Women Will Bring Trump Down

E. Jean Carroll and Nikki Haley

That Trump could ultimately be brought down by women is so gratifying to me. E. Jean Carroll and Nikki Haley are doing great things strip him of his beloved money and make him look pathetic. Carroll and her legal team won judgement yesterday for defamation, the judge ordering him to pay $83.3 million for years of insults after he raped her. As for Nikki, she just won’t let up attacking him. Both women are tenacious in their efforts to stop his relentlous bullying, his arrogant and evil attacks of those he perceives to be weaker. The problem is, they are showing the world very clearly that they are smarter, braver, stronger than he is. Not to mention right.

They are doing what they can to stop a man who could potentially end our Democracy. Right now, he is controlling the Republican Party from outside the government, attempting to change US policy by manipulating, bullying and threatening members of the GOP. His behavior extends to anyone he thinks he can manipulate.

When he was first running for president in 2016, and we heard the Billy Bush tapes, where he said he can grab women by the pussy, I thought that was the end of his campaign. It turned out to be just the beginning, and for the life of me, I just don’t understand my fellow Americans who support him, then and now. It makes me sad.

Because there have been so many brave women in the last ten years who have spoken out, we are chipping away at a cultural acceptance of treating women as if they are property to be used.

a drawing done when the MeToo movement began

I just wanted to post my gratitude to E. Jean Carroll and her attorney Robbie Kaplan for their work in helping to bring Trump down, and make the world a safer place for women. And for all of us.

Above is a iPhone drawing I did of E. Jean Carroll as we both waited in line in the Manhattan Courthouse during the first trial. She and I know each other a little bit and we caught each others’ eyes from across the winding line of journalists and others waiting to be screened to enter the courtroom. I drew what I saw, which was a powerful woman. I covered the Carroll v Trump trial in Manhattan that week, when he was convicted of sexual assault, here is the first day of my drawing coverage with subsequent days following on my newsletter.

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