Noone has even mentioned the result of Trump's civil trial. I guess it might not be important in the grand scheme of things, but I feel I should at least mention that he was found guilty - in fact guilty is the wrong word cos it was a civil trial, believe that the term is liable - anyhow he was found to be liable for the sexual assault of Jean Carroll and has been ordered to pay $2m, but he was not found liable of rape. Yet another one of those annoyingly inconclusive things - of course it's not inconclusive in that Trump was found to have undoubtedly assaulted someone, but I mean that the sum of money is not significant to someone who claims to be a billionaire, and additionally, the jury decided that the level of evidence was not sufficient to find him liable for rape. So I don't even have to look to know that in Trumpleton world they will read that as "A jury found that he definitely did not rape her and she lied" and will not even have to struggle with their consequence to the extent that they would have done if he had been found liable. Of course that struggle would have only lasted a few seconds before they dismissed it as the result of a biased jury, but even so...
Also, where exactly does it leave Jean Carroll? For me it feels that, although she won, she must surely be somewhat frustrated, if not with the result itself, with the way it's sure to be represented. I expect to hear ignorant people stating confidently that she lied about being raped - and they won't be lying, they'll think they're telling the truth.