Bill Barr Says Insulting a Rape Accuser Was Part of Trump’s Official Duties
Posted on AllSides September 9th, 2020
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ON TUESDAY, the Department of Justice moved to replace President Donald Trump’s private legal team to defend the accused rapist in a defamation suit brought by author E. Jean Carroll. Last year, Carroll credibly accused Trump of raping her in a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s.
In a predictably putrid response, Trump denied the assault, claimed (falsely) to have never met Carroll and — as grounds for why he could not have raped her — said that she wasn’t his “type.” These comments spurred the defamation suit, in which...
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