Biden Justice Department Seeks to Defend Trump in Suit Over Rape Denial

[Unknown Beatle]

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Source: New York Times

During the presidential campaign, Joseph R. Biden Jr., then the Democratic candidate, slammed his opponent, Donald J. Trump, for a highly unusual legal move: bringing in the Justice Department to represent him in a defamation lawsuit stemming from a decades-old rape allegation.

At one of their debates, Mr. Biden accused Mr. Trump of treating the Justice Department like his “own law firm” in the suit, filed against him by the writer E. Jean Carroll. “What’s that all about?” he sarcastically asked.

But on Monday night, nearly eight months after Mr. Biden’s attack, his own Justice Department essentially adopted Mr. Trump’s position, arguing that he could not be sued for defamation because he had made the supposedly offending statements as part of his official duties as president.

In a brief filed with a federal appeals court in New York, the Justice Department acknowledged that Mr. Trump’s remarks about Ms. Carroll were “crude and disrespectful,” but the department also claimed that the Trump administration’s arguments were correct — a position that could lead to Ms. Carroll’s lawsuit being dismissed.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/07/nyregion/trump-jean-carroll-lawsuit.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20210607&instance_id=0&nl=breaking-news&ref=headline&regi_id=71870852&segment_id=60124&user_id=717968e0022336e1bc2480fb9405c484

[JohnSJ]

1. Are there trumpets still left in the DOJ, because this is just wrong

[DavidDvorkin]

2. WTF?

[cilla4progress]

3. This

Pisses me off.

Does Garland have a long game?

[PSPS]

4. This is the 3rd time garland has done trump's bidding.

This kind of behavior will just encourage democrats to go back to not voting. Biden will lose in '24 and so will most democrats running in contested races down the ballot.

[left-of-center2012]

5. Duplicate post

[Unknown Beatle]

6. I searched DU first

and nothing came up, so I posted it.

[progree]

7. Well, now you know that it's a dupe so the thing to do is self-delete it

And what kind of "I searched DU" did you do, that you couldn't find it?
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142753515

it's 51 minutes earlier than yours, and separated by only one post in LBN in chronological order by time first posted, so its not like it was some super-massive search effort to find it.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1014&sort=time

A dupe is a dupe is a dupe is a dupe. That you searched and didn't see it does not de-dupify the dupe.

[secondwind]

8. Let's be kind to one another.

It doesn’t serve any purpose to use cutting remarks, we are family here.

[progree]

10. Part of kindness is considering the number of people taking the time to

alert on the post, plus the time a host takes to lock it. The person, once made aware of it, could have self-deleted it when informed, but chose not to.

[PSPS]

9. A search won't find an OP from a blocked user. It's happened to me.

[progree]

11. Yes, but once informed that it was a duplicate, the person could have self-deleted when informed,

but chose not to.

[videohead5]

12. Biden has nothing to do with this

He said he was not going to tell his DOJ what to do or not to do. The DOJ should not be defending Trump. Let him defend himself.

[Omaha Steve]

13. After a review by forum hosts....LOCKING

Dupe of https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142753515

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