{"id":176084,"date":"2020-09-08T19:37:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T00:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/09\/08\/whiskey-tango-foxtrot-2\/"},"modified":"2020-09-08T19:37:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T00:37:00","slug":"whiskey-tango-foxtrot-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/09\/08\/whiskey-tango-foxtrot-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Justice Department is taking over the defense in the E. Jean Carroll defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/div>\n

She alleges sexual assault, and has stated that she is lying and she has never met her. (There are multiple pictures of them together)<\/p>\n

The government is claiming that even though the (alleged) rape occurred in the mid 1990s, that his denial of meeting her was made when he was President, so the DOJ should defend him at taxpayer expense, and that the case should be moved to federal court.<\/p>\n

This is a transparent attempt to delay the case.<\/p>\n

It is also the single most corrupt thing that any US Attorney General has ever done, because this could not have proceeded without Bill Barr specifically directing this:<\/p>\n

The Justice Department moved on Tuesday to replace President Trump\u2019s private legal team with government lawyers to defend him against a defamation lawsuit by the author E. Jean Carroll, who has accused him of raping her<\/a> in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s.<\/p>\n

In a highly unusual legal move, lawyers for the Justice Department said in court papers<\/a> that Mr. Trump was acting in his official capacity as president when he denied ever knowing Ms. Carroll and thus could be defended by government lawyers \u2014 in effect underwritten by taxpayer money.<\/p>\n

Though the law gives employees of the federal government immunity from most defamation lawsuits, legal experts said it has rarely, if ever, been used before to protect a president, especially for actions taken before he entered office.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe question is,\u201d said Steve Vladeck, a University of Texas law professor, \u201cis it really within the scope of the law for government lawyers to defend someone accused of lying about a rape when he wasn\u2019t even president yet?\u201d<\/p>\n

The motion also effectively protects Mr. Trump from any embarrassing disclosures in the middle of his campaign for re-election. A state judge issued a ruling<\/a> last month that potentially opened the door to Mr. Trump being deposed in the case before the election in November, and Ms. Carroll\u2019s lawyers have also requested that he provide a DNA sample<\/a> to determine whether his genetic material is on a dress that Ms. Carroll said she was wearing at the time of the encounter. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bill Barr makes John Mitchell look like Perry Mason.<\/p>\n

This is real banana republic sh%$#.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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