Trump Defends Allegedly Abusive WH Aide, Ignores Proof From Victims
This is what physical abuse looks like. Colbie Holderness, formerly married and divorced to former-White House top aide Rob Porter, says she was punched in the eye by her husband years back in Florence, Italy during an argument.
According to the Trump White House, not even photographic evidence of an apparently swollen and wounded eye is enough to squeeze sympathy, understanding, and basic knowledge out of President Trump.
Seldom does he show any emotion for victims of such disgusting acts of violence, consistently citing the need for 'due process'. But are women or other victims of these crimes not ellible for such 'due process'? Are they not allowed to put a stop on the progression of their attackers until they can provide proof?
In attacks and incidents involving sexual misconduct allegations or, like Colbie's, abusive relationship allegations, it is usually quite hard to prove that you were physically abused. In the case of Roy Moore's accuser, all proof had been attacked.
Beverly Nelson accused Roy Moore of sexually assaulting her when she was only a teenager back in Alabama. Trump not only defended Moore, but got his entire base to rally up against all of his accusers. The President campaigned in support of the Alabama candidate of which failed in an Alabama Senate special election recently.
Colbie Holderness' story appears to be no different. In Beverly's provided 'proof', she contradicts Moore's statement that they had never met, citing his signature in her high school year book. Trump and Moore's campaign questioned the signature.
For Colbie, the photo simply wasn't enough for the message to get through that a violent man was working alongside the President of the United States.
In recent statements issued by Trump himself, he's expressed some of the sincerest of sympathetic near-apologies for the 'misfortune' that is what Rob Porter, the accused attacker of multiple women, has to go through.
"We wish him well. He worked very heard." Trump said, saying he was surprised by the allegations and only heard of them recently. "Obviously, it's a tough time for him."
Rob Porter, called a 'rising star' in the White House as he was one of the five people who had regular access to the President without meeting schedules, resigned earlier last week after the media uncovered FBI-related interviews that reported multiple women had been physically and domestically abused by him.
Porter, alongside CNN's-reported twenty to forty other White House workers, have not been issued a security clearance by the FBI even more than a year after they began working.
Via Trump's Twitter account, @realDonaldTrump, the President seemed to condemn all women who accuse men of major felonies, citing that it can 'shatter and destroy' the lives of those accused. He didn't seem to care about those women who really are telling the truth.
"Peoples lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation. Some are true and some are false. Some are old and some are new. There is no recovery for someone falsely accused - life and career gone. Is there no such thing any longer as Due Process?"
He recieved extreme backlash, but at the same time extreme support, following the tweet. In some ways, both the criticism and support make sense.
Essentially, it's a sure thing that some people can falsely accuse men or women of sexual misconduct or abuse or many other crimes that are often times unable to be proven though usually charged by a court, which can inevitably ruin the accused's life should it be false.
But, in the much more common scenario that the accusations are real (especially enforced when picture or written evidence is given), it is a devastating feeling for women to come out with these allegations and nearly instantly be hated by millions of people.
This is the reason why so many women refuse to come out, until major bombshells rock the entire political worlds or media worlds like back in the #MeToo movement of 2017-2018. Some women come out with major accusations in bulk to avoid the embarassment or the major emotional poll it can have on someone to recieve such hate.
And trust me, when the President calls you out assuming your traumatic experience such as major abuse or sexual assault is a falsified story because your attacker said it wasn't true, it definitely wouldn't encourage others to come out.