Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist David Cay Johnston, who wrote the 2016 biography “The Making Of Donald Trump,” steered why the previous president is “doubling, tripling, quintupling down” on attacking his accuser E. Jean Carroll.
“I believe he’s hoping the jury awards excess of $10 million as a result of then he can exit and say, ‘See, it’s additional proof the system is in opposition to you,’” Johnston advised MSNBC’s Pleasure Reid on Thursday’s broadcast of “The ReidOut.”
Trump will have the ability to complain that “it’s a New York jury, which in fact is code for, they’re not Christian, and so they’re not white,” Johnston defined. “And that may enchantment to his base, however it received’t broaden his help, which is what he wants.”
Carroll is in search of $10 million in damages from Trump for defamatory feedback he made about her when he was president. The trial is ongoing.
Final 12 months, a jury discovered Trump answerable for the sexual abuse of Carroll in a New York division retailer within the Nineties. He was additionally discovered answerable for defaming her after she made the accusation and ordered to pay her $5 million in complete.
Johnston argued Trump “doesn’t anticipate to ever pay this, simply as he doesn’t imagine he’ll ever go to jail.”
However it “doesn’t imply that in his jumbled thoughts, he’s additionally not terrified,” Johnston stated. “He’s. However I believe his aim right here is get an unlimited award from this jury in order that he can use it to fire up his base.”
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