Donald Trump Admits Being Sexual Predator

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Donald Trump Admits Being Sexual Predator

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRMEDdtStUE
https://news.vice.com/story/trump-teen-beauty-pagent
Four women who competed in the 1997 Miss Teen USA pageant told BuzzFeed that Trump would often show up in their dressing room unannounced while the contestants, some as young as 15, were changing.

“I remember putting on my dress really quick because I was like, ‘Oh my god, there’s a man in here’,” Mariah Billado, former Miss Vermont Teen USA, told BuzzFeed reporters. She remembers Trump’s response — that he said something along the lines of “Don’t worry, ladies, I’ve seen it all before.”

Tasha Dixon, the former Miss Teen Arizona, competed in the 2001 Teen USA pageant. She was 18 at the time and remembers how Trump would “come strolling right in” when girls were “half-naked, changing into [their] bikinis….some girls were topless. Other girls were naked,” according to an interview with the CBS station in Los Angeles.

“There was no second to put a robe on or any sort of clothing,” Dixon said. She said that was most of the girls’ first introduction to Trump. She said that Trump’s behavior put her and the other pageant contestants in a “very physically vulnerable position,” and that his entrance was usually accompanied by “the pressure of the people that worked for him telling us to go fawn all over him, go walk up to him, talk to him, get his attention.”

Trump apparently considered access to the women’s changing rooms one of the perks of owning the beauty pageant franchises MissUniverse and Miss Teen USA, which he bought in 1996.

In a 2005 interview, Trump told radio shock jock Howard Stern, “I’m allowed to go in because I’m the owner of the pageant. And therefore I’m inspecting it.”

“I’ll go backstage before a show, and everyone’s getting dressed and ready and everything else,” Trump said. “And you know, no men are anywhere,” he said, according to CNN’s K-File team, which reviewed 17 years of audio of the radio show.


“You’re like a doctor,” Stern replied.

“‘Is everyone OK?’ [I’d ask]. You know, they’re standing there with no clothes [on],” Trump said. “‘Is everybody OK?’ And you see these incredible-looking women. And so I sort of get away with things like that.”
What the fuck?
I don't even think this needs an accompanying argument as to why Trump is a sexual predator, he ADMITS it. Geez, that's disgusting.
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That is kinda funny..
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"Admits being sexual predator"

Come on now. . .
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I'm with Jebus on this one.

He admits to engaging in actions like those of a sexual predator. I don't think he's self aware enough to realize how that looks.

But if this will tank his campaign, that's fine. His policies are terrible, and getting worse every day. Did you hear about his drug policy now? He did a serious flip flop there.
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^That's like if someone says, "I just get away with shooting people", and you say, "That person didn't ADMIT to murder. Come on! All that was said was that person engages in actions like that of a murderer."

Um... Prying on underage girls as they change is sexual predation. It's not 'like' sexual predation, and admitting to it makes you a sexual predator.
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EquALLity wrote:^That's like if someone says, "I just get away with shooting people", and you say, "That person didn't ADMIT to murder. Come on! All that was said was that person engages in actions like that of a murderer."
No, it's more like somebody said he or she gets away with pointing guns at people.
EquALLity wrote:Um... Prying on underage girls as they change is sexual predation. It's not 'like' sexual predation, and admitting to it makes you a sexual predator.
He was accused of spying on under-aged girls, but it doesn't seem like he was confessing to that. Just the pageants in general.
Even if he did, that makes him a voyeur and a pervert.

He may be a sexual predator too. The term itself is applied subjectively and has no clear definition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_predator
A sexual predator is a person seen as obtaining or trying to obtain sexual contact with another person in a metaphorically "predatory" or abusive manner. Analogous to how a predator hunts down its prey, so the sexual predator is thought to "hunt" for his or her sex partners.[...]
The term is applied according to a person's moral beliefs and does not necessarily denote criminal behavior. For example, a person who cruises a bar looking for consensual sex from someone else could be considered a sexual predator by some.

It's said he literally did admit to it, but given he was laughing at the time and it was framed almost as a joke, that's not really clear.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/watch-trump-say-true-when-called-a-sexual-predator-in-2006_us_5804d258e4b0162c043cd864
“Donald. Seriously, you know about sexual predators and all that,” Stern says in the clip, resurfaced by Twitter user Jonah Goodman. Co-host Robin Quivers laughs along with Stern, and interjects to say, “You are one!”

The Donald’s response? Shrugging, laughing, and saying, “It’s true.”
It's a weak argument. Accusations like these really should not make or break an election, policy should. But that's not the world we live in, so whatever.
This is like employing two wrongs to make a right. I'm not overly troubled that the same practices Trump has used to slander Clinton are being used against him.
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