The tweet
A woman I don’t know and, to the best of my knowledge, never met, is on the FRONT PAGE of the Fake News Washington Post saying I kissed her (for two minutes yet) in the lobby of Trump Tower 12 years ago. Never happened! Who would do this in a public space with live security……
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 20, 2018
The tweet in response
Please, by all means, share the footage from the hallway outside the 24th floor residential elevator bank on the morning of January 11, 2006. Let’s clear this up for everyone. It’s liars like you in politics that have prompted me to run for office myself. https://t.co/ir7EEKoXRU https://t.co/GmkkZ5jUc7
— Rachel Crooks (@RachelforOhio) February 20, 2018
Trump’s tweets come at a time when his interactions with women over the years are in sharp focus. Last Friday the New Yorker published a piece detailing how the National Enquirer bought exclusive rights to and then never published the story of a former Playboy Playmate, Karen McDougal, who says she had a consensual sexual relationship with Trump in 2006.
This followed a New York Times story a week ago where Trump’s longtime lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen said that shortly before the election, he paid $130,000 to a porn actress named Stephanie Clifford, who goes by the professional name of Stormy Daniels. Cohen has released a statement for Clifford denying she had an affair with Trump in 2006. But in 2011 she detailed the alleged affair in an interview with In Touch magazine that wasn’t published at the time but was released earlier this year.
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Crooks and two other women were featured on NBC’s Today and held a news conference in New York in December. At the time, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked about it in the daily White House press briefing.
“Look, the president has addressed these accusations directly and denied all of these allegations,” said Sanders. “And this took place long before he was elected to be president. And the people of this country, at a decisive election, supported President Trump, and we feel like these allegations have been answered through that process.”
Now what I want to know is…
“Decisive”? A decisive election? One in which the popular vote differed from the electoral vote by 3 million votes? That’s “decisive”? What’s decisive about it? More than for instance one in which the winner has a majority of both kinds of vote? Especially a large majority of both? That’s normally what’s meant by a decisive vote in a US presidential election with its gruesomely unfair electoral college.
Just one of those puzzles.
Comments
4 responses to “Really?”
Hahaha, that response tweet from Rachel Crooks. BURN, Donny Twoscoops!
“…and we feel like these allegations have been answered through that process.”
Trial by election? That’s a new one. So any and all past allegations have been “answered?” What about future crimes and allegations? Are they covered after the fact too? Who gets to tell Mueller?
Why do I get the feeling that this strange magic would not have worked for Clinton and her e-mails had she prevailed in the Electoral College vote?
It has been noted here a couple of times that for a president’s press secretary, Sanders isn’t exactly a lucid speaker, and here’s another good example of her ineptitude.
Is she really saying that the things that the president said didn’t happen, actually did happen? Because I read that quote as “Look, he said it didn’t happen, and anyway, the thing that didn’t happen happened a long time ago.” I’m pretty sure that’s not what she meant to say, but she’s really doing her boss no favours with her careless, ambiguous, ill-considered ramblings.
Yeah, the vase wasn’t broken, it wasn’t me, and besides it was broken already. And it wasn’t even my ball, and someone else kicked it. Anyway, why was there no cookies in it like I was told, eh? THAT is my main complaint.