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orleans

(34,097 posts)
Tue Jan 30, 2024, 10:48 AM Jan 2024

"He's nothing, we don't need to be afraid of him. He can be knocked down."



(snip)

“Three days…four days before trial, I had an actual breakdown,” Carroll said. “I lost my ability to speak, I lost my words, I couldn’t talk and I couldn’t go on. It was…that’s how frightened I was.”

Once Carroll sat in the witness chair during the trial, her attitude changed, she said.

“But oddly, we went into court, [lawyer] Robbie [Kaplan] took the Lecter, I sat in the witness chair like this. And she said, ‘Miss. Carroll, good morning. Would you please state your name for the court?'” Carroll recounted. “And amazingly, I looked out, and he was nothing. He was nothing. He was a phantom…it was the people around him who were giving him power, he himself was nothing.”

“It was an astonishing discovery for me,” she added. “He’s nothing, we don’t need to be afraid of him. He can be knocked down.”

(more)

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4436584-carroll-says-trump-is-nothing-we-dont-need-to-be-afraid-of-him/




and i didn't want to leave this description out:



“Together, this team of brilliant young people have, as you said, stood up to the man, who, by the way, Rachel, is not even there. He’s nothing,” she said. “He is without — he is like a walrus snorting and like a rhino flopping his hands.”

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4436911-carroll-compares-trump-to-walrus-snorting/



edited to add this one:


In CNN Interview, E. Jean Carroll Calls Donald Trump ‘Nothing. Zero. An Emperor Without Clothes’

In an interview with CNN Monday morning, E. Jean Carroll described seeing Donald Trump for the first time since 1996, when she says he assaulted her in a fitting room in a New York department store. “And there he was,” she said. “And he was nothing. Just, no power. He was zero. I was flabbergasted.”

Asked if she made eye contact with the former president, she said “many times,” and described the experience as looking at “an emperor without clothes. It’s like looking at nothing. It was nothing.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2024/01/29/in-cnn-interview-e-jean-carroll-calls-donald-trump-nothingzeroan-emperor-without-clothes/?sh=2fa28ce913bb


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"He's nothing, we don't need to be afraid of him. He can be knocked down." (Original Post) orleans Jan 2024 OP
"he is like a walrus snorting and like a rhino flopping his hands." llmart Jan 2024 #1
Very apt observation. Hugin Jan 2024 #2
Just like Jabba the Hut. SouthernDem4ever Jan 2024 #8
more like pzza the hut. AllaN01Bear Jan 2024 #13
omg! lol! orleans Jan 2024 #17
That will sting. He is like a walrus snorting. Botany Jan 2024 #3
You know he heard that. He can't help himself. COL Mustard Jan 2024 #16
Funny Team EJC can say what they want and "The Orange Doughboy," can't say shit. Botany Jan 2024 #20
A description for the ages!!! 50 Shades Of Blue Jan 2024 #4
It must really have bugged the hell out of Dumpy OLDMDDEM Jan 2024 #5
And EJC with her team were just poking the Orange Man's Blubber Ass w/a poke 'em stick last night. Botany Jan 2024 #9
Excellent response. OLDMDDEM Jan 2024 #10
Poke, poke, poke Botany Jan 2024 #11
With EJC saying that and Haley going after him, OLDMDDEM Jan 2024 #12
She and her team exposed him as the total fake that he really is and on a public stage too. Botany Jan 2024 #14
I was going to post that leftieNanner Jan 2024 #15
Yes he is Blue Owl Jan 2024 #6
"Like looking at nothing." Kid Berwyn Jan 2024 #7
The smell defines his presence lame54 Jan 2024 #19
Magnifying Gas Kid Berwyn Jan 2024 #22
The SlobFather has lived most of his life in his head thinking he's the end all be all - how glorius NoMoreRepugs Jan 2024 #18
Thanks for the post. Rachel Maddow addressed a lot of this in her interview on Monday w/E. Jeam Carroll. n/t iluvtennis Jan 2024 #21
yes she did. both of the hill articles are referencing rachel's show orleans Jan 2024 #25
Kick and Rec 100 Hekate Jan 2024 #23
Darn Old Trump Mr.Bee Jan 2024 #24
K and R! Diamond_Dog Jan 2024 #26
Kick dalton99a Jan 2024 #27
Naked exemption is Active Cthulu on call Jan 2024 #28

llmart

(15,567 posts)
1. "he is like a walrus snorting and like a rhino flopping his hands."
Tue Jan 30, 2024, 10:53 AM
Jan 2024

What an apt description of him!

Hugin

(33,222 posts)
2. Very apt observation.
Tue Jan 30, 2024, 10:57 AM
Jan 2024

It is the sycophants around the blob that give the blob power. (this includes the media he receives) Otherwise, Tangerine Idi Amin is the proverbial turtle on the fence post. How did he get there? Certainly not on his own.

COL Mustard

(5,966 posts)
16. You know he heard that. He can't help himself.
Tue Jan 30, 2024, 12:41 PM
Jan 2024

He would have had to watch the interview. I wonder how many TVs he has broken since Friday?

If I had the time, and the money, I'd put that on a continuous loop and play it all the time on the West Palm Beach TV stations. It would drive him mad(der).

Botany

(70,643 posts)
20. Funny Team EJC can say what they want and "The Orange Doughboy," can't say shit.
Tue Jan 30, 2024, 01:14 PM
Jan 2024

This has to be killing him. Fine by me. He has made so many people suffer and die with
his act and ignorance. 14 million world wide dead from C-19 is the real #. Donny’s little
fingerprints are all over those deaths he had to scrap the global pandemic task force,
fire the epidemiologist from the CDC who was on the ground in Wuhan, have Kushner send
18 tons of our PPE to China, sell fake cures and testing kits for the disease, and try to make
money off of it.

"And Team EJC were just daring Donny to speak some shit so they could sue him again.

Botany

(70,643 posts)
9. And EJC with her team were just poking the Orange Man's Blubber Ass w/a poke 'em stick last night.
Tue Jan 30, 2024, 12:12 PM
Jan 2024

Telling Trump, “hey mother fucker talk some more shit and you will be back in court
in a NY Minute.”

OLDMDDEM

(1,579 posts)
12. With EJC saying that and Haley going after him,
Tue Jan 30, 2024, 12:22 PM
Jan 2024

his ego must be shot. Even Biden is going after him now.

Botany

(70,643 posts)
14. She and her team exposed him as the total fake that he really is and on a public stage too.
Tue Jan 30, 2024, 12:28 PM
Jan 2024
EJC’s other lawyer, “he is just a guy.”

Kid Berwyn

(15,057 posts)
22. Magnifying Gas
Tue Jan 30, 2024, 01:55 PM
Jan 2024

Smellogravitational Lensing: Warps the very fabric of space-time and one's nostrils.

NoMoreRepugs

(9,512 posts)
18. The SlobFather has lived most of his life in his head thinking he's the end all be all - how glorius
Tue Jan 30, 2024, 12:59 PM
Jan 2024

that he's being shown the door of reality.

iluvtennis

(19,907 posts)
21. Thanks for the post. Rachel Maddow addressed a lot of this in her interview on Monday w/E. Jeam Carroll. n/t
Tue Jan 30, 2024, 01:17 PM
Jan 2024

orleans

(34,097 posts)
25. yes she did. both of the hill articles are referencing rachel's show
Tue Jan 30, 2024, 05:45 PM
Jan 2024

the forbes link talks about a cnn interview

Diamond_Dog

(32,177 posts)
26. K and R!
Tue Jan 30, 2024, 06:06 PM
Jan 2024

I hope Widdle Donny Nothingburger is blowing a gasket over this interview.

Does anyone agree with me that E.Jean reminds me a bit of Nancy Pelosi in that photo? That’s icing on the cake to say he can be taken down by an 80 year old woman of bravery and intelligence!

Cthulu on call

(7 posts)
28. Naked exemption is Active
Tue Jan 30, 2024, 07:03 PM
Jan 2024

In this case everyone is exempt from having to pretend he's naked to remove any power he has over you. For the sake of us all keep him clothed.

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