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mfcorey1

(11,001 posts)
Mon Apr 28, 2014, 02:11 PM Apr 2014

Donald Trump Goes After ‘Very, Very Bad Girlfriend’ for ‘Baiting’ Donald Sterling

onservative business giant Donald Trump appeared on Fox News to give his two cents about the Donald Sterling scandal.

Although Trump did describe Sterling's comments as "horrible" and "disgusting," he also took up a new angle, calling girlfriend V. Stiviano—whose lawyer has denied that she released the audio of Sterling's racist rant—the "girlfriend from hell."

"It's terrible, he got set up by a very, very bad girlfriend," Trump told his hosts on the news station when asked his opinion about the situation. "Let's face it: That whole thing is—she's called the girlfriend from hell."

The billionaire accused Stiviano—who is half black—of setting up the Clippers owner by making a private conversation public. Host Brian Kilmeade had pointed out that some had taken Sterling's side because of that, and because Stiviano was "baiting him."

"It's so bad," Trump agreed. "She was baiting him, and she's a terrible human being. And he gave horrible answers, and disgusting answers. You're right, it's a private conversation. But it became very public.

"He could be pretty much out of it in terms of his whole mentality," Trump added, when another co-host, Steve Doocy, said that Sterling had asked his girlfriend to record what he was saying because he was forgetful. "The way she led him along. He should know, if he were there, if he was with it, he would know after one or two of those questions that she was answering and asking that there's something going on here.

http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/04/donald_trump_goes_after_very_very_bad_girlfriend_for_baiting_donald_sterling.html

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joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
8. I got that impression just from the quick reaction...no one was giving Sterling...
Mon Apr 28, 2014, 05:26 PM
Apr 2014

the benefit of the doubt...it's like the tapes confirmed what people already knew.

Auggie

(31,172 posts)
9. Yeah … the article I posted in Sports goes into more detail ...
Mon Apr 28, 2014, 06:08 PM
Apr 2014

you had to be closer to him to know up until the TMZ story broke.

BTW … +1,000,000 on those rescues.

 

joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
11. Thanks...
Mon Apr 28, 2014, 06:12 PM
Apr 2014

Also, he doesn't sound like a likeable guy at all...only Donald Trump is defending him!

surrealAmerican

(11,361 posts)
3. Just how rich and powerful does a white man have to be ...
Mon Apr 28, 2014, 02:29 PM
Apr 2014

... before he can be responsible for his own words?

Trump would seem to want us to believe that this young girlfriend is so much more intelligent that the man was a mere puppet to her whims. That's kind of far fetched. Does Trump see himself as being this stupid and easily manipulated? Is this projection on his part?

lame54

(35,292 posts)
7. Maybe what we heard is a sample of...
Mon Apr 28, 2014, 05:24 PM
Apr 2014

what she had to listen to everyday - and she just got sick of it

Lex

(34,108 posts)
12. She didn't force him to say that shit.
Mon Apr 28, 2014, 06:16 PM
Apr 2014

What you say in private is more revealing about who you are than what you say in public.

nomorenomore08

(13,324 posts)
13. This "She's just as bad!" false equivalency is a classic right-wing tactic.
Tue Apr 29, 2014, 08:43 PM
Apr 2014

Equating apples with oranges in an attempt to trivialize apples.

Like comparing an admittedly horrific black-on-white hate crime to centuries of systemic, bloody racism as though things were somehow "even" now.

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