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☆ Inside Infowars' crumbling empire: Ex-Staffers reveal the 'volatile' and 'unhinged' atmosphere working for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-11 | by ( Tom Porter | Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +23 min

One afternoon in the spring of 2017 Alex Jones furiously lunged at his video producer. According to Jacobson, Jones had to be restrained by another Infowars staffer lest he actually hurt him. Alex Jones did not respond to Insider's request for comment. Owens also said he felt guilty about his complicity in promoting the Sandy Hook conspiracy theories during his time working there. "People hearing the words Sandy Hook, they automatically think Alex Jones," she added.

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A Manhattan jury found Donald Trump liable for the sexual abuse of E. Jean Carroll. "They're trying to take parts of Donald Trump you dislike and stretch it over Ms. Carroll's story," Tacopina said. Carroll's lawyers, for their part, said their willingness to bring the case to court only made them more believable. "There wasn't even a 'he said,' because Donald Trump never even looked you in the eye and said she was a liar," Ferrara said. "You heard from Donald Trump himself — this is just how he treats women," Ferrara said.

☆ E. Jean Carroll's friend testifies that they didn't 'scheme' to make up a rape allegation to 'stop' Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Ashley Collman | Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Testimony continued in E. Jean Carroll's rape and defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump on Thursday. Carol Martin told jury about how Carroll confided in her about the alleged rape in the mid-1990s. Former President Donald Trump and E. Jean Carroll. "I'm here because I want to reiterate and remember what my friend E. Jean Carroll told me 27 years ago. In another message, Martin said she thinks Carroll was "acting a little scary" and was "in too deep" but "loving the adulation."

☆ Trump calls E. Jean Carroll rape allegation 'the most ridiculous, disgusting story' in video deposition shown at trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Donald Trump is on trial over E. Jean Carroll's allegations that he raped, then defamed her. The former president has denied Carroll's contentions. The trial continued Wednesday in federal court in Manhattan. Loading Something is loading. "It didn't happen," Trump said, before proceeding to say that "if it did happen, it would have been reported in minutes" because Bergdorf Goodman is a "very busy store."

☆ Trump won't call any witnesses to defend him in E. Jean Carroll rape trial, his lawyer says
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Donald Trump's lawyers won't call witnesses in his defense in his rape and defamation trial. E. Jean Carroll sued the former president for allegedly raping her and then trashing her in public. Trump hasn't personally shown up to the trial, which has been going on for a week in Manhattan federal court. That means Trump won't present any case at all in the ex-president's defense. The attorney also said witnesses will see videos of a sworn deposition Trump took for the case prior to the trial, where he denies Carroll's allegations.

☆ E. Jean Carroll's friend testified she urged the writer to go to the police minutes after alleged Trump rape
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Ashley Collman | Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Day five of the E. Jean Carroll trial started with testimony from the writer's friend Lisa Birnbach. Birnbach said Carroll called her minutes after her alleged rape by Donald Trump in the mid-1990s. Carroll was "hyperventilating" and appeared to be "still processing" while recalling the alleged rape, Birnbach said. "No, no, no, I'm not going to the police," Birnbach recalled Carroll saying. E. Jean Carroll and Donald Trump.

☆ E. Jean Carroll wasn't surprised 'Law & Order: SVU' aired Bergdorf Goodman rape scene 7 years before she made Trump allegations
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

E. Jean Carroll alleges Donald Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s. "Law & Order: SVU" featured a rape scene at the same store in 2012. She claimed that, in the mid-1990s, Trump raped her in the dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman's lingerie section. In the dressing room, Trump pushed her against the wall, penetrated her with his finger, and raped her, Carroll said. "Law and Order: SVU."

☆ Trump lawyer quizzes E. Jean Carroll about 'scheming' with her friend before going public with rape allegation
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina questioned rape accuser E. Jean Carroll on the stand on Thursday. The email Martin sent Carroll in September 2017 included a link to a humorous New Yorker column mocking Trump, who Martin called "orange crush." Joe Tacopina, left, an attorney for former President Donald Trump, arrives at a Manhattan federal court for the E. Jean Carroll trial. Tacopina drew particularly attention to the fact that, two weeks after the email exchange, Carroll began work on "What Do We Need Men For?" In addition to Martin, Carroll said she told another friend, Lisa Birnbach, of the alleged rape right after it happened.

LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman contributed money to a nonprofit funding E. Jean Carroll's rape lawsuit against Trump. The judge said Wednesday that jurors couldn't hear evidence related to his funding of the case. The issue of whether billionaire LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman contributed money towards E. Jean Carroll's lawsuit against the former president, US District Judge Lewis Kaplan said, "would be prejudicial" because it has no bearing on Carroll's allegations. "The whole subject of litigation funding is precluded," the judge said Wednesday afternoon in a downtown Manhattan courtroom. The funding issue had no bearing on the merits of Carroll's claims, Kaplan said earlier.

☆ E. Jean Carroll said she can still feel Trump's 'curved finger' in rape trial testimony
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

E. Jean Carroll testified in her rape and defamation lawsuit against Trump on Wednesday. She said she didn't report the rape because she was afraid he's retaliate, but told two friends. Once inside Carroll said Trump closed the door and "shoved me so hard my head banged" against the wall. E. Jean Carroll outside of US Federal Court in Manhattan Getty Images"I didn't want to make scene. He'll bury you," Carroll said Martin told her.

Trump's Truth Social posts blasting E. Jean Carroll may be "tampering" the jury, the judge warned. Judge Kaplan pointed out that Trump had, for years, dodged taking a DNA test that would help determine the merits of Carroll's allegations. "It's as if you just told me yesterday was the Fourth of July," Judge Kaplan said. Judge Kaplan called Trump's Truth Social posts "a public statement that seems entirely inappropriate" and warned it may cross the line into "tampering" with the case. In an October 2022 post on Truth Social, Trump wrote: "This 'Ms.

☆ Trump lawyer says jurors should dismiss rape case even if they 'hate' ex-president
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Lawyers made opening statements in E. Jean Carroll's rape trial against Donald Trump. Trump's lawyer asked jurors to dismiss the case even if they "hate" Trump. "She struggled to break free, but she couldn't," Crowley said in her opening statement. Despite the charged nature of the case, jurors were seated in the span of several hours, shortly before the court's lunch break on Tuesday. In one video, Tacopina, said, jurors may observe that Trump appears angry.

☆ Judge makes thinly-veiled attempt to silence Trump during rape trial, advising parties against statements that could 'incite violence'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

E. Jean Carroll's rape and defamation lawsuit against former President Trump went to trial Tuesday. The judge asked both parties not to make statements that could "incite violence." Opening statements are expected to kick off today in E. Jean Carroll's defamation and rape lawsuit against Trump. The lunatics will fail and President Trump will Make America Great Again!" In her lawsuit, Carroll says that Trump's comments have "injured the reputation on which she makes her livelihood as a writer, advice columnist, and journalist."

☆ Jurors in the Trump rape case were advised to use fake names with each other to preserve their anonymity
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

E. Jean Carroll's rape and defamation lawsuit against former President Trump went to trial Tuesday. The judge in the case advised jurors to use fake names with each other. Before the jury was chosen, Kaplan addressed the group and suggested that they use fake names with each other to preserve their anonymity. Former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll walks into Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, April 25, 2023, in New York. In her lawsuit, Carroll says that Trump's comments have "injured the reputation on which she makes her livelihood as a writer, advice columnist, and journalist."

☆ Trump's rape trial brought by E. Jean Carroll starts Tuesday in Manhattan. The case centers around accusations from the 1990s
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Carroll has accused Trump of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman changing room in the mid-1990s. Carroll is asking for Trump to retract his statements and for a jury to award her unspecified compensatory and punitive damages. Carroll says their encounter started off playful, with Trump asking Carroll to help him pick out a gift for a female friend. Eva Deitch for The Washington Post via Getty ImagesTrump's lawyers are likely to try and paint Carroll's lawsuit as a political witch hunt. Trump's lawyers asked to delay the trial a month so that they could probe Hoffman's involvement more, but that request was denied, though Kaplan allowed Trump's legal team to conduct another deposition with Carroll before the trial starts.

☆ A judge blamed Trump for the 'media frenzy' he used as an excuse to try to delay his rape trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-17 | by ( Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A judge denied Donald Trump's bid to delay E. Jean Carroll's rape trial because of his indictment. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan expressed concern the request was "another delay tactic" by the former president. US District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan said some of the so-called media frenzy had been caused by Trump himself. The judge allowed a brief reopening of discovery but denied Trump's request to delay the trial. Carroll "is now over 79 years of age and is entitled to her day in court just as both parties are entitled to a fair trial," Kaplan wrote.

☆ Trump again asks to delay the E. Jean Carroll rape case — this time to probe billionaire Reid Hoffman's support for the litigation
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Trump's lawyers asked to delay the E. Jean Carroll battery and defamation trial a month on Thursday. It is unclear how much of Reid's money granted through his nonprofit was used by Kaplan Hecker & Fink for the Carroll case. Seth Wenig/APOn Tuesday, Trump's lawyers asked the judge for a one-month delay to allow the "media frenzy" around his arrest to die down. Judge Kaplan has also complained about numerous attempts to delay the case in the past. But that litigation has been in limbo while appeals courts weigh in on whether Trump can even be sued in that case.

☆ Court refuses to answer if Trump can be sued for comments he made about rape accuser E. Jean Carroll while in office
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The court said it could not answer whether federal law protects Trump from being sued in the case. The case has now been sent back to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. But when Trump appealed that decision to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, that court struck down Kaplan's ruling. Thursday's ruling does not apply to Carroll's second lawsuit against Trump, which is scheduled to go to trial April 25 in Manhattan federal court. Carroll's second lawsuit also includes a defamation claim for comments Trump made after he left the White House.

☆ Trump wants to delay E. Jean Carroll rape trial so 'media frenzy' over his criminal indictment can die down
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

E. Jean Carroll's defamation and battery lawsuit against Donald Trump is set for trial on April 25. He said the delay will allow the "media frenzy" over Trump's criminal indictment to die down. The "wall-to-wall media coverage" of the arraignment was "remarkable for its volume and incitement of animus towards President Trump," he wrote. "President Trump can only receive a fair trial in a calmer media environment that the one created by the New York County District Attorney. A short postponement of the trial will allow the recent surge in media coverage to subside and increase the likelihood that President Trump receives a fair trial," he added.

☆ Why there's almost no chance Clarence Thomas gets impeached, despite an ever-growing list of ethics violations
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

There are renewed calls to impeach Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas amid new ethics concerns. But the only way to remove a Supreme Court justice is via impeachment, and only one justice has ever been impeached. Amid the backlash, Justice Thomas did not recuse himself from any January 6 cases. Only one other Supreme Court justice has ever been impeached, and he wasn't convicted. In other words, scandals may come and go, but Supreme Court justices are for life.

☆ Trump's attorneys want to sniff out potential jurors in the E. Jean Carroll rape case who '#believewomen' about sexual abuse
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The lawsuit brought by Trump's rape accuser E. Jean Carroll is expected to start in April. On Thursday, both sides filed a list of proposed questions to ask potential jurors. Former "Elle" advice columnist E. Jean Carroll is taking Trump to court in New York next month in a defamation and battery civil suit. In court documents filed Thursday, Trump's team proposed asking potential jurors whether they're familiar with the slogan #believewomen, and whether they agree with it. Neama Rahmani, president of West Coast Trial Lawyers, told Insider that while Trump's lawyers' questions around sexual assault are indeed meant to ascertain how jurors feel about sexual assault allegations and the #MeToo Movement, personal views are not enough to get most potential jurors dismissed.

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☆ Trump rape case: After years of back and forth over Trump's DNA, jurors won't even hear about it
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-27 | by ( Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A judge ruled Monday that DNA evidence can't be mentioned at Trump's upcoming rape trial. E. Jean Carroll sued Trump for defamation and battery over her claim he raped her in the mid-1990s. When Trump brought Joe Tacopina onto the case earlier this year, the new attorney made a last-minute offer to submit Trump's DNA sample. While DNA evidence was thrown out of the case, Trump's lawyers continued to fight for the chance to question Carroll about her comments insinuating she had DNA evidence to prove her sexual-assault claim. She also acknowledged in her deposition that she publicly claimed to have Trump's DNA.

☆ The Trump rape case jurors will go to court in secret so Trump can't harass them
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Ashley Collman | Grace Eliza Goodwin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A judge has ruled the jurors will be kept anonymous in the upcoming defamation trial against Donald Trump. Judge Kaplan said he'll keep them secret so Trump and his supporters can't harass them. E. Jean Carroll, who accuses Trump raped her in the 90s, is suing Trump for defamation and battery. But Kaplan wrote that Leish's arguments for keeping the jurors public were "unpersuasive" in convincing him that the public interest in the case outweighs the jurors' safety. E. Jean Carroll.

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