Trump v. Me

On Friday, December 3rd, in this Year of Our Lord, 2021, Donald Trump’s lawyers and the DOJ will try to convince three judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that the President of the United States was just doing his job when he slandered a woman who revealed that he had raped her decades earlier. (That would be me.)

You’ll be hearing a lot about this case over the next few weeks, and, by the by, good luck to my fellow journalists trying to explain—without sounding like they sucked on a canister of helium—why the DOJ is trying to prove that Donald Trump was acting as the President when he defamed me.

The hearing starts at 10 a.m. (or, let’s say it’s supposed to start at 10 a.m.) and before you butter your morning brioche and tune in to listen to the arguments at https://ww2.ca2.uscourts.gov/court.html, I would like to remind you, dear Reader, that the man the DOJ is defending with your tax dollars is the same man who knocked Natasha Stoynoff against a wall a…