Trump Makes Bizarre ‘A-List Celebrity’ Claim in Rant as Defamation Trial Over Rape Begins

Former President Donald Trump followed his Iowa Caucus victory by traveling to a New York City courtroom to defend himself in a second case brought by E. Jean Carroll over defamation charges and sexual assault — for which he has already been found liable.

And in the hours before traveling to the courthouse, Trump found time to go on another one of his social media rants assailing the former magazine writer who Judge Lewis Kaplan found to be a victim of rape in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 90s.

Trump posted a series of comments about sex made by Carroll, and clips of her designed to diminish and demean her allegations literally as his defamation trial began. But what’s particularly noteworthy is his claim that he was “considered an A-List celebrity for many decades” as a defense against her allegations. Allegations, again, he has already been found liable for.

Trump took to Truth Social and wrote:

The only right, honest, and lawful thing that Clinton-appointed Judge Lewis Kaplan, who has so far been unable to see clearly because of his absolute hatred of Donald J. Trump (ME!), can do is to end this unAmerican injustice being done to a President of the United States, who was wrongfully accused by a woman he never met, saw, or touched (a photo line does not count!), and knows absolutely nothing about. I have been considered an A-List celebrity for many decades, so even decades ago, since no one knows which date or dates to refer to, because the accusing woman can’t say the day, month, season, year, or decade, it would have been impossible for me to walk into a crowded department store (surrounded by buildings I own), right opposite the cashiers’ checkout desk, without being written about on Page Six, and every other outlet at the time. Remember, those gossip columnists were, perhaps, even more vicious and obsessed than the Internet of today.

In his second post, he added:

Page Two: She changed her FALSE “Monica Lewinsky-type” story on the DRESS, which she taunted us with, after it was proven to have no connection to me. She has been “all over the place” on the timing of this alleged “incident,” which never took place, and is being coached by Lunatic Radical Left Democrat operative attorney, Roberta Kaplan, who has sued me before, and just lost. I am the only one who has been injured by this attempted EXTORTION. E. Jean Carroll, who was down on her luck and failing in life, nastily calling her African American husband “an Ape,” and her Cat, “Vagina,” has gained money and fame she so badly wanted. It is my duty to America to right this egregious wrong, a case which was started based on no facts, no dates, no nothing, just fabricated lies and political shenanigans.

He concluded the three-post social media thread with:

Page Three: My lawyer said in the first “trial,” and Judge Kaplan should have put them together, that it was “beneath me,” as a President of the United States and Leading Candidate to assume Office again, with her having no evidence, facts, or credible story, or even knowing when the so-called act took place, to attend the first trial. Judge Kaplan should put this whole corrupt, Crooked Joe Biden-directed Election Interference attack on me immediately to rest. He should do it for America, because a President of the United States was accused of doing something he did not do by an UNKNOWN, TO HIM, woman seeking fame, fortune, and publicity for her ridiculous Book!

Much of what is included above is not new to anyone who has followed Trump’s destructive and divisive pattern of inflammatory rhetoric. He is back on trial today as a result of his inability to refrain from shit-talking.

But the idea that he claims that he was an A-List celebrity in the 90s and that an alibi is absurd for several reasons. First of all, he has been captured on video bragging to Billy Bush about doing the very same action for which he was found liable.

Secondly, Trump’s celebrity status didn’t become national — or A-list-worthy — until the hit competitive reality show The Apprentice, and then later, Celebrity Apprentice appeared on NBC in the aughts and teens of the 2000s.  He was a known real estate developer with best-selling books and appearances on talk shows, but he was more of a punchline than a true celebrity.

But none of that matters now. He is the GOP presumptive favorite and a guy who was found liable for rape. So that’s where we are, gang.