'How to shut Trump up': Expert explains why ex-president finally stopped defaming Carroll

E. Jean Carroll this week has been living the dream of many Americans facing a contentious presidential election year ahead. As former D.C. prosecutor Glenn Kirschner puts it, Carroll has managed “to shut Donald Trump up.”

Kirschner addressed viewers on his YouTube show “Justice Matters” Wednesday to note a significant development following the New York jury ruling ordering Trump to pay $83.3 million in defamation damages and penalties.

“Donald Trump has not defamed Carroll again,” Kirschner noted. “The way to shut Donald Trump up, to stop him from defaming and indeed endangering the lives of others, is to aggressively apply the rule of law.”

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Trump currently faces four criminal cases in Washington D.C., Georgia, Florida, and New York on charges of election interference, election racketeering, corruptly concealing documents and falsifying business records, respectively.

The former president has pleaded not guilty in each, but Kirschner believes he will be about as successful in those criminal cases — and a pending $370 million civil fraud lawsuit — as he was in the Carroll case.

“As soon as his criminal trials commence, he will lose,” Kirschner said. “He will be convicted over, and over, and over again.”

While Kirschner acknowledged Trump’s skill at creating a compelling narrative to serve political purposes, the prosecutor argued that skill would mean little in a court of law.

“In court, Donald Trump can’t run from the evidence,” the prosecutor said. “Once Donald Trump’s cases move from the court of public opinion into courts of law, he’s done.”

Kirschner also highlighted an underreported aspect of Carroll’s 2023 defamation case that awarded the writer, who Trump was found liable of sexually abusing decades earlier, $5 million.

According to Kirschner, Trump paid the court the $5 million in cash, rather than secure a bond, to be put on hold as he pursues an appeal.

The prosecutor suggested Trump might not have been able to make a deal with a bondsman, which could spell trouble ahead.

“If he couldn’t get a bondsman to guarantee a $5 million payout, do you really think he’s going to get a bondsman to guarantee an $83.3 million payout?” Kirschner asked.

“You have to wonder, friends, whether Donald Trump may soon have to think about going the way of his good friend, and former lawyer who Trump is reported to have stiffed on his legal fees, his good friend Rudy Giuliani.”

Found liable for defaming two Georgia poll workers and ordered to pay Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman $148 million, the former New York City mayor filed for bankruptcy.

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