How MeToo legal strategies empowered E. Jean Carrol's case against Donald Trump. (via MaddowBlog)
As a former litigator-turned-journalist, I am always intrigued by the ways each profession marshals proof. Both worlds rely on investigation — and
But The New York Times’ bombshell, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting on Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein’s decades of sexual misconduct changed everything. That reporting, as she has testified, prompted Carroll to reassess her own untold stories. And eventually, it led her to publicly accuse Trump of raping her.
How could you show these women were credible? Well, first, the sheer number of accusers lent each one more credibility than she had alone. One woman was a lone accuser; dozens of women were a pattern. What even the most sympathetic of lawyers used to assess as a hopeless “he said, she said” can now be shaped into a cohesive, persuasive presentation of a pattern.
Post-#MeToo, however, not only were sexual assault victims empowered to come forward, but their lawyers also understood they had new tools to corroborate those stories. And Carroll’s lead lawyer, Robbie Kaplan, was especially attentive to the lessons of #MeToo as she developed Carroll’s case, especially given Trump’s own obstreperous litigation conduct.
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