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"He's nothing. He is like a walrus snorting." E.Jean Carroll describes her surprise at how insubstantial Donald Trump's presence was in court, despite his image and hype. https://t.co/PLAr1Jc9nJ
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This team of young people bravely confronted someone who seemed intimidating but turned out to be insignificant. The experience of being in the same room with him, after years of fear, was surprising. Initially terrified and overwhelmed before the trial, the speaker had a breakdown just days before. However, once in court, facing him revealed he was just a phantom, lacking real power. The realization that he was nothing and that fear was unfounded was astonishing. It highlighted that it was the people around him who gave him strength, not him as an individual.
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Speaker 0: This team of brilliant young people have, as you said, stood up to the man, who, by the way, Rachel, is not even there. He's nothing. He is without he is like a walrus snorting and like a rhino flopping his hand. It was he is not there. That was the surprising thing to me.
Speaker 1: Well, on that point, talking about, you know, being face to face with him, being in the same physical space with him for the first time since when you say he assaulted you in in 1996. Right. What you're describing there, in terms of him being nothing, him feeling like an animal, him feeling not intimidating, Was that a shock to you? Because, I mean, your guts here, your bravery here includes the physical bravery about being around him again. It sounds like it didn't go the way you expected it to once you were in the same room.
Speaker 0: No, Rachel. I was terrified. I I was just a bag of sweating corpuscles as we prepared for trial. And, 4 days before trial, I had an actual breakdown. I lost my ability to speak.
I lost my words. I couldn't talk, and I couldn't go on. It was that's how sprightened I was. But, oddly, we went into court. Robbie took, the lectern.
I sat in the witness chair like this, and she said, miss Carol, good morning. Would you please spell your name for the court? And, amazingly, I looked out, and he was nothing. He was nothing. He was a phantom.
Yeah. It was the people around him who were giving him power. He himself was nothing. It was an astonishing, discovery for me. He's nothing.
We don't need to be afraid of him. He can be knocked down twice. Miss Crumlish woman right here.