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13. What The Donald finds "disgusting" says a lot about his misogyny & arrested development. "Blood, Swe
Wed Dec 23, 2015, 09:37 AM
Dec 2015



Great editorial.....

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Frank Bruni Verified account ‏@FrankBruni 1h1 hour ago

What The Donald finds "disgusting" says a lot about his misogyny & arrested development. "Blood, Sweat & Trump," http://nyti.ms/1Th19gP

The Opinion Pages | Op-Ed Columnist
Blood, Sweat and Trump


Frank Bruni DEC. 23, 2015



..............The fluids of women in particular rattle Trump. When a lawyer who was questioning him during a 2011 deposition asked for a break so that she could leave the room and pump breast milk for her 3-month-old daughter, he was unhinged.

“You’re disgusting,” he berated her, according to a story in The Times earlier this year by Michael Barbaro and Steve Eder. Then he stormed out of the deposition.

More famously, he reflected on Megyn Kelly’s interrogation of him at the first Republican presidential debate by saying that “you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.”

Clinton’s bathroom break — or, more precisely, Trump’s revulsion toward it — lies at the intersection of his misogyny and his fastidiousness. He’s a germophobe who once labeled himself “a clean hands freak,” called handshakes a “terrible custom” and said that the obligation to engage in them was one of the great curses of celebrity like his...........

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