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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Wed Oct 9, 2019, 10:31 AM Oct 2019

Trump Allegedly Assaulted Dozens of Additional Women, New Book Claims

Trump Allegedly Assaulted Dozens of Additional Women, New Book Claims

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-allegedly-assaulted-dozens-more-women-new-book-claims

President Trump has been accused of 43 new allegations of alleged inappropriate behavior with women, including 26 instances of unwanted sexual contact in the new book All the President’s Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator by journalists Barry Levine and Monique El-Faizy. In the run-up to the 2016 election, Trump faced dozens of similar accusations, including attempted rape, groping, and forcible kisses. The book, according to an excerpt published in Esquire Wednesday morning, is a “portrait of a predator who hides behind wealth and institutional power to frequently harass and abuse women.” Karen Johnson, who spoke publicly about her allegations for the first time in the book, said she was at Trump’s Palm Beach estate in the early 2000s, when Trump grabbed her and pulled her behind a tapestry. “I’m a tall girl and I had six-inch heels on, and I still remember looking up at him. And he’s strong, and he just kissed me,” Johnson said. “When he says that thing, ‘Grab them in the pussy,’ that hits me hard because when he grabbed me and pulled me into the tapestry, that’s where he grabbed me.”

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Trump Allegedly Assaulted Dozens of Additional Women, New Book Claims (Original Post) Miles Archer Oct 2019 OP
That's his M.O. Newest Reality Oct 2019 #1
He has always lived in a life of privilege. redstatebluegirl Oct 2019 #2
That is how he operates in every arena of his life. Grammy23 Oct 2019 #3
He is absolutely repulsive. smirkymonkey Oct 2019 #4
How shocking. Never would have guessed. Amaryllis Oct 2019 #5
trump has been doing this since mercuryblues Oct 2019 #6

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
1. That's his M.O.
Wed Oct 9, 2019, 10:45 AM
Oct 2019

“portrait of a predator who hides behind wealth and institutional power to frequently harass and abuse women..."

And, as we see now, that applies anybody and anything else he can harass, abuse and use, no holds barred. He reveals the Privilege of the Oligarch that enriched and empowered him instead of being tried, convicted and imprisoned.

There are flaws in the system, (or are they features?) that put some people in positions that allow them to exploit people and circumstances in a way that would get common folks in serious trouble.

redstatebluegirl

(12,265 posts)
2. He has always lived in a life of privilege.
Wed Oct 9, 2019, 10:56 AM
Oct 2019

That statement he made that said "he could do anything he wants" is just what he has done all his life. When it didn't work, his posse of lawyers got him out whatever it was.

Grammy23

(5,810 posts)
3. That is how he operates in every arena of his life.
Wed Oct 9, 2019, 11:03 AM
Oct 2019

He truly believes he can do (or not do) anything he wants. He is about to find out just how far he can take that thinking.
 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
4. He is absolutely repulsive.
Wed Oct 9, 2019, 11:24 AM
Oct 2019

I don't understand, he has admitted on live TV what he does to women and yet people still give him the benefit of the doubt. It makes me sick how these rich pigs can get away with things like this.

If he had ever done something like that to me, I honestly think I would have vomited all over him. I find him that disgusting. How can someone with such a tiny little mushroom dick have so much confidence when it comes to women?

mercuryblues

(14,531 posts)
6. trump has been doing this since
Wed Oct 9, 2019, 09:54 PM
Oct 2019

he was a young man. He has either paid for it or grabbed it. Quadruple that number and you may be somewhere in the ball park of his assaults.

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