I yesterday posted on the Trials and Tribulations of Donald Trump. Inserted was the following:
Four years ago, Donald Trump was up to 18 women who have accused him of varying inappropriate sexual behavior. EIGHTEEN!!! Click on that link to read the details and see their photo. E. Jean has been coy about what she will do with the $88.3 million she will eventually get. She is now 80 years old. Not much time to do much with those funds when they become available. One sure way to seriously bedevil Trump would be to someday soon announce that most this money will be provided to those women who need legal assistance to similarly go after Trump and his billions. Oh, an update, I found a 2023 article indicating that this number was not 18, but 26. One of them was Ivana Trump, mother of Don Jr., Eric and Ivanka.
I thought the repercussions from his failed attempted coup on 6January2021 would be his ultimate downfall. Could well be, but it would be deserving, indeed, if that E. Jean Carroll double-barreled court case judgements against him for $88.3 million might well become lead to his political demise.
Of course, he is not in the class of
Harvey Weinstein, who triggered the hashtag #MeToo Weinstein Effect, which finally changed attitudes on acceptable conduct from powerful men in prominent positions. Over a period of 30 years, he preyed on women in the film industry, confirmed by 107 women. Included were Cate Blanchett, Helena Bonham Carter, Daryl Hannah, Salma Hayek, Anne Heche, Paris Hilton, Angelina Jolie, Ashley Judd, Madonna, Lupita Nyong'o, Gwyneth Paltrow, Mira Sorvino and Uma Thurman. He denied all allegations, but is now in jail, and will be there for another 18 years.
Yesterday E. Jean Carroll vowed to use the $83 million on "something Donald Trump hates."
"If it'll cause him pain for me to give money to certain things, that's my intent," Carroll told George Stephanopoulos on "Good Morning America," suggesting she would create a "fund for the women who have been sexually assaulted by Donald Trump."
How soon can her campaign to break Trump begin? Right now. This will now be a team effort with Carroll and her lawyers. They might not get millions for a while, but no matter, for they will someday prevail and can get started building a case. There are ways to create funds through the world wide web, and millions of females, plus a few males, will only be too glad to contribute to this cause.
Should this occur, can you imagine how tied up Trump will be in yet another court trial?
About Weinstein:
On March 11, 2020, Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison. His sentences are consecutive, meaning he has to serve 20 years in prison for the criminal sexual act conviction and then three years in prison for the rape conviction. Each sentence includes five years of supervised release, and Weinstein also has to register as a sex offender.
Weinstein’s lawyers have been trying to appeal his conviction. They first filed an appeal in April 2021, arguing that the judge made mistakes that denied Weinstein’s right to a fair trial, but the five-judge panel of the New York Supreme Court’s Appellate Division, First Department unanimously rejected it. New York’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, agreed in August 2022 to hear Weinstein’s appeal.
Weinstein was sentenced to 16 years in prison. His sentence in California also has to be served consecutively, which means that it will only start after Weinstein completes his 23-year sentence in New York.
Weinstein’s lawyers said last month that they planned to file an appeal against his LA convictions as well.
So how are his appeals doing? It appears that Weinstein will spend the rest of his life in prison.
Returning to Donald Trump and his presidential campaign, how's about this headline?
There is a sub-heading: Get Ready for the WOKE Super Bowl. The MAGA movement reacted to the Kansas Chiefs victory, noting how Swift showed up on the field to kiss Travis Kelce, by blaring a conspiracy: this entire relationship is a contrived con-job to make the NFL money and to re-elect Joe Biden! Huh??? There are different variations, but here is one:
That Biden wanted to find a way to chip away at the MAGA base of beer drinking, white male football fans by luring an immensely popular NFL star like Travis Kelce into the fold. Who better to do for Deep State operatives than a beautiful, wealthy, and talented pop star? They point to the additional "evidence" that Kelce is now a major endorser for Bud Light and the Pfizer covid vaccine. These right-wing conspiracy theorists then believe that, close to the presidential election, Swift and Kelce will join forces in an effort to register and turn out a massive number of Swifties and football fans to vote for Joe Biden.
...the fear among MAGA is that Swift may take her activism one step further in this election in order to finally vanquish Trump, and if she is joined by Kelce that would make her message that much more effective. It remains to be seen whether Swift will actually do that, but all the signs are there that she is ready to get more openly involved this time around. Whether Kelce chooses to do so is very much an open question, since he has said almost nothing publicly about politics. However, becoming the face of brands hated by right-wingers like Pfizer and Bud Light is an ominous sign for them.
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