Man Arrested for Groping Woman Tells Cops: Trump 'Says It's OK'

[riversedge]

Source: daily beast and Reuters



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Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

A man arrested for allegedly groping a female passenger on a flight from Houston to New Mexico told police officers the president of the United States “says it’s OK to grab women by their private parts,” according to a criminal complaint filed Monday. The man, identified as Bruce Alexander, 49, is accused of groping a woman’s breast when she was sleeping on the Southwest Airlines flight on Sunday. The woman, who has not been identified, told investigators she initially thought someone had touched her by accident, but when it happened again, she confronted Alexander and alerted flight attendants. Alexander claimed in a written statement to investigators to have no recollection of the woman, though after first being placed in handcuffs, he is said to have invoked President Trump’s infamous Access Hollywood comments. Alexander has been charged with abusive sexual contact.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/man-arrested-for-groping-woman-tells-cops-trump-says-its-ok

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SO, it has come to this. damn

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[ck4829]

1. K&R

[IronLionZion]

2. So this guy wasn't wealthy and powerful enough to get away with it

If he can get Russian backing, he could become president too.

[whathehell]

6. No, I guess he forgot the part about having to be a "star"

to get away it.

[ck4829]

24. Indeed

[Ligyron]

3. And jury of GrOPer peers refuses to convict.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Law and order has become as hole-ridden as Swiss Cheese

I struggle to find periods of history that correspond. The Reformation was a meltdown of established order and hierarchy. So was the Black Death. So were civil wars of various stripes. The Trump Era has been like bringing Heavy Metal to the Age of Mozart, Bach, and Beethoven. I don't know what puts the Genie back in the Bottle.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

10. Some old folks in the 50s/60s back in the country used to say....

"what this country needs is another Great Depression". All the good folks that raised me went through the Depression as very poor people and of course they were saying that in jest, usually in disgust toward some decadent or immoral event in the news from Cronkite or Huntley-Brinkley.

What they meant obviously was that America needed a fresh, healthy dose of humility, just as it does today. Like you, I'm at odds as to what might bring that about.

It speaks terribly of the human race when some might suggest either a world war or total economic collapse would be required to bring the planet's peoples back to love of fellow man and of the earth, common humility and acting as ladies and gentlemen.

I'm starting to believe we have a very long way to go in the process of evolution.

[bucolic_frolic]

12. I heard 'we need another Great Depression' too

and 'some people have too much money'. As long as the far right is insulated from society, and they are burrowed in their holes, they can continue to revel in their beliefs no matter what happens to the country or the rest of us.

[whathehell]

5. Perhaps he could use his one phone call..

to get Trump to get his ass out of jail. Unbelievable.

[Ilsa]

7. Is it okay for me to break fingers of gropers? nt

[Akacia]

8. I knew it was just a matter of time until this happened.

I am actually surprised it took this long. Now isn`t that a sad thing? Wish this nightmare would end.

[Heartstrings]

16. I was thinking the very same thing.....

Welcome to du!

GOTV!!!!!

[Akacia]

21. Thank you.nt.

[Achilleaze]

9. republican family values suck cesspool scum

and so does the republican family values role model, Dirty Donny, a five-time draft-dodging casino hustler.

[bullwinkle428]

11. I need to remind DU that this is almost EXACTLY what Chump himself

was accused of by one of the women that was interviewed in that group of nearly 20 women. I'm pretty sure this particular woman was the one he actually called out in one of his rallies, saying she wasn't attractive enough to consider groping.

[GoCubsGo]

13. Somebody is looking for a presidential pardon...

He'd probably get one, too, should he be convicted.

[usaf-vet]

14. I will predict the day is coming when a defendant is a trial while being question by the prosecutor.

Will first claim his 5th amendment rights against self incrimination THEN when cornered and will need to lie WILL lie committing perjury and then he / she will claim the Kavanaugh Exception (it's all right to commit perjury) Kavanaugh proved it. A new legal precedent established by a SCOTUS justice.

[marble falls]

15. Its going to get worse. We will be years fixing cheetolini's permissions to be jerks ...

and murderers.

November 6!!!

[workinclasszero]

17. Trump normalized sexual assault

The news media gave him a pass and the evangelical right is good with it as well.

[ck4829]

25. +1

[SWBTATTReg]

18. The religious right and rump nuts may have 'normalized' this type of despicable behavior, but ...

if you go and query the vast number of Americans, we'll all convict these scumbags still. These people may think it is a game to them, but it isn't.

[Scurrilous]

19. K&R

[Bengus81]

20. Probably so STUPID he figures Spanky is going to bail him out and pay legal bills...

Dream on buddy boy..........

[Aristus]

22. Reminds me of the days just after the election, when some fuckwit went round yanking the hijabs

off the heads of Muslim women and shouting "That ain't allowed n'more!"

Jesus, what scumbags...

[Judi Lynn]

23. Too bad Trump never said to not bother people. N/t