In the national interest
Now here’s something I didn’t know – that Trump tried to say it was the country who was slandering a woman he assaulted, not Trump the person bro. He tried to make all of us responsible for his lies and obstruction.
Lame-duck President Donald Trump has used “every stall tactic in the book” in a “desperate” attempt to avoid famed columnist E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit accusing him of defaming her by denying that he raped her, Carroll’s attorneys told a judge on Friday morning.
The remarks were made at a hearing that Trump lodged an eleventh-hour objection to avoid. At 7:57 p.m. on Thursday night, Trump’s counsel filed a letter to stay all proceedings while they appeal
ofa ruling preventing the Department of Justice from acting as his private law firm on the taxpayer dime.…
Shortly before the presidential election, Judge Kaplan rejected an attempt to rebrand Carroll v. Trump as Carroll v. United States of America. That attempt to substitute Trump with the nation relied upon the premise that the president acted in a official capacity when he said of Carroll: “She’s not my type.”
The Justice Department argued that Trump made his comment in service of his duties as President of the United States, an argument Carroll’s attorneys characterized as wrong and obscene.
“There is not a single person in the United States — not the president and not anyone else — whose job description includes slandering women they sexually assaulted,” attorney Roberta Kaplan wrote in October. “That should not be a controversial proposition. Remarkably, however, the Justice Department seeks to prove it wrong.”
Kind of breathtaking.
I tried to boost my patreon monthly payment from $5 to $10. Have no idea if I succeeded in that. If I did succeed, could I please get a suitably lush postcard of Seattle? If you let me have that, I promise I’ll never ever ask you for anything again. Well, unless some wildly attractive salacious thought gets wedged in my ancient mind. It’s hard to predict what old people will do!
I think I’ve been following you forever, for some value of forever. But I don’t know when I started.
I love your posts, though I sometimes get a bit confused over the elective gender business. But I think I follow you. I was trying to describe your views to my 40+ year old younger son and he became angry. His girlfriend smoothed over his reaction. It surprised me. I guess from your comments that this is a raging argument in some parts of Christendom. I don’t know. I’m an elderly physical scientist whose progress toward a PhD was sidetracked for a few years by the Vietnam War. Those were strange times, though I’d guess you were too young to note them.
– martin smith
I’ll send you a suitably lush postcard anyway! I wasn’t too young to note the strange times then, though too young to make much sense of them, but then aren’t we all.