permafrost wrote:
Everything you say is correct..
That does not mean the end of the story..
Long delays in speaking of sexual assault are very common, ask any cop..
Why, embarrassment, self guilt, need for secrecy,
But the largest reason by far is lack of results.. the women, if it reaches trial has to relive the experience in front of the public, the man usually only goes on with his life with no downside..
And yes, I know of exceptions. right in this town ..
Never the less, the usual is what is expected.. the more powerful (rich) the man is, the less action he receives..
Short part of another comment on women and sex predators..
In 2016 about a dozen women came out well before the e******n declaring that Trump sexually assaulted them. Trump claimed they were all liars and he was going to sue all of them. Not a single one has been sued. Trump was later caught on videotape bragging about his history of sexually assaulting women. Still, Trump was elected President while the other guy in the video lost his television job just for giggling.
Why don't more women come forward? See what happened to Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford. Both were judged by tribunals of old men. Both were dismissed as crazy or liars. Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh are on the Supreme Court.
Now columnist E. Jean Carroll has come out with her account of being sexually assaulted by Trump back in the 90s. Just another piece of the pattern of a man with no impulse control who assaults women, c***ts business associates and lies as if it's a bodily function.
Women are not stupid. They understand the consequences of testifying against powerful men. They understand that they will be disbelieved and demonized while the perpetrator skates away without consequences. Yet we are still questioning why they don't come forward.
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Allegations of "sexual abuse"?
Jessica Leeds - 1970, Trump groped her while seated next to her on a flight.
No cigar.Ivana Trump - 1990 divorce deposition - "As a woman, I felt violated, as the love and tenderness, which he normally exhibited towards me, was absent. I referred to this as a 'rape,' but I do not want my words to be interpreted in a literal or criminal sense."
No cigar.Kristin Anderson - at a New York City nightclub in the early 1990s. Trump reached under her skirt and touched her vagina through her underwear. (how do you "touch" a vagina?)
No cigar.Jill Harth - at the Mar-a-Lago resort in the early 1990s. Trump pushed her against a wall, put his hand up her skirt, and tried to kiss her at a dinner.
No cigar.Lisa Boyne - a 1996 dinner with Trump and modeling agent John Casablancas during which several other women in attendance were forced to walk across a table in order to leave. Trump and Casablancas looked up their skirts and commented on their underwear.
No cigar.Mariah Billado and Victoria Hughes - Two Miss Teen USA contestants claimed Trump walked in on them while they were changing in their dressing rooms.
No cigar.Temple Taggart - Trump "kissed me directly on the lips" when she met him at the Miss USA pageant in 1997.
No cigar.Cathy Heller - was attending a Mother's Day brunch with her husband, children, and in-laws at Mar-a-Lago in the 1990s when Trump approached her table, introduced himself to her, and forcibly kissed her.
No cigar.Karena Virginia - Trump groped her as she waited for her car outside the US Open in New York in 1998.
No cigar.Tasha Dixon and Bridget Sullivan - Two Miss USA contestants said Trump walked into their dressing rooms, where female participants were changing.
No cigar.Melinda "Mindy" McGillivray - Trump grabbed her buttocks while they were backstage during a Ray Charles concert at Mar-a-Lago in 2003.
No cigar.Natasha Stoynoff - 2005, Mar-a-Lago. Trump pushed her against the wall and forced his tongue down her throat.
No cigar.Jennifer Murphy and Juliet Huddy - Trump Tower, 2005. Trump kissed them without their consent, but they weren't offended by it at the time.
No cigar.Rachel Crooks - Trump Tower receptionist, 2005, Trump kissed her on the mouth without her consent.
No cigar.Samantha Holvey - 2006 Miss USA contestant. Trump personally inspected each of the pageant contestants individually. ""He would step in front of each girl and look her over from head to toe."
No cigar.Ninni Laaksonen - 2006. A model and former Miss Finland. Trump groped her backstage at the "Late Show with David Letterman".
No cigar.Jessica Drake - Lake Tahoe, 2006. Accused Trump of grabbing and kissing her without permission and offering her money to accept a private invitation to his penthouse hotel room.
No cigar.Summer Zervos - a former contestant on NBC's "The Apprentice," Trump grabbed her shoulder and began kissing her "very aggressively" and placed his hand on her breast.
No cigar.Cassandra Searles - Miss Washington at the 2013 Miss USA pageant, Ditto Holvey.
No cigar.Alva Johnson - a former Trump campaign staffer. Trump kissed her without her consent at a Tampa, Florida rally on August 24, 2016.
No cigar.E. Jean Carroll - accuses Trump of raping her 25 years ago. Sound familiar?
No cigar.Note that every one of these alleged incidents occurred BEFORE Trump became president. OTH, how many presidents have behaved like this WHILE in office? How many men in this world have never behaved like this? Or, how many have?
What comes after these allegations are investigated and found wanting?
Monica Lewinsky - Opps! CIGAR