He’s obviously proud of it
Trump is suing George Stephanopoulos for saying that he was found liable for rape when interviewing Nancy Mace. Seriously:
Former President Trump sued ABC News and George Stephanopoulos on Monday, alleging defamation over the anchor’s questioning of Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) about her endorsement of Trump.
The March 10 interview on “This Week” made headlines after Mace, a rape survivor, accused Stephanopoulos of trying to “shame” her by probing why she endorsed the former president despite juries’ recent verdicts against him in advice columnist E. Jean Carroll’s sexual battery and defamation lawsuits.
Trump’s lawsuit takes aim at how Stephanopoulos at multiple points in his questioning said Trump had been found “liable for rape.” The jury had found Trump liable for sexual abuse under New York law, but not rape.
“Judges and two separate juries have found him liable for rape and for defaming the victim of that rape. How do you square your endorsement of Donald Trump with the testimony we just saw, ” Stephanopoulos asked during the interview.
“These statements were and remain false, and were made by Defendant Stephanopoulos with actual malice or with a reckless disregard for the truth given that Defendant Stephanopoulos knows that these statements are patently and demonstrably false,” Trump’s attorney, Alejandro Brito, wrote in the 20-page complaint.
I sure hope Brito got his money upfront because this case is way down the list of important Trump cases.
Trump is being a moron here. He’s about to go to trial for illegally funneling hush money to a porn star during his first presidential campaign. There’s going to be a whole lot of talk about his creepy sexual behavior 18 years ago when his wife was at home with their newborn child. Now he’s drawing attention to the detail of his grotesque assault on E. Jean Carroll? Does he think that people, especially women, like this stuff about him?
George Conway wrote this on twitter:
The theory of Trump’s complaint here is that, since the jury in Carroll II, the case tried last year, unanimously found that Trump forcibly and without consent penetrated Carroll’s vagina with his fingers and not his penis, and since this constituted sexual assault and not rape as defined by the New York Penal Code, Stephanopoulos libeled him by saying he had been held liable for “rape,” even though the judge in the Carroll case has held multiple times since the verdict that in common parlance (and the law of most other jurisdictions) forcible digital penetration is rape.
In other words, Trump is suing Stephanopoulos and ABC because Stephanopoulos repeated what a federal district judge has said repeatedly in written opinions. By bringing this lawsuit, Trump will only bring more public attention to what he did to Carroll. And he and his lawyers may very well be—in fact, ought to be—sanctioned. Another brilliant stable-genius move. Trump is not only a rapist, he’s a nut job, and a very, very dumb one at that.
Another brilliant stable-genius move. Trump is not only a rapist, he’s a nut job, and a very, very dumb one at that.
Some of his people really do think this reflects his “manly vigor” I guess. What kind of people would think such a thing?