How do you feel that the Jury found him guilty of pinning her, Ripping her tights open and fingering her?
How do I
feel?
I
think the jury heard the testimony of Trump's
prior bad acts from two sworn witnesses which spoke to Trump being free with his hands, and the admission of the
Access Hollywood tape which also spoke to Trump being free with his hands, all of which the judge ruled admissible as going to modus operandi (which would probably have been excluded in a criminal trial), and the jury concluded that, on balance, they believed a sexual assault took place, but they did not believe Trump dropped his trousers (as Carroll testified) and inserted his penis (as Carroll testified).
No person with an ounce of integrity would suggest that it’s
unfathomable for Donald Trump to be capable of such behavior. Which is precisely why –
Trump’s reputation preceding him – it’s also quite plausible that he’d be the prime target of a false and frivolous lawsuit, because it’s far likelier that a jury would believe the accuser if the defendant is Trump than, say, Mike Pence, who famously won’t even dine alone with a woman to whom he’s not related.
I think from the genesis of this case to the conclusion, it smells, as do the fraud and election interference (hush-money case) cases. Unfortunately on the classified documents case and Trump leading a criminal conspiracy to overturn an election and subvert the Constitution we'll never get to the truth, Trump will never be held to account.
