Evidence suggests that Trump sexual assault claims are fake
Jessica Leeds’ Rachel Crooks’, and Mindy McGillivray’s accusations don’t add up … and if they are lying, who else is?
It’s October. Every four years, this is the time when grown men and women begin publicly hurling verbal sewage at each other with abandon. The 2016 presidential debates have largely consisted of that and exchanges of “nuh-uh.” But the allegations of sexual harassment against Trump are pure smear campaign, and every time that method actually sways voters, I am floored at people’s naivete and incapacity for critical thinking.
A uterus does not a saint make. —Jesus, probably
And before I start, being a feminist doesn’t mean freaking out every time a female says she was assaulted, nudged, groped, etc. The common allegation is that we live in a rape culture that minimizes women and is quick to defend or excuse men. But women are human, too: They lie, cheat, steal, and manipulate to get their way. Feminism isn’t a stance that says that women are better than men, that women are victims, that women deserve special treatment. It is a stance that says that the feminine aspect of anything, while different, is equally as valuable and equally as powerful as the masculine aspect of anything. In the context of 2016 America, it often involves embracing the often trampled or ignored feminine perspective and pushing against the patriarchal nature of … well, just about everything in society.
That said, some of the allegations against Trump may be true. He’s an arrogant big-shot playboy, or at least he thinks he is, and his attitudes toward women have been utterly indefensible.
But once you catch someone cheating once, one has to wonder just how much that person has been cheating all along. It destroys credibility. And with sexual assault allegations leveled against Trump in a recent New York Times article by Megan Twohey and Michael Barbaro, the Clinton campaign has poisoned its own well.
Jessica Leeds: victim or plagiarist for hire?
“He was like an octopus,” said Jessica Leeds as reported by the New York Times. “His hands were everywhere.”
Remember when Melania Trump gave a speech that was laden with unmistakable word-for-word phrases seemingly copied and pasted from Michelle Obama? It was clear that Melania Trump had plagiarized because of the way unique phrases were taken verbatim.
Did it prove that she plagiarized? Well, no. Did Newton’s apple prove the existence of gravity?
“He was like an octopus.” My, that’s a colorful simile.
Did you read an article published by the Guardian, “Bill Roache ‘was like an octopus’, sexual abuse trial hears“?
“He was like an octopus,” said Roach’s accuser. “Hands everywhere.” Yikes, that sounds familiar.
Does that prove that Leeds’ testimony is false? No. Just as an apple falling and whacking Isaac Newton on the noggin did not prove that gravity exists.
Donald Trump’s lawyers have accused The New York Times of libel and demanded both a retraction and an apology — and rightly so. The Times declined to do so.
Rachel Crooks was called out for lying
The second woman featured in this article is Rachel Crooks, a campaign donor for Hillary Clinton. When she was 22, she was a receptionist working in Trump Tower. She alleges that Trump kissed her, but she also says that he told her that he would pass her info along to his modeling agency and then never did.
As reported by Amy Moreno at Truthfeed.com, Crooks was called out for lying about Trump’s behavior by Lona Burnstein, whose cousin married Crooks’ uncle. The story Burnstein tells implies that Crooks holds a grudge over being passed over by Trump’s modeling agency, giving her further motive for vindictive behavior. “I remember them talking about her meeting him… and her story today doesn’t match the story she told 11 years ago!!” said Burnstein on Facebook. “She’s definitely lying!”
These two women’s accusations are sketchy, but they’re not the only ones.
The curious case of Mindy McGillivray
Mindy McGillivray says that she was groped at Palm Beach by Donald Trump, yet she kept it to herself and close friends for 10 years.
Photographer Ken Davidoff said that Jan. 24, 2003, when he and his father, took photos there during a concert by Ray Charles. McGillivray accompanied to keep numbered name plates of everyone who was photographed.
This article erroneously refers to Melania Trump as Donald’s fiancee when in fact he didn’t propose to her until 2004, almost a year later after the incident.
But maybe that’s just bad journalism.
This photo of Donald, Melania, and Ray Charles, supposedly taken at an event on Jan. 24, was created Jan. 1, 2003. Click on “details” to see the date.
But maybe that’s just bad record-keeping on the part of Getty Images.
And McGillivray was convicted of driving drunk with her child in the car.
Ok, that’s definitely bad parenting.
There’s also no evidence of a Ray Charles concert on Jan. 24, 2003. In fact, Charles was supposed to be playing a concert in Seattle the day before, over 3,000 miles away from Palm Beach, except that the concert was cancelled.
Maybe Donald groped her, but this person’s credibility is suspect, the photo is dated incorrectly, and the concert where it was taken never happened.
I’m not saying that Donald Trump is innocent. I’m saying that this is sloppy work. Best case scenario, this actually happened and Leeds is so inarticulate that she had to plagiarize another woman in order to express her feelings about a sexual assault — you know what, I can’t even pretend that’s a realistic scenario. I think that if I were assaulted, I would be able to express that genuinely without ripping off another victim.
I call shenanigans.
If these accusations are false, how many of the rest of them are?
Why are all of these accusations in the distant past? If Donald Trump is the serial offender the media have made him out to be, there should be plenty of material less than a decade old. What the New York Times and its contemporaries are doing is bottom-trawling for any garbage they can find. And the junk they’re drudging up isn’t pretty, but it pales in comparison to Bill Clinton’s sexual misdeeds (and appears to be retaliatory to them being brought up in this election), it’s sensationalist non-journalism irrelevant to the election, and it’s a distraction from more pressing concerns, such as Hillary Clinton’s very numerous and very recent criminal behaviors.
If you have watched the debates, you’ve seen Hillary dodge accusations left and right and change the subject immediately to vague, fluffy politician talk. All she can say about the emails is that she’s sorry; she won’t get specific about anything and has yet to effectively rebut one single accusation — and by the way, denial isn’t rebuttal. She is a greasy cobra: deadly, but difficult to grab, and impossible to hold onto.
So here we are in October. The tools of the abuser are minimizing, denial, and blame. Hillary has minimized her actions, denied accusations, and blamed Trump for things that he may or may not have done. If she were running a solid campaign, if she were a solid candidate, she wouldn’t have to do that.
Not just as a feminist but as a human being, I find it utterly despicable for a woman to use the rape card this way. It trivializes other women’s real assaults and co-opts them for political gain. No feminist should vote for Donald Trump, but neither should he or she vote for Hillary Clinton.
Do you think John F. Kennedy, ladies man extraordinaire, ever did anything sexually inappropriate? I would put the odds at “astronomical.”
Would that make him unqualified for the presidency? Of course not. This stone-cold badass of a president was assassinated for planning to abolish the Federal Reserve, which would have been one of the best things that ever happened to this country.
And so, nor does any amount of indiscretion on the part of Donald Trump disqualify him from the presidency. Unlike Kennedy, however, there are plenty of of tangible reasons why he is not a suitable candidate.
And that’s the point.
Hillary Clinton is desperately grasping at straws and hurling feces by the handful. There’s your October Surprise: a 68-year-old criminal throwing handfuls of her own excreta. Surprise! And as this CNN anchor admits, she is getting “a free ride” from the mainstream media (Fox included), “the biggest ones promoting her campaign” who “couldn’t help her anymore than they have.” These sexual assault allegations appear to be a smear campaign meant to distract voters from Clinton’s voluminous transgressions against the United States of America. They’re ad hominem attack, the lowest rung on the rhetorical ladder and the one someone grasps when they’re flat on the floor and have nothing else to say.
Hillary Clinton is just as eminently unelectable as Donald Trump, but her serial dishonesty and political leveraging of sexual assault make her more unelectable than Benny Hill.
Nor do I think anyone should vote for Donald Trump. But any voter who decided not to vote for Donald Trump based on this — and that’s a whole lotta people in Utah — is voting with some anatomy other than his or her brains. Ah, democracy.
