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What does she want? An apology? Money? Sanders as the nominee? (Original Post) question everything May 2020 OP
A date with Putin. sinkingfeeling May 2020 #1
Or a date with Trump. nt TexasTowelie May 2020 #4
Hard to say.... Happy Hoosier May 2020 #2
Money. DURHAM D May 2020 #3
Is this what she says? I have not followed this "story." I know that last year she said he made question everything May 2020 #8
There is information everywhere now - including on DU DURHAM D May 2020 #10
Seems like attention mixed with anger marlakay May 2020 #5
Who? greatauntoftriplets May 2020 #6
Maybe a forensic accountant could solve this mystery. Mike 03 May 2020 #7
She could be another Maria Butina. sop May 2020 #9
She just isn't that smart. nt DURHAM D May 2020 #11
Attention? The Velveteen Ocelot May 2020 #12
I don't really care, do you? LisaL May 2020 #13
I do, assuming she is a reasonable person question everything May 2020 #14
So you are proposing she gets what? LisaL May 2020 #16
NO! Only someone who could hold her hand sayng "there, there." question everything May 2020 #19
It is fine...as the truth comes out Tara will crawl back under rock until she tries to scam someone Demsrule86 May 2020 #21
i think ANY male candidate from now on will have accusers like this crawl out of the wall.. samnsara May 2020 #23
Wonderful post...+10000 Demsrule86 May 2020 #26
It won't matter what she wants Chainfire May 2020 #15
Who says she filed a complaint? LisaL May 2020 #17
Professional liar basically. ucrdem May 2020 #18
Sanders as the nominee and to get a payday by going on TV or having GO Fund Me... Demsrule86 May 2020 #20
This is part of an attempt to take nomination away from Joe Biden Gothmog May 2020 #22
Could be as simple as a more tragic version of B-girl. aikoaiko May 2020 #24
Looking at her twitter, she wants attention Marrah_Goodman May 2020 #25

Happy Hoosier

(7,315 posts)
2. Hard to say....
Sat May 2, 2020, 02:22 PM
May 2020

.... her Putin love suggests one thing.... and her ardent support for Sanders another.

She was bankrupt a few years ago and now seems to be doing okay and claims to own horses. We need to onow more.

question everything

(47,487 posts)
8. Is this what she says? I have not followed this "story." I know that last year she said he made
Sat May 2, 2020, 02:29 PM
May 2020

her feel "uncomfortable." But now, all of a sudden this is an assault? What were the chain of events? Her lawyer contacted the Biden campaign claiming this and demanding, what? Or did she twit? How did all this "story" end up on PBS NewsHour of all places? OK, it did after it was in the New York Times but how did it get there?

A former acquaintance, a savvy politician with a law degree once told me: anyone can sue anyone..

marlakay

(11,476 posts)
5. Seems like attention mixed with anger
Sat May 2, 2020, 02:25 PM
May 2020

About Bernie and I would bet she is being pushed by both republicans and angry Bernie folks to do this.

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
7. Maybe a forensic accountant could solve this mystery.
Sat May 2, 2020, 02:28 PM
May 2020

Her social media presence, with its 180 degree switch on Putin, suggests she's being strongly encouraged by others. Others have raises reasonable questions about whether she is even writing many of her tweets, which do not rise to the level of a law school graduate and native English speaker.

question everything

(47,487 posts)
14. I do, assuming she is a reasonable person
Sat May 2, 2020, 03:02 PM
May 2020

I think that knowing what she wants, even if someone - not associated with the party - tells her: there, there if this will shut her off, it is worth it.

LisaL

(44,973 posts)
16. So you are proposing she gets what?
Sat May 2, 2020, 03:04 PM
May 2020

An apology? For something Biden says never happened?
Money? Wouldn't that be a bribe?
Sanders as the nominee? Now that's a great idea.

question everything

(47,487 posts)
19. NO! Only someone who could hold her hand sayng "there, there."
Sat May 2, 2020, 03:12 PM
May 2020

I have zero knowledge in psychology but I think that sometimes disturbed people just want someone to sympathize with them without necessarily agreeing with them. But perhaps I am clueless.

I just think that this needs to go away.

On Nicole Wallace yesterday, both Donna Edwards and Susan Page expressed their opinions that Biden's emphatic denial was not enough. Did not elaborate.

samnsara

(17,622 posts)
23. i think ANY male candidate from now on will have accusers like this crawl out of the wall..
Sat May 2, 2020, 04:14 PM
May 2020

...if BS had been the nom.....he would have had to fend off accusations too. This is now the nature of the game. We know how female candidates are treated..like shit...and called 'whores'...and are forced to sit for hours being grilled by a bunch of men.

Men will have to spend their time defending themselves against sexual accusations and women will have to spend their time proving they arent whores...

Im moving on and every time this subject comes up again in the news, I will send in a donation. Im ready for joe to take the lead and get us out of this shit hole.

Demsrule86

(68,586 posts)
26. Wonderful post...+10000
Sat May 2, 2020, 10:12 PM
May 2020

You are absolutely right. Joe is putting Texas and Georgia into play...imagine that!

Chainfire

(17,550 posts)
15. It won't matter what she wants
Sat May 2, 2020, 03:04 PM
May 2020

With her constant changing of stories she is no longer credible. It is my opinion that she is just a plant, and that she is doing it for either money or for fame. All successful large lies are spun around small truths. She was on the payroll, she did file a complaint, although it was apparently not a sexual issue at the time. These are the things that you hire thugs like Roger Stone, who are experts in bribery and extortion, to take care of for you.

These kinds of attacks can be expected to continue. They are nearly impossible to defend against, and if you go after the accuser you are viewed as a misogynist heel. Things will get a lot worse between now and November. The more accusations that are made, even if they lack any credibility they have an accumulative negative effect.

It is a particularly effective form of attack in that Trump is immune to reprisals in kind, even with a long history, and strong physical evidence to support his accusers. Frankly, I think that is somewhat proud of his sexual abuse of women. Many of his followers apparently feel the same way; It didn't bother them in 2016, it won't bother them today.

ucrdem

(15,512 posts)
18. Professional liar basically.
Sat May 2, 2020, 03:10 PM
May 2020

Not she's good at it, or has any particular goal other than to get whatever she gets by lying. Oldest profession after that other oldest profession.

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