With the E. Jean Carroll verdict, and the late news that George Santos will face federal charges, Elise Stefanik has had one hell of a bad day.
"Elsie" endorsed, raised money and campaigned for Slippery Santos, so we hope that as soon as the charges become clear, journalists stampede to her office, chase her in Capitol Hill hallways, and shove microphones in her face at every opportunity to get her to comment. They'll have to be dogged about it, because Elsie is a coward who avoids unscripted events like the plague — even in her own district, NY-21.
And in the Carroll v. Trump saga, Elsie faces more than just the embarrassment of having thrown in her lot with a sexual abuser. As it happens, the now-infamous Joe Tacopina, who browbeat Carroll on Trump's behalf during her gutsy testimony, is also involved in a home-district court case that Stefanik has been quite vocal about. He's defending a man who's been accused of causing the deaths of 20 people in a horrific limousine accident in Schoharie, New York, in October 2018.
You read that right — 20 people. Seventeen friends who had hired the limo for a birthday trip to a brewery, the limo's driver, and two bystanders all died when the vehicle's brakes failed on a steep hill. The limousine company's shady manager, Nauman Hussain, is on trial for manslaughter, accused of failing to keep the vehicle off the road, after a judge scuttled a previous plea deal that called for no jail time.
Tacopina has been too busy with the Carroll trial to show up in Schoharie yet, but he's expected tomorrow or Friday. Elsie has been very vocal about Hussein and his even shadier dad, who owns the limo company his son managed. A sometime FBI informant who's been home in Pakistan since before the accident, the elder Hussain hasn't bothered to come back to the US to support his son. And Elsie's been haranguing Christopher Wray about whether the Bureau has been protecting the Hussains because, you know, Deep State and all.
So, how does Elsie feel about her hero Trump's bully lawyer heading upstate to lead the Hussein defense? Will anyone ask her? We cats switch our tails and wait, and we also HISS.
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