Jonathan Swift and Donald Trump Collide in Federal Court

The former president’s lawyers are not amused by a judicial citation from the bench of the great satirist who wrote ‘A Modest Proposal.’

Richard Redgrave, Victoria and Albert Museum via Wikimedia Commons
Photographic representation of 'Illustration of Gulliver's Travels.' Richard Redgrave, Victoria and Albert Museum via Wikimedia Commons

Buried in President Trump’s failed effort to obtain a mistrial in E. Jean Carroll’s civil suit against him for libel and battery — which maintains that he raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in a year she can’t remember — is an accusation of bias on the basis of literary snobbery.   

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