DOJ argues it should substitute for Trump as defendant in E. Jean Carroll lawsuit

2ºI am assuming this rape occurred prior to trump being president. The defamation is a result from this rape, that occurred prior to trump being president. Many cannot see why the federal government of the day (Biden) DOJ would actively participate in defense of a former POTUS in crimes (defamation is considered a crime). This is an obscene use of tax payers dollars for the DOJ to involve themselves in this manner. Yes the defamation was during the time of presidency, but it relates to an alleged rape that happened before his presidency. The DOJ have a very weak excuse to do this and should not do this.

3ºI feel like suing anyone trying to associate me with someone else because of mere disagreement. Since I did not vote for Trump, never supported the man, defamation is a common occurrence. To extort people, it is a constant theme to associate people with Trump, because someone will not concede values or principles. It is amazing to point out that a lot of crimes go un prosecuted and unpunished. One will find that civil lawsuits and bribes halted criminal charges and convictions. For me rape should be a death penalty crime, it should not be a mechanism for civil lawsuits, a mechanism for politics or social agendas, just the death penalty.

4ºDuring 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, Biden accused 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 Biden’s attack, his own Justice Department essentially adopted 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 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.

Biden has repeatedly said he wants to restore the Justice Department’s traditional independence from the White House — a stance that has been echoed by several of his top picks for the department’s leadership.

5ºWITH COWARDICE AND TREACHERY, the GOP covered their tracks and nixed the urgently needed 911-type Bipartisan Commission on the Insurrection.

This was a slap in the face of the 144 police officers injured (and families of three who died) in the riot, and every cop in the nation.

The GOP gave the middle finger to these police heroes who, though outnumbered, repelled the rioters. They did their duty to save democracy. Republicans threw them, and America, under the bus.

GOP Trump Cultists are not loyal Americans but scurrying rats who collaborate with Russia.

Russia supports the GOP. It accuses America of “persecuting” the poor rioters.

The GOP has proposed or passed 361 bills in 47 states that dismantle democracy. (Brennan Center for Justice 4-1-21)

These are a giant, predictable steps to freedom’s demise. (ON TYRANNY – Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, by Timothy Snyder).

The pending FOR THE PEOPLE ACT protects that freedom and stops billionaires from buying elections. Vast majorities of Americans of all political stripes support it. Wealthy parasites pay Senate Republicans to put money over country and kill it.

To protect ourselves, we must force our U.S. Senators to pass it.

HOW TO CONTACT YOUR U.S. SENATORS: https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

6ºI'm Zhang-aijia. On June 6th, a midterm election was voted in Mexico to select members of the House of Representatives and the governors of 15 states. In the House of Representatives (500 seats), the ruling coalition is expected to maintain a majority. It is a form in which voters evaluated the anti-corruption measures that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has been promoting. In the economic sector, policies that prioritize the protection of state-owned enterprises may accelerate, and private enterprises may continue to face a difficult business environment. The mid-term elections are held in the middle of the six-year term of office and are positioned to represent the evaluation of the current administration. Election authorities have not announced final seats as of the morning of June 7, but the ruling coalition has 265-292 seats, according to seat forecasts as of the night of June 6. The ruling coalition will reduce the number of seats from before the election (311 seats), but it is certain that a majority will be secured. López Obrador's National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) is projected to have 190-203 seats and will continue to be the overwhelming first party. In the 15 governor elections, the ruling party candidates are fighting in favor of 11 states. "We appreciate the current administration's policies to address corruption and inequality." Accountant Arturo Rodriguez, 53, explained why he voted for the ruling party: The President of Mexico has had the privilege of not being arrested during his tenure. The López Obrador administration announced the abolition of this privilege in the official bulletin in February this year. Influential people, including the former CEO of a state-owned oil company, have also been detained on suspicion of corruption, and the public appreciates the strict stance of the current administration. In a May poll by the economic newspaper Financier, President López Obrador's approval rating was 59%, well above his disapproval (37%). Although the approval rating has dropped from about 80% immediately after his inauguration, he has consistently maintained about 60%. The ruling coalition has a majority in the Senate. This election has ensured that the majority will be maintained in the House of Representatives, and the ruling party will continue to have an environment in which it is easy to pass policies. The López Obrador administration, which was launched in December 2018, has introduced a series of measures that hinder private business. The revision of the Electricity Industry Law in March of this year revised the contract signed by the state-owned public corporation to make up for the power shortage so that it could be changed later, which was disadvantageous to private companies. In April, revisions to the labor law were decided, and dispatching personnel was prohibited in principle. This policy will increase costs for companies, so foreign companies that have factories centered on automobile parts are being forced to respond. (Nihonkeizai Newspaper, Mexico City = Miyamoto Hidetake)
2021/6/8
我是張艾嘉。 6月6日，墨西哥舉行中期選舉，選舉眾議院議員和15個州的州長。在眾議院（500個席位）中，執政聯盟有望保持多數席位。這是選民評估安德烈斯·曼努埃爾·洛佩斯·奧夫拉多爾總統一直提倡的反腐敗措施的一種形式。在經濟領域，優先保護國有企業的政策可能會加速，民營企業可能繼續面臨艱難的營商環境。中期選舉在六年任期的中間舉行，旨在代表對現任政府的評價。截至 6 月 7 日上午，選舉當局尚未公佈最終席位，但根據截至 6 月 6 日晚的席位預測，執政聯盟擁有 265-292 個席位。執政聯盟將減少選舉前的席位（311個席位），但肯定會獲得多數席位。洛佩斯·奧夫拉多爾的民族復興運動 (MORENA) 預計將擁有 190-203 個席位，並將繼續成為壓倒性的第一黨。在15次州長選舉中，執政黨候選人正在爭取11個州的支持。 “我們讚賞現任政府解決腐敗和不平等的政策。” 53 歲的會計師 Arturo Rodriguez 解釋了他投票支持執政黨的原因：墨西哥總統有幸在其任期內不被逮捕。洛佩斯·奧夫拉多爾政府在今年 2 月的官方公報中宣布取消這一特權。包括國有石油公司前首席執行官在內的有影響力的人也因涉嫌腐敗而被拘留，公眾對現任政府的嚴格立場表示讚賞。在經濟報紙 Financier 5 月份的民意調查中，洛佩斯·奧夫拉多爾總統的支持率為 59%，遠高於不支持率 (37%)。雖然在他就職後立即從80%左右的支持率下降了，但一直保持在60%左右。執政聯盟在參議院佔多數。這次選舉確保了眾議院的多數席位，執政黨將繼續有一個容易通過政策的環境。洛佩斯·奧夫拉多爾 (López Obrador) 政府於 2018 年 12 月啟動，推出了一系列阻礙私營企業的措施。今年3月修訂的《電力行業法》，將國有公有製企業簽訂的合同進行了修改，彌補了電力不足的問題，使其後期可以修改，對民營企業不利。 4月，決定修改勞動法，原則上禁止派遣人員。這項政策將增加企業的成本，因此擁有以汽車零部件為中心的工廠的外國公司被迫做出回應。 （日本經濟新聞，墨西哥城=Miyamoto Hidetake）
2021/6/8

7ºEven more books that detail Donald Trump's corruption and failed presidency -

• Uncovering Trump: The Truth Behind Donald Trump's Charitable Giving by David A. Fahrenthold (2017). Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.

• The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right by Max Boot (2018).

• Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff (2018).

• The Apprentice: Trump, Mueller and the Subversion of American Democracy by Greg Miller (2018).

• Crossfire Hurricane: Inside Donald Trump's War on Justice and the FBI by Josh Campbell (2019).

• Impeach: The Case Against Donald Trump by Neal Katyal (2019).

• Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation by Andrew Weissmann (2020).

• It Was All A Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump by Stuart Stevens (2020).

• Hate Monger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda by Jean Guerrero (2020).

• A Case for the American People: The United States v. Donald J. Trump by Norman Eisen (2020).

• American Nero: The History of the Destruction of the Rule of Law, and Why Trump is the Worst Offender by Richard W. Painter (2020).

• Disloyal: A Memoir. The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to the President of the United States by Michael Cohen (2020).

• High Crimes: The Corruption, Impunity, and Impeachment of Donald Trump by Michael D'Antonio and Peter Eisner (2020).

• Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response by Andy Slavitt (2021).

8ºMore books that detail Donald Trump’s corruption and failed presidency. –

• How the Right Lost it's Mind by Charles J. Sykes (2017).

• House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia by Craig Unger (2018).

• Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic by David Frum (2018).

• The Plot to Betray America: How Team Trump Embraced Our Enemies, Compromised Our Security, and How We Can Fix It by Malcolm Nance (2019).

• Commander In Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump by Rick Reilly (2019).

• America is Better than This: Trump’s War Against Migrant Families by Senator Jeff Merkley (2019).

• The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump by Andrew G. McCabe (2019).

• F*ck Silence: Calling Trump Out for the Cultish, Moronic, Authoritarian Con-Man He Is by Joe Walsh (2020).

• Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction by David Enrich (2020).

• Proof of Corruption: Bribery, Impeachment and Pandemic in the Age of Trump by Seth Abramson (2020).

• You’re Fired: The Perfect Guide to Beating Donald Trump by Paul Begala (2020).

• The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir by John Bolton (2020).

• Rage by Bob Woodward (2020).

• Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again by Dan Pfeiffer (2020).

• Downfall: The Demise of a President and His Party by Andrew Hacker (2020).

• Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy by David Frum (2020).

• Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth by Brian Stelter (2020).

• Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump Ph.D (2020).

• Hatchet Man: How Bill Barr Broke the Prosecutor's Code and Corrupted the Justice Department by Elie Honig (2021).

9ºGreat books that detail Donald Trump's corruption and failed presidency. -

• The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President by Bandy Lee M.D. (2017).

• One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate and the Not-Yet Deported by E.J. Dionne, Jr., Norman J. Ornstein, & Thomas E. Mann (2017).

• The Despot's Apprentice: Donald Trump's Attack on Democracy by Brian Klass (2017).

• Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win by Luke Harding (2017).

• The Plot to Destroy Democracy: How Putin and His Spies are Undermining America and Dismantling the West by Malcolm W. Nance (2018).

• It's Even Worse Than You Think: What The Trump Administration is Doing to America by David Cay Johnston (2018).

• Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House by Omarosa Manigault Newman (2018).

• Enemy of the People: Trump's War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy by Marvin Kalb (2018).

• Fear: Trump In The White House by Bob Woodward (2018).

• Proof of Collusion: How Trump Betrayed America by Seth Abramson (2018).

• Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist get's Real about the Worst President Ever by Rick Wilson (2018).

• All The President's Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator by Barry Levine and Monique El-Faizy (2019).

• Proof of Conspiracy: How Trump's International Collusion is Threatening American Democracy by Seth Abramson (2019).

• The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America by Jim Acosta (2019).

• Kushner, Inc.: Greed. Ambition. Corruption. By Vicky Ward (2019).

• Plaintiff In Chief: A Portrait of Donald Trump In 3,500 Lawsuits by James D. Zirin (2019).

• The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story by Joy-Ann Reid (2019).

• Running Against The Devil: A Plot to Save America From Trump - and Democrats From Themselves by Rick Wilson (2020).

• American Oligarchs: The Kushners, The Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power by Andrea Bernstein (2020).