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2016 Postmortem

BayouBengal07

(1,486 posts) Wed Oct 12, 2016, 08:18 PM Oct 2016

From the annals of chutzpah: NYT article "trivializes sexual assault"

Trump spokesman Jason Miller said the New York Times article on the survivors of Trump's transgressions "trivializes sexual assault."

So what does the "locker room talk," if it wasn't a true account of Trump's actions, do to sexual assault? What's more trivializing than joking about sexual assault?

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From the annals of chutzpah: NYT article "trivializes sexual assault" (Original Post) BayouBengal07 Oct 2016 OP

Uninvited groping is not "legitimate rape" jberryhill Oct 2016 #1

I've got to believe that anyone over 7 has heard about stopbush Oct 2016 #2

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)

1. Uninvited groping is not "legitimate rape"

Reply to BayouBengal07 (Original post)

Wed Oct 12, 2016, 08:36 PM

Oct 2016

stopbush

(24,396 posts)

2. I've got to believe that anyone over 7 has heard about

Reply to BayouBengal07 (Original post)

Wed Oct 12, 2016, 08:59 PM

Oct 2016

the "best defense is to go on offense" gambit.

Do they really think anyone is buying it? Do they really think anyone is fooled?

Next up is the "people are just piling on now" defense, with the obligatory "he already apologized...time to move on" deflection.

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