Good Grief! Trump Strategy To Deal With Allegations: "Turn Bill Clinton Into Bill Cosby"

[napkinz]

by Joshua Green
October 12, 2016

"We’re going to turn him (Bill Clinton) into Bill Cosby," Trump campaign manager Steve Bannon says.

.. the campaign will soon bring forward new accusers: “Women are coming to us who have been groped or sexually abused by Bill Clinton.”

Trump is considering featuring these women at campaign rallies to “give witness to what Hillary Clinton actually did.” The Republican nominee’s decision to close out his campaign by attacking what he alleges to be Bill Clinton's history of sexual violence, and his wife's role after the fact, suggests the next few weeks could be among the ugliest in modern presidential history.

On Thursday night, the Trump campaign will begin a new media blitz, his advisers say, with Broaddrick, Willey, and Jones appearing together on a one-hour Fox News special hosted by Sean Hannity. Additional interviews will follow.

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The purpose of Trump’s sudden, intense focus on sexual abuse is twofold. First, to distract attention away from the 2005 “Access Hollywood” tape recently obtained by the Washington Post that shows Trump making appallingly lewd remarks about women. Second is to depress enthusiasm for Clinton among a key voter bloc in her quest for the White House: millennial women.

read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-10-12/trump-takes-a-back-to-the-future-focus-on-bill-clinton-s-women


See also: Trump’s New Nuclear Strategy Is to “Turn Bill Clinton into Bill Cosby” and Hope Nobody Votes

The point will be to muddy the waters, declare equivalency between all misdeeds real and imagined, blame the media, and hope women stay home.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/10/12/trump_campaign_s_new_strategy_is_to_turn_bill_clinton_into_bill_cosby_and.html

[vlyons]

1. Won't work, won't work, won't work

The only thing that Trump will accomplish is to show decent people even more - what a small, hateful, mean-spirited, and vindictive man he is. And stupid! No body cares about Bill Clinton's peccadillos that happened many years ago.

I hope that Hillary puts more energy and messaging into the aspirational and uplifting part of her campaign. The American people are so so ready to hear more positive and inspirational messages. She needs to channel her Obama hope and change message.

[napkinz]

2. Trump may try to "turn Bill Clinton into Bill Cosby" but

it's more likely Trump will soon be SHARING A CELL WITH BILL COSBY!

[underahedgerow]

3. trump is running his campaign with all the success he brought to his business ventures.

From now on, I see nothing but poverty and misery for this freak. People are running from him faster than from a hoard of zombies.

[anamandujano]

4. He's got toadies on message boards already doing this.

[Raine]

5. Nothing new with Bill to get into, it was exposed 20yrs and Bill paid a price for it ... he

was impeached plus he's not running for election.

[regnaD kciN]

6. If anyone can be compared with Cosby…

I can't. It's too easy a shot.

[saltpoint]

7. The meetings at Trump Tower with

Trump's advisors must be desperate and bitter at this point.

They're poor citizens but not so thick-skulled that they don't know that Trump-Pence will not win this election.

They're in a precarious position and running out of ammo fast. Plus now they have to answer for allegations by various women of Trump's unwanted sexual advances.

At a certain point, things just aren't worth doing. Maybe we'll see Kellyanne reach her "Unless" moment in the next 48 hours. She could walk out late Friday afternoon, for example, leaving the rest of the crew in the lurch.

[napkinz]

12. Robert Costa reported last night "they were going NUCLEAR"

[saltpoint]

13. I could see it. And definitely, I'm glad I'm

not there.

I don't know what Melania is up to, but I hope she's considering taking some time away from the greed hogs in Trump Tower and the psychopaths Trump's hired as surrogates. That just can't be a healthy environment.

[no_hypocrisy]

8. It's all they have left. It's their last card to play.

Not that this kind of nonsense will stop after November 8. When Trump loses, this will become his new birther project.

[yellowcanine]

9. The only person who will be "turned into Cosby" is Trump.

The one wall left standing in that glass house will be coming down soon.

[napkinz]

18. maybe Cosby can "return the favor" ...

Donald Trump offered PR advice to Bill Cosby in 2014 over rape allegations

Olivia Blair
October 11, 2016

In 2014, Bill Cosby, once considered a US national treasure, was at the start of a rapid and dramatic fall from grace as more and more accusations of sexual assault came to light.

One man who thought the situation was “sad” and was quick to share his thoughts on how Cosby should handle the situation was the now Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

In a 2014 interview from the red carpet for an event he was attending with his wife Melania, the billionaire offered Mr Cosby some PR advice, encouraging him to defend himself against the multiple sexual assault allegations instead of remaining silent.

“I think it’s very sad and frankly I don’t think he’s handling it well,” the 70-year-old told E! News. “He should say something because he’s being accused of terrible things and to have absolutely no comment, I think he’s getting very bad advice from a PR standpoint and he should do it differently. He’s not doing a very good job of handling it.”

read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/donald-trump-bill-cosby-rape-claims-allegations-pr-advice-sex-abuse-women-a7355146.html

[obamanut2012]

11. Historically, Hillary's favorables go up when Bill's indiscretions are used to attack her

From the 1990s until now.

So very stupid.

[napkinz]

20. what was it that Bobby Jindal said ... oh yeah

[maryellen99]

14. The RWNJS on FB are saying anonymous has a video of Bill Clinton raping a 13 year old nt

Heck I'm still waiting for the Michelle Obama whitey tape

[leftyladyfrommo]

15. Trump's br8nging those women to the debate

Backfired big time. It just showed how sleazy the man really is. Most people were appalled.

[PRETZEL]

16. I personally think it's more to do with Kellyanne Conway

than Trump himself. It took a few days after the debate to start putting two and two together. Kellyanne Conway is married to George Conway who back during the Starr investigation was one of his "elves" along with Ann Coulter and a couple of others.

They couldn't get President Clinton so now they're going to go after him again through Mrs. Clinton's Presidential run.

It's starting to look like revenge on their part as opposed to a Presidential campaign.

[sinkingfeeling]

17. I think Trump's turning into Bill Cosby.

[meow2u3]

19. I think Trump always was lower than Bill Cosby

The only differences are the skin color and the public persona. Bill Cosby had an impeccable public persona; tRump was always rich white trash.

[tammywammy]

21. Is Ailes still a Trump adviser???

[backscatter712]

22. Trump's making Cosby look like a feminist...