All posts tagged "Victim"

Donald Trump lies about his prior failed election campaign, but that isn't the only reason he has been so successful, according to one authoritarianism expert.

New York University history professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat appeared on MSNBC's Ayman on Saturday, where she was asked how Trump is polling alongside or above President Joe Biden despite the former president's "threats to our democracy." Ben-Ghiat has previously said Trump is priming the pump when it comes to his "dehumanizing" language.

"How do you explain this phenomenon?" the host asked her. ...

Trump is playing the victim card and showing his strategy by sitting in his civil defamation trial — which is designed to "harass the real victim," according to an expert.

A jury was selected Tuesday to determine damages that former President Donald Trump must pay E. Jean Carroll for making comments, already deemed defamatory, that undermined her claims that she was sexually assaulted by him decades ago.

"While I initially doubted he would show up at all, now I see Trump’s unified legal & political strategy more clearly: playing victim while continuing to threaten and harass the real victim," tweeted legal expert Lisa Rubin as part of a thread. ...

LOS ANGELES — A 48-year-old Californian was arrested for drugging her husband's dinner then cutting off his penis, saying he "deserved it," police said Tuesday.

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn may have spent the last week and a half behind bars and under house arrest since he allegedly tried to rape a hotel maid in New York on May 14, but associates of his have been busy on his behalf.

MADRID (Reuters) - A British woman was decapitated in a supermarket on the Spanish resort island of Tenerife on Friday by a man who then fled into the street grasping her head, the local emergency services said.

LOS ANGELES – The body of a US man swept away by Japan's tsunami when it hit California has been found on a beach, officials said Tuesday, a month after the disaster.