“He Was Nothing”
Last week a jury awarded E. Jean Carroll $83,000,000 $65,000 000 of which was punitive damages, in her second defamation civil case against Donald Trump. Her first interview was with Rachel Maddow on Monday. She talks openly, among other things, about how it felt to be in the same room with her abuser for the first time since her assault and how different her feelings were seeing him from her feelings beforehand: He is nothing. You don’t have to be afraid of him.
Before this exerpt, Maddow details Carroll’s remarkable career before Donald Trump raped her. She deserves every penny of those damages.
In this election year, when it seems the whole Republican party (with a few notable exceptions) has capitulated — where they will not pass a bill about the border that they demanded because Trump said it would be bad for his election — let us remember that he only gets his power from other people. That makes what is happening even more dangerous.
As always, this diary would not have been possible without the WoW crew, this week especially Angmar and mettle fatigue.