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Subject: Re: Nancy Mace Rips George Stephanopoulos Over Tense Interview About Trump: "Tried To Shame Me As A Rape Victim"
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 16:41:51 -0500
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On 2024-03-12 08:30:46 +0000, Ubiquitous said:

> Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) tore into George Stephanopoulos on Sunday after
> the ABC News anchor asked her to square her endorsement of former
> President Donald Trump with coming forward as a victim of rape.
> 
> “I’m not going to sit here on your show and be asked a question meant
> to shame me about another potential rape victim. I’m not going to do
> that,” Mace said on “This Week.”
> 
> 	I was brought on to talk about 2024
> instead Clinton crony
> 	turned fake journalist @Gstephanopoulos attacked me and tried
> 	to shame me as a rape victim.
> 
> 	Gross.@ThisWeekABC pic.twitter.com/9uNhypsZdO
> 
> 	— Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) March 10, 2024
> 
> The tense interview began with ABC showing a clip of Mace talking in
> 2o19 about the struggles women such as herself have experienced in
> speaking publicly about being raped.
> 
> Stephanopoulos then pressed the congresswoman to explain her support of
> Trump given her personal history and the former president being found
> liable for sexual abuse and defamation in a case brought by E. Jean
> Carroll.
> 
> For several minutes, Stephanopoulos kept trying to get Mace to answer
> the question, denying he was trying to humiliate the congresswoman
> while she argued that was exactly what he was doing.
> 
> Mace insisted the question was “offensive” and “disgusting.” She added,
> “You’re questioning my political choices because I’ve been raped.”
> 
> During the exchange, Mace noted that the judgement against Trump was in
> a civil case rather than a criminal one and pointed to how Carroll
> joked about a spending spree with the judgement money she was awarded.
> 
> “It makes it harder for other women to come forward when another woman
> has made a mockery of it,” Mace said.
> 
> In sharing insight into her pick for president in the 2024 contest,
> Mace said she “endorsed the man that I believe is best for our country.
> It’s not Joe Biden.”
> 
> The interview eventually gave way to Stephanopoulos pressing Mace on
> the U.S. Capitol breach on January 6, 2021, and showing a clip of her
> saying not long after that Trump should be held accountable and not
> hold office again.
> 
> Asked why she is supporting Trump now, Mace said that she “listened to
> my voters” in South Carolina “and they’ve moved beyond January 6.”
> 
> Mace also said her constituents are concerned about the border crisis
> under President Joe Biden, and she mentioned American citizens, such as
> Laken Riley, who were allegedly murdered by illegal immigrants.
> 
> The interview ended with Stephanopoulos claiming that Mace “made it
> very clear” that she was “comfortable with Trump being found liable for
> rape and you’re comfortable for his actions on January 6.”
> 
> Mace shot back, accusing Stephanopoulos of “putting words in my mouth.”
> 
> In posts to social media that followed, Mace shared the entire video of
> her interview with Stephanopoulos and continued to criticize the
> anchor. She included references to him being an aide to former
> President Bill Clinton and the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
> 
> 	Rape victims go through enough trauma, pain and shame as it is.
> 	It's an abomination for a guy like this to try to shame me for
> 	my political choices as a rape victim. https://t.co/f3ZjXEgfGb
> 	— Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) March 10, 2024
> 
> 	I’m not going to be shamed for being raped by a guy who worked
> 	for a President who wagged his finger and lied to the American
> 	people about having oral sex with an intern in the Oval Office
> 
> 	STFU @GStephanopoulos https://t.co/xq8NVqgQin
> 	— Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) March 10, 2024
> 
> 	I was asked to speak on 2024 today, NOT my own rape. I’ve
> 	carried this shame for 30 years, a shame George Stephanopolous
> 	will never know. I don’t need @gstephanopolous “mansplaining”
> 	rape to me or shaming me on national TV for being a survivor
> 	of rape. https://t.co/f3ZjXEgfGb
> 	— Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) March 10, 2024
> 
> “I was asked to speak on 2024 today, NOT my own rape. I’ve carried this
> shame for 30 years, a shame George Stephanopolous will never know,”
> Mace said in one post to X from her personal account. “I don’t need
> [Stephanopoulos] ‘mansplaining’ rape to me or shaming me on national TV
> for being a survivor of rape.”
> 
> She said in another, “I was brought on to talk about 2024
> instead
> Clinton crony turned fake journalist [Stephanopoulos] attacked me and
> tried to shame me as a rape victim. Gross.”

Stephanopoulos wasn't "shaming her" for being a rape victim, she just 
couldn't answer the legitimate question of why a rape victim would 
support someone who had been proven to be a rapist in a civil lawsuit. 
Or why she still supports Trump after Jan. 6 when she said at the time 
he should be held accountable for it.

Her reaction was histrionic and misguided, and her hypocrisy drips.