Saturday, January 27, 2024

Flotsam and Jetsam - Trump Loses Bigly in New York

Stacy McCain on the most recent injustice in New York, The ‘Law & Order: SVU’ Plot Line and the Wicked Travesty of ‘Justice’ in New York

I watch CNN (so you don’t have to) and they were practically peeing their pants in excitement Friday over the jury’s verdict in the ridiculous defamation suit against Trump. It’s not an exaggeration to say that I was enraged by this, and perhaps for personal reasons, considering my own experience with bogus lawsuits (“Sue Me Again, You Evil Liar”).

Here’s the thing: In 2019, E. Jean Carroll, a former sex-advice columnist, made a literally incredible accusation against Trump, which no reasonable person could possibly believe. This was all about selling a book (What Do We Need Men For?: A Modest Proposal), and the story was completely implausible: Carroll claims that in 1995 or 1996, she just happened to bump into Trump while he was walking into the Bergdorf Goodman department store on Fifth Avenue. This chance encounter eventually led to him sexually assaulting her in a dressing room, she said. To which any reasonable person would reply, “Are you kidding me?”

World-famous real estate mogul just happens to be out doing some shopping — by himself, walking down Fifth Avenue, he decides to pop into Bergdorf Goodman — when he randomly encounters a sex-advice columnist, asks her advice on his gift purchases, then takes her into a dressing room and rapes her. Did I mention (because it certainly seems relevant to me) that, at the time of this alleged incident, E. Jean Carroll was 53 years old? What adjective should I use here? Mere words cannot express the extremity of my doubt toward the claim that Trump, whose three wives were all models and younger than him, would be accosting this woman, who was three years his senior. And that he would have done this while out shopping at Bergdorf Goodman!

After Carroll went public with this preposterous claim — which, I repeat, was part of the promotion for her 2019 book — it was pointed out that this tale of being raped in a Bergdorf Goodman’s dressing room was suspiciously similar to the plot of a 2012 episode of Law & Order: SVU.

To me, that was the definitive proof that Carroll was lying. First, there was the implausible scenario of her just happening to bump into Trump who, despite his wealth and notoriety, was allegedly strolling down Fifth Avenue when he headed into this department store to do some shopping. Right, and Al Pacino sodomized me in the bargain basement at Filene’s — you get my drift here? But then there was the problematic fact (which I hesitate to point out for fear of offending Women of a Certain Age™) that at the time of this alleged encounter, E. Jean Carroll was long past her prime. She had been a cheerleader and beauty pageant contestant in her youth, but at age 53? To quote our President: “C’mon, man.”

Althouse reads the NYT, "Jury Orders Trump to Pay [E. Jean] Carroll $83.3 Million for Years of Defamation."  Da Caller, Jury Rules Trump Must Pay $83,000,000 In Damages For Defaming E. Jean Carroll. Susie Moore at RedState, Jury Awards E. Jean Carroll $83.3 Million in 2nd Defamation Case Against Donald Trump (Updated) and Judge Threatens Trump Lawyer With Jail Time During Trial. Breitbart has a Report the the Dress E. Jean Carroll Claims She Wore During Alleged Trump Assault Did Not Exist at the Time, but the facts don't matter when it comes to getting Trump. Stephanie Gutman at Title TK, Is the 25-year-old rape charge a new pension system for women of a certain age? "I'm thinking about E Jean Carroll's prosecutions of Donald Trump and the sixty mostly middle-aged women who came out of the woodwork to accuse Bill Cosby of sex crimes." 

From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.26.24 (Evening Edition) John Davidson at Da Fed  Gov. Abbott Is Right: Texas Has The Right To Defend Itself And Secure Its Border. American Greatness  Greg Abbott Defies Supreme Court, Will Continue Securing Border at State Level Da Tech Guy, It is well past time for the States to tell the Federal Government to pound sand, The Lid: HOMAN: Biden The First ‘President’ To Unsecure The Border… On Purpose, Volokh Conspiracy: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Doubles Down On Dangerous Claim that Immigration is “Invasion” [Only a LOLbertarian could pen something this asinine. -WS]. At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.26.24 (Afternoon Abbreviated Punditry Edition), Twitchy has WH Wants To Stop Gov. Abbott From Securing Border Because Biden “Cares About The People Of Texas”,

Ace, The Demented Tyrant Biden Gives Abbott a 24 Hour Deadline To Allow His Agents to Throw Open the Borders to Invaders; Abbott Says He's Not Budging "The deadline passed an hour ago. Abbott says he will not allow federal agents access to Texas land to cut the razorwire barriers and effectively merge the US with Mexico and points south." Abbott says that if Biden attempts to nationalize the Texas Guard, he will send non-Guard back-ups from Texas and other states to man the border. Douglas Murry at NYPo opines Biden’s border dereliction forced Gov. Abbott’s hand, and caused a national crisis. Libby Emmons at HE thinks What happens in Texas will decide the fate of the nation. From Breitbart, Vulnerable Democrat Jon Tester Calls for Border Security After Doing Nothing for Years and Dem Rep. Himes: ‘Uncontrolled Migration’ that Hurts Wages Is Only Issue GOP Has Against Biden. Virginia Kruta at Da Wire, ‘Texas Is Right’: RFK Jr. Stands With Greg Abbott In Battle To Secure The Border. But at Da Fed, Tristan Justice notices Mitch McConnell Is Mad Trump And GOP Voters Won’t Let Him Pass An Open Borders Amnesty Bill For Biden. Ace again, Biden Has Spent 20 BILLION CITIZEN TAXPAYER DOLLARS "Resettling" Illegal Aliens in the Past Two Years Alone "Cost a lot of money to move "refugees" into people's communities at midnight so they can't object to what "their" government is doing.  Fake asylum seekers, future (current?) Democrat voters. Here's $20 billion." Hat Hair's Beege Welborn notes Chicago Democrats saying 'Take My Sanctuary City...PLEASE!'. Da Caller reports that in NC, a Commissioner Blasts Superintendent For Plans To Replace Special Ed School With Migrant Facility. From TNP, Ken Paxton’s Texas Judge Has a Dog Called ‘Joe Biden’. Does it get lost easily and sniff little girls?

At NYPo, Jonathan Turley opines Kevin Morris dodges Hunter Biden questions as lawyer — despite ‘sugar brother’ being ‘everything’ . Mike Miller at RedState, Kevin Morris Threatens Jonathan Turley With Defamation Lawsuit, Turley Promptly Humiliates Him. |I will not issue a retraction despite the threats of Morris and Sullivan. I did, however, publish another column repeating my objections to Morris’s blurry representational claims." James Lynch at Da Caller reports Judge Presiding Over Hunter Biden’s Lawsuit Against Garrett Ziegler Donated To Biden Campaign. PJM's Mike Cantrell notes Hunter Biden's Daughter Comes to Gramps' Defense, Slams Fox News' Jesse Watters.

Beege Welborn thinks that In a Pathetic POTATUS Pander, WH Pulls LNG Football Just Before Winning KickPhilip Pilkington@philippilk, "Europe were promised LNG by the US after cutting Russian buying. They were lied to. Electoral politics more important than a core ally. Biden pulls the LNG terminals even though Qatari LNG has to take the long route due to Red Sea attacks. Europe look like complete clowns." They fucked up, they trusted him. Matt Vespa at TownHall, So, That's Why Biden Wants Israel to Scale Down Its War in Gaza, the youth vote.

From Da Caller, Georgia State Senate Approves Committee To Investigate Fani Willis and ‘I’m Done’: Fulton County Resident Blasts Fani Willis For Prosecuting Trump. NYPo, Fani stands by her man: Atlanta DA cites ‘confidentiality,’ won’t give records on Trump case. At the Free Bacon, Amid Allegations That She Mismanaged Taxpayer Funds, Fani Willis Requests $600K for New Cars. She wants to ride to the trial in style. at NewsBusters, Will ‘Lawfare’ Take Trump Off the Ballot? "The biggest threat to the Constitution in 2024 is the “lawfare” being waged against Donald Trump — and the Supreme Court is as much its target as Trump is." Capt. Ed at Hat Hair comments "I don’t think Democrats are done running on Dobbs, and these #14A disqualifications are so novel that few if anyone think they will stand up. The only voters who will be motivated by a SCOTUS decision knocking down the DQs are those who are already hysterically motivated to vote anyway. Other than that, McCarthy’s spot on." Matt Taibbi worries Is the Electoral Fix Already In? "The 2024 presidential race increasingly looks like it will be decided by lawyers, not voters, as Democrats unveil plans for America's first lawfare election." Jim Watkins at Am Think wonders Is Biden Poison-Pilling Trump?. Aaron DeCorte at Da Fed, says The Biden Voters Who Got Us Into This Mess Get A Rare Do-Over In 2024. Insty, OH, IT’S JUST A BUNCH OF CONSPIRACY NUTS, IGNORE THEM: The Daily Caller put it best when : "“You don’t even need to look to the word ‘stolen’ — the election was rigged,” says just one of the many election watchers the Daily Caller interviewed who all came to the same conclusion.” This trailer is for the sharpest, calmest, and most intelligent discussion about the 2020 election I’ve seen. Click on the image below to see the trailer."

From Althouse, I thought it might be satire — Trump's request that the RNC not make him, right now, its "presumptive nominee." Breitbart, In Name of Party Unity Trump Advises RNC Not to Declare Him ‘Presumptive Nominee’. At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.26.24 (Afternoon Abbreviated Punditry Edition),  Dana Loesch: DeSantis Is Out, Trump Wins NH Primary, and The Movement To Sway The GOP Primary. TNP, Trump Super PAC Hauls Whopping $46 Million.

TNP reports Montana U.S. Senate Candidate Tim Sheehy Is Hiding Past Support For ESG, Chinese Investments. Cockburn at Da Spec, sees Kari Lake razes the Arizona GOP. Capt. Ed, "Er, I’d say that the AZGOP has razed itself in this episode. Cockburn’s right that Lake hasn’t endeared herself to the party establishment and never should have attacked the late John McCain at all. With that said, though, if you try to buy off an anti-establishment candidate with offers of cash, you hardly have room to complain that your mark was smart enough to record the attempt. One doesn’t even need to be particularly sympathetic to Lake to allow that she may have a point about corruption in her party." PopSci, Election cybersecurity director was a victim of a ‘swatting’ attack in her home "CISA's Jen Easterly was the target of a dangerous, sometimes deadly harassment tactic last month." I'll bet this one gets solved. Hayden Ludwig at Am Great takes on The Left’s Ridiculous Disinformation on Tainted Zuck Bucks "If you can’t trust the corporate media-industrial complex, who can you trust?"

Ace, DOJ Preparing Another "Sweetheart Deal" for an Approved Criminal; Merrick Garland Is Gearing Up to Let The Guy Who Leaked Trump's Taxes Off Lightly. "Merrick's Secret Police have a nice list and a naughty list. Illegally leaking Biden's opponent's confidential tax records gets you on the "nice" list. Oh, and he also leaked the records of 7,500 other Americans. And he's getting a sweetheart deal. But this is still America, right? James Lynch at Da Caller reports the FBI Hired Barely Literate Candidates, Urged Fat Applicant To Continue Process, Report Alleges. Dave Harsanyi at Da Signal, You Can’t Defend ‘Democracy’ and the Administrative State. TNP, City of Seattle Hands $10 MILLION to ANTIFA, BLM Rioters.

At Behind the Black, Major donor to Cornell pulls funding, demands firing of university president over DEI policies, also Harvard’s response to evidence of errors and fake data in papers poor and slow. From Da Mail, Law prof who bashed the DEI 'hive mind' sues Ohio Northern University, saying he was humiliated and sacked at sham hearing for 'not bending the knee to diversity'. College Fix reports Florida drops sociology from gen ed courses, bans DEI spending. Dan Greenfield at Front Page says Biden Puts the DEI in the Death Penalty "9/11 mastermind gets a plea deal while a racist supermarket shooter gets death." Also at Front Page, Dave Horowitz writes White Skin Privilege "A weapon of war." From Twitchy, 'I Don't Believe You': Race and Ethnicity Reporter for the WaPo Reports Conveniently Racist Story. Bill Otis at the Ringside, Race Obsession Goes from Repulsive to Idiotic "You can't make this up, and wouldn't want to."

mrcTV, Wisconsin Middle School Offers Porn to Middle-Schoolers. "According to five images posted by Libs of TikTok, the book looks like it came straight out of a PornHub library. One page encouraged readers to watch porn to “explore kinks and fantasies.” It even reminded teens to look up their favorite interviews with porn stars, find where they post their content, and pay to watch their porn. Again, this is being read by middle schoolers, generally aged 11-13." Breitbart notes how Bud Light Tries to Make a Big Comeback with Super Bowl Ad Campaign.

Much more at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.26.24 (Evening Edition). Find it yourself. Linked at Pirate's Cove in the weekly Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup and links. The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: F*** Snow up on time and under budget at The Other McCain.

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