Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday defended the Justice Department’s move to intervene in a defamation suit brought by a writer who claims President Donald Trump raped her in a department store dressing room 25 years ago, calling the move a “normal application” of a statute known as the Westfall Act.
Barr said both of Trump’s predecessors, former presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, had invoked the legal process to have the Justice Department defend lawsuits against them while they were in office, as had former Vice President Dick Cheney. Carroll claimed last year that she ran into Trump in a New York department store in 1995 or 1996, and agreed to help the then-Manhattan real estate mogul pick out a gift. Carroll said the two ended up in a dressing room in the store’s lingerie section where Trump assaulted and raped her.
Normal? For a US president to be accused of rape?!!!
Barr needs to be removed.
Povediitz Yeah... the other leg plays jingle bells.
Loser disgusting and disgraceful
What is happening to our country as is used to be? Trump and his entire administration are a bunch of liars. Wake up Americans
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