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.
I’m not surprised tbh. This whole presidency has just been a clown show.
Trump was found liable for sexual abuse and ordered to pay restitution (he’s appealing this)
Trump frequently and publicly called her a liar and ended up in court again, and was found guilty of defamation. Ordered to pay restitution again (say’s he’s going to appeal that, too)
So now they’re trying to charge her with perjury because she said, in a deposition, that nobody was paying her legal bills, and it later became known that Reid Hoffman paid some of her expenses.
I can’t see how this can go well for the justice department. There’s no evidence that she was lying. It’s very possible she either didn’t know about the money from Hoffman at the time, or that the funding was secured after her deposition. Either way, a judge already ruled that it wasn’t relevant to the case. IMO, this will almost certainly get thrown out for being vindictive prosecution. IANAL, though.
So let me see if I have this right:
I can’t see how this can go well for the justice department. There’s no evidence that she was lying. It’s very possible she either didn’t know about the money from Hoffman at the time, or that the funding was secured after her deposition. Either way, a judge already ruled that it wasn’t relevant to the case. IMO, this will almost certainly get thrown out for being vindictive prosecution. IANAL, though.
It’ll go through
She’ll get charged