The Department of Justice has opened an investigation into E. Jean Carroll — the 82-year-old woman the liberal media crowned as their ultimate Trump-slaying heroine — and the focus is potential perjury. That's right, the woman who walked away with $83 million of Donald Trump's money might have lied under oath to get it.

Funny how that works, isn't it?

According to Hot Air, Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney Andrew S. Boutros of the Northern District of Illinois has opened the inquiry into Carroll's conduct during the civil litigation. The central issue? Carroll testified in a 2022 deposition that "no one else was paying for her legal fees." That turned out to be spectacularly false.

Enter Reid Hoffman — the LinkedIn billionaire and mega-Democrat donor who was bankrolling Carroll's entire legal crusade against Trump. The funding arrangement was only disclosed about two weeks before trial, meaning Carroll's team sat on this little detail for roughly six months after she swore nobody else was footing the bill.

Trump's attorney Alina Habba didn't mince words about it, stating in court that Carroll's side "conspired to conceal the truth for nearly six months." Six months of pretending a billionaire wasn't pulling the strings. Six months of a supposedly grassroots David-versus-Goliath narrative that was really just one rich guy using an elderly woman as a political weapon against a president he despised.

The media, of course, ate it up. Carroll was on every cable news show. She was the brave survivor. She was the everywoman standing up to the big bad orange man. Nobody in the press thought to ask who was writing the checks — or if they did ask, they didn't much care about the answer.

Now the DOJ does care. And the question isn't just about money — it's about whether Carroll committed perjury in a sworn deposition. That's a federal crime, for those keeping score at home.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has recused himself from the probe, which makes sense given that he previously represented Trump in the Carroll case. But the investigation is moving forward under Boutros, and the scope is reportedly still expanding.

Let's remember what happened here. Carroll accused Trump of a sexual assault she said occurred in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. Trump denied it when she went public in 2019. She sued. A jury awarded her $83 million in the defamation case — a number so absurd that Trump posted a $7.4 million bond while appealing to the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, with the case potentially heading to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The left celebrated like they'd won the Super Bowl. Finally, they got Trump's wallet. But they never stopped to wonder whether the whole thing was built on a lie told in a deposition room.

That's the thing about using the legal system as a political cudgel — eventually, someone checks the receipts. Carroll spent years as the liberal establishment's favorite weapon against Trump. Reid Hoffman spent millions making sure she stayed loaded. And now the DOJ is asking whether the foundation of the whole operation was perjury.

The irony writes itself. The woman who sued Trump for lying might have been the one lying all along.