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(9,350 posts)Even if it comes out that Donald Trump raped a 13 year old girl his supporters will not care. They only care about things like that when the politician is a Democrat. Remember Roy Moore? Republicans made excuses for him. They claimed it was normal for a 35 year old man to try to date a teenage girl. I think they said something about how a 30+ year old lawyer would have been seen as a catch to a Southern girl and her family. I think they also said that due to poverty in the South and the fact that girls could not support families, getting your teenage daughter married to a 31 year old man was seen as something to do in order to not have the family destroyed by poverty.
I can only imagine what Trump supporters will say about Trump sleeping with a 13 year old girl. They will once again blame the girl and her family. They will claim the girl and her family probably saw Trump as a way to riches. They will likely go as far as to say that the girl and her family set up Trump. They will claim poor Trump was tricked into have sex with the 13 year old and the girl and her family threaten Trump so they could get millions of dollars. They will make Trump into the real victim. If they do not take the route of blaming the girl and her family they will claim Trump was the ultimate catch. They will ask the question, what family would not want their 13 year old daughter to date and marry a 30 something/40 something year old billionaire. I would not be surprised if Trump supporter claimed the only surprising thing about this story is that there are not more 13 year old girls who tried to have sex with and marry Donald Trump due to everything he had to offer a 13 year old girl. I also would not be surprised if they said that a 13 year old girl would have seen Trump, the handsome billionaire, as a sexy catch.
If you are expecting Trump having sex with a 13 year old to cause Trump's supporters to turn on him you need to stop. We have seen this before and they did not do such a thing in the past. They will not do it in this case. They will do the same as and more than they did with Roy Moore. They will either claim Trump would have been regarded as a catch by any family with a teenage daughter, or they will claim Trump is the real victim in that clearly this girl and her family saw Trump's riches and decided to do whatever they had to do to get those riches.
I may be wrong, but I do not expect to see Trump having sex with a 13 year old turn away his supporters. They have stood with him through everyting else. I do not see the turning away it turns out to be true that he slept with a 13 year old. Trump knew his supporters better than we thought. They will stick with him through just about everything.