#trumpmisogynist — Public Fediverse posts

Seems like a compelling theory...Trump raped E. Jean Carroll because he felt very insulted and humiliated by her, and used violence and sexual assault to regain his power and put "her in her place." He is such a narcissist and can't brook anyone making him look bad or putting him down, and as we've all seen, he goes on the attack.

Donald Trump's defense attorney in rape trial may have accidentally revealed the motive https://www.salon.com/2023/05/01/donald-defense-attorney-in-rape-trial-may-have-accidentally-revealed-the-motive/

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"It may be ill-advised, but it's not a surprise that Trump would hire a lawyer committed to the strategy of pure misogyny. This is the same Trump who pushed Justice Brett Kavanaugh towards the whining-and-shouting response to similarly credible allegations of attempted rape. Trump has always thought it looks "tough" to be a coward who only bullies people who can't fight back.

Badgering an elderly woman isn't just a bad look, however. In going for maximum belligerence, Tacopino may have accidentally revealed a telling detail about why Trump allegedly raped Carroll in a dressing room that day. Not because he was overcome with lust. No, because Trump was angry over a perceived insult. We all know how he loves to take revenge over imaginary slights.

The crucial moment came during a back-and-forth between Carroll and Tacopino about a seemingly irrelevant detail from the day. In her original recounting, Carroll described Trump asking her to try on lingerie, and her teasingly countering with, "You try it on" and "it's your color."

Carroll was using a standard bit of feminine self-protection, deflecting sexual overtures with jokes. She said as much on the stand. "Laughing is a very good—I use the word weapon—to calm a man down if he has any erotic intention." But Tacopino would not let it go. He insisted on treating these jokes as if they were evidence that Carroll is unhinged when she was obviously just being silly. He kept after her about why she thought it was funny, forcing her to remind him that she wrote an Emmy-winning skit for "Saturday Night Live" about men in lingerie.

As I was reading this baffling exchange, I couldn't help but start picturing how Trump, who we all know has a tissue-thin ego, would react to having a pretty, witty woman tease him with jokes about putting on a teddy. There's no question about it. He would have felt emasculated. He would have been furious. He would have grown angrier and angrier as she kept the banter up. She probably thought they were having fun. In reality, she was dealing with a short-tempered narcissist who cannot take a joke.

Tacopino inadvertently answered questions that Carroll herself has said haunt her: Why her? Why that day? Why did Trump allegedly get violent so suddenly?

The lingerie jokes hold the answer: Trump felt humiliated by Carroll's teasing. He wanted to put her in her place.

We all know how Trump reacts with over-the-top rage at perceived embarrassment, especially at the hands of those he deems as lower status than himself. Think of how furious he was when President Barack Obama made fun of Trump's racist conspiracy theories at the White House Correspondent's Dinner in 2011. The cameras captured Trump, who had been so proud of himself for getting invited, glowering with barely contained fury. Legend has it that it's one major reason Trump decided to run, as an act of literal revenge.
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Trump went on to prove her picture of his ugly temper, by raging like a madman on Truth Social after her testimony. Indeed, his inability to stop his own public tantrums are why he's getting sued by Carroll. She sued for defamation after similar rage-fueled public insults from Trump.

Note that the other reported story of Trump moving past groping to full-blown rape was also rooted not in lust, but anger.

During her acrimonious divorce from Trump, Ivana Trump testified in a deposition that he raped her in a fit of rage, blaming her for his bad plastic surgery. "Does it hurt?" she recalls he said afterward, taunting her.
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It would be the least surprising thing in the world, given everything we know about him, that he reacted to harmless teasing by exploding into a violent rage. And rape is, unfortunately, a common way that angry men lash out at women.
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Tacopino just told the jury the likely story of what happened here: Trump got mad because some woman teased him, and flipped out on her with violence. Since Trump's almost as famous for his hair-trigger temper as he is for his lying, it's easy to picture it. If the plaintiff's attorneys circle back to that aspect in closing, Tacopino's questions could be used to make the case that Trump's bruised ego led him to take revenge with rape. "