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Trump’s DOJ Launches SHOCKING Investigation Into E. Jean Carroll

May 29, 2026·15 min·5-min readconversationalnews
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Former President Donald Trump, after being ordered to pay nearly $90 million to E. Jean Carroll in two civil cases over sexual abuse and defamation, is now leveraging the Department of Justice to launch a criminal investigation into Carroll herself over a minor procedural issue—whether sh

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Leah Litman

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E. Jean CarrollDonald TrumpLeah LitmanReid HoffmanTodd BlancheAlex WagnerKilmar Abrego Garcia

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AuthoritarianismCriminal JusticeInvestigative JournalismPolitical NewsSupreme CourtUs Politics

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