Nancy Mace Implodes When Requested Why She As A Rape Sufferer Helps Trump

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) went off the rails when requested by George Stephanopoulos to sq. how she as a rape sufferer helps Donald Trump.

The total transcript of the change is value studying to see how Rep. Mace dealt with the query.

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Transcript through ABC’s This Week:

STEPHANOPOULOS: Congresswoman, thanks for becoming a member of us this morning.

You endorsed Donald Trump for president. Judges in two separate juries have discovered him responsible for rape and for defaming a sufferer of that rape. How do you sq. your endorsement of Donald Trump with the testimony we simply noticed?

MACE: Effectively, I’ll inform you, I used to be raped on the age of 16, and any rape sufferer will inform you, I’ve lived for 30 years with an unimaginable quantity of disgrace over being raped. I didn’t come ahead due to that judgment and disgrace that I felt.

And it’s a disgrace that you’ll by no means really feel, George, and I’m not going to take a seat right here in your present and be requested a query meant to disgrace me about one other potential rape sufferer. I’m not going to do this.

STEPHANOPOULOS: It’s really not about shaming you. It’s a query about Donald Trump.

MACE: No, you might be shaming me.

STEPHANOPOULOS: You’ve endorsed Donald Trump for president.

MACE: Proper.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Donald Trump has been discovered responsible for rape by a jury. Donald Trump has been discovered responsible for defaming the sufferer of that rape by a jury. It’s been affirmed by a choose. He repeated —

MACE: It’s not a prison courtroom case, primary. Quantity two, I stay with disgrace, and also you’re asking me a query about my political decisions making an attempt to disgrace me as a rape sufferer and discover it disgusting.

And fairly frankly, E. Jean Carroll’s feedback when she did get the judgment joking about what she was going to purchase, it doesn’t — it makes it tougher for ladies to come back ahead after they make a mockery out of rape, after they joke about it. It’s not OK.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Doesn’t it make it tougher for ladies to come back ahead after they’re defamed by presidential candidates?

MACE: It makes it tougher when different girls joked about it and she’s joked about it. I discover it offensive. And in addition I discover it offensive that you’re making an attempt to disgrace me with this query.

STEPHANOPOULOS: I’m not making an attempt to disgrace you in any respect. In reality —

MACE: You might be. I’ve handled this for 30 years. You understand how onerous it was to inform my story 5 years in the past after they had been doing a fetal heartbeat invoice, when there have been no exceptions for rape, incest or life – or – and – rape or incest in there? I needed to inform my story as a result of no different lady was coming ahead.

STEPHANOPOULOS: I’m simply asking –

MACE: No rape victims had been represented. And you’re making an attempt to disgrace me this morning.

STEPHANOPOULOS: I’m simply asking you –

MACE: And I discover it offensive. And because of this girls won’t come ahead.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Girls won’t come ahead as a result of they’re defamed by those that perpetrate rape. Donald Trump has been –

MACE: They’re judged, and they’re shamed, and you’re making an attempt to disgrace me this morning. I feel it’s disgusting.

STEPHANOPOULOS: I’m – I’m not – I’m not shaming you in any respect. I known as you brave.

Stephanopoulos requested Rep, Mace a logical query. He wished to grasp the considering behind why she, as a rape sufferer, is supporting Donald Trump, and Mace tried to say that she was being shamed.

Mace additionally attacked one other rape sufferer and appeared to argue that judgments regarding rape in civil courtroom by some means don’t depend, as the one verdicts that matter occur in prison courtroom.

George Stephanopoulos didn’t disgrace Nancy Mace, however Rep. Mace did assault E. Jean Carroll, and decrease what occurred to her.

Rape is rape whether or not that dedication is made in civil or prison courtroom. The fact is {that a} man who has been discovered responsible for raping a lady shouldn’t be President Of The US.

Nancy Mace is an elected member of Congress, so her decision-making course of must be open to questions. Stephanopoulos wasn’t attacking or shaming Rep. Mace. He was asking for perception into her considering, and what he bought again was a have a look at a callous and calculating one who appeared extra all in favour of getting consideration and making a viral second for herself than offering honest perception into her decisions.

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Jason is the managing editor. He’s additionally a White Home Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Diploma in Political Science. His graduate work centered on public coverage, with a specialization in social reform actions.

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