Top Republican Spokesman Thinks Pussy Grabbing Might Not Be Assault
Source: Mother Jones
Sean Spicer, a top Republican National Committee official, on Sunday night refused to acknowledge that the conduct Donald Trump claimed to have engaged in during a 2005 Access Hollywood taping constitutes sexual assault. In that video, which has roiled the GOP since its release Friday afternoon by the Washington Post, Trump discussed forcibly kissing women and grabbing their genitals. "Grab them by the pussy," Trump said. "You can do anything." In the days since, the press has referred to what Trump described as sexual assault. Trump's shocking comments caused women around the country to come forward with their own stories of being assaulted in this way on social media and in the pressdescribing it repeatedly as a violent form of sexual assault that still haunts them.
But Spicer, the RNC's communications director, refused to acknowledge that grabbing someone's genitals is sexual assault when asked about this by The Weekly Standard after Sunday's debate. "I don't know," he said. "I'm not a lawyer."
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Spicer isn't the only Trump supporter trying to claim that what Trump described is not sexual assault. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) also denied that groping someone's genitals is sexual assault. Here is Sessions' exchange with The Weekly Standard:
SESSIONS: This was very improper language, and he's acknowledged that.
TWS: But beyond the language, would you characterize the behavior described in that [video] as sexual assault if that behavior actually took place?
SESSIONS: I don't characterize that as sexual assault. I think that's a stretch. I don't know what he meant
TWS: So if you grab a woman by the genitals, that's not sexual assault?
SESSIONS: I don't know. It's not clear that hehow that would occur.
Unlike Spicer, Sessions is a lawyerone who's nomination to a federal judgeship three decades ago capsized after critics accused him of racism.
Read more: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/gop-spokesman-doesnt-know-if-grabbing-genitals-sexual-assault
Sick bastards - trying to minimize what tRump has done. Jeff Sessions needs to be forced out of the Senate.
dbackjon
(6,578 posts)If someone grabs your wife or daughter by the genitals?
How about if someone does that to you? Can they say they were just being friendly?
tonyt53
(5,737 posts)A good old fashioned ass-kicking of Trump. He couldn't have enough body guards.
keithbvadu2
(36,876 posts)VMA131Marine
(4,145 posts)Ilsa
(61,697 posts)That would have hammered veterans and military families a few years ago, but I can't remember what bill it was in. And Alabama has a lot of military families living there and commuting across state lines to Fort Benning.
lapfog_1
(29,219 posts)will not work when you are arrested for sexual assault... asshole.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Would you be okay if someone just reached out and grabbed their private area without permission?
Or would you seek out whomever did that to your daughter and deck them one.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,157 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,370 posts)see what they signed onto. There comes a time when even they have to say enough is enough. The GOP male considers her "his property" to do with when he wants and however he wants. And they are supposed to comply.
BigDemVoter
(4,156 posts)grabbed his wife's 'pussy' or his daughter's.
These people have NO integrity, no shame, no values. And I'm certainly NOT (generally) a "family values" type of voter!
FightingIrish
(2,716 posts)Groping[edit]
Main article: Groping
The term groping is used to define the touching or fondling of another person in a sexual way (including through clothing), using the hands, without that other person's consent.
[link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_assault|
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Assault in Oregon generally requires injury or substantial pain.
Iggo
(47,564 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,032 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,032 posts)... while the biker is standing there.
Any chance they won't recognize it as Sexual Assault and react?
Emilybemily
(204 posts)Add genitals to that and it's sexual assault. Why those repuke fuckers cannot understand that is beyond me. They need to be taken down hard.
Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)Years ago while at a County Fair, and for emphasis lightly poked the guy in the chest. Not a hard poke, but more than a touch. A nearby deputy sheriff, came over to chill a situation that he thought might escalate into a fight. It wouldn't have. The deputy told me, in no uncertain terms, that that poke, any touch at all, can result in a charge of battery and to keep my hands to myself.
There is no way on Earth that someone in the positions of Sessions or Spicer would not know that, and to claim that ***** grabbing is not at the least battery is disingenuous and reprehensible.
However, them being rethugs, lying, hypocrisy, and the employment of double standards has to be considered par for the course.
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randome
(34,845 posts)They have no idea what sex is like because they are repressed babies who never learned how to 'master' the art of talking to women like they are people.
And so they truly have no idea of what 'grabbing a pussy' means.
Democrats have more fun. Always.
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47of74
(18,470 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,787 posts)gordianot
(15,242 posts)The vet wore heavy duty gloves when he anesthetised her she has a definite attitude. As an over zealous animal control officer found out it was not a good idea to grab her in her own yard. I did not have to do much to defend her.
olddad56
(5,732 posts)to his wife, daughter or mother.
neeksgeek
(1,214 posts)...
CanonRay
(14,112 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)Richard Nixon is not a crook.
Need I go on?
ffr
(22,671 posts)Patting a woman's butt can be a form of sexual assault. If it wasn't, you'd probably see it in the workplace all the time. Putting your hand on a woman's genitals is ABSOLUTELY sexual assault!
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Motley13
(3,867 posts)women can keep their legs together &
if raped, a woman's body has a way to shut down pregnancy
and these fools are in congress.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)really really hard... I'll just claim it's locker room behavior. No big deal.
forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)Jopin Klobe
(779 posts)... is still fighting the War of the Rebellion ...
... Beauregard, indeed ...
IronLionZion
(45,514 posts)it doesn't have to imagine a wife, daughter, whatever.
It should be what if dude gets his own crotch grabbed aggressively by someone who wants him? What if another dude grabs him?
And anyway?
I don't know who would think it's OK to grab someone's crotch like that without consent, like Trump described. This isn't normal for people I associate with.
kimbutgar
(21,177 posts)And then ask them if they think this behavior is acceptable to them. I think not.
I wish our media would have the courage to ask every GOP member who still endorses cheeto that question.
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)your arm?
Sophiegirl
(2,338 posts)Is not an acceptable excuse.
elmac
(4,642 posts)can stop pregnancy when they are raped? What a bunch of ^^^^^^ & ####### sick m**********
gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)... congenital liars will NEVER admit a mistake, such as supporting a textbook psychopath, which is exactly what Trump is. Sessions is an irredeemable scumbag, just like all the other Republicans that now infest Congress.
I am old enough to remember when it was possible to be friends with a Republican, and simply disagree on certain issues, but venomous obstructionists like Mitch McConnell dragged the party into a cesspool of malice from which there is no escape. Those who continue to support ever more despicable policies and underhanded tactics, like those demonstrated by the likes of James O'Keefe, deserve whatever fate befalls them for being party to such obscene treachery.
I will no longer let a Republican in my house.
mdbl
(4,973 posts)pansypoo53219
(20,987 posts)women's lib is their bane. GROW UP!
make that PUNCH their crotch.