PERSECUTION COMPLEX: Trump compares himself to Nelson Mandela in PITY PARTY rant
Donald Trump is facing four separate criminal trials, one of which starts in just over a week, but there’s one woman he still can’t get off his mind, and it’s not Melania.
E. Jean Carroll successfully won her sexual assault case and her defamation case against Trump in New York court, and last month he was forced to pay a bond in excess of $90 million while he appeals that verdict.
All those millions, though, are apparently insufficient to stop him attacking her on social media and risking another defamation suit.
The latest attack, on a Saturday afternoon a month after he submitted the bond payment —and while he prepares for court on criminal charges later this month — was focused on gag orders and judges who hold him accountable.
As Trump continues to test the boundaries of his latest gag order by reposting news articles mentioning the daughter of Judge Juan Merchan, he seemed to intermingle all the recent cases in which a judge has forced him to control his tongue.
Aside from Merchan, he griped about Judge Arthur Engoron, who actually fined him for violating an order not to spread lies about a law clerk, and Judge Lewis Kaplan, who presided over the Carroll case. Kaplan did not allow Trump to repeat defamations of Carroll on the stand, or to sneak in potentially prejudicial claims.
Trump couldn’t make it through a gripe about Kaplan, though, without a sidelong jab at Carroll herself — the first woman to hold him legally accountable for sexual predation. He wrote:
“I had New York Federal Judge, Lewis Kaplan, with a woman who I never knew, and had nothing to do with, until she sued me for “defamation.” She did not know what day, month, or year the supposed “incident” took place – She knew nothing…This mysterious lady, who said rape is sexy, got $91 Million Dollars.”
Trump’s false claim that Carroll said rape is sexy — she actually said she prefers the term assault, because the term “rape” makes people think of sex, and what she experienced wasn’t sexy but a violent attack — is one of the views he was prevented from airing in the courtroom.
Carroll and her attorney have already indicated they’d be open to yet another defamation suit if the verdicts from the first two aren’t enough to stop Trump — and this latest declaration from her assailant may just be the trigger.
As for his current case, Trump skated close to the line again, arguing that Merchan imposed a gag order only to prevent “FACTS behind the gag” from being revealed.
The order has done little so far to prevent what Trump seems to deem “facts” from being made public — he’s been able to publicly and repeatedly claim that the judge’s daughter posted images of him on a Twitter account she no longer controls, and that there’s a conflict of interest despite a judicial ethics panel disagreeing.
He also again seemed to invite any vigilantes among his fans to take extrajudicial action, questioning how many “corrupt” judges he has to “endure before somebody steps in.”
In a follow-up post, Trump challenged Judge Merchan to jail him for contempt. He wrote:
“If this Partisan Hack wants to put me in the “clink” for speaking the open and obvious TRUTH, I will gladly become a Modern Day Nelson Mandela – It will be my GREAT HONOR.’
We’ll see if Judge Merchan obliges Trump’s blasphemous comparison with Nelson Mandela by sentencing the contemptuous defendant to the same 27 years in prison that the South African freedom fighter endured.
It would be a great honor to see that happen and witness the look on Trump’s face if it ever does.
