{"id":62885,"date":"2024-09-06T13:05:55","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T20:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=62885"},"modified":"2024-09-06T13:05:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T20:05:55","slug":"smart-politics-as-election-day-nears-trump-reminds-america-of-his-sexual-assault-judgment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=62885","title":{"rendered":"SMART POLITICS? As Election Day Nears Trump Reminds America of His Sexual Assault Judgment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There a lot of important issues to be addressed in this election season. They include abortion, immigration, the economy, gun safety, and the climate crisis. And due to Donald Trump&#8217;s overt authoritarian aspirations, even the stability of American democracy is up for debate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=SMART POLITICS? As Election Day Nears Trump Reminds America of His Sexual Assault Judgment%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=62885\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Tweet this article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-pervert.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Pervert\" width=\"550\" height=\"297\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43243\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Trump, however, is focused on an entirely different set of priorities, ranging from his obsessive delusions of the 2020 election being <em>&#8220;rigged and stolen&#8221;<\/em> from him, to fear mongering about migrant criminals, creeping communism, and World War III. It&#8217;s a basket of deplorable nonsense that he is desperately struggling to stir up into some sort of manufactured, existential threat. But he just ends up making himself look ever more deranged.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=62624\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TRUMP IS TOAST: The Washington Post\u2019s Laundry List of Trump\u2019s Increasingly Bizarre Claims<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Friday morning Trump called a press conference (although he left without taking any questions), to discuss his appeal of the civil judgment against him for defaming and sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll. It&#8217;s an appeal that has no rational legal basis and is likely to be quickly dismissed. It&#8217;s just another attempt on Trump&#8217;s part to throw a monkey wrench into the judicial process, and to delay any possible legal consequences for his wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>A more interesting question is, why is he making such a public display of this matter now? The only foreseeable result is that it will remind the American people that he is a flaming misogynist and an adjudicated rapist who defamed his victim. Is this really the subject that he wants on the minds of voters a few days before his debate with Kamala Harris, and just two months before Election Day?<\/p>\n<p>Apparently so. Despite the memories that Trump is reviving, he still felt compelled to complain about some vaguely referenced folks who he believes were rude in some unexplained way to judges that he admired. Specifically, Palm Beach Trump flunky, Aileen Cannon. And to that end he whined that those critics should face legal consequences for daring have opinions that he didn&#8217;t approve of.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;That&#8217;s what the [Department of Defense] should look into. The legality of these people taking a brilliant judge and demeaning her. And taking other people that are fair and solid and demeaning them. It&#8217;s called &#8216;playing the ref.&#8217; Nobody did it better than the late, great Bobby Knight, basketball coach. He would play, he would scream at those refs.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>[<em>&#8230;Whereupon Trump goes off script to ramble about Knight for a while, and then&#8230;<\/em>] These people are playing the ref when they are allowed to call for a recusal, impeachment of a judge. Because they&#8217;re not getting their way.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump is now talking about &quot;the late, great Bobby Knight&quot; and how he endorsed him before he died during the NYC press conference about the E. Jean Carroll case.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, if you wanna know why Fox News isn&#39;t carrying this babbling nonsense live, well here you go&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q0qz6s3YFJ\">pic.twitter.com\/q0qz6s3YFJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/justinbaragona\/status\/1832087726533013741?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So Trump thinks it should be illegal to criticize judges. Something he does repeatedly. He relentlessly berates them with vicious diatribes, calling them everything from <em>&#8220;corrupt&#8221;<\/em> to <em>&#8220;deranged,&#8221;<\/em> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=60761\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">even going after their families<\/a><\/strong> in a way that put them at risk of harm. He has accused them of being biased, and of coordinating with the White House to destroy him. None of which he can supply any shred of evidence for. And he has also impotently demanded that they be recused and\/or impeached when he doesn&#8217;t get his way.<\/p>\n<p>To make matters worse, Trump&#8217;s remarks during his press avail were profoundly unhelpful to his cause. He insulted his own lawyers as they stood docilly behind him, saying that <em>&#8220;I&#8217;m disappointed in my legal talent, I&#8217;ll be honest with you.&#8221;<\/em> Then he went on to complain that his lawyers didn&#8217;t bring up the <em>&#8220;Monica Lewinsky type dress,&#8221;<\/em> that never had any relevance to the case. His lawyers must be so proud.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Well, Trump&#39;s lawyers are incompetents who have lost at almost every turn. So Trump may be entitled to be disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, they never had cases that were remotely viable, and they were forced by him into ridiculous legal tactics. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w7ICQ3M5no\">https:\/\/t.co\/w7ICQ3M5no<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; News Corpse (@NewsCorpse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\/status\/1832094974936264942?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s cult disciples might not regard what he&#8217;s doing as <em>&#8220;playing the refs.&#8221;<\/em> They will probably think that he is playing 3D checkers with this preposterously hypocritical harangue. Fine. Maybe Trump thinks so as well. And if he wants to plant in people&#8217;s minds the image of him as an abuser of women just prior to the election, I&#8217;m all for it. At least it&#8217;s the truth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED STORIES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=62879\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HOLY CR&#038;P: Trump\u2019s Rambling, Incoherent Plan to Make Child Care Affordable is Utterly Deranged<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=62853\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BLAME AMERICA FIRST: Fox News Attacks U.S. in Response to Reports of Russian Election Interference<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=62840\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News is Desperately Struggling to Find Dirt on Kamala Harris \u2013 Here is What They Found<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse<br \/>\non <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newscorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@newscorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Threads<\/a>.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>And check out my books on Amazon:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aOYFpM\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox Nation vs. Reality:<br \/>\nThe Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Thanks so much for your support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There a lot of important issues to be addressed in this election season. They include abortion, immigration, the economy, gun safety, and the climate crisis. And due to Donald Trump&#8217;s overt authoritarian aspirations, even the stability of American democracy is up for debate. Click here to Tweet this article Trump, however, is focused on an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[152,1,1201,8,16],"tags":[554,1511,1140,123],"class_list":["post-62885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-justice","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-donald-trump","tag-e-jean-carroll","tag-election","tag-justice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-pervert.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-gmh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":57848,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57848","url_meta":{"origin":62885,"position":0},"title":"Post-Mugshot: Trump&#8217;s Phony Bravado Falls Apart as Poll Shows Most Americans Say He&#8217;s Guilty","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/25\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"On August 24, 2023, Donald Trump made history by becoming the first former president of the United States to be captured for posterity in a mugshot. 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