Saturday, January 4, 2020

I bet this didn't come up in his evangelical rally

A former Fox News reporter has added her name to the list of nearly two dozen women who have accused Donald Trump of making unwanted sexual advances towards them. In a book published next week, the Fox & Friends fill-in host Courtney Friel claims Trump propositioned her before he became US president.

“You should come up to my office sometime, so we can kiss,” Friel says Trump told her, adding that he considered her “the hottest one at Fox News”.

[...]

Friel, 39, says Trump’s come-on was made during a phone call to her office weeks after she mentioned an interest in working as a judge on his Miss USA beauty pageant.

[...]

“‘Donald,’ I responded, ‘I believe we’re both married.’ I quickly ended the call,” she wrote in her book.

“This proposition made it difficult for me to report with a straight face on Trump running for president. It infuriated me that he would call all the women who shared stories of his bold advances liars. I totally believe them,” she says.

[...]

The White House claims the women are lying, while Trump has suggested some were not attractive enough for him to want to sexually assault.

  Guardian
Not exactly a great defense.



But, what did come up at that rally?



Trump positions himself among believers, against people supposedly opposed to faith and family: "Our traditions and our values are timeless and immortal. They don't know what they're missing. Right? They don't know what they're missing. Our faith is needed now more than ever."
Trump, at a church, says his re-election will be a "monumental victory for faith and family, God and country, flag and freedom." That is a new or almost-new line.
Trump says he kept his promise to "get rid of this horrible Johnson Amendment." He has not repealed the Johnson Amendment, though he has declined to enforce it. Trump did add later that "we're going to put it through and make it permanent, too," at least implicitly conceding that hasn't happened. He suggested he might do this during his 16 or 20 years in office, then said he tells this joke to drive media crazy.
Trump says maybe the media will be more honest because they're in church.
Apparently, the same doesn't apply to himself.
Trump complains about headlines that say he lied. He says that sometimes he's just a little off and other things are subjective -- "most of this I could argue with them."
Trump tells his story about how he's lost all his friends, and now he has no friends, because everyone is so respectful of the office that they call him "sir" and "Mr. President."
Trump tells a sir story about how someone proposed that a 69-year-old be appointed a judge, but he realized that doesn't work well, so he's appointed young judges like a 38-year-old in Texas who went to Harvard and maybe Oxford and will be a judge for 50 years.
Trump makes fun of Buttigieg's name, uses a disparaging nickname about Buttigieg's appearance, and says Buttigieg is "trying to pretend he's very religious," wrongly claiming Buttigieg started talking about his faith about "two weeks ago."
Buttigieg has always stressed his faith, which is one thing I've never appreciated.
Trump is doing a version of his usual complaint about not getting sufficient credit for criminal justice reform. "The only one they didn't thank was me. But that's the way it goes...you're welcome...but that's okay." He adds, "It's so easy to say thank you."
Trump expresses "unwavering solidarity with our Jewish brothers and sisters" over the recent anti-Semitic attacks. He says, "The love by evangelicals, Christians, for Jewish people and for Israel is incredible. It's incredible."
Trump's pitch: "I may not be perfect, but I get things done...and they're good things."
He suggested he might not be perfect?!?
Trump claims that people "hate Jewish people," then says, "I won't name them. I won't bring up the name of -- Omar, Tlaib, AOC. I won't bring that name up. Won't bring it up. I will not bring it up. But where do these people come from?"
Trump repeats his eternal nonsense about the US visa lottery, saying, "Do you think their governments put their best people in the lottery?" Governments do not put people in the lottery. People put themselves in the lottery.
Trump falsely claims, again, that he got "the Bay of Pigs Award." He got an endorsement from a Bay of Pigs veterans' group, not an "award." He habitually turns endorsements and other non-award things into "awards."
I'll gladly give him the Bray of Pigs award if he'd like.
Trump: "America was not built by religion-hating socialists. America was built by church-going, God-worshipping, freedom-loving patriots."

This is a Hispanic church.  How'd that blonde get in there?  Front and center, no less.  You think he asked for her?


He starts by reading.  His reading voice is always so drugged sounding.



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