Donald Trump Defends Roger Ailes: ‘A Very, Very Good Person’

[TomCADem]

Source: Huffington Post

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump defended Roger Ailes on Sunday, calling the embattled former Fox News chief a “very, very good person.”

Ailes resigned as CEO on Thursday following a sexual harassment scandal that included dozens of women, including Fox News hosts Megyn Kelly and Gretchen Carlson, the latter of whom first broke her silence earlier this month.

In an interview that aired Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Trump declined to comment when asked to confirm reports that Ailes was advising his presidential campaign.

“But he’s been a friend of mine for a long time,” Trump added. “And I can tell you that some of the women that are complaining, I know how much he’s helped them. And even recently. And when they write books that are fairly recently released, and they say wonderful things about him.”

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-roger-ailes_us_5794c56fe4b02d5d5ed1ec82

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Well, seems like Trump is continuing with his political correctness attacks in minimizing the sexual harassment that lead to Ailes' ouster. This was an easy chance for Trump to pivot and condemn workplace harassment.

[Hokie]

1. From one sexual predator to another...

Birds of a feather and all that.

[jtuck004]

2. Are you planning on calling him as a character witness in the child rape case filed against you?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-bloom/why-the-new-child-rape-ca_b_10619944.html

Or do you just suck up to other predators as a professional courtesy?

[Mister Twilight]

3. A Very, Very YUUUGE Person

With depravity to match his girth!

[yallerdawg]

4. See?

As long as the women are compliant and acquiescent, "he's helped them" and they say "wonderful things about him."

What's the problem?

Super creepy.

[packman]

5. Fox News where you can sexually harass someone

and get a $40 million go-away package with another 4 yrs. of "consulting" thrown in.

[question everything]

6. I happened to pick a TIME magazine from several months ago

This was after the Kelly Trump clash. It was that "10 questions to" and it was Megyn Kelly. And she praised Ailes as much as she could. Now she joined the chorus.

[Koinos]

7. What a character reference!

We'll let the alleged sexual molester do a background check on the accused sexual harasser!

It takes one to know one, after all.

[Kathy M]

8. Ailes worked on Reagans election

and other republican campaigns .... does not matter if its informal or formal working on this years campaign..... Ailes is bad news all the way around . Didnt Megan Kelly ( sp ) do an interview with Trump....... coincidence or something else ? Even the debates real or planted ? If planted think of all those commercials ......

[WhiteHat]

9. Besides being a sicko sexual abuser, Roger Ailes is...

A nice person? NO ONE believes that.

Ailes was Paid $40M to go away. That's how big a problem Ailes was to Fox. Maybe that 40 mill will help with his forever-more legal bills.

[Third Doctor]

10. Trump is giving his enemies

a lot of ammo to work with. I'm sure his brain dead supporters wont even blink at this. His handlers just can't shut him up and that's great.

[The Second Stone]

12. Trump deliberately gives his enemies a lot to work with

because he doesn't want to be president. Also, it is his habit to be a huge bully.

[PSPS]

11. Of course he does. Ailes gave him millions of dollars in free advertising.

[dlk]

13. Would Roger Ailes Be The De Facto President?

Given Trump's previous statements regarding letting someone else do the actual job -- if Trump is elected, does this mean Roger Ailes would be our de facto president? A very scary thought!

[MariaThinks]

14. isn't trump also being accused of rape?

anyway, it says a lot about the disgusting nature of trump to call ailes a good person who was a predator of women.

[bucolic_frolic]

15. Are there fishnets in his closet too?

[YOHABLO]

16. I'm sure Trump and Ailes are very chummy. Go figure.

[TomCADem]

18. Trump: Women 'get it better' than men

I think Trump sympathesizes with Ailes thinking that the dismissal of Ailes is due to political correctness.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/279132-trump-women-get-it-better-than-men

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said on Saturday that women “get it better” than men.

Speaking at a rally in Spokane, Wash., Trump was railing against the criticism he gets for accusing Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton of playing the "woman card."

“I mean all of the men, we’re petrified to speak to women anymore. We may raise our voice,” he said. “You know what, the women get it better than we do, folks.

“Look, we’re living in the real world. This political correctness is killing our country."

[heresAthingdotcom]

17. Takes a molester of women to defend a molester of women...

How Women who Donald Trump and Roger Ailes molest should treat them...