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Nigel Farage defends Donald Trump over 'alpha-male boasting' [View all]
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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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
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