Nigel Farage defends Donald Trump over 'alpha-male boasting'

[Eugene]

Source: Press Association

Nigel Farage defends Donald Trump over 'alpha-male boasting'

Press Association
Sunday 9 October 2016 08.38 BST

The interim Ukip leader, Nigel Farage, has waded into the crisis engulfing Donald Trump’s US presidential bid, insisting the Republican candidate’s obscene remarks about groping women amounted to “alpha-male boasting”.

Speaking in St Louis, Missouri, where he is attending this weekend’s televised presidential debate as a Trump supporter, Farage said the comments were “ugly” but that women also made remarks they would not want to see reported.

“Look, this is alpha-male boasting,” he said. “It’s the kind of thing, if we are being honest, that men do. They sit around and have a drink and they talk like this.

“By the way, quite a lot of women say things amongst themselves that they would not want to see on Fox News or the front page of a newspaper. I’m not pretending it’s good – it’s ugly, it is ugly.”

Farage’s comments echo the initial response of Trump who dismissed the obscene language on a 2005 video tape as “locker room banter” before the scale of the crisis overwhelming his presidential campaign forced him to issue an apology.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/09/nigel-farage-defends-donald-trump-over-alpha-male-boasting

[malaise]

1. Of course it's very English public school

and cricket clubs.

[MrScorpio]

2. Alpha men don't have to boast

Boasting is a sign of inadequacy.

[C_U_L8R]

3. This brexit dope thinks its about words.

His boasting is heinous enough but it is Trump's actual
predatory sex offender actions that are beyond reprehensible

[duncang]

8. THIS!!!

It wasn't just words. He actually carried them out.

[Doreen]

4. true alpha males are better.

I know a lot of alpha males my boyfriend being one of them and they are polite, gentle, kind, and considerate of others. There is a difference between an alpha male and an asshole male. Trump is an asshole male.

[pampango]

5. The leader of Brexit is as big a jerk as Mr. Build That Wall. What a surprise!

Conservative elitists love to blame foreigners and immigrants while attacking unions and environmentalists.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

6. And they never stop defending the most deplorable behavior

as long as it's perpetrated by one of their own.

[Rex]

7. Well Poodle has Dubya, so it makes sense.

Birds of a feather.

[lame54]

9. It was bragging and admitting...

To actual lewd acts

It was not just words

[Warren DeMontague]

10. at this point, they have to import people from overseas to defend the guy.

BUILD THE WALL!

[duncang]

11. Just sent text out

To in-laws in Scotland that nigel is defending dipshit's sexual assault. They were against brexit and hated nigel anyways. But figured they might want to pass on the word.

[milestogo]

12. I've never heard a woman make comparable remarks about men

and if I did I would be apalled.

[Quantess]

14. Not me either, and I'm a woman who is pretty candid with my girlfriends about men, at times.

Can you imagine what Trump says when he's really letting loose with his "locker room banter", to some of his gross buddies? I can't even imagine how offensive that would be!

[bluesbassman]

13. Hey, stay on your side of the pond and screw up your own country Farage.

We have enough mouth breathing knuckledraggers over here as it is.

[rurallib]

15. methinks Nigel can't tell reality from his dream world

I have never heard that kind of talk in any environment except maybe junior high.

[Nye Bevan]

16. I love when men say "that's just how men talk"

when what they really mean is "that's how I talk".