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TheBlackAdder

(28,207 posts)
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 05:15 PM Mar 2017

Paula Jones, Aided By KellyAnne Conway's Husband, Is Coming Back To Haunt Donald Trump!

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This is a pretty interesting opinion read about how Paula Jones' lawsuit against Bill Clinton opens Trump up for same.

And guess who one of the chief architects of her case was: Kellyanne Conway's husband!


As the Jones case makes clear, Trump will not be able to lean on his duties as president to excuse himself from the proceedings in these cases or to shield himself from liability. The pending litigation will take up time, draw additional scrutiny to his business practices and give political opponents plenty of opportunities to conduct discovery and dig up more dirt, including perhaps a Lewinsky-level smoking gun. And, let’s face it, as with Clinton, one major weapon for attacking the policies of a sitting president is through litigating his private conduct, both in court and in the court of public opinion.

Which brings up a fascinating side note: Many of the same folks who will be helping to defend Trump in these matters have some very close ties to the group of young conservatives — who call themselves “the Elves” (as in Santa’s hidden magical workers) — that spent years lobbing legal grenades at President Clinton from the other side. Case in point: George Conway III, a high-powered D.C. lawyer at the prestigious firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and — you guessed it — husband of senior Trump adviser and “alternative facts” proponent Kellyanne Conway. Conway helped write Jones’ Supreme Court brief and also penned an influential op-ed in the Los Angeles Times at the very beginning of the Jones ordeal arguing that Clinton was on shaky legal ground. Granting the president immunity “would place presidents above the law,” Conway observed, and such a situation “smacks of the privilege of a sovereign or an autocrat — not a president of a democratic republic.

Of course, there is one way that Trump could rise above the law and avoid facing the barrage of private lawsuits — and it’s an escape hatch that comes straight from the Supreme Court’s opinion in Jones v. Clinton itself: “If Congress deems it appropriate to afford the President stronger protection, it may respond with appropriate legislation.”



http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-clinton-accuser-who-could-bring-down-trump/ar-BByWE1E?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout


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Paula Jones, Aided By KellyAnne Conway's Husband, Is Coming Back To Haunt Donald Trump! (Original Post) TheBlackAdder Mar 2017 OP
Did that rape case go anywhere ? OnDoutside Mar 2017 #1
A full cash settlement without an apology. TheBlackAdder Mar 2017 #2
pity. OnDoutside Mar 2017 #3
Plus death threats. nt JTFrog Mar 2017 #7
I read this could happen Cha Mar 2017 #4
It will be a business lawsuit(s), DeminPennswoods Mar 2017 #5
Oh my, that ol' "goes around comes around" thing....... a kennedy Mar 2017 #6

TheBlackAdder

(28,207 posts)
2. A full cash settlement without an apology.
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 05:24 PM
Mar 2017

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Wiki, non-peer reviewed source, says:

It was an $850K settlement, reduced to $200K, since the remainder had to go to paying off her legal fees.


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a kennedy

(29,672 posts)
6. Oh my, that ol' "goes around comes around" thing.......
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 08:24 AM
Mar 2017
I hope he gets nailed to the wall. I just despise his whole existence and everyone and thing he's connected with.
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