Republican lawmakers are trickling out with their outrage on Donald Trump’s bragging about his sexual assault habits. A few are even withdrawing their endorsements of Trump. Big f’ing deal, guys. You’re outraged now? Sorry, but you’re way more than a day late and way more than a dollar short on this one.
Donald Trump opened his campaign by calling Mexicans drug dealers and rapists. You didn’t know then? He is the candidate of white supremacists, and it’s not just that they like him. He likes them back, if his retweets are anything to go by. Hell, his campaign is being run by a white nationalist. That didn’t clue you in? At the very first Republican presidential primary debate, Megyn Kelly asked Trump about his record of insulting women—so it’s not like that was a secret. He responded by saying she had “blood coming out of her wherever.” That wasn’t a hint you might have a problem?
Khizr and Ghazala Khan. Judge Gonzalo Curiel. Alicia Machado. New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski. Trump has based his campaign around the lowest, most personal attacks he could muster, all based around people not being rich white men like him. Republicans like House Speaker Paul Ryan have squirmed, they’ve pretended not to hear, they’ve occasionally disavowed specific comments, but they’ve stuck with Trump. And that’s on them. McConnell is holding a Supreme Court seat open for Trump to fill, FFS.
You endorsed him, you own him, “grab them by the pussy” and all.
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