Something occurred to me that I think shows how deeply at risk Trump knows he is to the charges against him of sexual abuse.
As you likely know, Ronan Farrow has a new book out now, Catch and Kill, about the behind-the-scenes story of his reporting on sexual abuse, notably of Harvey Weinstein, but much more than that. And a large part of the story is that he was initially doing his story for NBC which he says made his reporting difficult and ultimately dropped it. That's what caused him to take his story to the New Yorker, ultimately sharing the Pultizer Prize. What you have, therefore, is a book that makes NBC look bad and, as a result, so too its news division. (To be clear, the decision to block things appears to be from NBC corporate, but as much as many news reporters helped Farrow and wanted the story, reported, ultimately it all fell on the news division that had to follow the corporate end.) Now, under normal conditions, when a news division -- and most especially here, NBC -- has a major story about it falling down on the job, Trump is the first one to leap all over that, and shout to the rooftops that this shows how supposedly corrupt the news division is and therefore how "fake" their reporting is. Yet, though NBC has its underbelly open to such an attack...Trump has been totally silent. If anything shows how terrified Trump is of serious investigative reporting about sexual abuse, I would suggest that his silence and total reticence to chide, let alone slam NBC News about them not reporting this story and even seemingly blocking it not only speaks the loudest volumes but also borders on "guilt by silence." Consider, after all, a Trump tweet that would read, "Ha, ha, look at the fake NBC News being shamed for not reporting about..." as the sort of thing we know he would normally write -- and write with exuberance. Now, however, fill in the blank with the words, "sexual abuse" and it's all a totally different dynamic. No, it's not proof of anything. It just leaps out as, I believe, something deeply telling.
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