we now bring you a tale of two justice departments. one under donald trump who with his handality the king william barr executed a complete takeover of the agency u leading the contents of the mueller report and then the doj under a new president. attorney general merrick garland has a daunting task transforms trump/barr llc back into the original doj. but some decisions under this new doj haven t gone over so well. one of them involves a woman accusing trump of raping her in a department store in the 1990s. trump publicly told the press it never happen and saying about his accuser, she s not my type.
said this when asked about potentially taking political dirt from a foreign power during the 2020 election. if somebody called from a country, norway, we have information on your opponent. oh, i think i d want to hear it. you want that kind of interference in our elections? it s not intereference. they have information. i think i d take it. trump officially launched his re-election campaign by the third week of june and by that friday was in a high-stakes showdown with iran over a u.s. drone being shot down. the pentagon was reportedly within minutes of launching a military assault before the president changed his mind. the president of the united states was also accused of sexual assault by writer e. jean carroll and responded that he d never met her despite this photo showing the two of them together. lawyers have characterized the alleged attack as rape. trump told reporters, she s not my type. and facing allegations of
horrible person. nancy pelosi s a disaster. okay? back in washington on june 12th trump spoke to abc news and said this when asked about potentially taking political dirt from a foreign power during the 2020 election. if somebody called from a country, norway, we have information on your opponent. oh, i think i d want to hear it. you want that kind of interference in our elections? it s not interference. they have information. i think i d take it. trump officially launched his re-election campaign by the third week of june and by that friday was in a high-stakes showdown with iran over a u.s. drone being shot down. the pentagon was reportedly within minutes of launching a military assault before the president changed his mind. the president of the united states was also accused of sexual assault by writer e. jean carroll and responded that he d never met her despite this photo showing the two of them together. lawyers have characterized the alleged attack as rape. trump told
max is the author of corrosion of conservatism: why i left the right. good evening to all of you. once again this president is attacking an accuser. it s a pattern. what does it say? i m still reeling from the she s not my type. there s million ways the president of the united states can answer the question of a serious allegation of rape and sexual assault. and she s not my type is not the one that anyone would want their president to answer, regardless of the facts of the situation, you know, that s very hard for us to determine. i think, you know, the overwhelming nature of being confronted with what do you do about a president of the united states being accused of not one sexual assault but literally by more than a dozen women? it s something that the country s almost placed to the side over the last several years because there s really no way to resolve it. and, you know, again, i m struck by the fact that remember the debates in the fall of 2016 when donald trump had his
today the president used one of his go-to denials when it comes to sexual assault accusations. telling the hill of carroll, she s not my type. you would think that prominent writer accuses president of rape is the very definition of news, whether or not the allegation is provable. and yet it was bizarrely missing from the front pages of most major newspapers. garnering this single column placement in the washington post. while carroll did appear on nbc nightly news, msnbc and cnn, the accusation was weirdly absent from political discussion on the news and it s fairly remarkable that it was. i can understand newsrooms being wary of a first-person account published in a memoir that they themselves didn t report out, but it s an on the record accusation of violent sexual assault with two people confirming that carroll told them of the assault contemn rainusly. that s a very serious allegation against the most powerful person in the country, following, we