“DOJ investigating E. Jean Carroll’s defense funding”
Deadline: White House
Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW
4.5 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York. For more than 100 years, the motto of the Justice Department has been a Latin phrase that translates basically to who prosecutes on behalf of justice. |
| 0:18.8 | Donald Trump's Justice Department has taken that motto to mean instead, who prosecutes on behalf of justice. Donald Trump's Justice Department has taken that motto to mean instead who prosecutes on |
| 0:24.4 | behalf of Donald J. Trump. |
| 0:26.1 | There is brand new reporting today that Trump's DOJ has set its sights on E. Jean Carroll. |
| 0:31.4 | E. Jean Carroll brought two civil lawsuits against Donald Trump, and she won. |
| 0:36.2 | In one case in 2023, a jury found that Donald Trump |
| 0:40.0 | was liable for sexual assault. The following year, she won $83 million in damages. In a defamation |
| 0:47.0 | case, she brought against Donald Trump. Now, a source familiar with the matter confirms news first |
| 0:52.3 | reported by CNN to our colleague Ken Delanian |
| 0:55.6 | that DOJ is now conducting a criminal investigation into whether EG and Carol lied under oath |
| 1:02.0 | about outside funding for those two civil cases. CNN reports that prosecutors are looking at |
| 1:08.0 | her 22 deposition in which she said she received no outside funding, |
| 1:13.4 | although it turns out that entrepreneur and billionaire Reid Hoffman did pay some legal fees |
| 1:18.1 | and expenses. E. Jean Carroll's lawyer declined to comment. The New York Times is reporting |
| 1:23.3 | that acting AG Todd Blanche has recused himself from the case since he was Donald Trump's lawyer |
| 1:29.1 | during the civil case E.G. and Carroll brought against Trump. But it's worth wondering if the |
| 1:34.1 | Justice Department is acting as Donald Trump's law firm all the same. The DOJ under Blanche has been |
| 1:40.0 | laser focused on pursuing Donald Trump's critics. Just weeks ago, former director of the FBI Jim Comey, was indicted over an Instagram post of a picture of beach shell art. |
| 1:52.3 | And now E. Jean Carroll is under criminal investigation. |
| 1:56.4 | They're reviving an argument that Team Trump has already failed in a court to use against her. |
| 2:02.4 | New York Times reports it before that first trial. |
| 2:05.1 | Trump's lawyers accused E. Jean Carroll of hiding that she received outside funding for her case. |
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