Trump accuser’s social media posts raise more doubts about her story.

Former Advice Columnist E. Jean Carroll Should Stop Talking After Winning $5 Million from Trump

By Joe Saunders | May 17, 2023 at 11:31am

Former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll and her attorney should stop talking about their case against Donald Trump. The longer they keep their case in the public eye, the longer normal Americans who don’t sit on juries in deep-blue Manhattan will have to question just how credible her story is.

Carroll was awarded $5 million by a federal jury in New York on May 9, which found the now-former president had defamed Carroll when he denied her accusation that he had raped her in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s. Trump filed to appeal the verdict, but Carroll and her attorney, Robbie Kaplan, appeared on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” instead of pursuing further legal action behind closed doors.

Carroll’s social media posts about Trump raise questions in any normal person’s mind. In a 2012 post, she called herself a “massive” fan of Trump’s reality show “The Apprentice.” In another tweet from the same year, she posed the question: “Would you have sex with Donald Trump for $17,000? (Even if you could A) Give the money to Charity? B) Close your eyes? And he’s not allowed to speak?)”

Carroll herself has admitted publishing the comments, so let’s just say they’re extremely odd coming from a woman about a man she claims committed a violent, vile act against her more than a decade before.

The jury deliberated for all of three hours, according to NBC News. To a fair-minded observer of the Carroll-Trump case, the brevity of the deliberations meant the jury had long ago made up its mind that it was going to put the hooks on a politician almost unanimously reviled in Manhattan.

The social media posts aren’t the only issues that cast doubt on Carroll’s story. The fact that the incident allegedly occurred in the mid-1990s but she never brought it to light publicly until 2019, when #MeToo mania was sweeping the country and Carroll was selling a book that contained the accusation, also made it questionable.

Carroll’s credibility is taking a worse beating with every word. She should take some advice to shut up now.