GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley said Sunday she “absolutely” trusts the jury in E. Jean Carroll defamation case against former President Trump but that the recent ruling should not bar him from the ballot.
“I absolutely trust the jury. And I think that they made their decision based on the evidence. I just don’t think that should take him off the ballot,” Haley said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“I think the American people will take him off the ballot. I think that’s the best way to go forward, is not let him play the victim. Let him play the loser. That’s what we want him to do at the end of the day,” the former United Nations ambassador continued.
On Friday, a jury ordered Trump to pay $83.3 million for defaming Carroll in 2019 when he denied the writer’s accusation he sexually assaulted her in the mid-1990s. Trump said he will appeal the verdict. Earlier, a separate jury found the former president liable for sexual abuse in a defamation trial last year with Carroll over a separate comment and ordered him to pay $5 million.
A lot of people don’t seem to realize that at the end of the day, most attorneys and judges go home and live their lives as normal people. No security details, no gated communities, essentially no real protection from a mob of crazies. It can absolutely affect decision making for people who want to protect their families,. which is totally understandable.
Not saying it’s the right thing to do, just that it’s understandable.
And yes, some lawyers are rich enough to have security details and gated communities, but they’re the exception, not the norm. The average judge’s salary is about 250k. Yes, comfortable, but not enough to pay for proper full-time security by any stretch. Alarm systems can’t do much about an angry mob at your door. Maybe they tip the police off 10 minutes too late, and maybe they catch some faces and people get punished eventually, but that’s not much consolation if you’re dead. And that also assumes the police would do their jobs, so… Yeah.
MAGAs are a serious threat to this entire country. Make sure you vote.