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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPaula Jones, Aided By KellyAnne Conway's Husband, Is Coming Back To Haunt Donald Trump!
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This is a pretty interesting opinion read about how Paula Jones' lawsuit against Bill Clinton opens Trump up for same.
And guess who one of the chief architects of her case was: Kellyanne Conway's husband!
Which brings up a fascinating side note: Many of the same folks who will be helping to defend Trump in these matters have some very close ties to the group of young conservatives who call themselves the Elves (as in Santas hidden magical workers) that spent years lobbing legal grenades at President Clinton from the other side. Case in point: George Conway III, a high-powered D.C. lawyer at the prestigious firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and you guessed it husband of senior Trump adviser and alternative facts proponent Kellyanne Conway. Conway helped write Jones Supreme Court brief and also penned an influential op-ed in the Los Angeles Times at the very beginning of the Jones ordeal arguing that Clinton was on shaky legal ground. Granting the president immunity would place presidents above the law, Conway observed, and such a situation smacks of the privilege of a sovereign or an autocrat not a president of a democratic republic.
Of course, there is one way that Trump could rise above the law and avoid facing the barrage of private lawsuits and its an escape hatch that comes straight from the Supreme Courts opinion in Jones v. Clinton itself: If Congress deems it appropriate to afford the President stronger protection, it may respond with appropriate legislation.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-clinton-accuser-who-could-bring-down-trump/ar-BByWE1E?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout
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OnDoutside
(20,868 posts)TheBlackAdder
(29,981 posts).
Wiki, non-peer reviewed source, says:
It was an $850K settlement, reduced to $200K, since the remainder had to go to paying off her legal fees.
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OnDoutside
(20,868 posts)JTFrog
(14,274 posts)Cha
(320,548 posts)quite awhile ago when trump's accusers were front and center.
DeminPennswoods
(17,580 posts)not a sexual assault one that eventually will cause the biggest problems.
a kennedy
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