Donald Trump's very first reaction after having his bubble burst by reality was to tell the reporter asking the questions that she was "a disgusting human being." The Trump campaign then trotted out a statement calling the reporting "fiction," because when multiple women tell similar stories corroborating exactly what a man said he does to women, they're clearly lying.
Now Trump's surrogates are advancing their vulgar war against the women who have come forward. It's super classy.
Donald Trump campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson late Wednesday said four women have come forward to accuse Donald Trump of sexual misconduct because they want "15 minutes of fame.”
Yep, sexual assault victims who have spent a lifetime trying to forget being violated are clearly eager to gain the national spotlight based on the very incidents they've buried for years.
And then there's surrogate A.J. Delgado, who charged that because the allegations weren't fresh enough, they were clearly bogus.
"These allegations are decades old," Delgado said. "If he did that, any reasonable woman would have come forward and talked about it. Mentioned in the facts, in The New York Times piece itself, how convenient that both of these women are Hillary Clinton supporters and Hillary Clinton donors."
Apparently, the Trump camp has cornered the market on what's "reasonable" now.
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How about this for reasonability: You're a 22-year-old receptionist working in a building named after a guy who just assaulted you and you decide to go after him with all your lawyers and cash reserves and really stick it to him so you can end up jobless and penniless and maligned and maybe incapable of getting hired again by any reputable organization in New York. Can't imagine why Rachel Crooks didn't take that option.
Meanwhile, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough is "skeptical" about the timing of these women coming forward. Great point, Joe. The timing outlined above was clearly optimal.
Maybe, just maybe, when Trump finally admitted on tape that he had forced himself on women for decades and then turned around and denied during a nationally televised debate that he had ever done such a thing—maybe, it was just too much. Maybe it was maddening. Maybe it was repulsive. Maybe the idea of giving that man the power of the presidency was simply horrifying. And maybe these women were finally at a station in life where they weren't going to stay silent anymore.
Anyone who is shaming these women is a shameless stain of a human being. Cue up the hashtag #NextFakeTrumpVictim, already a favorite in Trumplandia on Twitter. In Trump world, we all know that women are supposed to be groped and not heard.