If The Supreme Court Lets Trump Cheat E. Jean, Nobody Is Safe from Any President.

E. Jean Carroll and Roberta Kaplan are the only people ever to hold this president responsible and make him pay. The Supreme Court MUST let jury awards stand.

Teflon Donsy has managed to get presidential immunity for virtually anything he does — from a bewilderingly stupid and/or corrupt and/or seditious and/or politically and religiously biased group of conservative males, who have, not incidentally gutted voting rights and women’s rights in favor of a viciously misogynist Manosphere and a virulently racist Christian Nationalist movement.

Last month the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal to a lower court ruling that upheld a $5.3 million award to E. Jean Carroll after a jury unanimously found Trump guilty of sexually assaulting — or raping, as Judge Kaplan confirmed — E. Jean in a dressing room in the New York Bergdorf Goodman’s in the 1990s.

The Supremes’ push-back on Trump was very refreshing. Trump was, finally—after stalling and stalling and stalling—forced to deposit in E. Jean’s account the $5.3 plus interest that had resulting from his using every trick in the Filthy Dirty Book of Sleaze Moves to stiff her, like he’s stiffed so many contractors who have worked for him.

Now he wants the Supreme Court to “reconsider” their decline of his appeal. While the people who engineered the empowerment of Citizens United and the gutting of Roe v. Wade consider his request, he wants E. Jean to return the money!!!

NOT A CHANCE, DONSY.

E. Jean Carroll. Guts and grace.

To wit, he has filed at appeal to the Supreme Court to overturn the $83.3 million jury award made to E. Jean after Trump lost the case Carroll brought against him for a demeaning and defaming rant Trump went on at a presidential press conference at the White House during his first term.

Why was the award so high? The appeals court opined the following:

As for the jury’s decision to award punitive damages north of $80 million, the judges found no error at the trial court. As the judges write, “the jury was instructed to consider, among other factors, the amount ‘necessary to deter Mr. Trump from continuing to defame Ms. Carroll.’”

“Upon review of the evidence, we agree with the district court that the jury was entitled to find that Trump would not stop defaming Carroll unless he was subjected to a substantial financial penalty,” they said.

So, the President of the United States will not be deterred from endless defamation of this woman unless the cost is so high he really has to consider exercising self-restraint. That’s right.

Now Trump is asking the Supreme Court to overturn the award based on the presidential immunity they so kindly granted him in their ongoing jihad to gut the country.

Trump’s reasoning is that he deserves immunity protection because if E. Jean told the truth it would interfere with his ability to function as president. No, it wouldn’t. It would damage his reputation as a man and chastise him for being a bully—and it would interfere with his continued ability to harass and intimidate and ruin every person who tells the truth about him.

What will the Supreme Court from Hell do on this one?

If the Supreme Court any integrity whatsoever, they will decline to hear both cases.

Even better, MAYBE the Supremes will decide to hear the $83.3 case and clarify that presidential immunity does not cover criminal abuses carried out by s president towards American citizens — like Comey, like Fauci, like Obama, like Mueller, like Hilary Clinton, like E. Jean.

If they do not, there is no safety for any American citizen to speak out, and that would essentially fully gut First Amendment Free Speech Rights, meaning we will have lost the fundamental right to challenge criminal activity by the most powerful people in the land.

It would be a great time for people to make as much Good Trouble as possible—and to do it at deafening decibel levels.

This is a very dangerous case.

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