Las Vegas, Nevada–(ENEWSPF)–October 20, 2016
Donald Trump predictably spent Wednesday night’s debate lying on the subject of the nine women who say he’s sexually assaulted them. First, he claimed that “those stories have been largely debunked.” Then he denied having said things about the women that he most definitely said.
Maybe Trump thinks “debunked” and “I denied it” are synonyms, but they’re not, and the women’s stories have not been debunked according to the traditional definition of the word. Sorry, but producing a guy who claims to have been on a plane with Trump and one of his accusers 35 years ago and to clearly remember that the woman was flirting with Trump and he wasn’t touching her? That is not debunking either. Even if the alleged witness didn’t have a history of making wild claims.
But, okay. Nine women might have very believable claims about Donald Trump that line up with what Trump was recorded saying about his own behavior in 2005. They might have told friends what happened at the time of the assaults. But none of those assaults are on tape. What is on tape, though, is what Trump said about the women after they came forward. And Trump lied about that:
Clinton: At the last debate, we heard Donald talking about what he did to women, and after that a number of women have come forward saying that’s exactly what he did to them. Now, what was his response? Well, he held a number of big rallies where he said that he could not possibly have done those things to those women because they were not attractive enough for –
Trump: I did not say that.
Clinton: — them to be assaulted.
Trump: I did not say that.
Clinton: In fact, he went on to say —
Wallace: Her two minutes. Sir, her two minutes.
Trump: I did not say that.
Oh yes, he did. And Clinton just happened to be ready with the quotes:
He went on to say “look at her, I don’t think so.” About another woman, he said “that wouldn’t be my first choice.”
He said that. He absolutely said that. And when he lies about the accusations having been debunked, and he lies about this part of his treatment on women, something we can see for ourselves he’s lying about, why would he expect us to believe that he didn’t assault them to begin with?
Source: http://dailykos.com
