Lightweight Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a total flunky for Chuck Schumer and someone who would come to my office “begging” for campaign contributions not so long ago (and would do anything for them), is now in the ring fighting against Trump. Very disloyal to Bill & Crooked-USED!
White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee
Sanders on Tuesday dismissed the president's smear as a misunderstanding
because he used similar language about men. Of course, words used about
men and women are different. When candidate Trump said a journalist was
bleeding from her "wherever," he didn't mean her nose.
And as is the case with all of Trump's digital provocations,
the president's words were deliberate. He pours the gasoline of sexist
language and lights the match gleefully knowing how it will burst into
flame in a country reeling from the #MeToo moment.
A president who would all but call Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand a whore is not fit to clean the toilets in the Barack Obama Presidential Library or to shine the shoes of George W. Bush.
This isn’t about the policy differences we have with
all presidents or our disappointment in some of their decisions. Obama
and Bush both failed in many ways. They broke promises and told
untruths, but the basic decency of each man was never in doubt.
Donald
Trump, the man, on the other hand, is uniquely awful. His sickening
behavior is corrosive to the enterprise of a shared governance based on
common values and the consent of the governed.
It
should surprise no one how low he went with Gillibrand. When accused
during the campaign of sexually harassing or molesting women in the
past, Trump’s response was to belittle the looks of his accusers.
Last October, Trump suggested that he never would have groped Jessica
Leeds on an airplane decades ago: “Believe me, she would not be my first
choice, that I can tell you.” Trump mocked another accuser, former People reporter
Natasha Stoynoff, “Check out her Facebook, you’ll understand.” Other
celebrities and politicians have denied accusations, but none has
stooped as low as suggesting that their accusers weren’t attractive
enough to be honored with their gropes.
If recent history is any guide, the unique awfulness of the Trump era in
U.S. politics is only going to get worse. Trump’s utter lack of
morality, ethics and simple humanity has been underscored during his 11
months in office. Let us count the ways:
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