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VDH UltraTurning Points on the Road to Trump’s Election: The Wild E. Jean Carroll Suit Fiasco, November 2022–December 2024, Part Four

Victor Davis Hanson What then really happened in the Bergdorf Goodman department store some 30 years ago after a chance meeting, flirting, a mutually agreed exit to a secluded dressing room, and the ensuing some three minutes alone? No one knows (or now cares much) but most agree there was plenty of reasonable doubt to […]

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VDH UltraTurning Points on the Road to Trump’s Election: The Wild E. Jean Carroll Suit Fiasco, November 2022–December 2024, Part Three

Victor Davis Hanson 4) The judge in the case, a Bill Clinton appointee, Lewis A. Kaplan, ruled nonstop against the Trump legal team, chastising them at every turn. And a sometimes exasperated and raucous Trump was reprimanded continuously by Kaplan, whose rulings on the admissibility of evidence and rebukes to the respective teams consistently favored

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VDH UltraTurning Points on the Road to Trump’s Election: The Wild E. Jean Carroll Suit Fiasco, November 2022–December 2024, Part Two

Victor Davis Hanson 2) Carroll, however, had no sufficient evidence to win her suits. She still had no hard facts or reliable witnesses to prove her accusations at all. She had neither reported the rape at the time nor sought medical attention. There were no written records, police or hospital, to substantiate her claim. She

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VDH UltraTurning Points on the Road to Trump’s Election: The Wild E. Jean Carroll Suit Fiasco, November 2022–December 2024, Part One

Victor Davis Hanson The Bragg, James, Smith, and Willis criminal/civil 91 indictments were, as widely agreed, outrageous weaponizations of the Justice system. They will remain Biden’s legacy and a stain upon the entire American concept of equality under the law. Yet, there was something about the E. Jean Carroll civil and criminal suits—especially the methods

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VDH UltraKeep Calm on This Election Day—and for a Variety of Reasons

Exhibit A: Final 2020 Wisconsin Poll: Biden by 17% October 28, 2020 news: “A Washington Post-ABC News poll found that former vice president Biden is leading Trump 57% to 40% among voters in Wisconsin.” Exhibit B: Final 2020 Wisconsin Actual Vote Count: Biden by 0.6% 49.4%  |  1,630,866 48.8%  |  1,610,184 As far as polls,

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VDH UltraThe Origins of the Biden Disaster. Part One

Victor Davis Hanson In a much-heralded Washington Post column, David Ignatius recently called for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris not to run again. But to justify such a Draconian call, he first reviewed their tenures and concluded of Joe, “In sum, he has been a successful and effective president.” Consider the logic: the more successful

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