You’d think that on a day when we learned that Donald Trump reportedly enjoyed ogling naked teenagers, when two women came forward to accuse him of assault, when two more women telling the same story, and when a video emerged of a 45-year old Trump commenting that, in 10 years, he’d be dating a young girl he passed on an escalator … you’d think that Trump surrogates would be ready to commit mass suicide. Or resign in disgust. Or just hide under the most convenient rock.
Instead, they headed out to defend the unregistered sex offender who happens to be the Republican nominee for president.
But before we get to that, a reminder of what the Trump campaign had planned for the coming days:
A senior Trump adviser says the campaign will soon bring forward new accusers: “Women are coming to us who have been groped or sexually abused by Bill Clinton.” [...]
On Thursday night, the Trump campaign will begin a new media blitz, his advisers say, with Broaddrick, Willey, and Jones appearing together on a one-hour Fox News special hosted by Sean Hannity. Additional interviews will follow.
Okay, with that in mind, surrogates, please proceed:
- “There are a lot of double standards here,” [Jeffrey] Lord added. “We need to focus on the issues, what’s going on the economy.”
- Kayleigh McEnany argued the new allegations were a distraction from the real “issues.” [...] “I think voters will make up their mind based on the issues, not just he-said, she-said accusations.”
- “These allegations are decades old,” [A.J.] Delgado said. “If somebody actually did that he did that, Chris, any reasonable woman would have come forward and said something.”
Do we even need to say that whoever is still willing to defend Donald Trump at this point doesn’t have a shred of human dignity left?
Oh, leaving aside the hypocrisy and utter bullshit, a reminder: Bill Clinton isn’t running for president.