A former Iowa field staffer for Donald Trump has filed a sex discrimination complaint against his campaign. According to Elizabeth Mae Davidson, she was the only woman with the title of district representative and was paid less than the men doing the same job, then fired for allegedly talking to the media while men with the same title who talked to the media kept their jobs. And then there’s this:
She also said that when she and a young female volunteer met Mr. Trump at a rally last summer, he told them, “You guys could do a lot of damage,” referring to their looks.
If the rest of her complaints are about Trump’s campaign, leaving him some kind of plausible deniability (albeit of the “it’s the people I hired, not me personally, engaging in blatant discrimination” variety), that one touches Trump directly, so he responded:
“That is not the worst thing that could be said,” Mr. Trump said. “But I never said it. It’s not in my vocabulary.”
That’s not in my vocabulary, although my vocab knowledge is extensive enough to think of much worse things that could be said.
Remember that Trump’s big feud with Megyn Kelly started in the first debate when she asked him about having called women “fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals” and he later responded by saying that she “had blood coming out of her wherever.” Then of course there was his lovely characterization of Hillary Clinton getting “schlonged” in 2008, along with his horror and disgust that Clinton had to go to the bathroom during a debate break. In other words, if Trump is being honest that “you guys could do a lot of damage” is not in his vocabulary, it’s because it’s not nearly crude enough for him.