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The Scream
Author: Raine
Date: 05/01/2023 13:10:00
It's a new month and a Monday. Here in the DMV, the sun is out and it's warming up.
Today the defamation and rape civil of TFG begins a second week. If it's anything like last week, it won't be pretty. Ms. Carrol is a strong and brave woman. Lisa Rubin has been in the courtroom reporting on the proceeding and had a very interesting exchange over the weekend with Ali Velshi. Remember, Carrol is 79.
Lisa Rubin has researched the background on Ms. Carrol. read this thread and you'll better understand.
Instead, TFG's Lawyer really went there and asked her why she didn't scream during her rape. I didn't scream when I was raped either. Why? I didn't want to get killed. That's the thing about mysogny: if you don't act the way a misogynist wants, you are to blame. If you do, then you get to be further abused. But that's the route Tacopina is taking. He may have messed up big time last week.
Basically, the defense is saying she should have screamed because that is proof that she was victimized.
That is the kinda thing that makes me want to scream.
& 
Raine
Today the defamation and rape civil of TFG begins a second week. If it's anything like last week, it won't be pretty. Ms. Carrol is a strong and brave woman. Lisa Rubin has been in the courtroom reporting on the proceeding and had a very interesting exchange over the weekend with Ali Velshi. Remember, Carrol is 79.
"The era in which she existed and came to prominence professionally, is inseparable from understanding her experience," says @lawofruby of #EJeanCarroll. "She is suing [Trump] not only because he denied the sexual assault, but because he went further than that." #velshi pic.twitter.com/VRVJ8e0FQX
— Ali Velshi (@AliVelshi) April 30, 2023
Lisa Rubin has researched the background on Ms. Carrol. read this thread and you'll better understand.
She made her bones in the often macho "gonzo journalist" movement, inserting herself into -- and often doing crazy things -- in the name of a story. Her big break came from taking Fran Lebowitz *camping*; her byline appeared in Rolling Stone and Playboy. 2/
— Lisa Rubin (@lawofruby) April 28, 2023
Instead, TFG's Lawyer really went there and asked her why she didn't scream during her rape. I didn't scream when I was raped either. Why? I didn't want to get killed. That's the thing about mysogny: if you don't act the way a misogynist wants, you are to blame. If you do, then you get to be further abused. But that's the route Tacopina is taking. He may have messed up big time last week.
Tacopino fell "into this other trap," former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance said on MSNBC on Saturday, "of putting the jury on her side and willing to listen to her testimony."
(snip)
Badgering an elderly woman isn't just a bad look, however. In going for maximum belligerence, Tacopino may have accidentally revealed a telling detail about why Trump allegedly raped Carroll in a dressing room that day. Not because he was overcome with lust. No, because Trump was angry over a perceived insult. We all know how he loves to take revenge over imaginary slights.
The crucial moment came during a back-and-forth between Carroll and Tacopino about a seemingly irrelevant detail from the day. In her original recounting, Carroll described Trump asking her to try on lingerie, and her teasingly countering with, "You try it on" and "it's your color."
(snip)
As I was reading this baffling exchange, I couldn't help but start picturing how Trump, who we all know has a tissue-thin ego, would react to having a pretty, witty woman tease him with jokes about putting on a teddy. There's no question about it. He would have felt emasculated. He would have been furious. He would have grown angrier and angrier as she kept the banter up. She probably thought they were having fun. In reality, she was dealing with a short-tempered narcissist who cannot take a joke.
Tacopino inadvertently answered questions that Carroll herself has said haunt her: Why her? Why that day? Why did Trump allegedly get violent so suddenly?
The lingerie jokes hold the answer: Trump felt humiliated by Carroll's teasing. He wanted to put her in her place.
Basically, the defense is saying she should have screamed because that is proof that she was victimized.
That is the kinda thing that makes me want to scream.
& Raine
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Comment by 
Raine on 05/01/2023 13:53:15
Raine on 05/01/2023 13:53:15
Good morning!
Comment by Raine on 05/01/2023 14:43:37
Proving the point of my blog.
She returned to the scene so she must be lying.
Raine on 05/01/2023 14:43:37
Donald Trump’s attorney Joe Tacopina appears to be trying to demonstrate through a line of questioning Monday morning that accuser E. Jean Carroll was not as traumatized as she has testified she was by the alleged encounter that is at the heart of her lawsuit.
Tacopina asked Carroll about the number of times she returned to Bergdorf Goodman after the 1996 episode in which she said Trump sexually assaulted her.
Carroll conceded she visited Bergdorf Goodman on at least 23 dates from 2001 to 2018, not including times she may have gone in and made no purchase.
“I’ve made that clear, that Bergdorf’s is not a place that I’m afraid to enter,” Carroll testified.
Proving the point of my blog.
She returned to the scene so she must be lying.
Comment by 
BobR on 05/01/2023 15:17:29
BobR on 05/01/2023 15:17:29
I've been on a jury for a divorce case, and I can tell you that most people can see right through transparent attempts to demonize the other person in the case.
Comment by Raine on 05/01/2023 15:53:56
Raine on 05/01/2023 15:53:56
Ben Cardin's retirement announcement in Maryland could trigger a crowded & expensive Democratic primary to replace him. (But we also thought that might happen in Michigan, where Elissa Slotkin seems to have locked things down pretty quickly).
— Garrett Haake (@GarrettHaake) May 1, 2023