Reference: Biden Justice Department seeks to defend Trump in suit over rape denial – The Boston Globe
Perhaps you recall some kerfluffle when then-President Trump asked the federal Department of Justice to defend him in a defamation suit filed against him by some professional-victim and over-the-hill writer seeking some press who claimed that Trump had raped her decades before. Then-candidate Joe Biden, on the campaign trail, took a dim view of that: “At one of their debates, Biden accused Trump of treating the Justice Department like his ‘own law firm’ in the suit, filed against him by the writer E. Jean Carroll. ‘What’s that all about?’ he sarcastically asked.”
Fast forward to the present. “. . . [last] Monday night, nearly eight months after Biden’s attack, his own Justice Department essentially adopted Trump’s position, arguing that he could not be sued for defamation because he had made the supposedly offending statements as part of his official duties as president.”
Presumably Biden wants to make sure that he’s got his own law firm – the DOJ, that is – lined up to defend him the next time he says something stupid, or, more likely, gets sued for hugging some poor girl inappropriately, as he has been accused of on numerous occasions. NY Times deletes sentence about Joe Biden’s “hugs, kisses and touching that women previously said made them uncomfortable” (legalinsurrection.com).
Funny how things change when the shoe is on the other foot. And not-so-funny how both Trump and Biden apparently get a charge out of feeling up women.