Yet Another Outrage

The news was dominated on Wednesday by the shocking revelations from Bob Woodward's forthcoming new book, discussed here yesterday. That story became so gigantic it overshadowed another outrageous scandal that also broke on Wednesday.

Last year, writer E. Jean Carroll penned a magazine article where she alleged Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in the 1990s. In response, he said he'd never met her and that she was lying in order to sell books.

Carroll then published a photograph taken of her and Trump together. She also sued him for slander.

Trump tried and failed repeatedly to get that lawsuit thrown out of court. He was due to provide both a deposition and a DNA sample before the election. Carroll alleges that she still has the dress worn at the time she says he assaulted here and that it has his DNA material on it.

In what clearly was a desperate move, the Department of Justice stepped in on Wednesday in an attempt to substitute the United States as defendant in the lawsuit in Trump's place. The Department's claim is that Trump was acting in his official capacity as President when he said he'd never met Carroll and that she was lying.

This is, obviously, an attempt at a gross miscarriage of justice. Slandering someone is not a Presidential function. Carroll is a private citizen and the underlying incident happened more than twenty years before Trump was elected.

A federal judge must still rule on the Justice Department's attempt to intercede in the case. When the court rules, you can expect the losing party, Carroll or Trump via the Justice Department, to appeal.

This Justice Department action is clearly an attempt to prevent Trump from having to provide a DNA sample before the election, if ever. The inevitable appeals will slow down that process into 2021.

Two important questions are warranted at this junction:

(1) If Carroll was lying in 2019, as Trump claimed, why didn't he sue her for libel? Trump has sued people hundreds of times for libel or slander, including a number of times since he became President. Why not this time if he's innocent?

(2) If Trump indeed is innocent and the injured party here, why not gladly provide a sample of his DNA to prove Carroll wrong?

The answers here are obvious and they point to Trump's guilt.

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