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Trump’s Own Disgusting, Misogynistic Words Are Likely to Doom Him in His Upcoming Rape Defamation Trial

Former President Donald Trump has demonstrated over the years just how much of a misogynist he is, having boasted about forcing himself on women, insulting our looks, and calling us things like “fat pigs, dogs, and disgusting animals,” and even most gallingly, denied he’s ever sexually harassed any women. And right now his lawyers are falling all over themselves to make sure New York City jurors ever see or hear any evidence of this as they decide whether he raped a magazine columnist decades ago, The Daily Beast reports.

On Monday, a federal judge finalized key issues (including the evidence to be shown) in the civil trial where Trump is accused of raping E. Jean Carroll, who has written for scores of publications, including a successful column for Elle Magazine that ran for decades, in the dressing room of an upscale Manhattan department store.

So Trump’s lawyers are scrambling to stop a long list of video clips and photos from being shown at the trial, by claiming they are “irrelevant and unduly prejudicial.” The judge has not as yet formally determined what he will allow at the trial.

His lawyers are busily earmarking all the clips they don’t want jurors to see, but this may implode on them because it’s similar to the time when Barbra Streisand, who turned to the courts in 2003 to stop the publication of a photo of her Malibu home.

The alleged assault is said to have taken place while Trump was married to Marla Maples Photo – Getty Images

Perhaps the most explosive claim his lawyers are trying to suppress is the now-infamous tape revealed by The Washington Post, where Trump was caught bragging on a hot mic about how he has been able to get away with sexually assaulting women. He was riding around in a bus with Access Hollywood correspondent Billy Bush at the time.

In the tape, we hear Trump brag about trying to have sex with entertainment reporter Nancy O’Dell, saying he “tried to move on her like a bitch,” but “couldn’t get there and she was married.” At one point the two men are preparing to meet actress Arianne Zucker and Trump decides to enlighten Bush about the ways in which he has forced himself on women in the past.

“I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful… I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait,” Trump said. “And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab em by the p*ssy. You can do anything.”

Trump’s lawyers hope to also cover up Trump’s responses to a flood of sexual assault claims. In the weeks preceding the 2016 presidential election, The New York Times revealed stories of several women who said Trump had done inappropriate things. There’s the story of Rachel Crooks, who was at the time a 22-year-old receptionist at Bayrock Group in Trump Tower. Trump, she said, wouldn’t let go of her hand and forcibly kissed her several times in 2006.


A 2017 file photo of the luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman in New York City. Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll has accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her inside the store in the mid-1990s.
Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Another example: Jessica Leeds, who remembered the time when she was a young businesswoman wearing a fashionable tweed suit on a Dallas to New York flight when a flight attendant invited her to sit next to Trump in first class. He proceeded to grab her breasts and run a hand up her skirt.

“It’s like he’s got four extra hands,” she said at the time.

And of course, as you might expect, Trump, holding forth at rallies, characterized the accusations as duplicitous. Trump continued dissing any woman who came forward all the way up to the election, but it was perhaps his Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton who brought the situation into proper perspective. Especially in one clip from their September 26 presidential debate. It’s this particular clip that his lawyers really want to bury.

Clinton called Trump on the carpet for the way he used his position of authority to torment a Miss Universe beauty queen.

“This is a man who has called women pigs, slobs, and dogs, and someone who has said pregnancy is an inconvenience to employers, who has said women don’t deserve equal pay unless they do as good a job as men,” Clinton said.

Trump being who he is, dismissed her.

“And one of the worst things he said was about a woman in a beauty contest. He loves beauty contests, supporting them and hanging around them,” Clinton said. “And he called this woman ‘Miss Piggy.’ Then he called her ‘Miss Housekeeping,’ because she was Latina. Donald, she has a name. Her name is Alicia Machado.”

And what he did, in her case, really is disgusting. Let’s hope jurors get to hear what Trump did to this poor woman. Machado was crowned Miss Universe in 1996, but when it was time for her to crown her successor on TV, the future president called in a fitness expert to make her quickly lose weight. People Magazine quoted Trump as saying “she is working on her problem.” What exactly was he worried about? “You really have an obligation to stay in a perfect physical state,” he said at the time.

Donald Trump responded to a rape accusation by the writer E. Jean Carroll (second from left) by saying that he’s never met her. A photo from 1987 shows them at a party together.Photograph Courtesy E. Jean Carroll / St. Martin’s Press

So I hope the judge in this case lets jurors hear everything. Because Trump hasn’t just sexually abused women, he’s harmed us in so many other ways. Especially by appointing three conservative Supreme Court Justices who have effectively overturned the landmark decision that gave women the right to abortion, and to have dominion over their own bodies.

Because Trump really should pay for what he’s done to us.

Here’s a clip his lawyers probably don’t want the jury to see.

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Megan has lived in California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida and she currently lives in Central America. Living in these places has informed her writing on politics, science, and history. She is currently owned by 15 cats and 3 dogs and regularly owns Trump supporters when she has the opportunity. She can be found on Twitter at https://twitter.com/GaiaLibra and Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/politicalsaurus

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