Trump cheats at golf - the ONE and ONLY politics thread

I don't know that it didn't. I don't remember. A lot of stuff was going on during the debate. I don't feel like I permanently waived my right to note this development.

 

Pretty difficult comparison. Debate host and objective political reporter are pretty different jobs with different duties. When Cooper took the leap of logic during the debate it was meant to provoke/solicit a response as to whether Trump agreed with the assessment (which it did) and in the Politico example it is written as an established fact, which in my view is both incorrect and terrible journalism.

 

Not saying you waived your right. I was genuinely curious why it didn't bother you then (or maybe I should say, didn't bother you enough to warrant a mention). You answered the question. It's all good.

Does it bother you now?

 

Cooper should not have phrased the question that way.

 

To Dick and anyone who agrees with him: Let's leave out the ludicrous parsing of "let" for a moment.

Do you honestly believe forced kissing on a total stranger isn't sexual assault?

Because he unambiguously said he does that.

 

The determination to scrub this fucking pig clean and deny he said what he clearly said is truly amazing.

 

One posting that meme shouldn't be saying anything about "truth" at all.

 

@RickStain will like what Nancy Pelosi just told Jake Tapper on CNN regarding Trump projecting his own issues -- with stamina, women, and drug use -- onto Hillary Clinton.

 

First of all, I reject the premise that he unambiguously said he does that. "They let you do it."

Second, I don't know if it is or not. What state are we in? How does the law read? What behavior is encompassed?

 

It doesn't need to be prosecutable to be true.

 

"Sexual assault" is generally used as a legal term, and understood that way by readers. It is also ambiguous. Different people understand it to mean different actions. Politico stated unambiguously, as established fact, that Donald Trump unambiguously admitted to something most understand to be a crime. He did not, and the sentence either needs to flatly paraphrase what he actually did say, or else heavily caveat the assertion that he admitted to it. The word "arguably" would have saved it for me.

 

What he said meets the textbook definition of "sexual assault" in enough credible sources that it can safely be considered fact that he was bragging about it.

That's without bringing in any of the tons of extemporaneous evidence available supporting the idea that he does sexually assault women as a matter of course.