The Donald Trump campaign said that the women who accused Trump of sexual assault are motivated by politics, and TV talk show hosts are running with it.
“I’m skeptical about the timing of all of this dropping,” MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough said Thursday morning.
He continued: “If I had been sexually harassed by this man — the Megyn Kelly story would have given me an opportunity, there have been a thousand of the reports already.”
On Wednesday, the New York Times published a story in which two women said Trump groped them. The Trump campaign called the story libelous and threatened to sue.
“Another ridiculous tale — no witnesses, no nothing,” Trump said at a campaign rally Thursday. His campaign accused the women of using sexual assault claims for political gain, something he himself did Sunday at the presidential debate when he featured Bill Clinton’s accusers front and center.
Along with those in the Times story, nine other women came forward with accusations against Donald Trump. People magazine writer Natasha Stoynoff said Trump violated her at Mar-a-Lago in 2005; Mindy McGillivray said Trump groped her at Mar-a-Lago in 2003; former Miss Vermont Teen USA Mariah Billado and four other beauty pageant contestants said Trump walked into their dressing room unannounced in 1997.
“I’m just asking why suddenly all of this stuff is blowing up in October,” Scarborough said. He was not the only talk show host to raise questions.
This is why women don't come forward. This is why. https://t.co/FJgaspDlDu
— Sonam Sheth (@sonamsays) October 13, 2016
Fox News’ Howard Kurtz joined in on the skepticism.
New groping, kissing allegations in NYT and People fr years ago has Trump playing defense on multiple fronts. Fair to question the timing?
— HowardKurtz (@HowardKurtz) October 13, 2016
Fox Business host Lou Dobbs tweeted the address and phone number of one of the accusers, though he later apologized.
CNN also joined MSNBC and Fox in questioning the motives. “Could these stories be politically motivated?” CNN host Carol Costello asked CNN senior media correspondent Brian Stelter. “You understand why conservatives in particular would see a series of stories from the New York Times, the Palm Beach Post, People magazine, and elsewhere and think this is some sort of coordinated effort,” Stelter said.
In CNN’s online video clip of the conversation, the question was displayed prominently.
It’s not that the question itself is necessarily out of line — in any case of alleged rape, sexual assault, or harassment, a responsible journalist will seek to corroborate the accuser’s story. For example, the New York Times report corroborates the claims with the friends and family members of the victims. Examining possible motivations, and reasons for a delay in reporting the abuse, is similarly part of the reporting process. The point is that a reporter should actually try to find out the answers, as the media outlets breaking the stories of Trump’s accusers have generally done, rather than follow the lead of talk show hosts sloppily casting aspersions on the victim’s character.
And, it turns out, Trump’s accusers have offered a credible reason for coming forward: Trump’s own comments. Women cited the Access Hollywood tape, where Trump said, “I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait,” as well as Trump’s denial during the debate.
“I was relieved,” Stoynoff wrote about hearing the tape. “I finally understood for sure that I was not to blame for his inappropriate behavior. I had not been singled out. As he explained to Billy Bush, it was his usual modus operandi with women. I felt deep regret for not speaking out at the time.”
Retweet only if you know someone who was sexually assaulted but didn't come forward for fear of being shamed and blamed.
— andy lassner (@andylassner) October 13, 2016
Jessica Leeds, who told the New York Times that Trump sexually assaulted her, offered the same reason: During Sunday’s debate, Anderson Cooper asked Trump whether he had done what he boasted about. “No, I have not,” he said.
“I wanted to punch the screen,” Leeds said.
“I was upset that it had happened to other people, but also took some comfort in knowing I wasn’t the only one he had done it to,” said Rachel Crooks, who said that Trump kissed inappropriately her in 2005, when she was 22.
While false accusations of sexual assault do happen, these stories line up with what Trump has said that he does.
In 2005, Trump told Howard Stern that he went into pageant dressing rooms, CNN reported. “I’m allowed to go in because I’m the owner of the pageant. And therefore I’m inspecting it,” he said.
On the Access Hollywood tape, Trump said, “I’ve got to use some Tic Tacs, just in case I start kissing her.”
On Friday, CNN’s Erin Burnett relayed a story from a woman she is friends with: “Trump took Tic Tacs, suggested that I take them also. He then leaned in, … catching me off guard and kissed me almost on the lips. I was really freaked out.”
Top photo: Miss Washington USA Cassandra Searles is introduced during the 2013 Miss USA pageant on June 16, 2013, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Searles has previously spoken out about the behavior of Trump as owner of the Miss USA Pageant.
Naomi is a partisan propagandist.
Google Lolita express and Bill Clinton.
‘nuf said.
This so called “republican” candidate is really a disgusting, reprehensible, nasty, and (insert your own derogatory adjective here) individual. He is such an unattractive (which is the only quality he seems to admire in the opposite sex) dirty old man, I don’t see how the mainstream media hasn’t capitalized on this obvious observation.
In the late 90’s Playboy magazine published a photo shoot with Leslie Nielsen with a few beautiful soft core porn models. He had a suit & tie on, while while the models pictured around him were either partially clothed or nude. In one of his quotes (& this directly applies to Donald Trump), he states (as best I can remember) “when you are around beautiful gorgeous women like these, it makes you realize how truly ugly you are.”
I agree. He is a pork.
Can we now talk of Podesta? Or at least maybe we could at least mention Bill?
Glad I’m not American considering the tripe that the general public has to try and make sense of whenever they turn on cnn or msnbc or fox so called news after sexual predators (in this case trump) are outed publicly as exactly that.
His campaign accused the women of using sexual assault claims for political gain, something he himself did Sunday at the presidential debate when he featured Bill Clinton’s accusers front and center.
I must be terrible politically speaking, because I have no idea how it helps the republican party for people to continue to show up at trump’s rallies ever after he’s been outed as a sexual predator and cheer him on like sheep running off of a cliff. Probably has something to do with hoping for the best spot in the bomb shelter when the nuclear war starts. I had no idea trump was a sexual predator; I guess you learn something new every day. My conscience is clean. My condolences to the victims of people such as trump and cosby who have had to shoulder their respective burdens for decades just so some charade could take place under the pretense of feminism and womens’ rights progressing, which considering that clinton won’t be potus when the nuclear war starts seems to (not in my mind, of course) negate any of the political victory that will be had because of that fact.
Frankly; this is all trivial gutter garbage of interest only to the people involved and no doubt millions of women; I’m ashamed as a guy to say have suffered this kind of stuff and more. How many date rapes are there? Using drugs to rape on campus? We are a really sick species. On the other hand, how many women do you know whose minds are messed up by their mothers: most Islamic women including the women in country’s we consider civilized like Egypt are Genitally mutilated, almost all. How many young women are working 12.16 hours a day in sweatshops, living in dormitories’ and going home with the foreman in Bangladesh or other countries that make our stuff cheap and high profits for the Walton’s. How many millions of poor women lost their homes to predatory banksters in the USA. The biggest shame is that this conduct is reprehensible but I worry a lot more about what the Wall St. War witch will do in the next 4 years. With Trump, there may and only may be a chance to tear down the rotten system. Make the Fed public; end fractional reserve bankstering and cut back on the endless wars of hegemony. Women need support and a fair deal but like the blacks under Obomber, only very few corrupt ones like him got it; the rest in the inner cities are worse off than ever. Trump is not the answer; the answer is to tear down the rotten corporate duopoly and have a government of the people, not the corporations.
Finally, a comment worth reading. All who continue giving this topic attention are complicit in the agenda of the DNC ‘Machine’ to stay off the real issues. The Republicans are no better. Anyone is better than Hillary Clinton because she is an aggressive neocon……..Dick Cheney’s equal or better!
Could someone refresh my memory? I seem to have forgotten which political party made “character” the primary issue in past elections.
power. the reason victims take the abuse is they are powerless and fear the lifetime and familial price they’ll pay at the hands of the elite powerful who are fearless in immoral in illegal behavior because they know they are a small club who will punish and damage. this is the same reason people of color endure system racism and inequality in daily life or the judicial system. the reason it appears to suddenly come out is because when these powerless now see the opportunity to come out en masse is because that gives you a sense of protection. as individuals, powerless victims of sexism, racism, etc, don’t have a chance. but numbers help, because what else do you have?
what do the women want no man is perfect Trumph said and did what he did he is not in office give him a chance, How do we know if it was A TOUCH OR GROPE or whatever its all heresay until proven people say lots of things for attention and notariaty
There is one woman we haven’t heard from. Her name is Berta Cáceres. She can’t speak out because she was murdered by the coup government supported by The Nobel Laureate and his Madame Secretary.
And YOU feel entitled to PROSTITUTE her memory, in an imbecilic attempt to support a rapist, you piece of absolute shit.
god is it weird to read the comments now. It’s like “hey, all men sexually assault people.”
And all these creeps who base their entire standards for human behavior on “what somebody else got away with.”
Disgusting. Fuck you all of you who try to excuse this for whatever partisan reasons. Fuck. You.
You really seem distressed, Miss.
Know that all men are pigs and rapists, except for Bill whom we and Naomi, will forgive here for abusing his trainee and won’t mention cos’ of balanced reporting.
Since you seem a little put off by all of this, please do not look up LOLITA EXPRESS + BILL since you would probably puking your guts.
And invoking partisan reasons? Whereas Naomi wrote a piece pointing out the oh so true fact that Trumps brother used the same tasteful rhetoric as a nazi propagandist, while ignoring the fact that Bill rides on LOLITA EXPRESS? Come on.
I’m not partisan, I’m asking for (good) journalism, which I won’t get to see from Naomi, until we’ll be done with the electoral extravaganza.
You on the other hand..
fuck you idiot, you can’t read for shit, and you know less than that about me
In UK there was a high profile figure worked for BBC for years then after he died it came out he was this serial pedophile. Big fuss cause he had been accused time and again and all the people in authority chose to hush it all up.
The police then set up an Operation to look into historic sex abuse claims against famous people. As alleged victims came forward the police made the names of the alleged perpetrators public. This was to give other alleged victims the courage to come forward.
Long and the short of it was there are some very disturbed people out there.
One or two convictions, a whole bunch of reputations trashed. A feeling that the whole exercise didn’t get to the truth.
Is Trump an old perv ? Yeah probably , Bill definitely is.
Is this a red herring. Abso-fucking- lutely.
Do tell what’s so much more important. I’m sure for you the answer would be: whatever serves my partisan needs. Like most other shitheads in America.
Stories about “inappropriate touching” from ten and twenty years ago? Is this a new thing? Will all political candidates face this level of scrutiny from now on or just Trump and the Republicans?
When I read the bit about the New York Times corroborating the stories, I actually did sort of laugh out loud. Did they get out one of those anatomically correct dolls and ask the “victims” where he touched the doll and so forth?
The number one book on kindle. Hillary the Other Woman
https://www.amazon.com/Hillary-Other-Woman-Dolly-Kyle/dp/1944229450/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1476534017&sr=1-1&keywords=hillary+the+other+woman
I think there are some basic ground rules that everyone in America can agree on. Namely, that allegations of sexual misconduct against the candidate we oppose are extremely serious and should not be minimized or trivialized. And that the allegations against the candidate we prefer are transparent lies being peddled by a politically motivated mob.
Can you give me any links to all those allegations of sexual misconduct against HC?
Well, the rape case was all Hillary, and the Republicans have done a fairly good job at trying to make the Bill Clinton stuff her business, no matter how much of a stretch that might be. I mean, this kind of stuff: http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/10/12/exclusive-video-juanita-broaddrick-hillary-tried-silence-bill-clintons-rape/
Do I believe it? No. Honestly, my opinion is still that back during the first “independent prosecutions”, the atmosphere was so McCarthyist that Broaddrick was genuinely afraid of being sent to prison for signing an affidavit saying she hadn’t been raped, because they would call all the people she told that story to (or who would testify she had). I think they offered her immunity from perjury and made her start telling this story ever onward. But … I don’t actually know that. Sometimes it seems like everybody in any government in the world is not merely raping but child-molesting simply to prove their power.
Politically motivated ?.? The reporter needs to be fired for that question – it demeans the assault – in an attempt to cover it up and raise doubts…..
In the political playground of Donald Trump he was the first to start by bringing women he said were Bill Clinton’s flings…. Bill Clinton is not running for any office that I know of so how could be anything but that?? Oh, it’s rigged – or his saying how he would pay the legal fees of “beat the up and throw them out”?
Threats of legal action isn’t going to play because the NEW YORK TIMES has already – told him to bring them on – – BUT I DON’T SEE THEM- – oh yes where are they???
Ratfucking are we…Ms La Chance, are you a Straisssian?
*Straussian*
It was only a matter of time before some of his victims came forward, once the recording of him BRAGGING about his HABIT of sexual assault came out.
There’s no blaming yourself anymore, once you hear your rapist LAUGH about the fact that he mauls people ALL THE TIME, and gets away with it because he’s rich and famous.
I know, this is always left out of the pathetic defenses.
Also: to everyone who says “But Bill Clinton!” The binary logic of elections has led you to the usual place: Hell. Hell, where you base your standards of behavior on whatever you imagine the worst things to be. Sad numbers of Democrats and Republicans live their comfortably. Fuck. All. Of. You.
live there comfortably….that’s a bursting blood vessel typo
Election years alienate me from almost everybody. It’s like the end of the horror movie where everybody turns out to be predatory shape-shifters.
I was skeptical of the timing myself, but you make a pretty good argument.
“Along with those in the Times story, nine other women came forward with accusations against Donald Trump. People magazine writer Natasha Stoynoff said Trump violated her at Mar-a-Lago in 2005; Mindy McGillivray said Trump groped her at Mar-a-Lago in 2003; former Miss Vermont Teen USA Mariah Billado and four other beauty pageant contestants said Trump walked into their dressing room unannounced in 1997.”
1997,2003,2005 are amoung the years, and 9 came forward in one week in 2016, less than a month before the general election. If that doesn’t scream fraud than i’m not sure that anything ever will. I understand the point you are trying to make and certainly sympathize with woman who are too scared to come forward but this is more than obviously politics, i mean they had years and years and he was making crazy disgusting comments towards women well over a year ago on the campaign trail.
Joel, you use the word “fraud.” Are you suggesting the women are lying? If so, wouldn’t someone who was lying choose time frames that make it look less like this is politically motivated.
But, moreover, does it really matter what is motivating this? Unless you think these nine women got together to make up nine lies, the fact that these things happened, and not their timing, is what matters. Trump’s behavior, no matter how far in the past, is inexcusable.
Joel, you are a fucking idiot. Of course the allegations come up after a video of him saying he does it makes the news.
looking at the facts, victims and the time line it looks all very much like facts (let alone the fact that Trump describes himself as being a piggy out of control)
Want to know why women often don’t come forward? Go to twitter or facebook and search the hashtag #WhyWomenDontReport . There are LOTS of reasons, but the core of them are – society has a poor track record in not believing, dismissing, and/or attacking the person reporting.
We are told we are liars; we are told we “regret” the sex; we are told we wore the wrong outfit, walked in the wrong neighborhood, drank the wrong things; we are told that the behavior is just “boys being boys” or “locker room talk”; our personal information (including address and phone number) is tweeted to almost a million followers; we are told we need to “toughen up” if we want to survive in the business world. Basically, we are found at fault.
These women who are coming forward have nothing to gain and a lot to lose. They will get death threats, rape threats, will have phone calls in the middle of the night, and will have to relive one of the more difficult moments of their lives over and over again.
Your second paragraph is a lot of bullshit.
Though I’m against Trump, I’m not entirely confident of Hillary either. Can anyone call true or false on this?:
http://www.westernjournalism.com/thepoint/2016/10/06/clinton-foundation-suddenly-gets-flawless-charity-rating-then-the-truth-comes-out/
I’d honestly believe either it was an out-and-out lie or the truth with equal ease.
Trump’s threat to “sue” shows he is living in the past. He acts as if court censorship has something to do with the merits of his case, rather than understanding that the law is merely a club with which to assault those who displease him. Rather than threatening to sue, he should have known to threaten to find existing cases against the networks that he could bankroll and use to destroy them.
or.
instead of being an idiot like usual….
you could admit that nobody who allows himself to be taped bragging about
unwanted sexual advances could win a suit
you utter fucking dumbshit
While I seem to agree with everything you say, the way you say it is pretty revolting. Donald-esque almost
> It’s not that the question itself is necessarily out of line . . . The point is that a reporter should actually try to find out the answers
nailed it
Coups, drone strikes, warmongering = OK, not horrific, not done by a monster, etc
Groping, ogling, bragging about either = THE WORST THING ANYONE HAS EVER DONE
The fact that a good chunk of the public is buying into this should be far more frightening to any reasonable person than the idea of the awful Trump as president.
This is not Fox or CNN. Most people here knows that Obama is just another puppet for the Plutocracy and that Clinton is just going to take over from where he left off. But that is besides the point. This article is about the women, the victims of arseholes like Trump. Trump’s name gets mentioned because he happens to be running for president at the moment, so he is pretty much in the spotlight. That’s all. Other than that it’s about men that believes that common decency towards other people don’t apply to them. That they are somehow so special that they can treat other people like shit and get away with it.
The whataboutery is totally unnecessary because most people know that there is no real choice in this election. Not one of these peoples actions make the others more stomachable. You’re only fooling yourself if you try and justify the one over the other.
Funny you should say that.
YOU read my comment, which included the phrases, “nuke-happy, torture-loving cartoon of a racist dictator,” and, “lying, cheating, charity-robbing tax avoider,” and, “billion-dollar-loser, and serial bankrupter.”
Yet “sexual assault” was the only thing YOU seemed to notice.
I find it so sad that only nine people have even left comments. Great story. As a woman you gain nothing and risk it all if you’re accusing Donald Trump (who may sue you for years just to inflict pain to your family). Compare that to just keeping your mouth shut and risking nothing.
This is just like Senator Gary Hart (even though he was only having consensual sex), he told the media he was clean and said “follow me if it makes you think you will see catch me”. Well guess what he was having affairs?
Except Trump accuses himself on tape of sexual assaults, then says at Debate (90 million watching) “locker room talk” all made up. Except not in a locker room. MANY WOMEN WHO WERE HIS VICTIMS DECIDED, fuck it I have to go public.
Our Democracy is very screwed up. My Grandfather was a Republican his whole life and I am sure he is spinning in his grave now.
I know Glen isn’t a big Hitchens fan, but he gave a pearl of wisdom that should be heard:
“That which is offered without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
Tawana Brawley, U Va, Duke LaCrosse.
C’mon folks, the guy has been a public figure for 40 years, and the NYC Gossip Columnist scene is the most aggressive and cunning in the world. I find it hard to believe, with the WaPo bragging they have scores of reporters on the job full time just on Trump, that a few weeks before the elections, all of a sudden Trump is a serial groper.
I bet Amanda Marcotte, as always, believes these stories uncritically.
Octomaga, I bet you find it hard to believe I just left this comment.
It’s also funny that you bring up the one and only case that anyone can think of when it comes to wrongful sexual assault accusations. Funny is the wrong word…. stupid maybe better suited
Intercept “journalist” shows how not to address important issues.
Naomi, obviously you’re not part of the team screening Podestas mails, but you have so far displayed great proficiency in historical research.
Why don’t you investigate if Trump or his brother share those misogynistic traits with some nazi?
That would make a great piece. You even could turn that into a series. Every week (until the election) you could enlighten the world with some shocking and sordid revelations about Donald. And we would be even more averse of him (and his brother), while being forever in debt, cos we never would have guessed he is a whack job.
I mean by the end of the day everybody prefers corrupt warmongering pathological liars to gropers who’s brother (unwittingly) uses nazi rhetoric.
You, Erich, are a moron — a nasty, ignorant moron with poor reading comprehension.
This piece is not about Trump or his alleged misbehavior. It’s about the treatment of the women who have accused him of misbehavior.
Maybe if you read it again, more slowly, it will sink in, at least a little bit. I doubt it, but maybe,
You’re the moron. Of course it’s about Trump.
No, you’re the moron.
The story is about the pitiful ass-kissing whores in the media, who are willing to denigrate sexual assault victims on behalf of a self-described serial sex assailant.
Those sleazy sycophants have been doling out malicious defamation ON BEHALF of that nuke-happy, torture-loving cartoon of a racist dictator, but that doesn’t make the story ABOUT that lying, cheating, charity-robbing tax avoider.
Your billion-dollar-loser, and serial bankrupter, is just context.
So relax.
Lisa, replace a few words here and there and your criticism works for clinton as well. Except clinton has actually had power and taken actions to back up those claims, while Trump is simply talk and speculation.
Sexual assault is bad. Coups, drone strikes, warmongering with Russia is worse. That fact doesn’t make trump a good person though.
Replace a few words here and there and it works for the Easter Bunny.
That is the nature of words.
Speaking of which, your response implies that you MISSED a lot of my words.
You seem to have ignored everything other than sexual assault. (Much like the Republican Party did.)
All of you are wrong!! This story is about this:
https://theintercept.com/2016/10/13/on-wikileaks-journalism-and-privacy-reporting-on-the-podesta-archive-is-an-easy-call/
Are you ENTIRELY sure that THAT story isn’t about that?
I suspect you’ve failed to fully consider the possibility that this story is about THIS.
Trump is only one of many fucking idiots on this planet that don’t have any respect for women whatsoever. Keep on making it about him. He sure loves the attention. Narcissistic arsehole that he is.
Hurling schoolyard insults now? High class Doug, I hit a nerve here, huh? Using deception to evade my point, too: You know perfectly well this is a (s)hit piece.
Naomi is an untalented propagandist and I’ll keep telling her until she stops.
You can now call me some more names, if you wished so.
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.” – Maurice Switzer (?)
You have removed all doubt.
How witty.
Interesting–the timing of these revelations.
We now have the dueling sexual assault charges–Bill Clinton’s accusers (with Hillary as the enabler) and now Trump’s accusers. That’s what this election has devolved into–who’s the bigger cad.
Of course, young people don’t remember the 90’s. The names Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broaddrick won’t ring a bell or only a very faint one. And back then feminists were supporting Bill and throwing his accusers under the proverbial Greyhound.
Ah well, if it wasn’t for partisanship, double standards, and hypocrisy–there would be no politics.
The timing of the revelations may be the result of all sorts of things, from happenstance to a vast Democratic conspiracy. However, it is almost certainly not related to the veracity of the women who say they were harassed or assaulted.
The treatment of those women is the subject of Naomi’s piece.
Sheesh.
Cry me a river. Suddenly “the treatment of women” is an issue.
Only the treatment of some women, of course. And at certain convenient times.
Virginia, I remember being told that using a Cigar on an intern half-his-age while being the head of State of the most powerful country in the world, was “Just Sex and Nunya Business”.
Hillary and Lena Dunham can speculate on the size of Lenny Kravitz’ package on TV, just months ago, no problem. Not disqualifying. It’s apparently disqualifying for Trump, however, to discuss grabbing genitalia in a private conversation 11 years ago.
Sex in the City, 50 Shades of Grey, don’t be such a prude – unless *HE* does it.
Having to register as a sex offender really bothers you, doesn’t it? If you don’t understand the difference between a consensual sex act and a non-consensual one, or the difference between talking about a person and grabbing that person, well, then, there really is no reasoning with you, is there?
What double standards are you talking about? Why I’m asking is that there are idiots like Rush Limbaugh who thinks this is double standards:
“The left will promote and understand and tolerate anything, as long as there is one element. Do you know what it is? Consent,” Limbaugh said during his namesake radio Show Wednesday. “If there is consent on both or all three or all four, however many are involved in the sex act, it’s perfectly fine. But if the left ever senses and smells that there’s no consent in part of the equation then here come the rape police.”
So, now I’m just wondering. When the fuck are we going to start throwing the real arseholes underneath the bus instead of trying to protect them with finger pointing and whataboutery? Blaming the victims for playing political games. Jesus. Fuck. This circus needs to end.
Valk,
How about the women in the countries where Clinton has supported coups and wars? I’m sure as a result women there have suffered far worse than what Trump has done. This does not make Trump a good person, but it certainly doesn’t make it clear which one is the worse excuse for a human being.
Or how can we forget all the women whom her husband kicked off welfare with his “reforms.” Is a life of struggle and poverty and worry about where your kid will get his next meal, not being able to spend time raising them because you work three jobs, is that worse than sexual assault or ogling one time to a relatively small amount of women in comparison?
Can it really be true that you are imbecilic enough to imply that the racist douchebag that wouldn’t even RENT to black people, would make life easier for women on welfare?
If so, do you imagine anyone is brain damaged enough to believe you?
Only after a tape from 2005 comes out a sufficient catalyst exists for a flood of assault claims? Possible but not plausible. CNN, MSNBC et al. are no friends of Trump, and even they’re questioning the motives.
Personally, I’m waiting for the next news cycle’s breaking story: Trump found decapitating puppies for amusement. That bit of investigative journalism will certainly be the one to sink his candidacy.
The Democratic Establishment did these women and the country no favors by rigging the primary for their misleader in chief.
Agreed that the DNC and its associates and lackeys rigged the nomination process for $hillary.
What does that have to do with Trump’s alleged assaults and harassment and the subsequent treatment of the women who say they were the victims?
People are less likely to believe these women because they find themselves involuntarily on the same “side” as Hillary who has misled us repeatedly.
Well if you’re willing to rig a primary, would you also be willing to entice a few women to lie or embellish? Probably not in this case (though some would believe it), but it highlights why dishonesty, especially by public figures, can have far-reaching adverse consequences.
One could also argue that without the rigging, Sanders likely winning the nom, would result in a much greater spread in polls than currently exists had this information come out a month before the Sanders/Trump/Johnson/Stein election. That Clinton is debatably worse than Trump is a much easier sell than Sanders being worse.