By Hubie and Bertie
Is it just us, or was Benedict Donald more orange than usual when he was deposed in the E. Jean Carroll case?
It's hard not to focus on how awful he looked, but what he was saying was even worse. Instead of trotting out the "locker room talk" excuse that his frantic 2016 campaign team invented about the Access Hollywood tape, Trump basically doubled down on it. Yep, he said, "stars" have raped and pillaged down through the ages, because they can — "fortunately, or unfortunately," whatever that means.
Describing Donald Trump as a "star" because he had a cheesy reality TV show in the early 2000s is a real stretch. Katharine Hepburn was a star. Bette Davis was a star. Humphrey Bogart was a star. But this guy, even though he stumbled into the Presidency, is not a star, and never will be.
With the closing arguments over, the Carroll case will go to the jury tomorrow. We hope they'll give E. Jean justice, but we're nervous about it. Because after all the careful explaining by Carroll and her lawyers that "the perfect rape victim" doesn't exist, the verdict may rest on six men and three women continuing to believe that in some strange corner of the universe, it does — or should. We cats switch our tails, and wait.
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