Why Is Merrick Garland Defending Donald Trump?
No one voted to let the former president off for slander to deny sexual assault allegations
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…