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dpibel

(4,014 posts)
9. Even by your standards, that's a remarkable non sequitur
Sun Dec 10, 2017, 04:22 PM
Dec 2017

" After going public with her allegation last month, Nelson added, her children have been threatened and she's afraid to leave her home.

'I’m scared to go anywhere. Shopping, I have to have someone with me,' she said, adding that her father takes her to doctors' appointments."

How does the fact that she and her children have been threatened and are thus afraid to go out translate into any comment one way or another on whether she wants to confront her accuser?

In addition, for this to be analogous to the Franken case, you'd need to point us to all the threats directed against Tweeden, et. al. I've not heard about those. Won't you fill us in?

That said, it appears that Nelson doesn't want the thing to just go away:

"But Nelson, who said she’s a Republican and a Trump supporter, asked 'Is the party more important really than what happened? I feel like my incident is being swept under the rug, literally, because he’s a Republican.'"

Are those the words of a person who does not want to confront her accuser?

So how does your citation to this story respond at all to the OP?

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