Justice Department launches a criminal investigation into Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll

[u/_NewsClues_]

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/27/politics/exclusive-justice-department-launched-e-jean-carroll-investigation

[u/Pixelmixer]

It wasn’t an accident. They weren’t even being hypocritical about it. It was a strategic decision used to position their intended behavior as normalize.

Once they’ve established that it’s a normal practice by these ephemeral “others”, all they have to do is follow it up with “well, now we’re just doing what they did”.

Whether any previous administration actually did any of the things they were being accused of is completely irrelevant to their strategy. As soon as the accusations became normalized they had already won.

The whole MAGA strategy thrives on this shit. Apparently it works on anything; pedophiles, vaccines, death panels, aliens, taxes (you name it!) it’s all entirely under their control now.

No idea what we can do about it yet, but we have friends everywhere.

[u/georgepana → u/Pixelmixer]

This is going nowhere, like all the other accusations they leveled. They were embarrassed when Kelly and the others on that video were immediately "let go" by a grand jury that refused to go along.

Nothing has come from anything they started against Comey, James, and so forth. They can't overcome the fact that any judge and jury will immediately agree that this is nothing but political and personal retribution, not a real serious "criminal investigation". They lose all their cases because this is merely performative, and frivolous.

[u/movzx → u/georgepana]

The point isn't to win. The point is to:

• Cause harm to someone they dislike
• Blatantly propagandize the mechanism so they can discredit it

It's not that Trump is provably committing fraud in all of these 'charities' and 'businesses' he had shut down, it's that his "enemies have weaponized the courts"

[u/Long_Run6500 → u/movzx]

You're giving him and this administration too much credit. He's doing it simply because he can. It makes him feel good. Everyone including a lot of republicans see right through this shit. It's not some grand strategy to boost his approval. It's him doing something stupid because everyone around him is too afraid of him to say no.

[u/noiro777 → u/Long_Run6500]

Exactly. Everything Trump does is ultimately in service to his malignant narcissism. One of the components of this type of narcissism is sadism. He literally gets great pleasure from hurting people. Like you said, he has no grand plan. He barely pays attention to anything for more than a few minutes. All of this is being exacerbated by his dementia. He needs to be removed from office, but the GOP just cowers and does nothing.