Judge chides Trump for calling rape trial "made up SCAM" on social media

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Source: Politico

NEW YORK — The federal judge overseeing the civil trial in which Donald Trump is accused of rape admonished the former president for a social media post in which he called the lawsuit “a made up SCAM.”

Trump could be “tampering with a new source of potential liability,” U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan told one of Trump’s lawyers in court on Wednesday.

The lawsuit was filed by E. Jean Carroll, a magazine columnist who alleges Trump sexually assaulted her in a dressing room of luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman in the 1990s. She is suing him for rape and defamation in a trial that began Tuesday in Manhattan federal court. Trump has denied her account, saying the incident “never happened” and calling her claim a “hoax.”

On Wednesday morning, Trump posted on his social media site, Truth Social, about the lawsuit. He called Carroll’s lawyer a “political operative” and said her legal defense is “financed by a big political donor that they said didn’t exist.” He attacked Carroll directly, calling her “Ms. Bergdorf Goodman” and saying she was “like a different person” during a CNN interview.

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[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. The judge is pissed at TFG

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Walleye]

2. Funny clip, and apropos

[Walleye]

3. Wasn't she in her 30s when this happened? She is 61 now

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She wasn’t 61. He lies even when he doesn’t have to. Even when it’s even easily proven wrong

[emulatorloo]

5. Early 50's.

[Walleye]

10. Oh thanks I should've looked it up

[emulatorloo]

12. Of course! Just now read she was 52 when it happened.

[Evolve Dammit]

4. Does "entirely inappropriate" have consequences? I'm betting not but hoping yes. Ass hat 24/7/365.

[usonian]

6. Has he ever been held in contempt, or tampering before?

If not, why should he stop?

Hint, hint.

[Ocelot II]

7. "Tampering with a new source of potential liability" means contempt of court.

I hope the judge throws the book at him, because you know TFG will keep doing what he's doing.

[Novara]

8. Keep digging, motherfucker.

[Fullduplexxx]

9. He'll continue to do it and why not it's not like there are any

Consequences for him

[Hugh_Lebowski]

11. He may've tripped himself up there in a way he doesn't realize

How would he know the store was 'very crowded'?

She doesn't recall the exact date (which, honestly is not entirely helpful to her case, but leaving that aside), so how does he know the situation involved a 'very crowded' store ... unless he knows when he was there at the same time as her?

You'll notice he never comes right out and says "I never saw or spoke to her there".

At least that I've ever seen.

And that's probably been because he's afraid there actually may be witnesses, at least to seeing them together.

My guess is that his fallback plan, should things really not look good for him in the proceedings ... is to show up and testify "okay, well, something like that did happen, but she had whispered in my ear "I'm going to go put this on, and then come back to the dressing room and have your way with me"" or some such.

Depending on what evidence there is (or isn't), that makes it he said/she said.

This plan is why he never actually explicitly claims he was never in the store at same time as her. He dances around it and implies it, but never says it outright.