Top Republican Spokesman Thinks Pussy Grabbing Might Not Be Assault

[groundloop]

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 press—describing 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 he—how that would occur.

Unlike Spicer, Sessions is a lawyer—one 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

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Sick bastards - trying to minimize what tRump has done. Jeff Sessions needs to be forced out of the Senate.

[dbackjon]

1. So you are cool then

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]

7. My thoughts exactly. A husband, boyfriend, brother, or son, would handle it like we used to.

A good old fashioned ass-kicking of Trump. He couldn't have enough body guards.

[keithbvadu2]

22. " if someone does that to you?" - Keep away from Little Marco.

[VMA131Marine]

2. Clearly, he's thinking with the wrong head!

[Ilsa]

3. He also voted for some legislation

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]

4. "I didn't know, I'm not a lawyer"

will not work when you are arrested for sexual assault... asshole.

[LynneSin]

5. Dear Senator Sessions - are any of your children daughters?

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]

6. And the GOPiggies wonder why there's a gender gap

[BumRushDaShow]

8. Let women - notably the GOP women

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]

9. It would be interesting to ask him how he'd feel if tRump

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]

10. What Trump admitted to is legally defined as sexual assault

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]

37. Various states describe crimes differently. In Oregon, it's not assault, it's Sex Abuse III.

Assault in Oregon generally requires injury or substantial pain.

[Iggo]

11. Top Republican Spokesman is dead wrong. (n/t)

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. That's 90 % of the problem: people like Spicer & Sessions do not know. :eyes: . . . nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Appropriate tRump sentence: Have to grab the pussy of 29 biker gang girlfriends ...

... while the biker is standing there.

Any chance they won't recognize it as Sexual Assault and react?

[Emilybemily]

14. Laying a hand on another person without their consent is assault.

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]

15. I was having a "heated discussion"

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.

[randome]

17. This is where the cultural divide comes from: they hate us for our sexual exploits.

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.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]All things in moderation, including moderation.[/center][/font][hr]

[47of74]

18. You mean GOP SpokesDouche

[Midnight Writer]

19. Could they be so ignorant that they think Trump is talking about a kitty cat?

[gordianot]

27. I have a feral female we adopted and had spayed.

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]

20. any man who doesn't think it is sexual assault, would if that happened...

to his wife, daughter or mother.

[neeksgeek]

21. deleting because nothing I've got is fit to print.

...

[CanonRay]

23. Jeff Sessions is an ignorant fool.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

24. RW greatest hits: Waterboarding isn't torture. Rape isn't always forcible.

Richard Nixon is not a crook.

Need I go on?

[ffr]

25. Might?

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]

26. Did we blow it and run a weak candidate against him?

[Motley13]

28. Then there is legitimate rape

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]

29. How about I kick Sean Spicer in the balls

really really hard... I'll just claim it's locker room behavior. No big deal.

[forgotmylogin]

30. Add him to the "Supports Random Genital Groping" list.

[Jopin Klobe]

32. Jefferson Beauregard! Sessions III ...

... is still fighting the War of the Rebellion ...

... Beauregard, indeed ...

[IronLionZion]

33. What if someone grabs him by the crotch?

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]

34. Well someone should grab their wives, daughters, sisters or mothers genitals

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]

35. So, if a gay man grabbed your balls, you wouldn't think of it any differently than if he grabbed

your arm?

[Sophiegirl]

36. Ignorance of the law

Is not an acceptable excuse.

[elmac]

38. Are they the same ignorant asswipes who think women

can stop pregnancy when they are raped? What a bunch of ^^^^^^ & ####### sick m**********

[gregcrawford]

40. Consider the source...

... 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]

41. Total sleezeball, just like his candidate.

[pansypoo53219]

42. women need to start grabbing men by the crotch instead of hand shakes,

women's lib is their bane. GROW UP!

make that PUNCH their crotch.

[bagelsforbreakfast]

43. Gives a curious spin to "Southern Hospitality" Wasn't Sessions pimped for the SupremeCourt by Bush?