Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich warned Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-IL) that calling President-elect Donald Trump a rapist could result in him getting sued and having his law license revoked.
On the heels of ABC News settling Trump’s defamation suit for $15 million, Pritzker went on the record to refer to Trump as an “adjudicated rapist” due to the ruling in the civil case related to writer E. Jean Carroll, in which a jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse rather than rape. In the case of ABC, it aired a segment in which host George Stephanopoulos claimed Trump was “liable for rape.”
“These are malicious things that he’s saying, particularly the rapist one when he should know better,” Blagojevich said Wednesday on Greg Kelly Reports. “He’s a lawyer. He’s a licensed attorney. And lawyers have a responsibility as officers of the court, even in the public…
