4170

How long until Trump says she’s not hot enough for him to try raping?

4171

At his next pep rally he definitely will say this.

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Trump: That’s not me. Look at the hair.

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I mean, i knew with 100% certainty he was going to do it, so i don’t really feel like Nostradamus.

4176

We know exactly how the President handles sexual misconduct allegations. The sample size is more than sufficient.

4177

That’s…probably not what she said.

4178

When she saw his hand size.

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The entire episode has made for the rare incident in which the instincts of the media and Trumpworld have seemed to align, if for different reasons. As my colleague Megan Garber wrote on Tuesday, “A news media that is so efficiently calibrated to report that which is new isn’t fully sure how to report on that which is manifestly not new.” The resulting inertia that Garber describes has been just as evident in the West Wing this week. But if the media have been muted in their response to Carroll’s allegations because they lack a clear blueprint for how to respond, Trump officials have found themselves motivated by something simpler: They just don’t care that much. “Literally nobody—zero people—have approached me to say that this is an issue,” the current White House official told me. “I haven’t given it one second of my bandwidth.” (Carroll declined to be interviewed for this story via a representative.)

Another puzzling moment came on Monday night, when CNN’s Anderson Cooper uncomfortably cut to a commercial after Carroll said she thought “most people think of rape as being sexy—[they] think of the fantasies.” In her interview with The New York Times , Carroll explained why she doesn’t use rape to describe what happened to her: “Every woman gets to choose her word … My word is fight . My word is not the ‘victim word.’ I have not been raped. Something has not been done to me. I fought.”

When I spoke with the officials, it was as though her comments had given them a sense of cover to not engage with her underlying claim, nor with the fact that two of her friends corroborated that she had shared her allegations with them contemporaneously. (Given Trump allies’ track record on misconduct accusations against the president, officials would likely have dismissed her claims even if she hadn’t gone on TV.) The first former White House official said “if anyone” in Trump’s orbit has been talking about Carroll, “it’s been about those segments.” “You know, I don’t know one way or the other whether he did it, but I think she set back her story a lot those nights,” this person said.

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4181

Hey we know he raped you, but pressing charges could ruin his life.

I’ll take things that should not be said to THE GOD DAMN VICTIM for $1000 Alex

4182

A budding young DJT. Sociopathic rapist, but he ‘comes from a good (that is, rich white) family, and going to go to a good college (likely because of his family’s money)’. Get the fuck out of here with this shit.

4183

That judge will be first in line for the next SC vacancy.

4184

Wow.

The boy filmed himself penetrating her from behind, her torso exposed, her head hanging down, prosecutors said. He later shared the cellphone video among friends, investigators said, and sent a text that said, “When your first time having sex was rape.”

4185

WTF is wrong with people?

4186

I saw this shared by @ShivaX on Facebook and it enraged me for hours.

Thankfully, seeing the full story I get a little bit more closure at least, so for anyone else just pissed off at this judge (fuck this guy) the story thankfully doesn’t end at him.

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I have enough faith in a jury of 12 that when they see what he texted he’s done. Fingers crossed.

4187

Still pissed at the judge but hopeful with the rest of the system. That judge should be removed.

4188

He was, or at least is not an active judge. The article calls out how he is retired, and simply fills in a few times a year when needed.

He should no longer do that, clearly.

4189

I assume, and this is a big assumption, he must have some standing in order for him to fill in. Whatever that is should be removed. His ability to judge anything ought to be… removed.

4190

Agreed.