Donald Trump Thought Bringing Women Into The Military Created ‘Bedlam’
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Donald Trump Thought Bringing Women Into The Military Created ‘Bedlam’
He has also said that allowing women to serve with men has increased the number of sexual assaults.
10/26/2016 09:51 am ET
Sam Levine Associate Politics Editor, The Huffington Post
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“Well, I went to a military academy, which was from a different planet,” Trump said in a 2014 interview with biographer Michael D’Antonio that was obtained by the Times. “We didn’t have women in the academy at that time. Today you have women, which is a whole other story, women in the Army and you see what’s going on. It’s like — it’s like bedlam. It is bedlam.”
“It’s something that people aren’t talking about, but what’s going on is bedlam, bringing women in the Army,” he continued.
The GOP presidential nominee had previously claimed that allowing women to serve with men in the armed forces led to more sexual assaults.
At the September Commander-in-Chief forum, Trump defended the claim, saying, “It is a correct tweet. There are many people that think that’s absolutely correct.” But when he was asked whether women needed to be kicked out of the military to solve the problem of sexual assault, Trump largely avoided the question.......................
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-women-in-military_us_5810aee1e4b001e247df64d2
Trumps comment assumes that men can not control themselves.
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http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-women-in-the-military-is-bedlam-795409475946
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The Rachel Maddow Show 10/27/16
Trump: Women in the military is bedlam
Rachel Maddow shows Mike Pence calling women in the military a "bad idea," and shares previously unreleased audio of Donald Trump criticizing the decision to allow women into the U.S. military, calling it "bedlam." Duration: 5:02
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