Stephanopoulos Is a Partisan Hack, but He Didn’t Defame Trump

Inaccurate is not the same as false with regard to the commentator’s statement that Trump was found ‘liable for rape.’

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Then-president Donald Trump takes the stage with ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos for a town hall event in Philadelphia, Pa., September 15, 2020.

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As I’ve mentioned a number of times, among the wisest things I was ever told about the legal system when I was a young lawyer is that courts are not in the poetic-justice business — good judges do only prosaic justice, which is hard enough to do well.

George Stephanopoulos was a key player in the Clintons’ character-destruction project against women who claimed that Bill Clinton had been sexually aggressive toward them. Admittedly, then, I would shed no tears if he got some comeuppance after expressing his sudden, precious concerns about women who claim to have been sexually abused — by Donald Trump, of course, not by Clinton.

Andrew C. McCarthy

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.

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