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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe 25 women who have accused Trump of sexual misconduct
It is amazing the false equivalency being pushed in the media. Can you imagine how Republicans would react if a woman who had repeatedly praised Trump suddenly started acting like fangirl of a foreign dictator, worked on a rival campaign, then started contradicting everything she said in the past?
If we are going to have this discussion, then lets have Trump go through each of the multiple allegations made against him.
https://www.businessinsider.com/women-accused-trump-sexual-misconduct-list-2017-12
A deluge of women made their accusations public following the October 2016 release of the "Access Hollywood" tape, in which Trump was recorded boasting about grabbing women's genitals in 2005. Some others made their stories public months before the tape's release, and still others came forward in the months following.
Trump has broadly dismissed the allegations, which include ogling, harassment, groping, and rape, as "fabricated" and politically motivated accounts pushed by the media and his political opponents. He promised to sue all of his accusers during the 2016 election. In some cases, Trump and his lawyer have suggested that he didn't engage in alleged behavior with certain women because they weren't attractive enough for him to be interested in.
"Every woman lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign," the Republican nominee said during a 2016 rally. "Total fabrication. The events never happened. Never. All of these liars will be sued after the election is over."
mcar
(42,302 posts)but, of course, they will "investigate" specious allegations against a Democrat.
TomCADem
(17,387 posts)This is an example of how drawing a false equivalence reflects a false objectivity
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Another broken campaign promise by Needy Amin. But I see the New York Times is headlining a story about "frustration" on the Democratic side of things at Biden's silence in the face of a specious allegation. Oh, the questions they linger and the clouds fail to dissipate when a Democrat is involved.
Twenty-five women accuse Trump, and it all goes away in one news cycle because . . . well, it's not really clear why, is it? But it worked for Trump, it worked for Justice Boof, it just never seems to stick to Republicans.