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The comments, made during an evening rally in Eugene, Ore., marked the sharpest tone he's taken against the Democratic frontrunner since becoming his party's presumptive nominee, and the first time he's been so direct in referencing Bill Clinton's affairs in months.
"She's been the total enabler. She would go after these women and destroy their lives," Trump said. "She was an unbelievably nasty, mean enabler, and what she did to a lot of those women is disgraceful."
His comments came as part of a defense against recent attacks from Democrats focused on his controversial comments and stances on women's issues. Trump told the crowd "nobody respects women more than me," but in contrast, "nobody in this country, and maybe in the history of the country politically, was worse than Bill Clinton with women."
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/trump-slams-hillary-clinton-nasty-mean-enabler-husband-s-affairs-n569791
mooseprime
(476 posts)I bet he's just getting warmed up. This plus the hammering nonstop on guns and other stuff he's going to make up, holy moly.
L. Coyote
(51,134 posts)Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)His tendency to provoke or seek conflict and then resort to law enforcement, lawsuits or bankruptcy are one of the symptoms.
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)Did you not expect trump to use this information? She's attacked him for misogyny, he's going to retaliate. It's politics.
pnwmom
(110,254 posts)I'm sure she let him have it in private, however.
And Donald Trump was accused of rape in a 1997 lawsuit. So he's treading on thin ice.
Gman
(24,780 posts)Hillary and Chelsea walked in front, close to each other. Bill trailed behind. The picture spoke volumes about the tension.
DesertFlower
(11,649 posts)near bill was the dog.
moriah
(8,312 posts)... it makes my response to someone's comments when I shared out Samantha Bee's taco bowl selfie more ironic than intended -- he asked if Samantha was saying not one illegal immigrant ever raped anybody, and my response was "And I could invoke Roman Polanski to say evey rich egotistical celebrity is a rapist, but that's not going to fly as an attack on Trump."
Woo-howdy!
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pnwmom
(110,254 posts)until he acknowledged his relations with Monica.
She never said anything publicly about Monica or anyone else.
skylucy
(4,023 posts)all that happened during that time. That is exactly the way it was. Hillary was the epitome of dignity and class in the face of the storm of news coverage and Republican hypocrites all piling on. Her "approval" rating among the American public went way up because of the strength and class she demonstrated. It was obvious to EVERYONE at the time that Hillary had done nothing wrong. Unbelievable that Trump's complete lies about this are getting trotted out on a Democratic website. Gonna take a while to clear away the stench around here after the primary season ends. HILLARY 2016
pnwmom
(110,254 posts)Les Miserables story, with Kenneth Starr playing the part of Inspector what's-his-name. It was an incredible thing to go through, but it seems like most of the details have just faded into history.
hatrack
(64,828 posts)So now we know what the 2016 election is going to be all about - some 20-year-old blowjobs.
Great. Can't wait.
malaise
(295,783 posts)Bill Cosby
pnwmom
(110,254 posts)I am a Sanders supporter, but the fact that people keep bringing up this affair disgusts me.
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)yeah it's her fault her husband cheated and someone knew he was married and had sex with him anyway.
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)Kathleen Willey and Juanita Broaddrick, and, yes, Paula Jones all made claims that had nothing to do with consensual sex.
The Willey and Jones incidents are bad, but at least after a disgusting pass attempt, Clinton dropped it. What they didn't deserve was to be labeled "trailer trash" by Clinton surrogates and supporters.
Juanita Broaddrick's story is sickening to hear. I believe her as I do most women who come forward with this type of allegation. She was a loyal Democrat. Something very bad was done to her by Bill Clinton. Deny it all you want, but Hillary enabled Bill's predatory behavior.
Gman
(24,780 posts)Yeah they did. They were looking for money and they were paid well by the right wing. Yes, conservatives paid all of them.
ViseGrip
(3,133 posts)La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)Not Hillary.
Nor does she have to excuse either of their behavior
egalitegirl
(362 posts)Bill and Hillary Clinton were in positions of power. The women he harassed were not. Remember that sexual harassment is about power and not just sex.
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)and none of the allegations so far have had much merit.
egalitegirl
(362 posts)If you have worked in any job and have seen the huge posters in the break room, you would immediately recognize it as sexual harassment on the part of Bill Clinton. Why do we have to argue and exonerate politicians of every single wrongdoing as though we are their minions whose job is to ensure they have a good image? Can't we accept reality?
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Mrs. Clinton doesn't have to ever 'take the side' of the groupies or her husbands behavior.
Mr. Trump just made a typical abusers statement, he may as well have said, "if you weren't such a mean bitch I wouldn't have beat you" or "If you weren't so nasty, I wouldn't 'need' other woman"
malaise
(295,783 posts)unless your name is Dennis Hastert or whatthefuckever Sandusky.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)'newer' woman in Russia.
Squinch
(59,444 posts)Anything else you want to add to that profile? You going to punish women who have abortions too?
I often wish the asses would not show themselves so clearly when I read DU.
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)The asses are the ones who have no trouble supporting the sliming of the women who were Bill's victims. And make no mistake about it, Hillary was in on that sliming.
Squinch
(59,444 posts)BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)Her husband was doing more than "sleeping" with them. He was, at a minimum, sexually harassing them and in one case, at least, raping them.
Hillary had no business calling any of them a "loony narcissist" or "trailer trash". She was in on the whole Clinton apparatus attempt to smear every one of them.
That's why it's not surprising she's got slime master Brock (who called Anita Hill "a little bit slutty and a little bit nutty"
running her propaganda machine. She has no problem with people who attack women if it suits Clinton aims.
Attacking these women in the way the Clintons did is the real sign of an asshole. So is supporting it.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)all about her?
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)Lewinsky isn't the only woman Clinton was "involved with".
Read about Juanita Broaddrick, then get back to me. If that doesn't disgust you, you have sold your moral values for partisan fanaticism.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)You'd learn to accept the Yin & Yang Dream Team.
a la izquierda
(12,320 posts)This is a ridiculous assumption, that HRC should have done/said something in support of those women. Give me a break. I'm not the biggest supporter of the Clinton family, but that is some bullshit right there.
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)She knew what Bill was doing. So, I get not supporting the women, she's Bill's wife.
But what is inexcusable is implying they are "trailer trash" or "loony narcissists". She knew the essentials of their claims were true.
And don't forget, her chief propagandist called Anita Hill "a little bit slutty and a little bit nutty". Yet she has no problem employing that asshole.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Not Anita Hill, she was truthful. Mrs. Hill was harassed by Justice Clarence Thomas, hardly anyone believed her.
Not even Mrs. Thomas 'believed' Mrs. Hill. About 2 years ago Mrs. Thomas phoned Anita Hill and Yelled at her. Mrs. Thomas is a Republican Super delegate this election.
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)There was nothing trashing about Ms. Willey, Ms. Broaddrick or even Ms. Jones. In fact Willey and Broaddrick were both long time, dedicated Democratic activists.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)*"implying".
Really none of our business -Mrs. Clintons personal life with her husband. Obviously doesn't affect her work.
hatrack
(64,828 posts)Proven, verifiable evidence that she said what you say she did when she did.
We'll wait.
Otherwise, STFU.
DemocratSinceBirth
(101,842 posts)Peregrine Took
(7,583 posts)pnwmom
(110,254 posts)The TV show Mad Men could have been set in almost any industry including politics. Sexual harassment was common and almost expected.
Anita Hill tried to come forward and we all saw what happened -- Clarence Thomas was supported by the other men and he got confirmed.
But then, several years later, Monica befriended an older woman with a tape recorder and the rest is history.
I'm not excusing Bill's behavior. I'm saying it wasn't particularly unusual or extreme for the era. What was unusual was that it wasn't swept under the carpet.
For the record, Monica said their relations were consensual. Two of the women said he harassed them. And a third denied in a sworn affadavit that he assaulted her, but years later came forward with a new story.
Hillary stayed with her husband and believed in his innocence till proven wrong. It was a humiliating experience for her but she wasn't the person who did wrong to these women -- that was Bill.
davidn3600
(6,342 posts)Feminists stood behind Anita Hill, because it was against a very conservative Judicial nominee. But then these same feminists turned their cheeks on Bill's behavior.
And I'm not even going to talk about Monica (which seems to have been consensual). The problem is Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey, Gennifer Flowers, Juanita Broaddrick, etc. It was a pattern of accusers. Where were the feminists? Why didnt they defend those women?
If Bill was a Republican president, he'd be skewered. We all know it. Let's not play stupid here. National Organization for Women would be marching and demanding resignations. So why did NOW and feminists like Gloria Steinem protect Bill? Bill resigning wouldn't really help the Republicans much. Al Gore would have become President and may have even been good enough to pull out a clear-cut victory in 2000.
Feminists sold their soul to get this potential female President. You better hope she was worth it.
pnwmom
(110,254 posts)Why should a feminist get upset about that?
All the other women came with Republican handlers, and both Paula Jones and Kathleen Wiley's stories had problems. Juanita Broaddrick said under oath that she hadn't been assaulted. Years later, she changed her story.
And you're ignoring the fact that men had been behaving this way for EONS, including men at the highest levels of politics, without consequences. We had just seen it happen with Anita Hill.
So it looked awfully hypocritical for the Republicans to suddenly be shocked and horrified. Where was there shock and horror with Anita Hill?
Bill Clinton had been right on many women's issues that the Rethugs fought against. Feminists didn't want to lose the gains we had made under his administration for what had been wrong -- but very common -- masculine behavior. That just a few years earlier the Rethugs had been all too eager to overlook. And we couldn't even be certain of what happened.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Willey
The Final Report of the U.S. Office of the Independent Counsel report noted that "Willey and President Clinton are the only direct witnesses to their meeting, and their accounts differ substantially on the crucial facts of what occurred." It also stated "Willey gave false information to the FBI about her sexual relationship with a former boyfriend, and acknowledged having lied about it when the agents confronted her with contradictory evidence. Following Willey's acknowledgment of the lie, the Independent Counsel agreed not to prosecute her for false statements in this regard."[5] According to Independent Counsel Robert Ray's report, "Willey's [Paula] Jones deposition testimony differed from her grand jury testimony on material aspects of the alleged incident."[6]
According to a book critical of Clinton by Candice E. Jackson, Tripp told Larry King in February 1999 that Willey is "an honest person" who was "telling the truth" about having been sexually assaulted by Clinton.[7] However, Tripp's grand jury testimony differs from Willey's claims regarding inappropriate sexual advances.[8]
Willey has a history of controversial claims including telling the FBI she was pregnant and she had a miscarriage when she did not.[9] On the evening of March 19, 1998, Julie Hiatt Steele, a friend of Willey, released an affidavit, accusing the former White House aide of asking her to lie to corroborate Ms. Willey's account of being sexually groped by President Clinton in the Oval Office.[10] An attempt by Kenneth Starr to prosecute Steele for making false statements and obstructing justice ended in a mistrial and Starr declined to seek a retrial after Steele sought an investigation against the former Independent Counsel for prosecutorial misconduct.[11]
Boomerproud
(9,280 posts)regarding the other allegations.
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)I'm beyond frustrated that anyone has to contort themselves (again!) defending Bill Clinton's notoriously bad behavior with women.
I refuse to ever give him the benefit of the doubt and I'm sure I'm not the only woman uncomfortable with the thought of Bill Clinton back in the White House knowing his record with female subordinates.
Squinch
(59,444 posts)maryellen99
(3,798 posts)HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)This is obviously another run at the Anita Broderick and the old story of the WH Oriental vase throwing.
If it works a bit he'll keep up the bait-casting until the reward to effort ratio becomes unfavorable.
How will he know if it works?
Clinton supporters will spend a lot of time thrashing against the pull of the line.
radical noodle
(10,582 posts)There are too many women in this country whose husbands have cheated on them who don't like the idea of blaming the wife for any of it. Wives in this situation have a right to be pissed at the husband AND at the "other woman" if it was consensual.
I think there's also an old saying that people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. The Donald is in one helluva big glass house.
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)the rest of us dont have that right, but both hillary and chelsea do.
Squinch
(59,444 posts)Bill's sex partners (how does one march to support them? What exactly does one say when one is marching?) is possibly the funniest thing I have ever seen on DU.
chowder66
(12,218 posts)He probably found a post with someone saying those exact words and recorded the "approvals" of the comments and used it in his rhetoric. It sure as hell wouldn't surprise me if I was right.
He just spews the hateful crap day after day and there are people out there that feed off of that. What sad, hateful lives they must all live.
Kip Humphrey
(4,753 posts)ecstatic
(35,066 posts)Um, i don't know if Hillary went after any women or not... But if she did, it's common and natural for people to stick up for their family members. Unfortunately, the family members aren't always truthful; then again, not all accusers are telling the truth.
pnwmom
(110,254 posts)And Hillary never said anything in public against Monica.
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Squinch
(59,444 posts)This is nothing new. Everyone knows this, and Hillary has STILL outperformed BS in the primaries.
So yes, she has been vetted.
Did you think Drumpf wouldn't be saying this and worse about BS?
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)
Initech
(108,674 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,688 posts)And just about every other vile segment of society!
basselope
(2,565 posts)Very simply, Trump's goal is to go as negative as possible to depress turnout, b/c negative campaigning ALWAYS depresses turnout.
The lower the turnout, the easier it becomes for him to win.
pnwmom
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Nasty, vicious, personal attacks on the first woman ever to run for President from a major party will cause a huge turnout of women voters.
You will see.
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pnwmom
(110,254 posts)Women Democrats like Hillary much more than women Dems like Trump. But likability isn't everything. Research has shown that the same qualities people want to see in a Presidential candidate -- e.g., strength -- make women (but not men) less likable.
That doesn't stop women from voting for other women. But it's not because of their likability -- it's because of their perceived competence.
Look at the national polls or at the exit polls; in both there is a gender gap, with women voters much more likely than men to vote for Hillary. And since women are also more likely than men simply to turnout, Hillary is on the better side of the gender gap.
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w4rma
(31,700 posts)Sanders is liked by all genders, and would be winning in a landslide if black voters hadn't been so unreciprocatedly loyal to Clinton's name.
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)And that is now, during his most misogynistic.
Do you really believe Ted Cruzs proportion of hard core conservative female voters (Cruz typically got 60%) will bolt the Republican Party and vote for Hillary Clinton?
I dont.
Kasich's female voters might but there's just not enough of them to be statistically significant.
And that's not even counting the Republicans, male and female, who will crawl over broken glass to vote against Hillary regardless of who the Republican candidate is.
Squinch
(59,444 posts)ARE pissed at Drumpf. Republican women included.
And haven't we learned that rallies do not equal votes yet?
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UtahJosh
(131 posts)pnwmom
(110,254 posts)But I like her and so do my friends.
basselope
(2,565 posts)I, unfortunately, know a couple of insiders who told me where this is going.
It's going to get VERY ugly and it will not help with turnout.
TeamPooka
(25,577 posts)phylny
(8,818 posts)Democat
(11,617 posts)Any insult against Clinton that Trump can make, someone on DU can make worse.
Freddie
(10,101 posts)That paragon of marital virtue?
Please proceed, sir.
JustAnotherGen
(38,037 posts)That marry for love, partnership, and a two person clique. Bill is her "person" - She's Bill's "person". Good, Bad, indifferent some people see their marriages as serving a higher purpose.
He only has had women that married him for his money. He really shouldn't be casting stones when those three earned their money so well. Even now the first one gets paid to be his pal.
pampango
(24,692 posts)sufrommich
(22,871 posts)spectacularly with women.
Vinca
(53,934 posts)It's only a matter of time before the "Do you want this guy back in the people's house?" ads are on the television with pictures of Lewinsky et al.
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)yourpaljoey
(2,166 posts)Vinca
(53,934 posts)to extricate himself without looking like a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSER.
yourpaljoey
(2,166 posts)But he is wicked smart; he will have bull-roaring fun at the pickling and pummeling of Hill. Her past will be on display for all to see... that is some ugly stuff.
She will drop out for 'health reasons.'
all american girl
(1,788 posts)mean things. Trumps is going to say mean things about anyone, even if it was Bernie, that's just his MO. He'd be calling Bernie a communist and such crap...would you run away from that?
Just a note: I'm not calling Bernie a communist, just saying that Trump would because that's what he does. I don't think Bernie is a communist.
Vinca
(53,934 posts)I'm saying we haven't seen the tip of the iceberg yet and what Trump has said so far is only a hint of things to come. This is going to be a nasty, dirty, X-rated campaign that will probably make us the laughingstock of the world. Thanks, Bill.
all american girl
(1,788 posts)shit. I mean he went after Cruz's wife...why? Because he thought he could, and it works for the republican base. Everyone else was appalled. Believe me, Trump had me defending Cruz, I so did not like that
And sorry, I'm shouldn't have said that.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)A shame.
Metric System
(6,048 posts)Oneironaut
(6,288 posts)Literally no mention of Trumps' affairs ever. No mention in the media of Trump's other shady qualities ever. Total blackout. It's insane...
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)the media actually did their jobs? Decades? Don Henley summed it up in Dirty Laundry.
UCmeNdc
(9,655 posts)Why would any woman with any kind of self respect take the side of the other woman who is cheating with her married husband?
This is so crazy that I cannot believe it is even considered a serious reason to vote against Hillary Clinton. So the wife is suppose to defend the other women in an affair?
MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)buffoon.
ancianita
(43,303 posts)Trump knows not the meaning of commitment. Except to his ego.
Major Nikon
(36,925 posts)he's probably right.
ancianita
(43,303 posts)And make him pay for it.
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)MH1
(19,149 posts)But on the other hand, he's obviously successful at marketing crap products, so what do I know?
I guess that's the scariest thing about this whole whacked-out election season.
In any rational world, comments like that would backfire as people - at least women - would take Hillary's side against this asshole.
But we aren't living in a rational world, are we?
GOPblows431
(51 posts)I'll be laughing my ass off when Trump gets trounced in the GE.
One_Life_To_Give
(6,036 posts)That's what we men folk need to keep our pants on.
GoCubsGo
(34,889 posts)The only reason I ever heard of this asshole, in the first place, was because his sordid affair with Marla Maples became the biggest scandal of its day. Who enabled your affairs, you vulgar talking yam?
fred v
(271 posts)1. I'm straight.
2. Who the hell knows where that tribble on his head has been???
tammywammy
(26,582 posts)1. If it mentions one of the primary candidates then it still belongs in GDP.
You are welcome to post about the general election in GD without reference to the primary candidates.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1259&pid=9847