Rep. Nancy Mace gets in heated exchange over support of Trump despite sex abuse verdict

Nancy mace earlier yes Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace of South Carolina got into a heated exchange with George Stephanopoulos on ABC's Sunday Morning Show when he asked her how she could support and endorse Donald Trump who was found liable for sexually abusing writer egene Carolyn civil court mace who revealed back in 2019 that she was raped as a teenager avoided answering the question by accusing Stephan over and over again of trying to shame her take a listen I'm not going to sit here on

your show and be asked a question meant to shame me about another uh potential rape victim I'm not going to I'm not going to do that it's actually not about shaming you it's a question about Donald TR sh you've endorsed Donald Trump for president Donald Trump has been found liable for rape by a jury Donald Trump has been found liable for defaming the victim of that rape by a jury it's been affirmed by a judge it was not criminal court case number one number two I live with shame and you're aski

ng me a question about my political choices trying to shame me as a rape victim and I find it disgusting and this is why women won't come forward women won't come forward because they're defamed by those who perpetrate rape Donald TR they are judged and they're shamed and you're trying to shame me this morning I think it's dis I'm not shaming you at all I I told my story it took me 25 years to tell my story I was judged for it I still get judged for it today I'm asking you a very simple question

and I answer you're shaming me for myal Cho I'm asking you a question about why you endorse someone who's been found liable for rape criminal court but to sit here and ask me as a rape victim to to try to shame you for my political choices is wrong and I think it's offensive and you I mean you can repeat that again and again and again going offensive see what you're doing is defending a man who's been found liable for rape I don't understand how you can do that not in a criminal court of law th

is was a civil judgment over sexual abuse not rape by the way and she made a mockery out of it can we pull post headline right there in fact it has been shown to be raped the judge affirmed that it was in fact rape trp Donald Trump was found to have committed rape that's just a fact that is a civil judgment not a criminal court they're two very different things and you know better well you I I just showed you the facts you you show that you're very comfortable with what Donald what you done is o

ffensive to women who've been raped what you've done this morning is offensive we'll let the viewers decide about that now it it's just not offensive and she's not shamed CU she's incapable of being shamed Al she tried to shame een Carol my god well every Trump continually tried to shame egene Caroll and again it it's I I guess this is a woman who was and jering Hunter Biden uh as he walked into uh the conference room when he tried to show up to testify in public yeah and then ultimately their p

rivate testimony went very badly but that's a side issue she was acting like an eth grader I just I just wonder shaming how stupid Jonathan lamir she thinks people are I just how stupid and that's the thing again whether it's bad acting whether it's lying about a story that happened when George Bush was president and trying to attach it all these years later to to Joe Biden and then going on TV and lying about it like I just maybe after a while Republicans could figure out why they lost in 2017

lost in 2018 lost in 2019 lost in 2020 lost in 21 lost in 22 lost in 23 because they think they think that everybody is so stupid that they can do that sort of routine where she knows she knows she is defending she is endorsing she is all fall behind a man who a judge said raped another woman and then defamed her talk about shaming a woman if she's so concerned about rape victims being shamed what about what Donald Trump does the his rape victim judge said she was a rape rape victim day in and d

ay out constantly shaming EEG Carol so much so that the jury had to come back a second time and make the penalties so bad that maybe he would stop shaming a rape victim but that's who Nancy mace aggressively endorses instead of a woman who saved her political life in South Carolina yeah Trump actually went after EEG Carol again over the weekend and there's some chatter that maybe she should file another defamation lawsuit uh for that yeah it's bad acting but really it's bad faith what we saw fro

m representative m was it was indeed even though she's impossible to be shamed it was shameful trying to twist what what George Stephanopoulos did uh and go on the political attack tried to hide behind something of course that truly terrible happened in order to defend her uh support of of Donald Trump and and this is what we're seeing more and more from Republicans where it's not just that they're trying to lie for political points they're detached from reality and I do think there are conseque

nces here that that in that moment maybe they can blast out a fun raising clip and make a little bit of money and maybe in their deep red districts they'll get a little more support but they're talking to a smaller and smaller slice of the electorate that Americans I think on the whole are tired of these lies they're tired of the chaos they're tired of the ugliness you know and I think that that was on display Thursday night at the State of the Union when President Biden repeatedly heckled from

the crowd that didn't play well with most Americans who do want to see still even in this day and age some decency in our politics and yes we're a deeply polarized country but this this election elections after year after year after year are still decided by those hand that voters as as as small as they may be who were in the middle those Independents those swing voters and this is the sort of thing that repulses them and that's part why Republicans have been on such a losing streak here and the

y're they're making no effort Joe mik no effort whatsoever to grow their base of support they're talking to die hards who are more and more passionate but there are fewer and fewer of them yeah and you know what you saw there with George stepanos catty K before we uh expand uh the conversation uh Nancy Ma you know who has openly spoken about a terrible experience weaponizing it against George Stephanopoulos which is it seems beyond Twisted but again this is Trump World and this is a man who has

been accused of rape several times over Accu and has other accusers that he's bought off and that is an allegation that might be brought into the case against him with Stormy Daniels on top of it set on tape that he enjoys and can grab women by their genitals bragged about it and then doubled down on that in his deposition when he was sued by eege Carroll yeah I think anyone who knows George Stephanopoulos knows that he is one of the least likely people in the world to try and shame somebody who

has suffered that kind of awful experience I mean that's just not the way George carries out his journalism um he's Fair he's honest and it was a it was a legitimate question I wonder you know if Nancy M have been asked about any other politic she'd been asked I don't know if if this had been a question about a democratic politician would she have been so offended by the question it it's hard to know I mean you're right for the from the democrat's political point of view the more they can point

to the extremes of Donald Trump the more they can point to the extremes of Marjorie Taylor as she was performing in the State of the Union Address that's where they feel they can remind people about the the choices that are at stake in November the whole idea of trump Amnesia as it's being called when Donald Trump mimics Joe Biden's stutter in front of an audience in Georgia how many Suburban Women Voters in all of those cities we keep talking about in Detroit in Philadelphia in Georgia are goi

ng to listen to that and think that's the kind of behavior that they want to endorse and give their vote to that the Biden campaign thinks that it can just let Trump be Trump be the most extreme version of it himself be the most obnoxious version of himself and that is going to help them in November and over the course of this weekend we saw the extreme elements of Maga behaving in the way that the Biden Administration hopes is going to remind voters what's at stake what the choice is