By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--November 24, 2017
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“Maybe he could, but not everyone can. “The candidate who openly bragged about grabbing women’s private parts — but denied he really did so — was elected president months before the cascading sexual harassment allegations that have been toppling the careers of powerful men in Hollywood, business, the media and politics. He won even though more than a dozen women accused him of sexual misconduct, and roughly half of all voters said they were bothered by his treatment of women, according to exit polls.”
“Now, as one prominent figure after another takes a dive, the question remains: Why not Trump?” (Time)That “the candidate” who later apologized for what he called “locker room talk’ supposedly was elected president months BEFORE the cascading sexual harassment allegations which have been toppling the careers of powerful men in Hollywood, business, the media and politics is an interesting take, leaving some to ponder if the outed alleged sexual harassers did not serve some other political purpose.
“A lot of people who voted for him recognized that he was what he was, but wanted a change and so they were willing to go along,” theorizes Jessica Leeds, one of the first women to step forward and accuse Trump of groping her, decades ago on an airplane. (Time) “The charges leveled against him emerged in the supercharged thick of the 2016 campaign, when there was so much noise and chaos that they were just another episode for gobsmacked voters to try to absorb — or tune out. “When you have a Mount Everest of allegations, any particular allegation is very hard to get traction on,” says political psychologist Stanley Renshon. “And Trump’s unconventional candidacy created an entirely different set of rules. “Trump is immune to the laws of political physics because it’s not his job to be a politician, it’s his job to burn down the system,” says Eric Dezenhall, a crisis management expert in Washington.
“As for Trump, the president who rarely sits out a feeding frenzy is selectively aiming his Twitter guns at those under scrutiny. "He quickly unloaded on Democrat Al Franken after the Minnesota senator was accused Thursday of forcibly kissing and groping a Fox TV sports correspondent, now a Los Angeles radio anchor, during a 2006 USO tour."Some would call Franken forcing his tongue in her mouth “forcible kissing”. Time continues its ant-Trump hit list:
“…Trump’s base likes him when he’s gratuitously ornery: Insulting war heroes, Gold Star families and the disabled have all been good for him, so what does he gain by strongly opining on Moore?” asks Dezenhall. “Nothing that I can see, so as a guideline, he doesn’t need to do all that much.”Has the treacherous MSM been parading its bevy of lechers in order to make Trump the biggest lecher of them all?
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