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Source: Press Association
Press Association
Sunday 9 October 2016 08.38 BST
The interim Ukip leader, Nigel Farage, has waded into the crisis engulfing Donald Trumps US presidential bid, insisting the Republican candidates obscene remarks about groping women amounted to alpha-male boasting.
Speaking in St Louis, Missouri, where he is attending this weekends televised presidential debate as a Trump supporter, Farage said the comments were ugly but that women also made remarks they would not want to see reported.
Look, this is alpha-male boasting, he said. Its the kind of thing, if we are being honest, that men do. They sit around and have a drink and they talk like this.
By the way, quite a lot of women say things amongst themselves that they would not want to see on Fox News or the front page of a newspaper. Im not pretending its good its ugly, it is ugly.
Farages comments echo the initial response of Trump who dismissed the obscene language on a 2005 video tape as locker room banter before the scale of the crisis overwhelming his presidential campaign forced him to issue an apology.
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malaise
(269,054 posts)and cricket clubs.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Boasting is a sign of inadequacy.
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)His boasting is heinous enough but it is Trump's actual
predatory sex offender actions that are beyond reprehensible
It wasn't just words. He actually carried them out.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)I know a lot of alpha males my boyfriend being one of them and they are polite, gentle, kind, and considerate of others. There is a difference between an alpha male and an asshole male. Trump is an asshole male.
pampango
(24,692 posts)Conservative elitists love to blame foreigners and immigrants while attacking unions and environmentalists.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)as long as it's perpetrated by one of their own.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Birds of a feather.
lame54
(35,294 posts)To actual lewd acts
It was not just words
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)BUILD THE WALL!
duncang
(1,907 posts)To in-laws in Scotland that nigel is defending dipshit's sexual assault. They were against brexit and hated nigel anyways. But figured they might want to pass on the word.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)and if I did I would be apalled.
Quantess
(27,630 posts)Can you imagine what Trump says when he's really letting loose with his "locker room banter", to some of his gross buddies? I can't even imagine how offensive that would be!
bluesbassman
(19,374 posts)We have enough mouth breathing knuckledraggers over here as it is.
rurallib
(62,423 posts)I have never heard that kind of talk in any environment except maybe junior high.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)when what they really mean is "that's how I talk".