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A video is circulating on social media of Donald Trump seemingly defending Graham Platner, who stepped down Wednesday night as Maine’s Democratic Senate candidate after a woman he used to date credibly accused him of rape.
“It’s really a question of whether or not you believe the woman,” Trump told the press. “A lot of people say big falsehoods.”
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One popular news account run by the senior digital editor for Meidas Touch placed the video beside a clip of Trump on June 6th – a month before the rape allegation – repeatedly calling Platner a pig.
The video speaks to the president and the Republican Party’s pattern of protecting men accused of sexual assault, including Trump himself, who has been found liable for sexual abuse by a jury, has admitted to sexually assaulting women in the past, and has admitted to walking in on underage girls as they changed clothes. He has been accused of sexual assault or other forms of sexual impropriety by at least 27 women.
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A judge recently rejected Trump’s bid not to pay the $5.8 million payment he owes to E. Jean Carroll, a journalist who he was found liable of sexually abusing.