Democrats Still Haven’t Learned That Lawfare Has Consequences

Editor’s note: This article discusses mature themes.

Naturally The New York Times is out with its own patently absurd version of events with regard to the Justice Department’s inquiry into E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuits against President Trump. If the “paper of record” is going to keep acting like DOJ investigations are only legitimate when perpetuated by Democrats against their enemies, then Trump’s “retribution campaign” should continue for as long as it can.

News broke Wednesday that the DOJ had opened a criminal probe involving Carroll, who has told a hysterical tale that includes allegations of Trump, well before he was ever president, having raped her at some unspecified date (in a department store fitting room, mind you). The DOJ hasn’t officially acknowledged any investigation, but the Times reported Thursday that the probe centers not on Carroll but on the nonprofit organization that assisted in funding Carroll’s litigation.

The Times laughably claimed in its report, authored by Glenn Thrush and Benjamin Weiser, that what makes this DOJ target so unique is that Carroll, “an author and columnist, never sought a public role, political power or governmental authority.” Maybe someone should tell Thrush and Weiser that to be a published author is by definition to seek a public role. And of course she wanted political power. She even did it the way all Democrats have done for the greater part of the last 20 years: She claimed to be a victim, thus earning herself fame, authority, influence, and money.

There’s no question that Carroll’s rape allegation, as unbelievable as it was, harmed Trump politically. She said that after the two giggled and gallivanted all over a department store in notoriously sleepy Manhattan, the two of them stumbled into a predictably empty, unattended fitting room, where Trump forced himself inside her, an incident she initially refused to call a rape because “most people think of rape as being sexy” and “think of the fantasies.”

Then, using a brand-new law in New York that turned back the clock on the statute of limitations involving sexual assault, Carroll sued Trump in a Democrat-heavy district where it was impossible for him to get a jury that wouldn’t find him liable. After all, he still needed to be punished for winning the 2016 election.

The trial was itself a joke. Trump’s defense was forbidden from introducing evidence that would have crippled Carroll’s credibility, which is what her entire case rested on. He predictably lost.

And Carroll’s saga is just a piece of the larger Democrat conspiracy to either zero out Trump’s finances or put him in prison. They’d prefer both. Democrat District Attorney Alvin Bragg sued Trump with an argument whose logical conclusion was that it was illegal for Trump to have even run for president in 2016. Democrat Attorney General Letitia James sued Trump for engaging in business deals that resulted in no victims. Democrat District Attorney Fani Willis prosecuted Trump as if he were a gangbanger because he questioned the results of the 2020 election.

But it’s supposed to be out of the realm of decency that Trump would return the favor with his own investigation. That’s how you know Democrats haven’t learned the lesson they should — that every abuse of power they engage in can result in consequences in due time.

The lesson everyone else should learn from this, though, is that when given the chance, Democrats will start this cycle all over again.