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How’s This For Corruption?
Yet we wonder how Trump voters will react to the latest outlandish legal action by the President. Or if they’ll react at all…
Even we will admit the outrage we feel right now is tempered by the sense that this will end up being no more than just another distraction. But one day — and it’s got to be soon — maybe people will start adding all this kind of stuff up until they have no choice but to be convinced it just isn’t normal or right. Right?
If you haven’t heard by now, the Justice Department is taking over defense of a civil suit against the President. In other words, the U.S. government will be Trump’s lawyer now in an alleged rape-related defamation case against him, not his own personal lawyers.
It’s a little complicated because the case is not expressly about the accusation of rape against Trump that allegedly occurred 20 years ago in a dressing room at a now defunct New York department store.
It’s about the fact that Trump accused his accuser, E. Jean Carroll, of “totally lying”, and claimed “I have no idea who she is.” Even though as seems to always be the case, there’s a photo of them together, which she included in a New York Magazine article last year detailing what she says happened with Trump.
