Donald Trump Is Right: Hillary Was Held To A Different Standard A much higher one.

[riversedge]

Good summary. damn.




07/12/2017 05:44 pm ET


Donald Trump Is Right: Hillary Was Held To A Different Standard
A much higher one.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-clinton-double-standard_us_59664a0fe4b005b0fdca6a16



By Laura Bassett


NEW YORK ― President Donald Trump tried to deflect attention away from his campaign’s repeated lies about its dealings with the Russian government and onto Hillary Clinton Wednesday morning, spouting off on Twitter that he is being held to a different standard than the former secretary of state.

Link to tweet

Trump is right. Clinton was held to a very different standard during the campaign and would likely be treated differently as president, too. Let us count the ways.


Demeanor

Clinton was repeatedly criticized for smiling too little and then smiling too much during presidential debates, despite demonstrating competence and logic around policy. Male pundits and politicians said her raised voice during speeches came off as “shrill.”

Trump, meanwhile, aggressively interrupted Clinton during debates and launched childish insults at his opponents. He made bizarre facial expressions while other candidates spoke, criticized the face of a female candidate, referred to the size of his penis in a primary debate and served up word salads that revealed very few details about his policy positions. But in the end, she was the one who struggled to be “likeable” enough.


Trust

Throughout the election, polls consistently showed that more voters viewed Clinton as “dishonest” than viewed Trump that way, despite the fact that Trump lied twice as much. Fact-checking website PolitiFact evaluated 203 of Trump’s statements and 226 of Clinton’s and concluded in July 2016 that although fewer than a third of Clinton’s were “mostly false” or worse, a full 71 percent of Trump’s statements were untrue. But up until election day, the public struggled to trust her while apparently accepting his lies and falsehoods as just part of his overall eccentricity. ....................................



So yes, it’s fair to conclude that Hillary Clinton would be held to a different standard as president ― the same double standard that lost her the election.

[rock]

1. Meanwhile look at the standards Trump has been held to

He didn't jump up on the desk in the Oval office and crap in the middle of it not did he wipe his ass with The Constitution afterwards. Very presidential!

[lapucelle]

2. The standard for Hillary was "perfection".

Unlike any of her male opponents, she was a "flawed candidate".