Trump Wars: The NYT’s lawyers strike back: Following the New York Times story we mentioned in our Thursday issue, which presented the accusations of two women who allege that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump groped them, about ten more women have come forward with their own allegations. In true authoritarian fashion, Trump’s campaign threatened to sue the New York Times for libel, and the response published by the NYT’s Assistant General Counsel David E. McCraw dismantles the notion that the Orange One has the basis for a libel claim, reminding Trump’s lawyers: “The essence of a libel claim, of course, is the protection of one’s reputation. Mr. Trump has bragged about his non-consensual [redacted] touching of women. He has bragged about intruding on beauty pageant contestants in their dressing rooms. He acquiesced to a radio host’s [Howard Stern’s] request to discuss Mr. Trump’s own daughter [Ivanka] as a “piece of a[**]… Nothing in our article has had the slightest effect on the reputation that Mr. Trump, through his own words and actions, has already created for himself.” Read the letter in fullhere, pdf.