Called him an ape – the judge wouldn’t allow us to put that in. She called him an ape, happens to be African American. I had a picture taken years ago with her and her husband, nice guy John Johnson. Trump said of Carroll: “I have no idea who she is. They awarded her about $5m in compensatory and punitive damages.Įven seasoned Trump watchers were disgusted by what came next. Stuart Stevens, author of It Was All a Lie: How The Republican Party Became Donald Trump, tweeted: “Democracies end when autocrats master the use of the freedoms of democracy to kill democracy.”Ĭollins turned to Tuesday’s verdict, by which a New York jury found that Trump sexually abused magazine writer E Jean Carroll in the 1990s and then defamed her by branding her a liar. The base loves him for the precise reasons that others despise him. Trump said he is inclined to pardon “many” of the January 6 rioters. Can you publicly acknowledge that you did lose the 2020 election?”Į Jean Carroll leaves Manhattan federal court with attorney after closing arguments of rape-defamation case against Donald Trump Photograph: Edna Leshowitz/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock You and your supporters lost more than 60 court cases on the election. Trump dived straight into his “big lie” that the 2020 election was stolen. Two CNN mugs were perched on small tables beside them. The pair began perched on white chairs on a shiny stage floor that had a big CNN logo against a backdrop of blue and red. Trump, 76, was like a child with crumbs around his mouth repeatedly telling a parent (Collins, 31) that he didn’t take the last cookie. It was less town hall than a debate, Trump versus Collins, lies versus truth. The CNN political commentator Van Jones likened Collins to a white-suited matador against Trump’s bull in familiar blue suit, white shirt and red tie. The vocal support for Trump made this feel like a home fixture. Although CNN’s decision to devote more than an hour of prime time to Trump backfired horribly, it did perform the service of forcing the American public to look at itself in the mirror. Anyone taken aback by these reactions has not been paying attention to Trump rallies, where being outlandish and outrageous and cruel is the point.
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