Obviously, on the surface, it's an awful, heart wrenching rape story.
Given the Howard Stern/Access Hollywood tapes, 12 women coming forward, his ex-wife's rape accusations, that a judge has set a hearing date of Dec 16th and other misogynist stuff, you'd think folks would allow the possibility that these allegations may be worth hearing while waiting for due process - that he remains kind innocent until proven otherwise (although it is a civil case ..).
Twitter seemed to explode with a high number of attacks on #LisaBloom (her lawyer) (ie suggestions to have her disbarred) and this woman.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/calif-woman-accusing-trump-child-rape-break-silence-article-1.2855631
"Jane Doe has received numerous threats today, as have all the Trump accusers that I have represented,” said the woman’s attorney, Lisa Bloom.
“She is living in fear. She has decided that she is too afraid to show her face. She has been here all day, ready to do it, but unfortunately, she's in terrible fear. So we're going to have to reschedule. I apologize to all of you who came."
I don't know how many of you have watched some of these woman Trump has molested tell their side of the story but it's often been pretty compelling testimony. Many of them have been deeply hurt by his conduct and can barely speak about it. Few if any are suing him and their motivations seem to be generally based for the greater good.
Somehow, the FBI looking at emails where Clinton has been previously cleared is massively newsworthy even though we haven't a shred of evidence to suggest any further wrongdoing, etc. But a teenager alleging being violently raped and then muzzled by threats warrants no mainstream media coverage.
Is it just me or is that a double standard?
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