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SemperEadem

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12. he has attempted to intimidate Ms. Fluke
Sun Mar 4, 2012, 10:22 AM
Mar 2012

because she does not proceed in a way in which he believes she ought to.

That is called "intimidating a witness", as she was called as a witness called to testify before Congress. There is a law against doing that. Whether it applies to this particular case remains to be seen, but there is no getting away from the fact that his whole point was to intimidate her into silence... and like all abusers, he's gotten away with it so many times in the past that what used to work to get him off on this no longer does, and he has to go harder in the paint to get his thrill--this time, he went so hard that he's drawing back nubs and THAT is the only thing he's sorry for.

Were he truly sorry for what he said, he'd have apologized the moment it left his gaping pie hole.

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