Why Is Merrick Garland Defending Donald Trump?

No one voted to let the former president off for slander to deny sexual assault allegations

Michael Arceneaux
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She probably wouldn’t remember me, but around the time Barack Hussein Obama made history, I was seeking employment from columnist E. Jean Carroll in the dismal state that was the media industry during its digital-fueled implosion in the midst of the Great Recession.

“Michael, you are stunningly funny!” she wrote in one of the more polite rejection emails I received in that era. “You KILLED with your application to AskEJean’s Dope Astrology. I received 496 submissions and you made it into the TOP 12!!” She chose someone else, and I went back to sorting through the literal dozens of media jobs that I scoured the internet for so I could scrounge up enough money to not feel trapped in Houston.

I didn’t think about any of that until 2019, when Carroll wrote a cover story for New York magazine in which she accused Donald Trump of assaulting her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room 23 years prior.

I understand this is not the most direct connection to a person, but I have too many direct ones to count. And one thing I’ve learned early and repeatedly throughout my life is that women — no matter their age, race, or socioeconomic background — more…

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Michael Arceneaux
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New York Times bestselling author of “I Can’t Date Jesus” and “I Don’t Want To Die Poor.”