Surrogates explaining away Trump’s sexual behavior only seem to make things worse

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Waves of aides and surrogates have fanned out in recent days to defend Donald Trump after the release of a video in which he brags about forcing himself on women and subsequent allegations that he groped or kissed multiple women without their consent.

But in trying to justify or dismiss the reports, many of Trump’s defenders only seem to be making the situation worse.

Trump’s top supporters, many of them middle-aged or older men, have tried to explain away Trump’s behavior in terms that range from puzzling to offensive — angering people in both parties and complicating the Republican nominee’s attempts to move past the controversies.

Trump and his surrogates have brushed off his crude remarks about sexual assault on the 2005 videotape as “locker room” banter, infuriating many who say it is not how most men actually speak to one another. Some, including former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, have described Trump’s comments on the video as typical male behavior in general.

Others are also attempting to discredit the women accusing Trump of assault.

“The New York Times goes back over 30 years to find somebody who had a bad airplane flight,” said former House speaker Newt Gingrich, referring to a woman who alleges that Trump grabbed her breasts and tried to put his hand up her skirt on a flight around 1980 when she was 38.

And some of Trump’s male supporters seem more than willing to lecture women on how they should put up with sexist talk.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/surrogates-explaining-away-trumps-sexual-behavior-only-seem-to-make-it-worse/2016/10/13/138a0006-9093-11e6-a6a3-d50061aa9fae_story.html?tid=hybrid_collaborative_1_na#comments

[livetohike]

1. They are all sickening. Especially the women who are

trying to defend Trump.

[hamsterjill]

2. I am so very, very weary of the "Bill Clinton" did (fill in the blank).

The argument is tiring and it only makes them look like desperate fools.

Women who do this on national television make themselves look like idiots and it is quite revealing that they are saying what they say, not because they believe it, but because they are paid to say it. I'd respect any ONE of them who walked away from the paycheck because it was the right thing to do. But that's not going to happen because they worship Trump for who he is - a monster.

[NoGoodNamesLeft]

3. They are making it a million times worse...especially when men surrogates open their mouths

Just watching the facial reactions of the female CNN hosts and non-Trumpy guests speaks volumes. How they are handling it is going to make more and more women come out. If he had of done it to me just watching the excuse making would set me off and I would be ready to not only speak out but pursue criminal charges if possible.