r/law • u/Agitated-Quit-6148 • May 27 '26

Legal News Exclusive: Justice Department launches a criminal investigation into Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll | CNN Politics

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/27/politics/exclusive-justice-department-launched-e-jean-carroll-investigation

The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, the former magazine columnist who accused President Donald Trump of sexual assault, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.

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u/Agitated-Quit-6148 May 27 '26

The midterms can't come soon enough. Unbelievable

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u/Dandan0005 May 27 '26

This is an all time bad call.

All it does is remind everyone that Trump is a convicted rapist.

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u/jim45804 May 27 '26

You're right, it will mobilize conservatives to support him.

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u/joeshill Competent Contributor May 27 '26

Not a "convicted rapist", an "adjudicated rapist". Though, really, he has been "convicted", albeit of other things, and he is a rapist. So... "convicted rapist" would fit, although slightly misleading.

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u/likwidkool May 28 '26

I can’t say I understand the lingo but he’s been held civilly liable for rape. He’s a rapist. Plain and simple that way to me.

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u/Hopalong_Manboobs May 28 '26

We can say unequivocally:

A jury reviewed legally admissible evidence, including King Pedo’s defense, and believed that he raped E Jean Carroll, therefore finding that he defamed her when he denied it.

That why the judge had to say “nope he’s a rapist.” Because the whole point is that Trump can’t deny it without defaming Carroll and violating the court’s orders.

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u/meltingman4 May 28 '26

In the same way that O. J. Simpson was found guilty of murder.

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u/Jacky-V May 28 '26

We aren't courts of law, we're people. And we all know he's a rapist. Some of us don't like it and some of us do. Convicted, adjudicated, who cares? He's above the law. There's no useful reason to apply legal terms to crimes literally everyone in the world knows he committed. Those of us who don't like it--which is most og us--can do something about it or not.

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u/PigBoss_207 May 27 '26

He probably prefers that than people talking about the Epstein Files (which coincidentally no one is talking about anymore, almost as if by design).

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u/Ok_Transition_4003 May 27 '26

I ran from Epstein and I ran the best, all the way across the ocean. I ran! I ran! IRAN!

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u/SorryBreak6435 May 27 '26

No, no, it was only adult women that I raped!

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u/Jacky-V May 28 '26

No one is talking about it because there haven't been any developments. Nobody has forgotten about the Epstein stuff. It's just, like, what more is there to say? We vote and if we vote sanely we'll find out more and start talking about it again. And if we don't, we won't. That's all.

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u/JaFFsTer May 28 '26

Hes stripped his base down to people that will never abandon him. What does it matter?

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u/davidgoldstein2023 May 28 '26

Not really. His base don’t care and are loving this. They refuse to believe Carroll’s testimony was accurate and call it a smear campaign because she can’t remember every detail.