Republican Leader Elise Stefanik Says She Doesn’t Believe Trump Victim

Elise Stefanik, fourth-in-command of the House Republican conference, told a reporter that she rejects a court ruling that Donald Trump sexually abused E. Jean Carroll before launching into a screed against the media.

The confrontation occurred at a Trump rally in Concord, New Hampshire.

“How do you grapple with standing by his side while a jury is debating how much to award E. Jean Carroll for being sexually abused by Donald Trump?” asked a reporter.

“These are witch hunts against President Trump,” Stefanik replied. “Whether it’s the bogus case from Tish James, who is a radical prosecutor—”

“You don’t believe E. Jean Carroll?” the reporter interrupted.

“They are all witch hunts against President Trump,” Stefanik insisted. “No, of course not.”

Stefanik ranted that the “witch hunts” are occurring because Trump is polling ahead of President Biden—“the weakest candidate we’ve ever had”—and said “this is another example of the media being out of touch.”

The reporter calmly repeated that Trump’s sexual abuse and defamation of E. Jean Carroll was the finding in a court of law, not a conclusion of the media.

Stefanik, a Republican Congresswoman from New York, replaced former Congresswoman Liz Cheney as the chair of the House Republican conference after Cheney supported Trump’s second impeachment and publicly refuted his lies that the 2020 election was stolen.

Though she initially presented herself as a moderate conservative during her 2014 Congressional campaign, Stefanik moved considerably to the right during Trump’s presidency and has been rumored to be on his list of potential vice presidential candidates.

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