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Is This the Death Knell for the Trump Campaign?

Posted on the 10 October 2016 by Calvinthedog

From a mailing list that I am on that represents the left wing of the Democratic Party. It’s called Act Blue, and believe me, they don’t like Hillary much at all. It’s just that they dislike Trump for more. I think most folks in this election are voting against someone, not for someone. Most Democrats are voting against Trump, not for Hillary. Most Republicans are probably voting against Hillary and not for Trump. I mean it’s pretty hard to be for either Trump or Hillary as they are both pretty loathsome.

We’re Shocked, Shocked That The Republican Presidential Nominee Is A Crude Sex Predator, Shocked We Tell You

When we launched our last alert talking about #TrumpTheFraud’s extensive history of sexist comments in both public and private, the latest bombshell about his extreme predation of women had not even gone off yet.

In his first ever “apology,” and it took him 2 tries to even get that far, he lied again by claiming he never pretended to be perfect. To the contrary, his entire pitch has been that he was the most perfect, smartest genius ever. But apparently not smart enough to realize that the microphone he was speaking into just a minute before might still be live.

Is there anyone in the Republican Party who can claim with a straight face they didn’t know what a crude, vulgar, amoral and quintessentially selfish guy they were dealing with, even before this latest revelation? But with a handful of exceptions, they all ultimately got in bed with him politically knowing everything bad about him they already knew.

And while they are shown for what they are, politicians all run half-naked and in a panic for the exits…look who is not…a bunch of evangelicals who ought to have their pictures in the dictionary under “hypocrisy.”

Just out of curiosity, before you get in bed with somebody, aren’t you supposed to check whether they have a red tail and horns? And when it’s become painfully obvious, are you supposed to stay there?

Nobody respected women more than him? As it turns out nobody DISRESPECTS women more than he does. And if he thinks he can get anyone to believe otherwise, he disrespects us again.

On the tape we hear him joking about grabbing the genitals of married women. His NRA backers try to tar people as gun grabbers just because we don’t want terrorists running around with assault rifles. But we guess we all know now who the real grabber is.

Because what this is all really about is a grab for power. It is about the Republicans saying whatever insincere, unprincipled thing they think they can get elected on all so they can do nothing but slavishly serve their wealthy campaign contributions.

And just like him, they only repent when they get caught or he does.

Maybe he gets his sexual harassment advice from Roger Ailes, another notorious Republican abuser and even today still one of his close confidants who he can swap senior’s locker room talk with.

What do you all think of Trump’s chances after this sexual assault bombshell dropped?

And keep in mind there was not just one.

This was followed by a married woman talking about how he groped her when she was with her husband, chased her around the mansion and could not keep his hands off her. All while she was protesting quite loudly.

After that, another woman has come forward, who it turns out is the TV star in the infamous groping tape who Billie Bush and Trump meet as she escorts them into the studio for the show. She talks about how Trump just grabbed and her kissed out of the blue, which apparently she was not very happy about. Afterwards it looks like he took revenge on her for turning him down for sex by firing her from a show because she had the nerve to get pregnant.

And the people who are dishing all this baggage out assure us that there is much more to come.

And this is not to mention the civil suit charging Trump with raping a 13 year old girl!

This seems to be the end of the Trump campaign though. I don’t see how he survives this. Forget it. The Republican Party is in shock and chaos. The Republican National Committee (the RNC – basically the Republican Party itself) has pulled out all funds from the Trump campaign and is focusing on down-ballot candidates instead. Pence, Trump’s running mate, has canceled all future appearances. A number of other Republicans are canceling future dual appearances with Trump. Congressional Republicans are falling all over themselves to denounce Trump, disassociate from him, or even announce that they are voting for Hillary.

The RNC is scheduling emergency meetings to try to find an replacement candidate for Trump and they are discussing trying to get Trump to step down from the campaign. If that does not work, they will work on Pence to try to get him to quit, thereby putting pressure on Trump. Trump has said he will not step down and says he will take his campaign to the end. Even if he did step down and a replacement was put in for him, it is hard to see what might happen as this may have never happened in US politics before. Furthermore, Trump’s name is already on many ballots. So what does that mean? And some people may have possibly already voted in early voting. So even if he did step down, it’s a gigantic can of worms what exactly the Party could do from there.

I went to Red State the other day, which is one of the main Republican blogs out there. I would call Red State a straight-up Republican Party blog which may even be connected with the Party itself. It’s not an Alt Right Trump-supporting site like Breitbart, though it might be interesting to see how Breitbart is handling this. Red State has apparently never liked Trump and now they are screaming gloom and doom for the Trump campaign. This site probably reflects the views of those close to the Party. So the Party itself seems to think that Trump is done. That’s pretty ominous.

Trump is debating Hillary tonight and supposedly he is going throw Bill’s serial groping and even date raping at Hillary. But that makes Hillary simply the wife who stood by her cheating husband. Most people regard such women are tragic and possibly stupid and incomprehensible but they are not usually seen as evil or morally flawed. They are more weak than anything else. And “They did it too, your honor,” is not a legal defense in any court of law that I am aware of. And this is the Trump strategy. Yes I was a scumbag but your husband did it too. Trump’s supporters are insistent that this is going to work, but I don’t think so.

Anyway, what do you think? Is Trump done or what?


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