When you hear that old Donnie wants to take control of Panama canal again, I guess he wants to rewrite history. Let’s go back and allow Russia to reclaim Alaska from USA, lets take Mara A Lago away from old Donnie, and all his properties, let’s give all the land that USA controls back to the First Nations. Oh, by the way, does old Donnie think that the USA can be trusted to sign a deal with anyone in the world, and know that it is final. What old Donnie is saying that China can ask for more money for the goods and services that the USA consumers paid for in the past. And this is the leader that the USA want to help them!
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Now we hear that old Donnie is upset with Biden commuting the sentence of many criminals. This is what he should be doing, removing these criminals from jail so that they are available to serve old Donnie’s government. Reports are coming out that he is bringing many people into his government that have colourful pasts. Just what the people of USA need, and having said that, the republicans can say they have had good mentors from the Dems.
Just waiting for the uproar when the Donald pardons the J6 prisoners.
Man accused of attacking TV reporter, saying ’This is Trump’s America now’
Author of the article:Associated Press
Associated Press
Colleen Slevin
Published Dec 27, 2024 • 2 minute read
DENVER — A Colorado man is facing possible bias-motivated charges for allegedly attacking a television news reporter after demanding to know whether he was a citizen, saying “This is Trump’s America now,” according to court documents.
Patrick Thomas Egan, 39, was arrested Dec. 18 in Grand Junction, Colorado, after police say he followed KKCO/KJCT reporter Ja’Ronn Alex’s vehicle for around 40 miles (64 kilometers) from the Delta area. Alex told police that he believed he had been followed and attacked because he is Pacific Islander.
After arriving in Grand Junction, Egan, who was driving a taxi, pulled up next to Alex at a stoplight and, according to an arrest affidavit, said something to the effect of: “Are you even a U.S. citizen? This is Trump’s America now! I’m a Marine and I took an oath to protect this country from people like you!”
Alex, who had been out reporting, then drove back to his news station in the city. After he got out of his vehicle, Egan chased Alex as he ran toward the station’s door and demanded to see his identification, according to the document laying out police’s evidence in the case.
Egan then tackled Alex, put him in a headlock and “began to strangle him,” the affidavit said. Coworkers who ran out to help and witnesses told police that Alex appeared to be losing his ability to breathe during the attack, which was partially captured on surveillance video, according to the document.
According to the station’s website, Alex is a native of Detroit. KKCO/KJCT reported that he was driving a news vehicle at the time.
Egan was arrested on suspicion of bias-motivated crimes, second degree assault and harassment. He is scheduled to appear in court Thursday to learn whether prosecutors have filed formal charges against him.
Egan’s lawyer, Ruth Swift, was out of the office Friday and did not return a telephone message seeking comment.
KKCO/KJCT vice president and general manager Stacey Stewart said the station could not comment beyond what it has reported on the attack.
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Author of the article:Associated Press
Associated Press
Colleen Slevin
Published Dec 27, 2024 • 2 minute read
DENVER — A Colorado man is facing possible bias-motivated charges for allegedly attacking a television news reporter after demanding to know whether he was a citizen, saying “This is Trump’s America now,” according to court documents.
Patrick Thomas Egan, 39, was arrested Dec. 18 in Grand Junction, Colorado, after police say he followed KKCO/KJCT reporter Ja’Ronn Alex’s vehicle for around 40 miles (64 kilometers) from the Delta area. Alex told police that he believed he had been followed and attacked because he is Pacific Islander.
After arriving in Grand Junction, Egan, who was driving a taxi, pulled up next to Alex at a stoplight and, according to an arrest affidavit, said something to the effect of: “Are you even a U.S. citizen? This is Trump’s America now! I’m a Marine and I took an oath to protect this country from people like you!”
Alex, who had been out reporting, then drove back to his news station in the city. After he got out of his vehicle, Egan chased Alex as he ran toward the station’s door and demanded to see his identification, according to the document laying out police’s evidence in the case.
Egan then tackled Alex, put him in a headlock and “began to strangle him,” the affidavit said. Coworkers who ran out to help and witnesses told police that Alex appeared to be losing his ability to breathe during the attack, which was partially captured on surveillance video, according to the document.
According to the station’s website, Alex is a native of Detroit. KKCO/KJCT reported that he was driving a news vehicle at the time.
Egan was arrested on suspicion of bias-motivated crimes, second degree assault and harassment. He is scheduled to appear in court Thursday to learn whether prosecutors have filed formal charges against him.
Egan’s lawyer, Ruth Swift, was out of the office Friday and did not return a telephone message seeking comment.
KKCO/KJCT vice president and general manager Stacey Stewart said the station could not comment beyond what it has reported on the attack.
Man accused of attacking TV reporter, saying ’This is Trump’s America now’
A Colorado man is facing possible bias-motivated charges for allegedly attacking a television news reporter
THE Donald is only really upset with Hunter getting pardoned. The rest of the riffraff don't much matter.
Appeal court upholds $5-million award in a sexual abuse verdict against Trump
Author of the article:Associated Press
Associated Press
Larry Neumeister And Michael R. Sisak
Published Dec 30, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 3 minute read
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a jury’s finding in a civil case that Donald Trump sexually abused a columnist in an upscale department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a written opinion upholding the $5 million award that the Manhattan jury granted to E. Jean Carroll for defamation and sexual abuse.
The longtime magazine columnist had testified at a 2023 trial that Trump turned a friendly encounter in spring 1996 into a violent attack after they playfully entered the store’s dressing room.
Trump skipped the trial after repeatedly denying the attack ever happened. But he briefly testified at a follow-up defamation trial earlier this year that resulted in an $83.3 million award. The second trial resulted from comments then-President Trump made in 2019 after Carroll first made the accusations publicly in a memoir.
In its ruling, a three-judge panel of the appeals court rejected claims by Trump’s lawyers that trial Judge Lewis A. Kaplan had made multiple decisions that spoiled the trial, including by permitting two other women who had accused Trump of sexually abusing them to testify.
The judge also had allowed the jury to view the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape in which Trump boasted in 2005 about grabbing women’s genitals because when someone is a star, “you can do anything.”
“We conclude that Mr. Trump has not demonstrated that the district court erred in any of the challenged rulings,” the 2nd Circuit said. “Further, he has not carried his burden to show that any claimed error or combination of claimed errors affected his substantial rights as required to warrant a new trial.”
In September, both Carroll, 81, and Trump, 78, attended oral arguments by the 2nd Circuit.
Steven Cheung, a Trump spokesperson, said in a statement that Trump was elected by voters who delivered “an overwhelming mandate, and they demand an immediate end to the political weaponization of our justice system and a swift dismissal of all of the Witch Hunts, including the Democrat-funded Carroll Hoax, which will continue to be appealed.”
Roberta Kaplan, a lawyer who represented Carroll during the trial and is not related to the judge, said in a statement: “Both E. Jean Carroll and I are gratified by today’s decision. We thank the Second Circuit for its careful consideration of the parties’ arguments.”
The first jury found in May 2023 that Trump sexually abused Carroll and defamed her with comments he made in October 2022. That jury awarded Carroll $5 million.
In January, a second jury awarded Carroll an additional $83.3 million in damages for comments Trump had made about her while he was president, finding that they were defamatory. That jury had been instructed by the judge to accept the first jury’s finding that Trump had sexually abused Carroll. The appeal of that verdict has not yet been heard.
Carroll testified during both trials that her life as an Elle magazine columnist was spoiled by Trump’s public comments, which she said motivated some people to send her death threats and leave her fearful to leave the upstate New York cabin where she lives.
Trump testified for under three minutes at the second trial and was not permitted to challenge conclusions reached by the May 2023 jury. Still, he was animated in the courtroom throughout the two-week trial, and jurors could hear him grumbling about the case.
During appeals arguments in September, Trump lawyer D. John Sauer said testimony from witnesses who recalled Carroll telling them about the 1996 encounter with Trump immediately afterward was improper because the witnesses had “egregious bias” against Trump.
And the attorney said the judge also should have excluded the testimony of the two women who said Trump committed similar acts of sex abuse against them in the 1970s and in 2005. Trump has denied those allegations too.
The 2nd Circuit wrote: “In each of the three encounters, Mr. Trump engaged in an ordinary conversation with a woman he barely knew, then abruptly lunged at her in a semi-public place and proceeded to kiss and forcefully touch her without her consent. The acts are sufficiently similar to show a pattern.”
It said the “Access Hollywood” tape was “directly corroborative” of the testimony by the women of the pattern of behaviour they experienced.
The Associated Press does not identify people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they come forward publicly, as Carroll has done.
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Author of the article:Associated Press
Associated Press
Larry Neumeister And Michael R. Sisak
Published Dec 30, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 3 minute read
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a jury’s finding in a civil case that Donald Trump sexually abused a columnist in an upscale department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a written opinion upholding the $5 million award that the Manhattan jury granted to E. Jean Carroll for defamation and sexual abuse.
The longtime magazine columnist had testified at a 2023 trial that Trump turned a friendly encounter in spring 1996 into a violent attack after they playfully entered the store’s dressing room.
Trump skipped the trial after repeatedly denying the attack ever happened. But he briefly testified at a follow-up defamation trial earlier this year that resulted in an $83.3 million award. The second trial resulted from comments then-President Trump made in 2019 after Carroll first made the accusations publicly in a memoir.
In its ruling, a three-judge panel of the appeals court rejected claims by Trump’s lawyers that trial Judge Lewis A. Kaplan had made multiple decisions that spoiled the trial, including by permitting two other women who had accused Trump of sexually abusing them to testify.
The judge also had allowed the jury to view the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape in which Trump boasted in 2005 about grabbing women’s genitals because when someone is a star, “you can do anything.”
“We conclude that Mr. Trump has not demonstrated that the district court erred in any of the challenged rulings,” the 2nd Circuit said. “Further, he has not carried his burden to show that any claimed error or combination of claimed errors affected his substantial rights as required to warrant a new trial.”
In September, both Carroll, 81, and Trump, 78, attended oral arguments by the 2nd Circuit.
Steven Cheung, a Trump spokesperson, said in a statement that Trump was elected by voters who delivered “an overwhelming mandate, and they demand an immediate end to the political weaponization of our justice system and a swift dismissal of all of the Witch Hunts, including the Democrat-funded Carroll Hoax, which will continue to be appealed.”
Roberta Kaplan, a lawyer who represented Carroll during the trial and is not related to the judge, said in a statement: “Both E. Jean Carroll and I are gratified by today’s decision. We thank the Second Circuit for its careful consideration of the parties’ arguments.”
The first jury found in May 2023 that Trump sexually abused Carroll and defamed her with comments he made in October 2022. That jury awarded Carroll $5 million.
In January, a second jury awarded Carroll an additional $83.3 million in damages for comments Trump had made about her while he was president, finding that they were defamatory. That jury had been instructed by the judge to accept the first jury’s finding that Trump had sexually abused Carroll. The appeal of that verdict has not yet been heard.
Carroll testified during both trials that her life as an Elle magazine columnist was spoiled by Trump’s public comments, which she said motivated some people to send her death threats and leave her fearful to leave the upstate New York cabin where she lives.
Trump testified for under three minutes at the second trial and was not permitted to challenge conclusions reached by the May 2023 jury. Still, he was animated in the courtroom throughout the two-week trial, and jurors could hear him grumbling about the case.
During appeals arguments in September, Trump lawyer D. John Sauer said testimony from witnesses who recalled Carroll telling them about the 1996 encounter with Trump immediately afterward was improper because the witnesses had “egregious bias” against Trump.
And the attorney said the judge also should have excluded the testimony of the two women who said Trump committed similar acts of sex abuse against them in the 1970s and in 2005. Trump has denied those allegations too.
The 2nd Circuit wrote: “In each of the three encounters, Mr. Trump engaged in an ordinary conversation with a woman he barely knew, then abruptly lunged at her in a semi-public place and proceeded to kiss and forcefully touch her without her consent. The acts are sufficiently similar to show a pattern.”
It said the “Access Hollywood” tape was “directly corroborative” of the testimony by the women of the pattern of behaviour they experienced.
The Associated Press does not identify people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they come forward publicly, as Carroll has done.
Appeal court upholds $5-million award in a sexual abuse verdict against Trump
The Court of Appeals issued a written opinion upholding the $5 million award that the Manhattan jury granted to E. Jean Carroll.
Someone made it part of their job description. Probably one of the founding fathers.
Appears to me the only one providing pardons at present , name begins with Joe Biden .
Trump appears to blame Biden border policy for New Orleans attack by U.S. citizen
Author of the article:Washington Post
Washington Post
Marianne LeVine, Cat Zakrzewski, The Washington Post
Published Jan 02, 2025 • Last updated 2 days ago • 3 minute read
President-elect Donald Trump appeared to blame the Biden administration’s border policies for the vehicular attack that killed 15 people in New Orleans on Wednesday morning, even though authorities have identified the assailant as a native-born U.S. citizen.
“With the Biden ‘Open Border’s Policy’ I said, many times during Rallies, and elsewhere, that Radical Islamic Terrorism, and other forms of violent crime, will become so bad in America that it will become hard to even imagine or believe,” Trump said in a social media post Thursday. “That time has come, only worse than ever imagined.”
The FBI has identified Shamsud-Din Jabbar as the man who drove a truck with an Islamic State flag into a crowd on Bourbon Street early on New Year’s Day. Jabbar, who was killed at the scene, was an Army veteran from Texas and a U.S. citizen.
Although Trump didn’t explicitly say he was referring to the New Orleans attack, the timing of his Thursday post and his mention of “Radical Islamic Terrorism” suggest he was making the connection. The Trump transition team did not immediately respond to a request for comment. President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Jabbar’s attack appeared to have been inspired by ISIS.
In social media posts that appeared related to the attack, Trump sought to blame migrants for crime in the United States, reprising a central theme of his presidential campaign. In one particularly notable episode in September, the Trump campaign and its allies distorted Homeland Security statistics on undocumented immigrants with criminal records, claiming that the migrants entered the country during the Biden administration. In fact, most did not enter during Biden’s White House tenure. The statistics span the past four decades, and many of the migrants in question entered the country during Trump’s first term.
Jabbar was born in the U.S. during President Ronald Reagan’s administration.
There is no evidence that undocumented immigrants commit crimes at a higher rate than U.S. citizens. The vast majority of those arrested at the southern border do not have criminal convictions. Illegal border crossings reached the highest levels ever recorded during the first three years of Biden’s terms, but those numbers have dropped significantly in recent months.
Hours after the New Orleans attack, Trump claimed on social media that “that the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our country” and said “our hearts are with all of the innocent victims and their loved ones, including the brave officers of the New Orleans Police Department.”
Trump’s message suggesting a tie between “criminals coming in” and the New Orleans attack took off on social media Wednesday after Fox News reported that the suspect drove a truck with a Texas licence plate across the border in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Dec. 30. The news network later clarified that new reporting revealed that the truck crossed the border on Nov. 16, and the ID of the driver did not appear to be Jabbar’s. Officials have said that Jabbar rented the car he drove into the crowd, a white Ford F-150 Lightning, through Turo, an online marketplace that allows people to rent out their personal vehicles.
In a Fox News interview Thursday morning, Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.), Trump’s incoming national security adviser, brought up the border when asked about how to prevent further attacks.
“We’ve got to take a hard look at our defences, first and foremost, close our border,” Waltz said.
In addition to appearing to blame the attack on the Biden administration’s border policies, Trump also reprised his claim of a weaponized justice system in a social media post early Thursday, and claimed that the United States is a “laughing stock all over the World!”
“This is what happens when you have OPEN BORDERS, with weak, ineffective, and virtually nonexistent leadership,” Trump said. “The DOJ, FBI, and Democrat state and local prosecutors have not done their job. They are incompetent and corrupt, having spent all of their waking hours unlawfully attacking their political opponent, ME.”
— Meryl Kornfield contributed to this report.
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Author of the article:Washington Post
Washington Post
Marianne LeVine, Cat Zakrzewski, The Washington Post
Published Jan 02, 2025 • Last updated 2 days ago • 3 minute read
President-elect Donald Trump appeared to blame the Biden administration’s border policies for the vehicular attack that killed 15 people in New Orleans on Wednesday morning, even though authorities have identified the assailant as a native-born U.S. citizen.
“With the Biden ‘Open Border’s Policy’ I said, many times during Rallies, and elsewhere, that Radical Islamic Terrorism, and other forms of violent crime, will become so bad in America that it will become hard to even imagine or believe,” Trump said in a social media post Thursday. “That time has come, only worse than ever imagined.”
The FBI has identified Shamsud-Din Jabbar as the man who drove a truck with an Islamic State flag into a crowd on Bourbon Street early on New Year’s Day. Jabbar, who was killed at the scene, was an Army veteran from Texas and a U.S. citizen.
Although Trump didn’t explicitly say he was referring to the New Orleans attack, the timing of his Thursday post and his mention of “Radical Islamic Terrorism” suggest he was making the connection. The Trump transition team did not immediately respond to a request for comment. President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Jabbar’s attack appeared to have been inspired by ISIS.
In social media posts that appeared related to the attack, Trump sought to blame migrants for crime in the United States, reprising a central theme of his presidential campaign. In one particularly notable episode in September, the Trump campaign and its allies distorted Homeland Security statistics on undocumented immigrants with criminal records, claiming that the migrants entered the country during the Biden administration. In fact, most did not enter during Biden’s White House tenure. The statistics span the past four decades, and many of the migrants in question entered the country during Trump’s first term.
Jabbar was born in the U.S. during President Ronald Reagan’s administration.
There is no evidence that undocumented immigrants commit crimes at a higher rate than U.S. citizens. The vast majority of those arrested at the southern border do not have criminal convictions. Illegal border crossings reached the highest levels ever recorded during the first three years of Biden’s terms, but those numbers have dropped significantly in recent months.
Hours after the New Orleans attack, Trump claimed on social media that “that the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our country” and said “our hearts are with all of the innocent victims and their loved ones, including the brave officers of the New Orleans Police Department.”
Trump’s message suggesting a tie between “criminals coming in” and the New Orleans attack took off on social media Wednesday after Fox News reported that the suspect drove a truck with a Texas licence plate across the border in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Dec. 30. The news network later clarified that new reporting revealed that the truck crossed the border on Nov. 16, and the ID of the driver did not appear to be Jabbar’s. Officials have said that Jabbar rented the car he drove into the crowd, a white Ford F-150 Lightning, through Turo, an online marketplace that allows people to rent out their personal vehicles.
In a Fox News interview Thursday morning, Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.), Trump’s incoming national security adviser, brought up the border when asked about how to prevent further attacks.
“We’ve got to take a hard look at our defences, first and foremost, close our border,” Waltz said.
In addition to appearing to blame the attack on the Biden administration’s border policies, Trump also reprised his claim of a weaponized justice system in a social media post early Thursday, and claimed that the United States is a “laughing stock all over the World!”
“This is what happens when you have OPEN BORDERS, with weak, ineffective, and virtually nonexistent leadership,” Trump said. “The DOJ, FBI, and Democrat state and local prosecutors have not done their job. They are incompetent and corrupt, having spent all of their waking hours unlawfully attacking their political opponent, ME.”
— Meryl Kornfield contributed to this report.
Trump appears to blame Biden border policy for New Orleans attack by U.S. citizen
Donald Trump appeared to blame the Biden administration's border policies for the vehicular attack that killed 15 people in New Orleans.
Biden awards Cheney, Thompson for Jan. 6 probe weeks before Trump returns to presidency
Author of the article:Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Derek Wallbank and Skylar Woodhouse
Published Jan 02, 2025 • 2 minute read
U.S. President Joe Biden presented Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson with the Presidential Citizens Medal, honouring the leaders of the congressional committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol — just weeks before Donald Trump is set to reclaim the presidency.
“You are elected officials who served in difficult times with honour and decency and ensured our democracy delivers,” Biden said during a ceremony at the White House on Thursday evening that honoured them and other Americans, including several lawmakers.
The White House has lauded Cheney and Thompson’s stewardship of the panel that investigated attempts to overturn the 2020 election, including when supporters of then-President Trump overran the Capitol, forcing the evacuation of lawmakers and briefly delaying the certification of Biden’s victory.
The Presidential Citizens Medal, established in 1969 by Richard Nixon, recognizes Americans “who have performed exemplary deeds of service for their country or their fellow citizens.”
Biden has used the medal previously to highlight what he’s called an attack on democracy “fueled by lies about the 2020 election.” In 2023, he gave the award to several police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6, as well as election officials who upheld the 2020 election results.
Cheney, a former Republican congresswoman from Wyoming, and Thompson, a Democratic representative from Mississippi, were among a class of 20 who received the medal.
On the list were some of Biden’s oldest political allies, including Chris Dodd, the former Democratic senator from Connecticut and namesake of the Dodd-Frank financial regulation law. Another was Ted Kaufman, a longtime Biden political adviser who was appointed in 2009 to succeed him in the U.S. Senate.
Biden’s awardees also included a series of civil rights advoca.tes, including Mary Bonauto, an lawyer who argued before the Supreme Court in Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark case that established national recognition of same-sex marriage.
Carolyn McCarthy, the former Democratic congresswoman whose husband was killed in a 1993 mass shooting on the Long Island Railroad and became an advocate for tighter gun safety laws, also received an award. So, too, did Nancy Kassebaum, a former Kansas Republican senator, and Bill Bradley, a former Democratic senator from New Jersey who previously was a star basketball player for the New York Knicks.
— With assistance from Akayla Gardner, Justin Sink and Hadriana Lowenkron.
torontosun.com
Author of the article:Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Derek Wallbank and Skylar Woodhouse
Published Jan 02, 2025 • 2 minute read
U.S. President Joe Biden presented Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson with the Presidential Citizens Medal, honouring the leaders of the congressional committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol — just weeks before Donald Trump is set to reclaim the presidency.
“You are elected officials who served in difficult times with honour and decency and ensured our democracy delivers,” Biden said during a ceremony at the White House on Thursday evening that honoured them and other Americans, including several lawmakers.
The White House has lauded Cheney and Thompson’s stewardship of the panel that investigated attempts to overturn the 2020 election, including when supporters of then-President Trump overran the Capitol, forcing the evacuation of lawmakers and briefly delaying the certification of Biden’s victory.
The Presidential Citizens Medal, established in 1969 by Richard Nixon, recognizes Americans “who have performed exemplary deeds of service for their country or their fellow citizens.”
Biden has used the medal previously to highlight what he’s called an attack on democracy “fueled by lies about the 2020 election.” In 2023, he gave the award to several police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6, as well as election officials who upheld the 2020 election results.
Cheney, a former Republican congresswoman from Wyoming, and Thompson, a Democratic representative from Mississippi, were among a class of 20 who received the medal.
On the list were some of Biden’s oldest political allies, including Chris Dodd, the former Democratic senator from Connecticut and namesake of the Dodd-Frank financial regulation law. Another was Ted Kaufman, a longtime Biden political adviser who was appointed in 2009 to succeed him in the U.S. Senate.
Biden’s awardees also included a series of civil rights advoca.tes, including Mary Bonauto, an lawyer who argued before the Supreme Court in Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark case that established national recognition of same-sex marriage.
Carolyn McCarthy, the former Democratic congresswoman whose husband was killed in a 1993 mass shooting on the Long Island Railroad and became an advocate for tighter gun safety laws, also received an award. So, too, did Nancy Kassebaum, a former Kansas Republican senator, and Bill Bradley, a former Democratic senator from New Jersey who previously was a star basketball player for the New York Knicks.
— With assistance from Akayla Gardner, Justin Sink and Hadriana Lowenkron.
Biden awards Cheney, Thompson for Jan. 6 probe weeks before Trump returns to presidency
U.S. President Joe Biden presented Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson with the Presidential Citizens Medal.
I would be concerned that someone could call the cops & tell stories about anyone that happened 30+ years ago & one could be charged, even tho' NOTHING could be produced to prove the situation happened, there are no witnesses, the time & date isn't remembered et al. It's pretty damn scary that this could happen to anyone. This should never be allowed to happen, especially when so much time has passed. Memories fail & are usually wrong. This certainly isn't justice - it's vengeance for what MIGHT have happened but with absolutely no proof whatsoever.Appeal court upholds $5-million award in a sexual abuse verdict against Trump
Author of the article:Associated Press
Associated Press
Larry Neumeister And Michael R. Sisak
Published Dec 30, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 3 minute read
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a jury’s finding in a civil case that Donald Trump sexually abused a columnist in an upscale department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a written opinion upholding the $5 million award that the Manhattan jury granted to E. Jean Carroll for defamation and sexual abuse.
The longtime magazine columnist had testified at a 2023 trial that Trump turned a friendly encounter in spring 1996 into a violent attack after they playfully entered the store’s dressing room.
Trump skipped the trial after repeatedly denying the attack ever happened. But he briefly testified at a follow-up defamation trial earlier this year that resulted in an $83.3 million award. The second trial resulted from comments then-President Trump made in 2019 after Carroll first made the accusations publicly in a memoir.
In its ruling, a three-judge panel of the appeals court rejected claims by Trump’s lawyers that trial Judge Lewis A. Kaplan had made multiple decisions that spoiled the trial, including by permitting two other women who had accused Trump of sexually abusing them to testify.
The judge also had allowed the jury to view the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape in which Trump boasted in 2005 about grabbing women’s genitals because when someone is a star, “you can do anything.”
“We conclude that Mr. Trump has not demonstrated that the district court erred in any of the challenged rulings,” the 2nd Circuit said. “Further, he has not carried his burden to show that any claimed error or combination of claimed errors affected his substantial rights as required to warrant a new trial.”
In September, both Carroll, 81, and Trump, 78, attended oral arguments by the 2nd Circuit.
Steven Cheung, a Trump spokesperson, said in a statement that Trump was elected by voters who delivered “an overwhelming mandate, and they demand an immediate end to the political weaponization of our justice system and a swift dismissal of all of the Witch Hunts, including the Democrat-funded Carroll Hoax, which will continue to be appealed.”
Roberta Kaplan, a lawyer who represented Carroll during the trial and is not related to the judge, said in a statement: “Both E. Jean Carroll and I are gratified by today’s decision. We thank the Second Circuit for its careful consideration of the parties’ arguments.”
The first jury found in May 2023 that Trump sexually abused Carroll and defamed her with comments he made in October 2022. That jury awarded Carroll $5 million.
In January, a second jury awarded Carroll an additional $83.3 million in damages for comments Trump had made about her while he was president, finding that they were defamatory. That jury had been instructed by the judge to accept the first jury’s finding that Trump had sexually abused Carroll. The appeal of that verdict has not yet been heard.
Carroll testified during both trials that her life as an Elle magazine columnist was spoiled by Trump’s public comments, which she said motivated some people to send her death threats and leave her fearful to leave the upstate New York cabin where she lives.
Trump testified for under three minutes at the second trial and was not permitted to challenge conclusions reached by the May 2023 jury. Still, he was animated in the courtroom throughout the two-week trial, and jurors could hear him grumbling about the case.
During appeals arguments in September, Trump lawyer D. John Sauer said testimony from witnesses who recalled Carroll telling them about the 1996 encounter with Trump immediately afterward was improper because the witnesses had “egregious bias” against Trump.
And the attorney said the judge also should have excluded the testimony of the two women who said Trump committed similar acts of sex abuse against them in the 1970s and in 2005. Trump has denied those allegations too.
The 2nd Circuit wrote: “In each of the three encounters, Mr. Trump engaged in an ordinary conversation with a woman he barely knew, then abruptly lunged at her in a semi-public place and proceeded to kiss and forcefully touch her without her consent. The acts are sufficiently similar to show a pattern.”
It said the “Access Hollywood” tape was “directly corroborative” of the testimony by the women of the pattern of behaviour they experienced.
The Associated Press does not identify people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they come forward publicly, as Carroll has done.
Appeal court upholds $5-million award in a sexual abuse verdict against Trump
The Court of Appeals issued a written opinion upholding the $5 million award that the Manhattan jury granted to E. Jean Carroll.
A Tale of Two Socialist
Stalin. He divided people by class. Hitler. He divided people by race. So what? Both were Socialists. If people are divided by class and race, who is winning?
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