Former model Amy Dorris has alleged that in 1997, then-real estate businessman Donald Trump “shoved his tongue” down her throat at a tennis tournament and ignored her plea for him to stop.
Trump once hit on a friend of mine at the Algonquin bar also in 1997. She was sitting at the bar having a toddy and reading when he came trolling through the bar chatting up women and doing his smarmy routine. “Girls who make passes…”
In 1997 he was in between bankruptcies, still married to Marla and maybe looked at the Algonquin as a purchase.
Gag me with a shovel. I think I’d be getting booster shots and updating my supply of antibiotics. I hope she checked for worms too. There’s no telling where Trump’s tongue has been.
Why should anyone be surprised? Unless they’ve been living in a remote cave since early 2016, they must know that Trump himself described doing this sort of thing. For the people just emerging from the cave, these are his words, as spoken to Billy Bush in 2005 and caught on tape:
“I’m automatically attracted to beautiful women — 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. Grab 'em by the pussy."
This will make no difference to the base. Trump’s base, both men and (sadly) women, believe that women should be sexually available to men at all times. We could get actual video of Trump raping a woman and his base would say, “That’s how you make America great again.” It’s why Kavanaugh - and Thomas, for that matter - is a SCJ.
The psychology behind this most likely speaks to unaddressed generational physical and sexual childhood abuse. As tragic as the cause may be, the results are deeply dangerous. Trump didn’t create his base. Trump’s base created Trump. The base is damaged, and their creation is an amplification of their twisted psychology.
EDIT: It’s been pointed out that this could make a difference to swing voters, suburban women, etc. All excellent points which I painted over with “This will make no difference.” I have qualified that assertion.