Trump is turning the organs of the state against his personal enemies. Look at E Jean Carroll | Moira Donegan

The justice department decision to launch a criminal investigation into Carroll is a troubling, dark turnDonald Trump is E Jean Carroll, the magazine writer, in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store sometime in the mid-1990s. Trump , as he denies all the sexual abuse allegations that have been made against him by , but he was by a federal jury; later, another jury when he said that she had lied about it. She didn’t lie.Trump has vowed to appeal the rulings, but he’s so far been frustrated: a federal court panel his appeal of one verdict, and the US supreme court has so far delayed a decision on whether to hear another of his appeals in the matter no fewer than . She won two judgments from Trump: $5m for sexual abuse and defamation, and more than $83m for defamation. The president has used his office to enrich himself so blatantly that he almost certainly has the money to pay her. But Carroll hasn’t seen a dime; it’s not clear that she ever will.