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Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) lost her temper when George Stephanopoulos asked her how she supports Donald Trump as a rape survivor.
To see how Representative Mace handled the question, the full transcript of the exchange is worth reading.
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Transcript by way of ABC's This Week:
STEPHANOPOULOS: Congresswoman, thanks for becoming a member of us this morning.
You supported Donald Trump for president. Two separate juries have discovered him accountable for rape and defaming the sufferer of that rape. How do you join your help for Donald Trump to the testimony we simply noticed?
Mace: Nicely, I'll let you know, I used to be raped at 16, and any rape sufferer will let you know, I've lived for 30 years with unimaginable disgrace due to the rape. I didn't come ahead due to the judgment and disgrace I felt.
And that's a disgrace you'll by no means understand, George, and I received't be sitting right here in your present and being requested a query about one more potential rape sufferer embarrassing me. I'm not going to try this.
Stephanopoulos: It's probably not about embarrassing you. This can be a query about Donald Trump.
Mace: No, you're embarrassing me.
STEPHANOPOULOS: You endorsed Donald Trump for president.
Mace: Okay.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Donald Trump has been discovered accountable for rape by a jury. Donald Trump has been discovered liable by a jury for defaming a rape sufferer. This has been confirmed by a decide. he repeated –
Mace: Primary, this isn’t a prison court docket case. Quantity two, I stay with disgrace, and you’re asking me questions on my political decisions and making an attempt to disgrace me as a rape sufferer and discover it disgusting.
And albeit, when E. Jean Carroll bought the judgment for joking about what she was going to purchase, her feedback aren’t – it makes it tougher for girls to return ahead after they joke about rape, after they They joke about it. This isn’t proper.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Doesn't it make it tougher for girls to return ahead when they’re vilified by presidential candidates?
Mace: It makes it tougher when different ladies make enjoyable of it and he or she makes enjoyable of it. I discover this offensive. And I additionally discover it insulting that you’re making an attempt to embarrass me with this query.
STEPHANOPOULOS: I'm not making an attempt to embarrass 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 billing for fetal heartbeats, when there have been no exceptions for rape, incest or life – or – and – rape or incest? 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 also you're making an attempt to embarrass me this morning.
Stephanopoulos: I'm simply asking you –
Mace: And I discover it offensive. And for this reason ladies won’t come ahead.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Ladies received't come ahead as a result of they’re stigmatized by rapists. Donald Trump has been –
Mace: They're judged, and so they're shamed, and also you're making an attempt to disgrace me this morning. I believe it's disgusting.
STEPHANOPOULOS: I – I'm not – I'm not embarrassing you in any respect. I known as you brave.
Stephanopoulos requested the consultant, Mays, a logical query. He needed to grasp the pondering behind why she, as a rape sufferer, was supporting Donald Trump, and Mace tried to say that she was being shamed.
Mace additionally attacked one other rape sufferer and argued that rape-related verdicts in civil court docket don’t matter in any method, as the one verdicts that matter are these in prison court docket.
George Stephanopoulos didn't disgrace Nancy Mace, however Rep. Mace attacked E. Jean Carroll and minimized what occurred to her.
Rape is rape whether or not it’s decided in a civil or prison court docket. The fact is {that a} man who was convicted of raping a lady shouldn’t be President of the USA.
Nancy Mace is an elected member of Congress, so her decision-making course of must be questionable. Stephanopoulos was not attacking or embarrassing Consultant Mace. He was searching for details about her pondering, and what he bought again was a have a look at a ruthless and calculating one who was extra more likely to search consideration and create a world for herself than to offer sincere details about her decisions. Was extra thinking about making a viral second.
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