open an investigation is to be a whistle blower of any sort, and the surefire way for the doj to NOT open an investigation is to be the target of whistle blowers of any sort.
Of course they are. Vindictive retributions are back on the menu (did they ever leave?).
Finally a good use for my taxes.