{"id":17465,"date":"2016-10-08T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17465"},"modified":"2016-10-08T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T21:30:00","slug":"trump-using-tenuous-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17465","title":{"rendered":"Trump using tenuous ‘defense’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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What am I missing here?<\/p>\n

Donald J. Trump — at the time newly married — went off on a hot-mic rant 11 years ago in which he talked about having sex with a married woman, groping another woman,\u00a0about how his “star” status enabled him to have his way with women, disparaged another woman’s appearance … all while dropping f-bombs and using crude references to the female anatomy.<\/p>\n

Then he defends himself by saying essentially two things:<\/p>\n

* The audio recording is more than a decade old and does not reflect the person he is or was<\/em> — or will be<\/em> as president of the United States.<\/p>\n

* Bill Clinton abused women and his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, fought savagely to defend her husband over what he did more than two decades<\/em> ago.<\/p>\n

So, which is it? Does the 11-year-old audio recording count more or less than a 20-plus-year-old<\/em> series of alleged sexual dalliances — plus an actual relationship that occurred while Bill Clinton was president of the United States?<\/p>\n

Trump, the Republican\u00a0nominee for president, is running against Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee.<\/p>\n

I’ll ask one more question: Does the behavior of a nominee’s spouse<\/em> even rise the level of actual relevance that’s equal to the behavior of a current candidate for the presidency?<\/p>\n\n

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What am I missing here? Donald J. Trump — at the time newly married — went off on a hot-mic rant 11 years ago in which he talked about having sex with a married woman, groping another woman,\u00a0about how his “star” status enabled him to have his way with women, disparaged another woman’s appearance … … Continue reading Trump using tenuous ‘defense’<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[73,631,1424,2139,3120,3700,5246],"class_list":["post-17465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-2016-campaign","tag-bill-clinton","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-monica-lewinsky","tag-presidency","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17465"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17468,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17465\/revisions\/17468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}