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Subject: Re: Nancy Mace Rips George Stephanopoulos Over Tense Interview About
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Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 17:25:50 -0700
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On 3/13/2024 2:41 PM, super70s wrote:
> 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.
> 
She should feel shame for supporting trump.