The Many Sex Scandals of Donald Trump: A Cheat Sheet

[American Thinker]

Trump followers are depraved fags.


The Many Scandals of Donald Trump: A Cheat Sheet

The Republican nominee faces a series of allegations of sexual
assault, an embarrassing tape in which he boasts about committing
sexual assault, a series of old comments, and a civil suit
accusing him of rape.


Of all the scandals that have shaken Donald Trump’s campaign, who
could have imagined that the most damaging might be the thing
Trump has bragged about so often for decades?

The Republican nominee’s rather lascivious attitude toward women
has never been something he shied away from; indeed, he has
boasted for years of his conquests and his gleeful objectification
of women. Now his behavior toward women threatens to doom a
campaign that was already limping.

Trump’s trouble began on October 7, when The Washington Post
released a video in which Trump boasts of sexually assaulting
women. “You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful—I just
start kissing them,” Trump said. “It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I
don’t even wait. And when you’re a star they let you do it. You
can do anything.” He added, “Grab them by the pussy. You can do
anything.” The video produced a wave of revulsion, and many
Republicans denounced him, with some withdrawing support.

In the second debate two days later, Trump told Anderson Cooper
that he had never sexually assaulted women. That angered several
women who say Trump did assault them, and who came forward to say
so. Two women told The New York Times that Trump assaulted them,
one in the 1980s and one in 2005. A Florida woman told The Palm
Beach Post that Trump had groped her. A former People reporter
recounted how she says Trump assaulted her while she was reporting
a story for that magazine, telling her, “You know we’re going to
have an affair, don’t you?”

Despite furious reactions from Trump backers, complaining of a
coordinated election-eve attack, such allegations are hardly new.
Former Trump business associate Jill Harth accused him of sexual
assault months ago. Trump has denied all of these accusations.
Years ago, his first wife Ivana Trump accused him of marital rape,
though she later recanted. A former Miss Utah also said Trump has
given her an unwanted kiss on the lips.

Unrelatedly, Trump is facing a civil lawsuit from a Jane Doe who
alleges that Trump raped her in 1994, when she was 13 years old,
at parties hosted by the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein,
who Trump called a friend. That lawsuit is scheduled to proceed in
December, and Trump could be forced to testify under oath.

Meanwhile, there are plenty of other questionable stories about
Trump. Several former contestants in his pageants—including
several teenagers—say Trump barged into changing rooms while they
were naked or partially naked. Trump denies that, yet he bragged
of doing just that in an interview with Howard Stern. Another
woman claims she saw Trump looking up women’s skirts at a
restaurant in the 1990s. In a bizarre 1992 clip, Trump says of a
10-year-old visiting Trump Tower, “I am going to be dating her in
10 years. Can you believe it?”

Here’s the problem for Trump: Given his record of statements, it’s
not hard to believe that he said that, and yet still a stunning
thing for anyone to say.

The 2016 presidential election could be the most scandal-plagued
match-up since 1884 when James Blaine’s allegedly corrupt business
deals squared off against Grover Cleveland’s alleged illegitimate
child. On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton is the nominee,
bringing with her a train-car’s worth of baggage. But the
Republican candidate is at least as saddled with controversy as
Clinton is—and while many of the Clinton cases involve suspicion
and shadowy links, many of Trump’s are fully documented in court
cases and legal proceedings.

The breadth of Trump’s controversies is truly yuge, ranging from
allegations of mafia ties to unscrupulous business dealings, and
from racial discrimination to alleged marital rape. They stretch
over more than four decades, from the mid-1970s to the present
day. To catalogue the full sweep of allegations would require
thousands of words and lump together the trivial with the truly
scandalous. Including business deals that have simply failed,
without any hint of impropriety, would require thousands more.
This is a snapshot of some of the most interesting and largest of
those scandals.

Sexual-Assault Allegations

Where and when: Various, 1970s-2005

The dirt: Even before the release of a 2005 video in which he
boasted about sexually assaulting women—“Grab them by the pussy.
You can do anything,” he said, as well as “I just start kissing
them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when
you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything”—there’s a
long line of allegations against Trump. Jill Harth says Trump
assaulted her in the 1990s. Trump’s ex-wife Ivana Trump once
suggested he had raped her, though she has since recanted her
story. Former Miss Utah Temple Taggart said he kissed her on the
lips inappropriately. But since the release, more women have come
forward. Two told The New York Times that Trump had assaulted
them, one saying he tried to put his hand up her skirt on a flight
in the 1970s and another saying he forcibly kissed her. A Florida
woman says Trump groped her. A former People reporter recounted an
alleged assault at his Mar-a-Lago debate, and says he told her,
“You know we’re going to have an affair, don’t you?” Several
former teen pageant contestants said Trump walked in on them while
they were naked or partially dressed. Amid a range of other
allegations, Trump also faces a lawsuit from a Jane Doe who
alleges that Trump raped her at age 13 at a party hosted by
convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 1994.

The upshot: Trump denies all of the allegations. In the
sexual-assault cases, Trump faces the difficulty that he in some
cases bragged openly about just the behavior of which he has
accused—whether grabbing or forcibly kissing. Trump has demanded a
retraction from the Times, and has threatened to sue several
outlets. The paper, in a letter, refused. Trump could also be
forced to testify under oath in the rape case, which is set to
begin in December.