I think he was actually doing his new persona, Trumpty Trump.
“Stop what you’re doin’, cuz I’m about to ruin the whole election process that you’re used to.”
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On the plus side I’m sure it’s a very, very brief experience.
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I’ve fired six rounds out of one and I was surprised how little it kicked. And my arms aren’t what you’d call beefy. Not a very practical handgun for self-defense, hunting, or target shooting though. Not to mention hella expensive to shoot. Seems geared for the Dirtier Harry fantasy crowd.
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This makes me fantasize about Negan smashing in Trump’s skull.
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It depends greatly on the grain load of the round (how much gun powder is in the cartridge). I have a 50cal handgun I carry for bear protection sometimes. I keep some 50grain rounds around just for “plinking”. Turns it into a big cap gun.
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It wasn’t my gun, I have no idea what the load was. For bear protection I usually bring a sacrificial otter along.
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Well, as predicted the Trump camp is blowing this off as locker room humor, even using the phrase. So far the Times coverage only mentions that this might be more than a joke in a single op-ed article:
Other than that, all the NYT coverage (and there’s a lot of it) reinforces Trump’s excuse that this was just a joke and not any indication of his actual behavior, as he said in his non-apology:
“Hillary Clinton and her kind have run our country into the ground. I’ve said some foolish things, but there’s a big difference between the words and actions of other people. Bill Clinton has actually abused women, and Hillary has bullied, attacked, shamed and intimidated his victims.”
Here’s hoping that the media starts bringing up these accusations a lot more than they have been, and this shit storm manages to actually sink him.
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Isn’t there a rule that if the accused are known by a place name and a number, then they’re innocent?
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Please read the Washington Post’s coverage of how the story actually came to their attention at the time that it did.
Quite honestly, I think there’s a boneyard of skeletons in Trump’s closet; so much so that it’s a bit foolhardy to read too much into the exact timing of any one revelation.
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Conversely, if the GOP thought that a consensual affair was grounds for impeachment then how could they support an admitted serial aldulterer who bragged about assaulting married women at the very time his own wife was three months pregnant?
Trump makes Bill Clinton look like a model of class and restraint.
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You think consistency is a GOP trait? Who was the driving force behind that impeachment? Newt Gingrich and Bob Barr?
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I appreciate you not adding, “But you should have seen what the other guy ate!”
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OK, that’s just too much subtext…
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Let’s see what the crowd-sourced questions for tomorrow’s debate look like now…
https://presidentialopenquestions.com/?sort=trending
Top two currently trending questions…
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That would be epic!
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The double down was the saltiest thing I’ve ever consumed.
But not as salty as Trumps comments!
I’m sorry.
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I think it’s pretty amazing how low he can go, just when you think he can’t get any more crass he digs the hole a bit deeper.
Oh, I don’t know about that, the media just likes any kind of controversy, and Trump provides the perfect “lowest common denominator” stories; a lot of Americans won’t care or won’t be able to understand any details of Hillary’s speeches, but “grab them by the pussy” sure will get people talking around the water cooler at work. I doubt anyone was holding onto the Trump story for just the right moment.
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