Famed Writer Who Accused Trump Of Rape Sues POTUS For Defamation

The longtime New York writer and women’s advice columnist who this summer accused President Trump of raping her two decades ago, sued the President on Monday for defamation.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1259934

Grisham’s comment is deplorable. Might be more evidence for the case, frankly.

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Damn, Grisham starts hitting the bottle early in the day…

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Galatians 6:7 "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap."

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Worth noting that her lead attorney is Roberta Kaplan, who is well-known and very good at this sort of claim.

That said, Ms. Carroll has an uphill battle simply because she is a public figure. It’s highly unlikely that she has any measurable damages that she can recover. The discovery will be a lot of fun, if she can get to it.

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Just to keep everything in perspective, today is only Monday. Pace yourself, kids.

ETA For those keeping track at home, this is Day 5 of Infrastructure Week #197.

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Trump Christians will tell you this has to do with farmers only.

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It´s amazing to me the caliber of the lawyers that Trump is left with. I am loath to underestimate Trump, but what sort of idjit would hire Giuliani and Sekulow?

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I rather doubt her goal is to get damages, but rather to force this out and achieve that moral victory.

Just deposing him would be an achievement, he’d be squirming for sure.

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Naw. It’s Tuesday in Sydney.

Sekulow’s a part-time lawyer, I think, and full-time conservative kook. Giuliani is only called a lawyer to keep his actual shady machinations under wraps better. I can’t see that he does any actual legal work for Trump at all.

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What goes around comes around.

Republicans to include what is and has been a Republican (not conservative) Supreme Court made rulings in regard to attacks with much less credibility against Bill Clinton and now those rulings can be used against a Republican.

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Can’t wait for someone to snap a photo of the palatial dressing rooms in Bergdorf’s and posts it on Twitter.

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Moral victory is not nothing, of course. I doubt anyone on Ms. Carroll’s side of the case is banking on a payday at the end of this case.

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Anybody got any read on the skills of Boris and Natasha (aka Toensing and DiGenova the Weak Moustache)? I know he was an AUSA or DA or something at one point. Not that that’s saying much, but what about her? And do they have any substantial notches on their belts?

Shoot, just getting him to take the 5th in a deposition would be enough for the whole world to see that he’s lying.

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“Legal work”??? That’s putting it rather nicely.

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Grisham is far better at being a nasty, dirty liar than Sarah Sanders ever was.

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Ain’t that the truth. Just a vicious person. And compared to Sanders, no slouch herself in blandly issuing appalling defamations of decent people’s character, that’s saying something.

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