Conservative commentator Victor Davis Hanson believes the $83.3 million judgment handed down against former President Donald Trump last week is just the beginning.
“The civil lawsuit serves as a mere preview of four additional left-wing criminal prosecutions, left-wing judges and left-wing juries, all on charges that would never have been filed had Trump not run for president or not had run. a liberal progressive,” he wrote in a Fox News column published Sunday.
He also shared the column on social media platform X:
83 million?
Donald Trump, furor, walked out of a New York courtroom for a while, in the defamation suit filed by author and dating/boyfriend/sex advice columnist E. Jean Carroll.
Just settled against Trump for $83.3 million! The Carroll suit was largely subsidized by…
— Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) January 27, 2024
Underlying the column was the belief that the $83.3 judgment against Trump and for left-wing columnist E. Jean Carroll was simply wrong.
“She, the alleged victim, could not even remember the year in which the alleged sexual assault took place, nearly three decades ago,” Hanson wrote. “Observers have pointed to dozens of strange inconsistencies in his story, some of them seemingly exculpatory of Trump.”
“It was never clear what the preliminaries were that allegedly (Trump denies meeting her) led to the two allegedly willing to retire together to the dressing room of a department store, where during normal business hours , the alleged assault took place. Also, the sexual assault allegation was filed decades after the fact, and only after Trump ran for office and then became president,” he added.
Unable to criminally target Trump because of the statute of limitations, Carroll sued him for defamation.
“He claimed that Trump's sharp denials and ad hominem retorts caused his career and reputation to be ruined. [at ELLE magazine]Hanson noted.
“But the loss of a spine for anyone at age 76 doesn't seem like such an unusual occurrence, and the absence of gainful employment for four years in the late seventies doesn't seem like an $83 million blow “, added.
And this effort of E. Jean Carroll may also be of interest.https://t.co/3qe46e3wKs
— Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) January 27, 2024
Additionally, ELLE magazine denied that her feud with Trump was the cause of her termination.
But then something else “strange” happened. The New York Legislature passed a law in 2022, “The Adult Survivors Act,” that allowed survivors of sexual assault who were assaulted “a long time ago” to sue their perpetrator specifically for the act committed against they.
“This unexpected opening gave a sudden revival to Carroll's earlier unsuccessful efforts. And she quickly [filed suit] with the help of billionaire arch-hater Trump [Reid] Hoffman,” Hanson noted.
It was no accident, Hanson believes. As evidence, he pointed to the anti-Trump bias of the lawmaker, Democratic state Sen. Brad Hoylman-Siga, who had introduced the bill.
“Hoylman-Siga had previously introduced and passed another bill aimed at Trump. This 'TRUST' bill empowered certain federal congressional committees to access New York State tax returns once sealed from high-ranking elected government officials, such as Trump,” according to Hanson.
“The generally agreed-upon subtext of this bill was a green light for anti-Trump members of Congress to gain legal access to Donald J. Trump's tax returns,” he explained in his Fox News column .
From all of this, Hanson concluded that the Legislature passed the legislation specifically to target Trump. And that, he continued in his column, is very disturbing.
“While these are not quite takeover laws, there is something unsettling about them being post facto laws intended to target America's most famous and controversial man and leading presidential candidate,” he wrote. “In essence, they were targeted statutes designed to make Trump's prior legally unenforceable behavior suddenly quite legally actionable.”
Going forward, Hanson expects Trump to face the same biased bull next summer and fall thanks to prosecutors Alvin Bragg, Letitia James, Jack Smith and Fani Willis.
“Trump will once again face left-wing prosecutors, judges and juries in big cities with politically motivated charges involving alleged behavior that is not typically criminalized or not to the same degree as in Trump's case. (Remember the nearly $375,000 federal fine that was levied late on an exempt Obama, but only five years after his 2008 efforts to avoid identifying all the names of his campaign contributors?),” Hanson wrote.
“The stakes are higher every day as Trump moves closer to the Republican presidential nomination, and thus becomes half the country's hope to end Biden's madness,” he added.
He concluded his column by urging Trump to keep calm and continue campaigning against President Joe Biden.
“Still, Trump will have to press on. He must stay in check amid the tsunamis, not play into the hands of his accusers, and remember that he may soon be the only eleventh-hour hope to stop this travesty of the law , American customs and traditions,” he wrote.
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