Connect the Dots 101

www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/nyregion/donald-trump-jean-carroll-lawsuit-rape.amp.html

I’m fine with the GOP diverting campaign contributions into his legal defense funds, but how did taxpayers wind up on the hook?

“In a highly unusual legal maneuver, the Department of Justice moved on Tuesday to replace President Trump’s private lawyers and defend him against a defamation lawsuit brought in a New York state court by the author E. Jean Carroll, who has accused him of raping her in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s.”