WH Tries to Debunk Trump Accuser With Two 'Eyewitnesses' Who Didn't Actually Witness Anything

[DonViejo]

by Joe DePaolo | 11:21 am, December 12th, 2017

During Monday’s White House briefing, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders promised to distribute a list of “eyewitnesses” in an effort to debunk the claims of President Donald Trump’s sexual misconduct accusers.

“In terms of the specific eyewitness accounts, there have been multiple reports,” Sanders said. “I’ll be happy to provide them to you after the briefing.” Sanders made good on her promise Monday night, giving some names to CNN and the progressive website ThinkProgress. And here’s the thing: These eyewitnesses…they don’t claim to have actually seen anything.

In an effort to refute the accusations of Samantha Holvey — who claims Trump harassed her during the 2006 Miss USA pageant, where she competed after having won the title of Miss North Carolina — the White House produced two former pageant contestants as supposed eyewitnesses; Katie Blair and Melissa Young. But neither Blair nor Young was in the 2006 Miss USA pageant. Blair was in the 2006 Teen Miss USA Pageant, held months after that year’s Miss USA. And Young was in the 2005 Miss USA pageant, one year before Holvey.

In an interview with TMZ, Blair spoke about the general behavior she observed from Trump at pageants, and didn’t address Holvey’s specific allegation or any other claim. “As far as the rumors surrounding him coming backstage and things like that, dressing rooms — absolutely not,” Blair told TMZ. “I never experienced that. I don’t know anyone that has.”

Young, likewise, never specifically addressed Holvey’s claim during a 2016 interview with CNN.

But the White House is citing these women as “eyewitnesses,” despite the fact that they saw absolutely nothing. For this White House, it’s a claim that seems par far the course.

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[NastyRiffraff]

1. Look at all the women he DIDN'T assault!

This is the best they have?

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

3. Your honor, consider how many people my client did NOT kill

I think you'll agree that he's a model citizen, with the exception of this tiny misstep.

The only credible eyewitness would be one who followed the accuser every moment of the day and can then say, "Nothing happened." Even then I'd want to check her bank records for any recent large deposits.

[MyOwnPeace]

4. Considering his reputation............

they're lucky they have that!

But the dolts is gonna' believe what they believe................

[Girard442]

2. Establish a competing narrative -- even if it's transparently false.

Gives people who want to believe something to hang their hat on.

[MFM008]

5. Another lie

Like when he infered he had Comey on tape.
He just pulls shit out of thin air.

[genxlib]

6. I have always thought

That simply owning those things were damning enough. I could not think of any good reason for a legit business man to own such things.

At best it had to be attributed to the harem mentality that effects narcissistic men; "look at what kind of stud I am to be surrounded by beautiful women"

At worse it was exactly what he has been accused of; the collecting of potential victims to his sphere of influence.

I am a red-blooded hetero male and I appreciate attractive women. But pageants always gave me the creeps. I keep waiting for someone to start the bidding. I honestly detest them. And don't even get me started on the children's versions.