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The real lesson of the E. Jean Carroll investigation is Trump’s weakness

E. Jean Carroll attends the 2024 TIME 100 Gala on April 25, 2024, in New York City. | Getty Images for TIME Had you time-traveled back to 2023, and started telling people that President Donald Trump’s Justice Department would soon be trying to imprison a woman who had accused him of rape, most would likely have dismissed it as a paranoid #resistance fantasy. Yet now, it appears to be reality. Reporting in both CNN and the New York Times suggests that the DOJ has opened a criminal inquiry into E. Jean Carroll, the journalist who successfully won $88.3 million in damages from Trump afte...