Former Clinton White House Communications Director George Stephanopoulos interrogated South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace on ABC last weekend over the lawmaker’s support of former President Donald Trump.
“You’ve endorsed Donald Trump for president,” Stephanopoulos began. “Judges in two separate juries have found him liable for rape and for defaming the victim of that rape. How do you square your endorsement of Trump with the testimony we just saw?”
Stephanopoulos pressed the question after he was former President Bill Clinton’s point man orchestrating smear campaigns against Clinton’s accusers of sexual misconduct throughout the ’90s. Stephanopoulos worked for Clinton on the former president’s 1992 campaign and later in the White House as communications chief until shortly after his re-election in 1996. During his tenure, Stephanopoulos led Clinton’s operation to discredit allegations of sexual harassment from Paula Jones, a former employee of Clinton’s from his time as governor who sued the president in 1994.
Stephanopoulos: “As a rape victim… how can you endorse Trump?”
Rep. Nancy Mace: “You’re asking me a question about my political choices, trying to shame me as a rape victim. And I find it disgusting.”
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— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) March 10, 2024
Former Fox News prime-time host Megyn Kelly traced Stephanopoulos’s history of discrediting Jones on a Monday podcast.
“Did you defend Paula Jones, saying, ‘We don’t shame accusers! That’s wrong!’” Kelly said. “No. You compared Jones to Tonya Harding as, quoting here from The New York Times, ‘just another woman seeking cash for
