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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump on sexual assault in the military
Basically said, What do you expect when you put women in with men? (despite more men than women being sexually assaulted in the military.) He said we should keep the chain of command in the military, but then pondered why so few people are prosecuted for sexual assault.
I think this is the big thing he stepped in tonight
MattP
(3,304 posts)Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)much called today's General's "losers". Those two ignorant statements stood out to me in a sea of ignorant rants.
Ilsa
(61,690 posts)Lauer used Trump's tweets against him.
On that question, he proved that he doesn't understand the problems, including the hierarchical command largely structure ignoring it.
gwheezie
(3,580 posts)Does he not understand that women vote.
postatomic
(1,771 posts)I'm not buying the 'more men than women being sexually assaulted' line. I know women that did try to pursue action but were stopped by their CO (?)
Maybe a asteroid the size of a school bus will fall on this slimy fuck and we can get back to reality.
wheniwasincongress
(1,307 posts)http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/06/24/majority_of_military_sexual_assault_victims_are_men_now_that_the_focus_isn.html
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/20/victims-of-sex-assaults-in-military-are-mostly-sil/
postatomic
(1,771 posts)But I'm currently reading this one, from where your links skimmed the data.
http://www.sapr.mil/public/docs/reports/FY15_Annual/FY15_Annual_Report_on_Sexual_Assault_in_the_Military.pdf
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)So hate this guy.