by | Jan 28, 2024 | Aggregate
Manhattan federal Judge Lewis Kaplan and Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan.
The legal team of former President Donald Trump is set to challenge the ridiculous $83.3 million jury verdict in the defamation case brought by nutcase E. Jean Carroll.
The basis of their appeal, as revealed to The New York Post, hinges on an alleged “conflict of interest” involving Manhattan federal Judge Lewis Kaplan and Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan.
Trump’s attorney, Alina Habba, expressed shock upon learning that both Judge Kaplan and Roberta Kaplan, who are not related, previously worked together at the same prestigious law firm in the early 1990s.
This connection was uncovered by The Post columnist Charles Gasparino, following a tip that Judge Kaplan was once a mentor to Roberta Kaplan.
According to The Post, Judge Kaplan and Roberta Kaplan were employed at Paul, Weiss, Rifkin, Wharton & Garrison in the early 1990s.
Judge Kaplan served as a partner until his appointment to the federal bench in 1994, while Roberta Kaplan worked there until 2016 before founding her own firm, Kaplan Hecker & Fink.
The New York Post reported:
Roberta Kaplan worked at Paul, Weiss Rifkin, Wharton & Garrison in Midtown from 1992 to 2016, before leaving to become a founding partner of Kaplan Hecker & Fink, according to her LinkedIn page.
During her early years at Paul Weiss, she worked as associate of the firm at the same time as Judge Kaplan, who was a partner there until 1994 when he was appointed to the federal bench by then-President Bill Clinton.
Zak Sawyer, a rep for Roberta Kaplan, insisted no conflict exists.
“They overlapped for less than two years in the early 1990s at a large law firm when he was a senior partner and she was a junior associate and she never worked for him,” said Sawyer, who declined to provide further comment.
But a former Paul Weiss partner who asked not to be named said like all associates at the firm, Roberta Kaplan did her best to distinguish herself before partners, including Lewis Kaplan.
“Lew was like her mentor,” claimed the former partner.
Habba criticized the lack of disclosure of this past professional relationship, calling it “insane” and “incestuous,” and a potential violation of judicial ethics rules.
“This is news to us,” said Habba. “We are going to include this in our appeal and take appropriate measures. The fact it wasn’t disclosed is an ethics violation.”
On Friday, a jury ordered Donald Trump to pay $83.3 million to E. Jean Carroll over defamatory remarks he made about her while he was president in response to her rape accusation.
It should be noted that the President of the United States has a degree of immunity while in office.
“If immunity is not granted to a president, every president that leaves office will be immediately indicted by the opposing party. Without complete immunity, a president of the United States would not be able to properly function!” President Trump wrote on Truth Social.
The damages awarded included $18.3 million in compensatory damages and $65 million in punitive damages.
Last year, Judge Kaplan found Trump’s appeal in one of Carroll’s defamation lawsuits to be “frivolous.”
This appeal was against a decision that denied Trump absolute presidential immunity for calling Carroll a liar.
Kaplan’s ruling emphasized that Trump provided no substantial reason to suggest he would succeed on appeal and certified the appeal as frivolous.
Judge Kaplan has allowed E. Jean Carroll to sue President Trump for alleged rape. A case President Trump has adamantly denied.
Here’s what you need to know about E. Jean Carroll, that was previously reported here on The Gateway Pundit. Most of these information were deemed “inadmissible” by the judge per John LeFevre:
She couldn’t recall the date, month, season, or year the incident happened
She never told anyone about it, despite being publicly obsessed with her own sexuality
The dress she claims to have been wearing didn’t exist at the time
Her description of the dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman was inaccurate, making her sequence of events impossible
Her lawsuit was bankrolled by Jeffrey Epstein pal and Democrat (and Nikki Haley) mega-donor Reid Hoffman
Democrats created a law (The Adult Survivors Act in 2022) to enable her lawsuit to proceed
Her accusation is the exact plotline of an episode of Law & Order (one of her “favorite shows”)
Trump’s Apprentice was also one of her favorite shows
She has a history of falsely accusing men of rape, including Les Moonves
She told Anderson Cooper, “most people think of rape as being sexy. Think of the fantasies.”
She made a career promoting promiscuity, even writing glowingly of sexual assault and naming her cat Vagina
Carroll’s interviews on TV, social media posts, and inconsistent information concerning her allegations should have been enough to throw out any case, but not with Judge Kaplan. It’s against President Trump.
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by | Jan 28, 2024 | Aggregate
Young unhinged activists throw soup at the Mona Lisa painting in Paris in January 2024.
Unhinged climate activists threw soup on the Mona Lisa painting at the Louvre museum in Paris on Sunday.
The 16th century painting was covered with soup by the young brainwashed vandals.
leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is arguably the most famous painting in the world. These young violent lunatics don’t really care.
They want you to give up gas and oil and eat bugs.
The security did not jump in to arrest the women for several minutes.
ALERTE – Des militantes pour le climat jettent de la soupe sur le tableau de La Joconde au musée du Louvre. @CLPRESSFR pic.twitter.com/Aa7gavRRc4
— CLPRESS / Agence de presse (@CLPRESSFR) January 28, 2024
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by | Jan 28, 2024 | Aggregate
Supporters of former President Donald Trump sprung into action on Saturday and unmasked two protesters before shoving them out the door.
The protesters had their faces covered with American flag bandannas and wore patriotic attire, in a clear attempt to blend in.
Moments after Trump took the stage, they began shouting at him.
“His supporters jumped into action and forced the man and woman out the exit while trying to pull off their masks to take pictures of them,” the Reno Gazette-Journal reports.
As the troublemakers were removed from the event, the crowd chanted, “USA! USA! USA!”
Protesters are shoved out of Donald Trump’s Las Vegas rally by supporters. pic.twitter.com/bUZsUSyROi
— Katelyn Caralle (@Katelyn_Caralle) January 28, 2024
“Trump has just taken the stage here in Las Vegas and boasted about his massive win in Iowa,” New York Times reporter Kellen Browning posted on X, along with a video of the incident. “He’s immediately interrupted by protesters, not an uncommon occurrence. They’re escorted out quickly.”
Trump has just taken the stage here in Las Vegas and boasted about his massive win in Iowa.
He’s immediately interrupted by protesters, not an uncommon occurrence. They’re escorted out quickly. pic.twitter.com/e99qGexY54
— Kellen Browning (@Kellen_Browning) January 27, 2024
Trump stopped speaking for a moment and looked on as they were removed from the venue.
“They’re actually friends – enthusiastic friends,” Trump said.
It is unclear what the duo were saying or protesting.
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by | Jan 28, 2024 | Aggregate
A new name has arisen in the case of three Kansas City Chiefs fans who died earlier this month.
Alex Weamer-Lee, a friend of the victims, had joined them for a watch party, according to the Daily Mail. That makes five people who attended the event, three of whom later died.
According to the New York Post, Andrew Talge, Weamer-Lee’s attorney, his client was at the party on Jan. 7 that ended up in death, but left at about midnight, and said that when he left the four other men at the party were watching “Jeopardy!”
This is how the case unfolded. On Jan. 7, David Harrington, 37, Ricky Johnson, 38, and Clayton McGeeney, 36, visited Jordan Willis’ home in the northen part of Kansas City to watch a game between the Chiefs and the Los Angeles Chargers, WDAF-TV reported.
On the night of Jan. 9, the men were all found dead on Willis’ property by the Kansas City Police Department. One of the men was dead on the back porch, while the other two were found in the backyard, WDAF reported.
Police said at the time that there were no obvious signs of foul play, and a member of one of the dead men’s families said Willis had claimed they “froze to death.”
Willis reportedly said his friends were at his home as he had gone to bed and had invited them to stay over as long as they wished, the outlet reported. However, an attorney for Willis first said his client watched his friends leave and then later said his client was asleep while the men continued to party at the house.
He said he spent the following two days with “no knowledge” that his friends were dead on his property, according to the New York Post.
Kansas City Chiefs fan found frozen to death ‘saw something they shouldn’t have,’ parents claim https://t.co/poscCJ6pgx pic.twitter.com/PTgYdGOu5N
— New York Post (@nypost) January 27, 2024
Jonathan Price, brother of victim Ricky Johnson, told “Fox & Friends” Thursday that he has questions about Willis’ story.
“There’s way too many questions still needing to be answered, and nobody can answer those questions,” Price said. “And honestly, except for Jordan … the fifth person, he was there, but he wasn’t there after a certain time frame.”
Jon Harrington, whose son was a victim, is flat-out skeptical and said he is “not buying” Willis’ story, according to Fox News, saying his son’s mother and he “are both convinced that Jordan Willis played a part in this somehow.”
“We just haven’t figured out how yet. … What else could it be? Perfectly healthy men don’t just drop off the face of the Earth,” he said.
“There were four of you in the house and now three of them are dead and you’re not. That doesn’t add up,” he said. “I’m thinking that he, the three of them learned something or saw something that they shouldn’t have seen, and he decided ‘well, I need to get rid of you now.’ Friends or not.”
Jordan Willis’ father pushed back, according to the New York Post.
“He would never in a million years do anything,” Willis’ father said.
“These were all good friends of his, these were all people he went to school with and he took them to a football game the day before for the Chiefs,” he said.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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by | Jan 28, 2024 | Aggregate
Memphis DJ “Slick Rick” was found decapitated in his Tennessee home on Wednesday afternoon.
The DJ, whose real name was Rick Buchanan, was discovered by his brother John Buchanan after a neighbor called him with concerns because the back door to the home was open.
The brother told Fox 13 Memphis that the front door was locked, but the back door was wide open when he arrived.
“The front door was locked, but the back door was wide open,” Buchanan told the station. “The iron door was open also, and I walked in, and I found him and called 911. It was terrible. At first, I thought his coat was up over his head because it was like he was cold or something. So, I ran out and ran back in and realized it wasn’t that. It was something worse.”
“A lot of things were weird,” the brother added. “He had his keys still in his hand. His pants were pulled down to his feet and the back door was wide open, so that’s the weird stuff.”
John Buchanan said that his brother’s dog was also in the yard, which was unusual.
When asked by the station if he had any ideas about the circumstances or what could have happened, John said: “No idea. We don’t know what happened.”
“About a month ago, the taillight on that car, a guy was here and said he owed him $30 and busted out the taillight with a hammer,” Buchanan said. “I was like, ‘Well here, here’s $30,’ and he just took off, but I don’t know if that had anything to do with it because I gave him $30.”
The Daily Beast reports that Rick was shot during a robbery in 2014 at a live music venue owned by his mother, Nita Makris, at the time.
The Buchanan family has launched a GoFundMe to cover funeral expenses.
“As many have learned, Slick Rick is sadly no longer with us. There are still many unanswered questions, and the family appreciates the outpour of love they are receiving,” the fundraiser’s description reads. “If you knew Rick, you know he gave to anyone he could, friends, strangers, and charities like MDA. He used his voice and personality to raise unthinkable amounts of money for others. He was also a champion of Memphis music and took pride in presenting, playing, and promoting local music at The Stage Stop.”
The description adds, “His family has set this Go Fundme link to help with finalizing putting Ricky to rest, but also to potentially make a donation to a charity in Ricky’s name. We appreciate the Stage Stop and Memphis music family for showing up and sending all of the love. Please post all the photos and memories you want to share, and keep his family in your thoughts and prayers. Thank you and ROCK ON.”
The family had raised over $4,000 by Saturday evening.
Police have not named a suspect or released any theories about the possible motive.
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