Trump should get sued, just like Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton tried to say he couldn’t be sued for sexual harassment while he was president.

One of the lawyers who argued against that was George Conway. He’s the author of the Supreme Court brief that helped make it possible for Paula Jones to go forward with her civil suit against then- President Clinton.

Irony alert: Conway is married to Kellyanne Conway, President Trump’s former campaign manager and current White House adviser.

Weird, right? Although not much weirder than a lot of what happens in Washington these days.

Now, in a defamation lawsuit against Trump in New York, the president’s lawyers are trying to immunize him using the same argument that was made by Clinton’s lawyers. That is, the job is so demanding that presidents should be shielded from civil suits while they’re in office.

In this instance, Summer Zervos, a contestant on NBC’s The Apprentice during a time when Trump was host, says Trump kissed and groped her during a meeting at a Beverly Hills hotel in 2007.

In denying that allegation ( and a bunch of other allegations) Trump said, “Every woman lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign, total fabrication. The events never happened.”

Zervos says comments like that defamed her. She wants an apology and damages that amount to about $ 2,500.

The president is trying weasel out of the case, just like Clinton tried to weasel out of his.

At the same time, Trump wants to give Conway’s husband a nice job in Washington as head of the Justice Department’s civil division. I’m presuming Conway would take it. Imagine that. As a lawyer, Conway argued that Clinton was a sleaze for trying to get out of the Jones lawsuit. Now, he’s looking to take a job from a guy trying to get out from under the same kind of lawsuit, a guy his wife helped to become president.

In the Clinton case, a unanimous Supreme Court said litigation against a sitting president can go forward if it concerns conduct that isn’t related to his office.

Trump’s attorneys are hoping for a way out of this by saying his case is in a state court while Clinton’s was in federal court. But the situation is the same.

The accusations being made by the women in each case originated from a time when the president wasn’t the president. What’s good for the Democratic gander should be good for the Republican gander.

George Conway has had a lot to say about the Clinton case. He argued that letting Clinton off the hook would have set a bad precedent, and that the commander in chief shouldn’t be permitted to hide behind his office.

“In a case involving his private conduct, a president should be treated like any private citizen,” Conway wrote in a 1994 Los Angeles Times op- ed. “The rule of law requires no more — and no less.” Yes. Exactly.