slanderer

The accusations sparked a political uproar, with the government’s spokesman, Giannis Oikonomou, saying they were based on no evidence and describing the magazine’s publisher, Kostas Vaxevanis, as a “national slanderer.”

Across the Atlantic it's the opposite: the burden of proof rests with the alleged slanderer, who has to prove what they said is true.

“It’s actually because six months ago, we found out this guy’s a liar, this guy’s a ‘railer’ ”—a term from the King James Bible that essentially means “slanderer”—“this guy’s super selfish.”

Sanders, Shakir stressed to Politico, “appreciates and understands the role the media plays in a democratic system,” whereas Trump “goes on the assault against the entire news media simply for being, in his mind, a perceived slanderer of him — and facts don’t matter in that analysis.”

If Moore is fully investigated by the Senate Select Committee on Ethics, he’ll be exposed not just as a former predator, but as a current slanderer.