Trump's mouth might have gotten him into even more hot water

Sometimes it is simply mind-boggling how little care Trump puts into what comes out of his mouth. One would think that with all the legal problems he has he might be a little more careful...

Was Donald Trump trying to get sued again? This is a question some were asking in the wake of the former president’s weird Memorial Day Truth Social message focused more on himself than it did on the country’s fallen soldiers. 

In what has become an all-too-familiar stunt for the former president to pull on a national holiday, Trump wrote what might be one of his most unhinged rants on Truth Social that attack E. Jean Carroll and his other political enemies. 

“Happy Memorial Day to All, including the Human Scum that is working so hard to destroy our Once Great Country,” Trump began his message before going on to list the culprits he thought should be included among the human scum he was citing. 

Photo Credit: Screenshot Truth Social @realDonaldTrump

The “Radical Left” made it onto the former president’s naughty list but more interesting was the “Trump Hating Federal Judge” who presided over the two separate trials and awarded E. Jean Carroll a total of $91 million in damages for defamation. 

If you don’t know about Carroll’s case against Trump then a quick refresher from Wikipedia is in order. Trump allegedly assaulted Carroll in 1995 or 1996 at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in New York, something Trump denies ever doing. 

Trump has held firm that he never met Carroll beyond a handshake, something he reiterated in his Memorial Day message, and Carroll never pursued charges. However, she would later file a defamation lawsuit against Trump for comments he made in 2019. 

The details of the case are very complicated. However, the important pieces you need to know are that Carrol won two cases against Trump and was awarded $5 million by a jury in Manhattan and another $83 million in damages related to Trump’s defamation. 

You would think the former president would learn his lesson to stop mentioning E. Jean Carroll in public but his Memorial Day message showed he really hasn’t learned much. The Truth Social post may get him into more trouble. 

Trump complained about the $91 million defamation he had to pay Carroll without ever saying her name but heavily alluding to her, saying she “never filed a police report” and sung his praises during an interview with CNN’s "Alison Cooper". 

Trump reiterated that he had never met Carroll before besides a quick handshake at a celebrity event which he noted didn’t count before he turned his attention to the judge to the other human scum on his list of people trying to destroy the country. 

“Arthur Engoron, the N.Y. State Wacko Judge who fined me almost 500 Million Dollars (UNDER APPEAL) for DOING NOTHING WRONG, used a Statute that has never been used before, gave me NO JURY, Mar-a-Lago at $18,000,000 - Now for Merchan!” wrote Trump. 

The Biden campaign was quick to repost the former president’s rant and note that it made “zero mention of fallen American service members” but instead chose to focus on calling those who didn’t support him human scum. 

However, worrying rhetoric aside, it was Trump’s comments about Carroll that may see him sued again for defamation based on comments Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan made following the Truth Social post from the former president. 

“We have said several times since the last jury verdict in January that all options were on the table. And that remains true today—all options are on the table,” Kaplan said in response to Trump’s post according to Newsweek. 

Whether or not Carroll will sue Trump again for his comments is not yet known but it is likely since Kaplan has previously insinuated that every statement about her client from Trump would be monitored following the last jury’s verdict, The Guardian reported.

“The statute of limitations for defamation in most jurisdictions is between one and three years. As we said after the last jury verdict, we continue to monitor every statement that Donald Trump makes about our client,” Kaplan told the New York Times in March. 

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