It's unlikely that anyone will ever forget the Donald Trump/Billy Bush Access Hollywood video from 2005, which became infamous during the 2016 presidential campaign. But on Tuesday, March 20th, 2018...at an anti-sexual assault rally at the University of Miami...former Vice President Joe Biden reminded everyone of Trump's vulgar language when the now Oval Office occupant bragged about his lewd behavior with women, which he boasted was a perk for being a celebrity.
As a way to stand up for women everywhere, Mr. Biden verbally slammed Trump in ways that more American dignitaries should have, prior to the election nearly seventeen months ago. "If we were in high school, I'd take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him."
Kudos to you, Joe. Applause, applause, Mr. Vice President.
Mr. Biden also noted..."I've been in a lot of locker rooms my whole life. I'm a pretty damn good athlete. Any guy who talked that way...(still referring to the Access Hollywood video)...was usually the fattest, ugliest S.O.B. in the room."
Vice President Biden received a roaring ovation, for both comments, from the students attending the event at their college campus in Coral Gables, Florida.
There is, of course, speculation that the former Vice President may decide to run for President in 2020. His outspoken remarks at the recent rally came because he was referencing back to 2016 when reporters had asked him if he would ever like to debate Trump. Mr. Biden had given a similar reply two years ago...(as he did recently in Florida)...when he blasted Trump for disrespecting women in the Access Hollywood video.
Going back in time, it was on October 16th, 2016...in an exclusive interview with NBC News political director and Meet The Press moderator Chuck Todd...when Vice President Biden first responded to Trump's crude comments on the Access Hollywood recording, shortly after it was made public. "When a man says that...what he said... is a textbook definition of sexual assault." Mr. Biden accused Trump of an "instinctive abuse of power." The former Vice President believes Trump thinks as follows. "I live in the penthouse...I'm a billionaire...I'm a star...and I can do what I want." And Mr. Biden feels..."That's the most disturbing piece. This is not a guy who should be representing the United States in any way." Too bad not enough people listened to him.
I doubt any of you don't remember what Donald Trump told Billy Bush on that Access Hollywood video, but just in case Trump's vile verbiage has slipped your mind...I will refresh your memory, as Trump grandstanded about his sexcapades... allegedly with television personality Nancy O'Dell, among others.
"I moved on her, actually. You know she was down on Palm Beach. I moved on her...and I failed. I'll admit it. I did try and f--k her. She was married. No, no, Nancy. No this was...and I moved on her very heavily. In fact, I took her furniture shopping. She wanted to get some furniture. I said, 'I'll show you where they have some nice furniture.' I took her out furniture... I moved on her like a bitch. But I couldn't get there. And she was married. Then all of a sudden, I see her. She's now got the big phony tits and everything. She's totally changed her look."
The conversation continued as the Access Hollywood bus arrived at NBC studios in Burbank, California and Trump noticed actress Arianne Zucker who he was meeting that day.
"Yeah, that's her...with the gold. I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know, I'm automatically attracted to beautiful... 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." Billy Bush replied..."Whatever you want." And Trump uttered the line that nobody should forget. "Grab 'em by the p---y. You can do anything."
Trump was at NBC to video tape a scene with Zucker on Days Of Our Lives. Zucker played the role of Nicole Walker on the NBC daytime drama.
The Access Hollywood video was obtained by The Washington Post and the newspaper released it on October 7th, 2016...one month before the presidential election.
On December 3rd, 2017...in The New York Times...Billy Bush confirmed in an editorial that it is, in fact, Donald Trump's voice on the Access Hollywood recording. But reportedly, Trump, in late November 2017, defended himself in private conversations with aides and others in his inner-circle by apparently claiming that the tape is fake and that it's not his voice.
Since the Access Hollywood video, former NBC Today show anchor Matt Lauer and former CBS This Morning anchor Charlie Rose - who also hosted his PBS talk show, Charlie Rose - lost their jobs with their respective networks after the two veteran television journalists were accused of sexual harassment. Prior to Lauer and Rose being dismissed by their employers, numerous women came forward - now totaling about fifty - with allegations against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. The two-time Academy Award winning producer has been accused of everything from sexual harassment to rape...and, as a result, Weinstein was expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...and, therefore, has - in essence - been banned from working in Hollywood or anywhere in the entertainment industry.
So why did Republicans - and some Independents - overlook Donald Trump admitting that he would do...what he said on the Access Hollywood video? How could voters still elect such a man to be President of the United States? And don't say because they didn't like Hillary Clinton. That is not a justifiable excuse.
Violence against women - whether physically, sexually, emotionally or mentally - is totally unacceptable behavior by anyone. Such violence is also unacceptable when against men. Still...putting all political affiliations aside...it will forever boggle my mind how any woman...or any decent man...could have ever voted for Donald Trump after hearing the Access Hollywood recording.
Two days after Vice President Biden's comments at the University of Miami rally...Trump - very early on Thursday morning, March 22nd - shot back at Mr. Biden with one of his "big bully" tweets.
"Crazy Joe Biden is trying to act like a tough guy. Actually, he is weak, both mentally and physically, and yet he threatens me, for the second time, with physical assault. He doesn't know me, but he would go down fast and hard, crying all the way. Don't threaten people, Joe!"
In defense of Vice President Biden, he was not in any way insinuating that he wants to confront Donald Trump NOW...and beat him to a pulp. Mr. Biden specifically stated that "if we were in high school." Furthermore, the Delaware Democrat was protecting the honor of all women when he referenced Trump's foulmouthed, toxic tongue in the Access Hollywood video. But Trump - now 71 years old - decided to go several steps further when he threatened the 75-year old Vice President Biden by targeting him as someone that Trump could defeat in a physical fight. Naturally - as is par for the course with "The Donald" - he had to use insults too.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller better work fast in obtaining the evidence he needs to force Trump to resign or to get the House of Representatives to begin impeachment hearings. Otherwise...if a Biden-Trump debate were to ever become a reality...it just may end up being...a bloodbath.
In summation...with The White House in complete chaos and America nearing a Constitutional crisis...it's a shame that Democrats throughout our nation couldn't convince enough Independents - or anyone else who either voted for Trump or who stayed home and didn't vote at all - that Hillary Clinton was without question the best choice on the November 8th, 2016 ballot. And if Republicans on Capitol Hill...and in governors' mansions and city halls nationwide...would have put country ahead of party...the United States would not be facing another possible presidential resignation or an impeachment and removal from office. But Republicans didn't have the guts...(dare I say the balls)...to speak out against Trump. And most of them still don't. Instead...America is stuck - for the time being, at least - with a misogynist... who...as we recently learned...was allegedly involved in a sexual affair with a porn star back in 2006...about a year after Trump married his wife, Melania...and only several months after Mrs. Trump gave birth to their son, Barron. Donald Trump has denied having the fling with Stephanie Clifford - a.k.a. "Stormy Daniels" - but Trump's attorney, Michael Cohen admits that he paid Clifford 130-thousand dollars to keep her quiet. Along with the hush money, Clifford signed a non-disclosure agreement. But her lawyer, Michael Avenatti has filed a lawsuit on behalf of Clifford because they believe the deal is not valid since Trump never signed the document.
Meanwhile...lawyers for Trump are suing Clifford for twenty-million dollars in damages...for what the lawsuit claims are multiple violations of the non-disclosure agreement. Donald, if you're denying that there was ever an affair with Stephanie Clifford...then how can you sue her for violations of a non-disclosure agreement that you never signed? Do you see my point? All that being said...it's amazing that a sitting U.S. President would even file such a lawsuit against a private citizen when all she wants to do is tell the world what - as her lawyer, Avenatti says - "really happened." It should be up to the American people to determine the truth.
If all of that is not enough for us to chew on...stayed tuned to this Sunday night's 60 Minutes broadcast when correspondent Anderson Cooper sits down with Stephanie "Stormy Daniels" Clifford for her first interview. Expect it to be a revealing and powerhouse conversation...and I bet the ratings will go through the roof. That's 60 Minutes...this Sunday night, March 25th at 7 P.M. in the east and west, 6 P.M. in the central and mountain time zones...on the CBS television network.
Finally...whatever happened to the nineteen women who publicly accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct...most of whom came forward after Trump launched his presidential campaign in June 2015? CNN says that thirteen of the women claim "Trump attacked them directly." As with the alleged "Stormy Daniels" affair...Trump has denied all of the allegations from these other nineteen women. But according to the New York Post, attorney "Avenatti has confirmed to BuzzFeed News that multiple women have contacted him about potential lawsuits." And Avenatti told CNN that some of the women have non-disclosure agreements. I wonder how much money those women might have been paid to keep their mouths shut.
And then there's former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who on March 22nd told Anderson Cooper on his CNN broadcast, Anderson Cooper 360 that she has filed a lawsuit to free herself from a deal she made to keep mum about her alleged ten-month tryst with Donald Trump. Let us remember...we are talking about a man who - because of the Electoral College - was elected President of the United States. All of this simply blows the mind.
But Michael DiGaetano of New York City - in a Facebook post on March 22nd - summed up Donald Trump's alleged affairs and the allegations of sexual misconduct against him. "I believe the women who say they had sex with Trump. Because who the f--k would admit that...if it wasn't true?" There's no way I can top that.
And that's The Controversy for today.
I'm Gary B. Duglin.
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