Historically, says Donald Trump, stars like him have been able to grab women by the pussy. Unfortunately . . . or fortunately.
here's a clip from Trump's deposition where he comments on the Access Hollywood tape pic.twitter.com/HxrPtH0UYa
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 5, 2023
This clip was played for the jury during the testimony of a woman who alleges Trump forcibly grabbed her and kissed her.
I don’t think the jury will like that.
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Yup. That’s what he actually said.
Patterico (78b198) — 5/5/2023 @ 1:36 pmI’m so proud of the Republican party.
Simon Jester (ff9c91) — 5/5/2023 @ 1:50 pm…depending on whether you are looking at it from the woman’s * point of view. or the man’s.
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* or perhaps the point of view of civilization, since Donald Trump says that they willingly consent (once the celebrity begins)
Here we see both Donald Trump’s propensity to backtrack or take both sides, and his tendency to justify anything he said. He said it was “locker room talk”, i.e. false, but he has to go and say he was right.
Of course what he says in the Access Hollywood tape is not the same thing E. Jean Carroll describes and her lawyer obscures the difference by only quoting the first art of Trump’s statement..
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 5/5/2023 @ 1:55 pmWhat the hell!
Dana (560c99) — 5/5/2023 @ 1:57 pmooooof.
Not a good look Donny.
whembly (d116f3) — 5/5/2023 @ 1:59 pm@3. …depending on whether you are looking at it from the woman’s * point of view. or the man’s. * or perhaps the point of view of civilization, since Donald Trump says that they willingly consent (once the celebrity begins)
Meow! Thing is, his response was essentially correct regarding the celebrity ‘star treatment’ lore… For example: ‘it was Joan Crawford’s habit of sleeping with her co-stars and directors and using her body to get better angles and more screen time that once led Bette Davis to remark that Crawford “slept with every male star at MGM except Lassie,” and also made Crawford constant fodder for the gossip rags at the time. In an era when sexuality was one of women’s most powerful tools — especially in a male-dominated industry like Hollywood — Crawford’s approach to sex often took the men (and rumored women) in her life by surprise. Especially when she would invite them someplace and then show up naked, or “recast” her leading man with a new hot thing… Offscreen, Crawford used her sexuality going all the way back to her teen years, when she danced in a Chicago club under the name Lucille LeSueur and reportedly slept with her stepfather. And it was a trait that stuck with her all the way through her career, right up until her death in 1977. Although her trysts, associations and marriages were too numerous to list in full, here are a few of her more notable flings and relationships: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, Spencer Tracy, Jackie Cooper, Phillip Terry, Jeff Chandler, Kirk Douglas, Alfred Steele, John Ireland, Vincent Sherman, Robert Aldrich, Jack Warner…’
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/feud-joan-crawfords-hollywood-romances-984720/
DCSCA (be2aad) — 5/5/2023 @ 2:18 pm11 witnesses testified in Donald Trump’s rape trial. Here’s what they said
Rip Murdock (a1e7d1) — 5/5/2023 @ 2:24 pmNo doubt President Joe Biden will address this verbal disrepect toward women at his self-announced major press conference today… or will he?
Biden Shocks Media By Announcing ‘Major Press Conference’ — Turns Out He Was Talking About An MSNBC Interview
President Joe Biden mistakenly told members of the White House press corps that he would be holding a press conference later on Friday, confusing it with an interview he is set to have with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle.
“I’m doing a major press conference this afternoon, so I love you all but I’d like to ask you to leave so we can get down to business,” said Biden after speaking to reporters about April’s jobs report and forthcoming debt limit negotiations with Republicans. Reporters continued to harangue Biden after he asked them to leave the room and Biden doubled down, responding to their myriad questions by declaring, “We’ll get a chance to talk about all of those things, I promise you.” CNN’s John King observed that a presidential press conference came as “news to us” as well as the rest of the American press before promising to “get you more information on that as we get it.”… Biden has held the fewest number of press conferences during his first two years in office since Ronald Reagan.
“Despite his press secretary pledging that Mr. Biden would ‘bring transparency and truth back to the government,’ in his first two years, the president granted the fewest interviews since Mr. Reagan’s presidency: only 54. (Donald J. Trump gave 202 during the first two years of his presidency; Barack Obama gave 275),” noted the New York Times’s Michael Shear last month.’ – https://www.mediaite.com/politics/biden-touts-non-existent-major-press-conference-in-confusion-over-msnbc-interview/
DCSCA (be2aad) — 5/5/2023 @ 2:28 pmWow, that’s nasty. Trump should drop out and just go away.
Then a good clean Republican like DeSantis could take over, who the same folks oppose.
JF (529073) — 5/5/2023 @ 2:43 pm“Or fortunately”??
What the hell!
Dana (560c99) — 5/5/2023 @ 1:57 pm
Exactly. It was a flex.
norcal (15fce4) — 5/5/2023 @ 2:46 pmAll Bluster:
Rip Murdock (a1e7d1) — 5/5/2023 @ 3:03 pmI don’t think any of the Republican candidates should drop out, I just think some shouldn’t (or couldn’t) win.
Rip Murdock (a1e7d1) — 5/5/2023 @ 3:23 pmFor years, I have a solution to the Trump problem:
1. Trump should drop out of the presidential race.
2. He should release Melania who, by now, has more than paid for her violation of immigrant work rules. (And I wouldn’t mind if she went back to Slovenia, taking her family with her.)
3. He should turn over any money he has — assuming he has any — to an honorable trustee, with directions to return it to the people he has cheated over the years.
4. He should join one of those monastic orders that require monks to take vows of poverty, chastitity, obedience — and silence.
Of course I know that the chances of all that happening are somewhere around one in a trillion, or less — but it is fun to think about, anyway.
And just imagine Trump’s reaction were someone to propose it to him.
Jim Miller (0e46f9) — 5/5/2023 @ 3:53 pm“have had” a solution
Jim Miller (0e46f9) — 5/5/2023 @ 3:54 pmI was much more likely to believe this type of testimony before the Kavanaugh hearings
11 witnesses testified in Donald Trump’s rape trial. Here’s what they said
All Bluster
This is part of the reason I have a hard time with Trump. He’s all bluster, but when Trump is caught verbalizing on this tape, I am supposed to believe he’s not blustering
steveg (3b0381) — 5/5/2023 @ 3:56 pmAs much fun as thinking about Kari Lake’s hairdo?
BuDuh (eaef9b) — 5/5/2023 @ 4:00 pmJim Miller (0e46f9) — 5/5/2023 @ 3:53 pm
Jim, the first two are within the realm of possibility.
I would believe in a talking dog before I believed in the latter two.
norcal (15fce4) — 5/5/2023 @ 4:24 pmHis blustering is coming back to bite him; in retrospect, however, given the number of women willing to risk perjury charges through the years you’ve got to wonder if there’s smoke, there’s fire somewhere.
Rip Murdock (b7d6fc) — 5/5/2023 @ 4:47 pm#17 norcal – I agree.
Jim Miller (0e46f9) — 5/5/2023 @ 5:21 pmnorcal – Some proud owners would say we already have talking dogs. For instance, one proud owner decided to show off his dog’s skills to a skeptic, by asking the dog these questions:
“How does sandpaper feel?”
“Ruff!”
“What’s on top of a house?”
“Roof!”
“Who was the greatest home run hitter of all time?”
“Roof!”
(More seriously, trainers claim they have already taught a smart border collie more than 1000 words. It seems likely to me that such a dog could learn to say simple sentences, with the help of an electronic voice box of some sort.)
Jim Miller (0e46f9) — 5/5/2023 @ 5:53 pmI don’t think the jury will like that.
I think you can say that, yeah.
nk (4958ea) — 5/5/2023 @ 7:37 pmJim Miller (0e46f9) — 5/5/2023 @ 5:53 pm
You ruined a perfectly good (and very old) joke.
lurker (cd7cd4) — 5/5/2023 @ 8:31 pmInteresting thread…
“Gaps” in the surveillance tapes is a real Nixonesque move and– because the software company have the unedited versions–amateur. I do expect Trump will get indicted for obstruction and for violating the Espionage Act, and the extent of his obstruction will be impressive. Refusing to return classified intel is serious business.
Paul Montagu (8f0dc7) — 5/5/2023 @ 8:59 pmOne lingering question: We know about the sweetheart deal the Saudis made with Jared Kushner, but we don’t know how much they paid Trump to host two LIV golf tour events at his country clubs.
Biden says son ‘has done nothing wrong’ ahead of possible federal charges
President Biden said his son Hunter “has done nothing wrong” as he could soon be charged following a multi-year investigation into his business dealings. “First of all, my son has done nothing wrong,” he said in an interview with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle on Friday evening. “I trust him. I have faith in him.” – https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3991332-biden-says-son-has-done-nothing-wrong-ahead-of-possible-federal-charges/
“Yup. That’s what he actually said.” 😉
DCSCA (a45012) — 5/5/2023 @ 10:05 pm#22 lurker – Thanks for that older version, which is better.
Jim Miller (0e46f9) — 5/6/2023 @ 4:12 amSomething is said to have happened 1995 or 1996? Fake but accurate?
Tape is from 2005? Blarney, braggadocio, liar, don’t trust a word he says…. Trump is fake and a phony, prone to outsized embellishment about everything, but this, this, is a window into his soul.
There are people who actually made a decent living calling all things Trump blarney, braggadocio, liar, don’t trust a word he says…. Trump is fake and a phony, prone to outsized embellishment about everything and now they want us to believe that they unearthed the one true thing about him
steveg (9d9333) — 5/6/2023 @ 8:53 amPaul Montagu (8f0dc7) — 5/5/2023 @ 8:59 pm
Yeah, Montagu, impeccable sourcing as usual
Mueller She Wrote is a binder full of women unraveling the mysteries of the Mueller investigation. Join us each week as your hosts simplify the absurd amount of Mueller news and wrap it up into informative, hilarious bites. MSW is committed to separating the facts from conjecture with just the right amount of snark.
@MuellerSheWrote 20-Apr-2023
So the latest “controversy” is that a private citizen called a bunch of his private citizen friends who used to work for the government, and they all wrote a letter supporting Biden – and that’s election interference?
keep scouring the left wing septic tank for more scoops
JF (4acc4c) — 5/6/2023 @ 9:17 amI know conservatives always cite left wing partisans for their objective remarks.
NJRob (eb56c3) — 5/6/2023 @ 9:43 amJust more ad hominem in lieu of a substantive response from the Trumpist wing. Tell me, JF, what facts did she get wrong?
Paul Montagu (8f0dc7) — 5/6/2023 @ 9:48 amPaul Montagu (8f0dc7) — 5/6/2023 @ 9:48 am
oh, I dunno Montagu, maybe the facts that are speculation and not facts??
and the supreme irony of a twitter account devoted to Mueller’s
JF (4acc4c) — 5/6/2023 @ 9:59 amTrump with huntinvestigation of election meddling that poops on actual for realz election meddling is obviously lost on you
JF (4acc4c) — 5/6/2023 @ 9:59 amTrump witch huntobviouslyThat’s what you call a substantive response? Ha!
Paul Montagu (8f0dc7) — 5/6/2023 @ 10:14 amWas the ten year old dig at Romney what attracted you to the site, Montagu?
Apparently his turn as a NeverTrumper wasn’t convincing enough to do an update.
JF (e47da1) — 5/6/2023 @ 10:34 amCome for the snark, stay for the lefty mincing…
Colonel Haiku (c13251) — 5/6/2023 @ 10:46 amYou Trumpists sure take criticism of your Orange Savior personally.
Paul Montagu (8f0dc7) — 5/6/2023 @ 11:14 amCHAZee!
Colonel Haiku (c13251) — 5/6/2023 @ 11:22 am“Gaps” in the surveillance tapes is a real Nixonesque move and– because the software company have the unedited versions–amateur.
Moral: Run your own security AV storage and email servers. Back them up locally too. Then you can delete things and no one is the wiser (if you do i right). Hillary did, and it kept her out of prison.
Kevin M (f94f4f) — 5/6/2023 @ 12:48 pmJust more ad hominem in lieu
Attacking your source as biased is not ad hominum. If it seems like he’s saying YOU are biased by implication, well the shoe fits or it doesn’t, but it’s still not ad hominum
Kevin M (f94f4f) — 5/6/2023 @ 12:58 pmYou Trumpists sure take criticism of your Orange Savior personally.
Now, THAT is an ad hominum. See the difference.
Kevin M (f94f4f) — 5/6/2023 @ 12:59 pmDoubtless JFK and LBJ and Bill Clinton would say “fortunately”.
Andrew (50c293) — 5/6/2023 @ 1:41 pmAd hominem…
Yep, JF’s comment about Mueller She Wrote was just that.
Paul Montagu (8f0dc7) — 5/6/2023 @ 3:04 pm— The light is green
— No, it’s red.
— It looks green to me.
— You’re color-blind, remember?
— Oh, yeah, I forgot.
It is ad hominem. And it is an argument. But it is not a rhetorical argument. Nobody is trying to reason out with logic whether the light is red or green. It is an argument about two statements of facts and which should be believed. Personally, I would believe the person who is not color blind.
nk (3da6af) — 5/6/2023 @ 3:39 pmIt also works with tomatoes.
nk (3da6af) — 5/6/2023 @ 3:57 pmYep, JF’s comment about Mueller She Wrote was just that.
It attacked that of the information you posted, not you.
If I posted something from Gateway Pundit, and you (rightly) said that was a crap site with lies, it would not be an ad hominum.
(Google)
Kevin M (f94f4f) — 5/6/2023 @ 3:58 pmAnd why is #35 NOT ad hominum?
Kevin M (f94f4f) — 5/6/2023 @ 4:00 pmnk (3da6af) — 5/6/2023 @ 3:39 pm
— the laptop is Russian misinformation
JF (9688d4) — 5/6/2023 @ 4:10 pm— no, it’s real
— it looks fake to me
— you’re colorblind, remember?
— ad hominem
“Ad hominum” is a form of logical fallacy. You suck, therefore your argument sucks. It may be actually true, but both parts have to be shown independently.
Example: “Trump lies, therefore anything he says is false.” The “therefore” is the problem. Both statements may be independently true, but the first does not prove the second.
Kevin M (f94f4f) — 5/6/2023 @ 4:22 pmAnother republican traditiona family values pervert caught. Texas house to vote to expel bryan slaton for sexually assaulting intern.
asset (f7677e) — 5/7/2023 @ 1:36 amAnother republican traditiona family values pervert caught. Texas house to vote to expel bryan slaton for sexually assaulting intern.
The Democrats gave Gary Studds and Barney Franks standing ovations when they left Congress, despite both being involved in improper sexual incidents, Studds with underage male pages and Franks with a male prostitute boyfriend who was turning tricks in the Congressman’s house while he was away.
But it’s OK because they despised family values, Christians, and Republcians in general, which makes them modern saints.
Kevin M (f94f4f) — 5/7/2023 @ 12:40 pm@49 Republican family values are those of the manson family.
asset (9a1394) — 5/7/2023 @ 10:16 pmRepublican family values are those of the manson family.
asset (9a1394) — 5/7/2023 @ 10:16 pm
Come on, asset. You’re better than that.
norcal (15fce4) — 5/7/2023 @ 10:24 pmDemocrats avoid the question, altogether, by refusing to recognize either families or values. If this guy was a Democrat, Democrats would call it a “non-traditional” relationship. If even that.
nk (bb1548) — 5/8/2023 @ 4:12 am@51 bryan slaton another traditional family values republican resigns rather then be expelled for molesting intern. Its texas.
asset (05cb31) — 5/8/2023 @ 2:24 pmThis behavior is abnormal among Republicans and expected from Democrats. So it has shock value.
Kevin M (f94f4f) — 5/8/2023 @ 3:57 pmThis behavior is abnormal among Republicans and expected from Democrats.
Do you have evidence to support that? In my admittedly anecdotal observation, the abundant history of politician sexual abuse scandals is decidedly bipartisan. I really wouldn’t bet a penny either way on which side has more.
As for what’s abnormal and what’s expected, I seem to recall a poll showing that Democrats are less forgiving of sexual abuse by their side than Republicans are of theirs. It was a few years ago and I don’t remember it making big news so I doubt I can locate it, but if you want I’ll try.
lurker (cd7cd4) — 5/8/2023 @ 5:23 pmFIFY. It’s because (at least until recently) the Republican Party emphasized traditional family values. Now, not so much.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 5/9/2023 @ 9:17 amClarifying fix:
FIFY. It’s because (at least until recently) the Republican Party emphasized traditional family values. Now, not so much.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 5/9/2023 @ 9:20 am@56. Now? It was always GOP sucker bait. Gingrich, Dole even Reagan… etc., etc… hardly bastions of ‘tradition family values.’
DCSCA (273a66) — 5/9/2023 @ 9:22 amSo, Trump is liable for sexual abuse (but not rape) and defamation, and the damages are $2 million and $3 million, respectively.
Paul Montagu (8f0dc7) — 5/9/2023 @ 12:18 pmI suspect Trump will appeal and lose.
I suspect that “or fortunately” cost him.
Paul Montagu (8f0dc7) — 5/9/2023 @ 12:18 pmNot guilty of rape. Guilty of being a ba-a-a-a-a-d boy!
And Americans do love their bad boys. Watch his poll numbers spike. Too bad she waited 20-plus years to make it an obviously political slam. Kavanaugh outta a have a beer or ten tonight for dodging a similar bullet…
DCSCA (926343) — 5/9/2023 @ 12:43 pmTrump is now on record as a sexual abuser and slanderer.
Paul Montagu (8f0dc7) — 5/9/2023 @ 12:49 pmGood luck resuscitating that lack of character.