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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald Trump Did It - NYT OP-ED
Yes, President Donald Trump has sexually harassed women. This concludes my ethics investigation.
I hate to bore you with technical jargon, but I suppose its important, in the interest of nonpartisan professional transparency, to offer some insight into my methodology. First of all, as a very good sexual harassment investigator, I know that one of the sexual harassers classic tells is a history of repeatedly sexually harassing women, or talking about sexually harassing women, in public, either on the internet or on video or on the record with reporters, perhaps as recently as today. A second thing that investigators like me are trained to look for is whether or not saying degrading things about women like a cartoon sex creep is kind of an accused harassers whole deal. A third subtle and suspicious clue is if you, the investigator, recently woke up to 17 news alerts on your phone that say, [Accused Harasser] Just Sexually Harassed [Female Senator] in Front of Everyone Just Now!
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The term sexual harassment, used here in a social sense, not a legal one, refers to a spectrum of behaviors from unwanted sexual advances to belittling, intimidating or uncomfortable sexual comments.
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Not only does Trump not try to hide these behaviors from the public, he brags and laughs about them. They are, to a certain set of Americans, what makes Trump a real man. Mitch McConnell reassured the public this week that if Roy Moore won the Alabama special election (R.I.P.), he would have been subject to an ethics investigation. How comforting for the teenage girls of America to know that their government is happy to elect a man like Moore first and ask questions later, as long as hes openly nostalgic for slavery. - NYT
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Donald Trump Did It - NYT OP-ED (Original Post)
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Dec 2017
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AngusBeef
(20 posts)1. Tres tres tres mal!!!!!
madaboutharry
(40,212 posts)2. Excellent.
mdbl
(4,973 posts)3. Am sick of the media's stupid headlines "shocking upset in Alabama"
What was shocking is they had such pig like Moore even running much less getting a little under half the votes. Now THAT'S shocking! Just as shocking as the same kind of pig called Donald Trump sitting in our white house, collecting money for himself and his rich friends.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)4. KGOP republipig
unfit for duty. unfit for leadership: the disgraceful and ignoble republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief*
* aka the lying, traitor Comrade Casino
Gothmog
(145,303 posts)5. Yes trump sexually assaulted women