E. Jean's Case ... No, Trump is NOT being "defiant." He is viciously punishing, bullying, and slandering to intimidate.

And a quick look at how Trump uses the BULLY-WIMP SYNDROME.

There it is (again) … Trump’s ugly “up yours” face. There’s no other way to term it.

When E. Jean Carroll, whom Joyce Vance just termed “the bravest of all of us,” took Donald Trump to court for rape last year, she won the case, and the jury awarded her $5,000,000. It’s not nearly what Trump’s physical—and now verbal—abuse have cost her. Carroll’s second case, to establish how much he owes her for defamation, an automatic judgment that came with his conviction, is going on now.

Trump didn’t attend the first trial, and his lawyer, Joe Tacopina, got his clock cleaned by Carroll’s, one Roberta Kaplan. So Trump decided to come to this one—and talk loudly (against the judge’s orders), glower, strut, bang his fist on the table, announce that the proceedings were a “con job” and a “witch hunt” while E. Jean was testifying.

That is not being defiant: it’s WITNESS INTIMIDATION.

And it only began the day after he was found guilty of sexual assault, which Judge Lewis Kaplan refers to as rape. For maximum threat to E. Jean, he made his comments at a CNN Town Hall on national TV last May to ridicule her and call her a liar again.

“She was a wack job,” Trump said during the live event.

The former President ridiculed Carroll’s account of their meeting in a Manhattan apartment store. “What kind of a woman meets somebody and brings them up and within minutes you’re playing hanky panky in a dressing room?” Trump said. “This is a fake story.”

No, it isn’t. Trump has been accused of sexual abuse and/or rape by 26 women, and more of these cases will come to trial. They’ll be playing the infamous Hollywood Access tape, just like E. Jean’s lawyers did. Here is just one pertinent excerpt:

(Billy) Bush: "Your girl's hot as shit. In the purple."

Multiple voices: "Whoah. Yes. Whoah."

Bush: "Yes. The Donald has scored. Whoah my man."

Trump: "Look at you. You are a pussy."

Bush: "You gotta get the thumbs up."

Trump: "Maybe it's a different one."

Bush: "It better not be the publicist. No, it's, it's her."

Trump: "Yeah that's her with the gold. I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful... I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything."

Bush: "Whatever you want."

Trump: "Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything."

During the CNN Town Hall in which he slammed and defamed E. Jean again, and attacked Judge Lewis Kaplan, Trump ratified his self-generated permission to abuse any woman he wanted, using history as justification:

“For a million years, this is the way it’s been. I want to be honest, this is the way it’s been,” Trump said. “If you’re a famous person, if you’re a star, and I’m not referring to myself, I’m saying people that are famous, people that are stars, people that are rich, people that are powerful, they tend to do pretty well in a lot of different ways, OK? And you would like me to take that back? I can’t take it back because it happens to be true.”

From the moment E. Jean Carroll’s book was published until this morning, Trump has never stopped defaming this woman. He doesn’t care. $5 million? $17 million? $270 million (NY fraud case)? He doesn’t have it, but he doesn’t care.

He can’t stop punishing and lying because it’s who he is now. Maybe he wasn’t always this person, but he has been person for a very, very long time now. Decades.

After Tuesday’s session, in which Judge Kaplan threatened to throw him out of court, Trump goes down to his gilded building and rails against E. Jean some more. During court hours yesterday, brain-dead acolytes posted more than 30 hate messages targeting E. Jean on (un)Truth Social.

THE BULLY-WIMP SYNDROME

This isn’t going to stop until some judge or other jails him. But that won’t work, either, because Trump is engaged in the BULLY-WIMP SYNDROME.

All bullies have an honest active mode of defamation, slander, libel, and verbal, emotional, and physical violence. Often they win through intimidation. That’s what Trump’s mode is this week.

BUT, when they lose, they flip into passive mode: sniveling, whining, childish children claiming they’re done wrong.

They’re not. This is a game.

And now we come to the media.

NOTE TO MEDIA: SHAPE UP OR SHUT UP!

To call this man’s behavior this week "defiance” is to noblize it beyond belief and leave the impression that he is being “stalwart in the face of unfair treatment” or some such nonsense.

The media are pandering to Trump (1) because they’re afraid of him, (2) because they’re afraid of the money he can cost them (readership), and (3) because they are afraid of what his insane “troops” will do to them, their companies, their spouses and their children if he “goes for them.”

And if he does, there will be no “passive mode.” It’ll all be active bullying, broadside attack, character defamation, slander, liable and threats.

The media must stop failing. When the media fails, you get what E. Jean Carroll got this week: more and more and more and more lies, an intimidating presence staring at her while she testified, overnight assaults on social mean … and … and … and …

This week a MAGAt said E. Jean Carroll should be raped and murdered.

Let that sink in. Let that sink in.

They almost overthrow the country by violently overtaking the Capitol building in an attempted insurrection. You think they won’t do this?

They came very close to kidnapping and kneecapping Christine Widmer, and one of them launched a bomb threat on Judge Engoron’s family while Trump was being tried for fraud in New York less than two weeks ago.

This man’s tiny hands must not be within reach of the red telephone again. Stand up.