Republican responses to the new assault allegation against Trump are both predictable and sad

[DonViejo]

“I know that she’s selling a book.”

By Aaron Rupar@atrupar Jun 25, 2019, 3:50pm EDT

The day after President Donald Trump used a shameful defense to deny E. Jean Carroll’s sexual assault accusation against him, saying “she’s not my type,” a number of prominent Republicans commented about the 22nd sexual misconduct allegation against the president in ways that stopped well short of criticizing him.

Carroll’s allegation is credible. Writing about it in an excerpt of her memoir that was published last Friday by New York magazine, Carroll says that, immediately after the alleged rape happened in 1995 or ’96, she told two close friends about being forcibly penetrated by Trump in a dressing room in a Bergdorf’s department store. The New York magazine piece notes that both of Carroll’s friends “still remember the incident clearly and confirmed their accounts to New York.”

But despite the credibility of Carroll’s allegation, all the other accusations against Trump, and the fact that the president infamously bragged in a hot mic recording released just before the 2016 election about groping women in a manner eerily similar to how Carroll alleged he assaulted her, Republicans are still standing by their man.

During a press conference on Tuesday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said, “I know the president has said this is not true ... yes I believe the president.”

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https://www.vox.com/2019/6/25/18751066/republican-response-trump-assault-allegation

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Not my type in the type of women you normally rape? What type is it then? Scumbag...

and Rapist. What a piece of crap and also, I guess all of those defending rump so much must be in the same vein...rapists and scumbags too? Too many stories out there about rump the rapist and the republican party says nothing?

This goes a long way to show one what this party really stands for...

Again, disgusting and scumbags all.

[llmart]

2. Throw them all out in the next election.

What the hell kind of statement is that? Was there a follow up question saying, "And just how did you come to the conclusion that he isn't lying since the recordkeepers who tally his lies are up to 10,000 so far?"

I swear, we need to clean house. A blue wave won't be enough for me. We need a blue tsunami!

[malaise]

3. But Joe Biden touched someone on the shoulder

Cry or laugh?