On the day before Donald Trump will have to appear in a Manhattan courtroom and deal with 34 felony counts related to paying off an adult film star to keep quiet about their alleged affair before the 2016 election, a New York Times columnist marveled that five women have led the charge to call him to account for a lifetime of skirting the law.
Noting the former president's seeming contempt for women — whom he has notoriously boasted are fair game for sexual assault -- the Times' Jessica Bennett claimed there is a "certain karmic justice" at work here.
In her column, she explained, "Letitia James. Fani Willis. E. Jean Carroll, and her lawyer Roberta Kaplan. And, of course, Stormy Daniels. The five women who are living rent-free in Mr. Trump’s mind these days," before adding, "Women. I suspect he never thought they would be the ones to corner him, making the case about his craven and possibly criminal behavior."
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According to the columnist, the former president must be "spinning like a top" at the prospect of women bringing him down legally and crippling his business empire.
"After Mr. Trump talked about grabbing women in the 'Access Hollywood' tape, women talked about grabbing him back by defeating him at the ballot box in 2016. They didn’t. Maybe what we are seeing now is the grab-back moment, albeit more of a slow and steady pinch. After years of demonizing women who refuse to do his bidding, he is getting a measure of comeuppance at their hands," she wrote.
"On some level it feels as if Mr. Trump’s tortured relationships with these women loom even larger now that the women who used to surround him are nowhere to be found: Melania, who won’t say whether she will campaign with him; Ivanka, who seems to have put politics in the rearview; and no Hope Hicks-like character at the hostess stand," she contin ued before adding, "Whether any of it matters is the subject for another late-night spiral. But at least this week, I’m feeling the slightest bit more rested, with thoughts of Stormy Daniels on my mind."
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