Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Here Comes Another One

This one on a bit of a tangent.
Multiple Apprentice employees, including the alleged victim herself, told The Daily Beast that the Academy-Award-nominated actor [Gary Busey] “grabbed” one of their colleagues “firmly between [the] legs” during the 2011 season of Celebrity Apprentice. Busey also forcibly put the female staffer’s hand on the crotch of his pants. The alleged incident, which they say took place during a location shoot in SoHo in New York City, prompted a firestorm among members of the Apprentice crew.

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[They] spoke on the condition of anonymity due to restrictive non-disclosure agreements signed by those involved with the NBC series’s production. The alleged victim, who hadn’t before gone public with her claims, agreed with The Daily Beast to be quoted for this story.

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“And so, a few of the celebrities wanted to do a shot together after we finished [setting up] for the show. We all took a shot together, and then went to stand together for B-roll time.

“We were smoking cigarettes outside, and Busey was standing next to me. And then at one point, he grabbed me firmly between my legs, and ran his hand up my stomach, and grabbed my breasts,” she continued. “I didn’t know what to do. So I made this joke that, ’Oh, I’ve never been sexually harassed by a celebrity before!’

  Daily eEast
That was her first mistake, but understandable, as she would have probably been out of a job, and women have been steadily reduced to objects - again - since the early days of the feminist movement, judged in American culture by their fuckability, and have little or no cultural back-up for resisting. Maybe that attitude coincides with Wall Street deregulation and rampant greed, not to mention the Bill Clinton years.  At any rate, we're a long way from the 70's in terms of women's liberation.  Back to something before the 60's.  Hey, women got a whole decade of respect. They should be grateful and STFU.

Perhaps Gary had been told by Trump that when you're a star, you can do those kinds of things, just as he'd told Billy Bush.  Or perhaps Gary Busey is just as big a bellicose sexual predator as Trump.
Then he grabbed my hand and put it [over] his penis, and said, like, ‘I’m just getting started, baby.’”
Perhaps that wouldn't have happened had she kneed him in the groin after his initial assault.
She added, “Then my friend jumped in between [me and Busey] and put his hand on Busey’s chest.”
I'm glad somebody did. And I hope that young girls are being taught now that knees to the groin or lawsuits are appropriate under theses circumstances.
She also said that Trump would say “gross things all the time” during The Apprentice, and that the atmosphere of Trump Tower was “a disgusting place to work” due to the high frequency of sexual harassment.

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“There was a moment where [Busey] basically grabbed her tits, and grabbed her hand [and] put it on his package there,” a staffer who witnessed the incident told The Daily Beast.

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“He said something lewd to her and then started grabbing at her,” another staffer who was told of the incident at the time said. “Everyone was talking about it outside for a while. There was a lot of talk about it… The producers never made anything of it."

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[The alleged victim] was disturbed by the alleged incident, and her friends and colleagues on the series were furious. Some staffers asked for Busey to be kicked off the show, and the internal dissent grew loud enough that producers and management were all briefed on the incident. The news made it all the way up the chain of command, multiple sources told The Daily Beast, and made its way to Trump’s ear. The real-estate mogul ultimately gave Busey little more than a chuckle and a soft slap on the wrist. (Busey was allowed to remain on the show for the duration of the season—until he was “fired” and came in sixth place.)

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"Gary, did you do a bad thing… [and] got your hands where they’re not supposed to be,” the Apprentice staff member recalls Trump as saying, noting that the two of them were “yucking” it up as Trump was supposedly disciplining him. Another staffer recalled Trump calling Busey a “bad boy, a very bad boy.” “Trump knew, he definitely knew,” another Apprentice staffer said. “I was in the control room when that happened.”
By: GARANCE BURKE (AP) NEW YORK (AP) — In his years as a reality TV boss on "The Apprentice," Donald Trump repeatedly demeaned women with sexist language, according to show insiders who said he rated female contestants by the size of their breasts and talked about which ones he'd like to have sex with.

The Associated Press interviewed more than 20 people — former crew members, editors and contestants — who described crass behavior by Trump behind the scenes of the long-running hit show, in which aspiring capitalists were given tasks to perform as they competed for jobs working for him.

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Interviewed separately, they gave concurring accounts of inappropriate conduct on the set.

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Eight former crew members recalled that he repeatedly made lewd comments about a camerawoman he said had a nice rear, comparing her beauty to that of his daughter, Ivanka.

  AP
Yes, he is that disgusting. If you've been reading YWA or other sources that have reported on his comments about his daughter, you know that's pretty much par for his course. But, if you're that disgusting toward apparently all women, why would your daughter be left out?
Contestant Poppy Carlig, who performed the twirl, said she considered Trump's request "playful banter." She added: "I don't immediately jump to the conclusion that people are having bad intentions with what they are saying. He said I reminded him of his daughter and I thought that was really touching because I know how much he values his family."
Jesus.
Former producer Katherine Walker said Trump frequently talked about women's bodies during the five seasons she worked with him and said he speculated about which female contestant would be "a tiger in bed."

A former crew member who signed a non-disclosure agreement and asked not to be identified, recalled that Trump asked male contestants whether they would sleep with a particular female contestant, then expressed his own interest.

"We were in the boardroom one time figuring out who to blame for the task, and he just stopped in the middle and pointed to someone and said, 'You'd f... her, wouldn't you? I'd f... her. C'mon, wouldn't you?'"

The person continued: "Everyone is trying to make him stop talking, and the woman is shrinking in her seat."

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"If there was a break in the conversation, he would then look at one of the female cast members, saying 'you're looking kind of hot today, I love that dress on you,' then he would turn to one of the male cast members and say 'wouldn't you sleep with her?' and then everyone would laugh," said a former crew member who spoke on condition of anonymity because of a non-disclosure agreement. "There would be about 10 or 12 cameras rolling and getting that footage, which is why everybody was like, this guy just doesn't care."

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NBC, which broadcast the hit series, referred questions to executive producer Mark Burnett, whose studio referred calls to a public relations firm. The public relations firm did not respond to multiple voicemails and emails seeking comment. AP previously asked Burnett to provide original footage for review, but those calls were not returned.
Of course Trump will just keep calling all these people liars, and...boys will be boys, eh Melania?

And....she's not your daughter.







UPDATE:

Tone. Fucking. Deaf. He's getting closer and closer to losing even his base.




UPDATE:



FURTHER UPDATE:


Probably not, because that would at least make sense.

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