{"id":74095,"date":"2026-05-27T21:54:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T02:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/us-justice-department-reportedly-opens-criminal-inquiry-into-trump-accuser-e-jean-carroll\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T21:54:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T02:54:59","slug":"us-justice-department-reportedly-opens-criminal-inquiry-into-trump-accuser-e-jean-carroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/us-justice-department-reportedly-opens-criminal-inquiry-into-trump-accuser-e-jean-carroll\/","title":{"rendered":"US justice department reportedly opens criminal inquiry into Trump accuser E Jean Carroll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials said to be examining whether Carroll committed perjury in 2022 deposition tied to lawsuits against president<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has opened a criminal investigation into E Jean Carroll, the writer who accused the president of sexual assault, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/27\/politics\/exclusive-justice-department-launched-e-jean-carroll-investigation\">according<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/27\/us\/politics\/us-is-said-to-open-criminal-inquiry-of-e-jean-carroll-over-accusations-against-trump.html\">news reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors, the New York Times and CNN reported on Wednesday, are looking into whether Carroll, 82, committed perjury in a 2022 deposition during her civil lawsuits against Trump, in which she said she did not accept outside financial support for her legal battles.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/27\/trump-doj-investigation-e-jean-carroll\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials said to be examining whether Carroll committed perjury in 2022 deposition tied to lawsuits against president The Trump administration has opened a criminal investigation into E Jean Carroll, the writer who accused the president of sexual assault, according to news reports. Prosecutors, the New York Times and CNN reported on Wednesday, are looking into &#8230; <a title=\"US justice department reportedly opens criminal inquiry into Trump accuser E Jean Carroll\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/us-justice-department-reportedly-opens-criminal-inquiry-into-trump-accuser-e-jean-carroll\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US justice department reportedly opens criminal inquiry into Trump accuser E Jean Carroll\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}