Trump Reasserts That Putting Men And Women In The Military Leads To Rape

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo

Donald Trump apparently still believes that if you put women and men together in the military of course it's going to lead to a lot of rapes.

Trump was confronted by Matt Lauer Wednesday night in the Commander-in- Chief forum with a three-year-old tweet of his.

Donald J. Trump ✔
@realDonaldTrump

26,000 unreported sexual assults in the military-only 238 convictions. What did these geniuses expect when they put men & women together?

7:04 PM - 7 May 2013
7,098 Retweets 4,359 likes

Trump defended his 2013 tweet suggesting that high rate of unreported rape allegations could have been predicted when men and women were allowed to serve in the military.

"It is a correct tweet. There are many people that think that is absolutely correct," Trump said to Lauer.

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Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-men-and-women-military-rape

[retrowire]

2. Remember women,

It's not men's responsibility to contain themselves around you. So get the hell out!

/sarcasm

#menthatcantcontrolthemselvesarentmen.

[RealAmericanDem]

3. Just get rid of the men in the military.

Rape incidents would go way down.

[milestogo]

12. + a brazillion

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Putting Beauty Pageants on Television

objectifies women and could lead to the same thing. So there, Trump.

[mpcamb]

5. Rapists in the military lead to rapes.

[TomCADem]

6. Trump - Rape. Its Just Men Being Men

That being said, Trump is not alone among Republicans in taking such a casual view of rape.

[Hugin]

8. Yeh, take Fox News for example.

Where not only is rape sanctioned by management, it's actually practiced by management.

[mahina]

9. Men are raped too.

As another poster noted above, rapists cause rape. God damn that man is a fucking dolt.

I have sworn more in the last couple of months than in my entire DU life, 13 years. This man can not be elected. I mean he must not be elected or allowed to otherwise slither into power.

[Grins]

10. Why does he hate America?

"26,000 unreported sexual assults (sic) in the military-only 238 convictions. What did these geniuses expect when they put men & women together?" - Trump, saying the American military is filled with criminals.

Why does he hate our military? Why does he hate America?

[left-of-center2012]

11. Says a lot about how he views women n/t

[cstanleytech]

13. *sigh*

[Tanuki]

14. By that "logic", rape on college campuses is the inevitable result of co-education.

"What did these geniuses expect when they put men & women together (on college campuses)?"
"There are many people that think that is absolutely correct."

[truthisfreedom]

15. Because he knows from his workplace experience.

Takes one to know one.