Speaking with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Monday evening, just days after a massive $83.3 million legal victory over failed former president Donald Trump, writer E. Jean Carroll shared a description of how the ex-head of state looked at the defamation trial that concluded last week in New York.
“He is like a walrus snorting and like a rhino flopping his hands. He is not there. That was the surprising thing to me.”
Carroll admitted that she had been terrified of facing Trump in court, but her fears quickly abated when she took the stand and began testifying.
“Amazingly, I looked out, and he was nothing,” she said. “He was nothing. He was a phantom. It was the people around him who were giving him power. He himself was nothing.”
That moment of clarity, Carroll continued, gave her new insight regarding the Donald.
“We don’t need to be afraid of him. He can be knocked out.”
Others who have observed Trump over the years agreed with Carroll, suggesting that he’s just an impotent coward.
