WorldNetDaily love to take shotws at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. For instance:
- WATCH: Charlie Kirk sounds warning about AOC running for president in 2028
- Homan calls for federal investigation of squad member AOC
- ‘What a disaster’: Trump says ‘Stupid AOC’ should be forced to take a cognitive test after calling for his impeachment
- ‘Quacks like a duck’: AOC in hot water for classifying her live-in as ‘spouse’ and ‘not a spouse’
- Federal election complaint alleges AOC misused campaign cash to pay for psychiatrist
Bob Unruh huffed in an April 15 article:
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, a radical left member of the Democrat party representing part of New York City in Congress, went there.
“The president of the United States is a rapist,” she charged.
Of course she’s not the first with that statement. George Stephanopoulos was there before her, and eventually reached a legal settlement with the president that involved his network, ABC, paying the president’s foundation and lawyers a sum of $16 million.
Not sure what may develop for a member of Congress whose statements are protected absolutely by the Constitution’s Speech or Debate Clause – but only “when they are part of the legislative process.”
Online dictionaries explain that courts have determined that “purely political statements in newsletters or press releases are not covered.”
Cortez claims that a judge ruled Trump raped a woman, but that is not, in fact, the case. The judge wasn’t making the decision, a jury was.
A woman sued Trump in a civil case making that claim and the jury verdict to the question did she prove “by a preponderance of the evidence, that Mr. Trump raped” her, was “No.”
Doer it make a difference whether a judge or jury found that Trump raped E. Jean Carroll (whom Unruh doesn’t give the dignity of a name until later in the article, when he referred to her only as a “plaintiff”)? Not really. And Unruh conveniently forgets that a judge did, in fact, agree that Trump “raped” Carroll “as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape.'”
Unruh went on to huff:
She also charges that Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts of fraud, but in that case the half a billion dollar penalty was thrown out by an appeals court, and there’s currently pending an appeal to dismiss the rest of the case entirely.
But those 34 felony counts remain in force, even if the penalty doesn’t. Therefore, Ocasio-Cortez is correct, even if Unruh won’t admit it.