Republican Defections Mount In Response To Trump's Pussy Grabbing Video
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Republican women are done with Trump Politico
Hillary Clinton was leading among college-educated white women before Trump's 2005 video drop on Friday afternoon, the first time a Democrat held a lead with this group in decades. As Politico writes, the fallout has been major with one Republican woman after another saying they've "had it".
"You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful -- I just start kissing them," Trump said in the 2005 recording, obtained by The Washington Post. "It's like a magnet. Just Kiss. I don't even wait."
"When you're a star, they let you do it," he told to then-'Access Hollywood host Billy Bush. "You can do anything."
"I don't even wait," Trump explained about groping women's genitals. There is no doubt that countless women -- me included -- are reliving their own sexual attacks.
Over a million have tweeted details of their first physical violation by a man. From groping to full-blown rape, to Kelly Oxford is sharing and organizing the short stories.
"He speaks from the heart,” former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said Friday evening on CNN. “He speaks the way many people speak around the dining room table."
Jackson Katz, co-founder of the Mentors in Violence Prevention, an anti-rape program taught at universities nationwide, said Trump’s comments try to normalize criminal behavior, calling it boys will be boys locker-room banter. Trump surrogate and former mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani made the same claim on the Sunday news shows.
For more than 20 years Katz has worked with young athletes to obtain clear consent before any sexual encounter. No matter who you are, Katz explained, groping a woman without her permission qualifies as sexual assault.
Mother Jones editor-in-chief Clara Jeffrey helped start the Twitter response, writing: "If you don't think this will affect female turn out and crossover, perhaps you should ask a woman to recount all the times she was groped. "
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As the details of Donald Trump's financial history come to light, suffice it to say that he would be dead broke without his daddy. Trump first said he only had a 'small' loan for $1 million -- a lie that was outed the day before Hillary's debate when she corrected the loan in two installments, with $13 million coming later. Still, Trump insists, it was a small loan.
Daddy Trump was far more involved than the $14 million, as Newsweek reveals.
"The latest information from Trump’s taxes are contained in the decades-old, little-read files of the Division of Gaming Enforcement for the New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety. New Jersey officials compiled the records in 1980 and 1981 as a result of Trump’s quiet first effort to break into the casino business, several years before actually joining the gaming industry. Through Trump Plaza Corporation, a holding company incorporated in New Jersey the previous year, Trump applied for a casino license, setting off a state investigation of his background and his businesses.
The application came on almost the exact same day as the opening of the development Trump portrayed as his biggest success—the rebuilding of the Commodore Hotel in Midtown Manhattan into the Grand Hyatt New York. But Trump’s success in that deal—as well as every project that preceded it—came because he was born with a silver shovel in his mouth. His father, a major New York developer named Fred Trump, had personally guaranteed the construction loan from his banker at Chase Manhattan so that his son could do the project. Through that same banker, Fred Trump also arranged for Donald Trump to obtain a personal line of credit of $35 million at Chase Manhattan. In one more bit of evidence that the wealthy are not like you and me, the bank gave Trump the loan without even requiring a written agreement.
But Trump was unable to control his spending. He loaded himself up with debt from the credit line in an apparent belief that he could make enough money through other deals and investments to cover the interest payments. This was the same logic that led him to assume billions of dollars in borrowings during the late 1980s for the casinos, the almost incomprehensible business decision that led to their bankruptcies that played out for more than a decade.
In 1978, the same year that Fred Trump set up the credit line for his son at Chase Manhattan, Trump’s personal finances collapsed. By then, he had borrowed $38 million from his line of credit—the bank adjusted the available amount up by $3 million when Trump exceeded his credit limit.
Losses came across the board. A number of Trump’s New York rental properties—on Third Avenue, Fifth Avenue, East 56th Street, East 57th Street, East 61st Street and East 67th Street—all were financial flops; Trump was forced to pay his own money for the operations of the properties because rental income failed to cover the cost. Partnership investments—Park Briar Associates, Regency Lexington Partners and 220 Prospect Street Company—contributed even more red ink. The interest owed to Chase Manhattan on Trump’s massive use of his credit line topped off the dismal financial performance."
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