Spare a thought for E. Jean Carroll, who had a tough but stoic day on the stand in Benedict Donald's civil rape trial, and who will probably go through a harrowing cross-examination tomorrow. But although she testified this afternoon that she's regretted coming forward about the 1996 assault in Bergdorf Goodman "100 times," she also declared, "Being able to get my day in court, finally, is everything to me."
Sadly, we suspect that even if the jury finds in Carroll's favor, the media will downplay the verdict as not "important" the same way they characterized Trump's Stormy Daniels indictment by Alvin Bragg. (We wouldn't even be surprised if they try to fluff off Fani Willis and Jack Smith if and when they bring charges.) But at least a guilty judgment would give Carroll and Trump's other victims some peace.
And you know what? Trump had worse day than E. Jean Carroll, and not only in Judge Lewis Kaplan's courtroom. A federal appeals court has rejected his emergency petition to keep Mike Pence from testifying on the January 6 insurrection. We cats PURR.
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