when I first saw the tape of Trump, I was
shocked but not surprised
we've known this about Trump for a long
time he's been accused of sexual assault
in the past by Jill Harth a former business associate
he pushed me up against the
wall and had his hands all over me and
tried to get up my dress again and I had
to physically say what are you doing
stop it was a shocking thing to have
him do this
it is sexual assault to grab a
woman's private parts without her
consent to kiss her without her consent
without warning which is exactly what
Trump described on those tapes the
reaction of Trump supporters to the
phrase sexual assault was almost unbelievable
this is suggesting sexual
assault and that's a very unfortunate
phrase and people really should stop
using why because I know him better and
I know better that's what he said this
term sexual assault has been bandied
about I don't think he was advocating sexual assault on that bus
you had a lot of surrogates focusing on the words
it's shockingly lewd
it was guy talk
well those words are horrendous they're
dreadful there they're appalling they're foul
that's what is said in a locker room
I've been in a lot of locker rooms
absolutely guys don't kid yourself okay
the language is inappropriate it's not
acceptable
and I think a lot of these people who are focusing on the words
just don't really understand
what sexual assault means
he said he starts to his woman and they let him do
X Y or Z that implies consent
that's not consent
consent is not imposing your will on someone and having them just not resist
consent means that the other
person wants to be doing the thing that you are doing
take me to pleasure town
oh, we're going there
there's this great cartoon and it's about how
consent is like tea you wouldn't try to
force tea down the throat of someone who
says no thank you i would not like tea
whether it's tea or sex, consent is everything
we understand this with food
but we don't really understand it with women's bodies
all of a sudden his hands
were all over me he was like an octopus
it was like he had six arms he was all
over the place
there's been a weird tendency on the
right in general to minimize the role of
consent and sexual assault
what rush limbaugh doesn't
get is that if you don't consent to
sexual activity it's not legal
it has a lot to do with traditional
gender roles
boys will be boys and you know guys are
pretty dusty and you needed to be careful
when you got them around young women
particularly if there's parties and
alcohol so the rules are pretty tight
with the sexual revolution that began
the sixties did away with all that
the problem with some of these more
traditional views of gender is that they
just don't know how to deal with the
idea that women are autonomous beings
when it comes to sex that women have sex
women like sex women can know when they
want to have sex and how they want to
have it and with whom they want to have
it and that they are entitled to make
choices about this after we actually had
women come forward and say yes
Trump did these things to me that he
denied doing on national television the
conversation had to shift it couldn't be
about words anymore it was very clearly
now about alleged deeds Trump's alleged deeds
he turned to me and embraced me and
give me a kiss on the lips and I
I remember being shocked I mean I was very
young and I remember feeling kind of
embarrassed like wanting to turn and
almost wipe my mouth like what just
happened
he just came strolling right in
there was no second to put a robe on or
any sort of clothing or anything
some girls were topless other girls
were naked
Natasha Stoynoff a writer for People magazine claims that she was
physically attacked by Trump
Trump took tic-tac suggested I take them also
he then leaned in i'm reading this
catching me off guard and kissed me
almost on the lips
I was really freaked out
he and his campaign in order to protect him have
sort of no choice but to say that these
women are crazy or politically motivated
I think it's very difficult if you've
been on an airplane you I know you've
been on an airplane sitting in first
class that someone would notice of an
octopus
was grabbing you and all the sudden she's so
enraged by this she gets up and goes
back to the back of the plane I think
there's a lot of holes in this story
why wait for 26 days out from the
election this is a political hit piece
there's good reason why
women often wait this long to come
forward victims know very well that
they're going to be disbelieved they know
Temple Taggart was a 21 year old
beauty contestant watching him relive
his sexual aggression on this video she
said in an interview on Saturday made me
feel a lot better she said it was like
thank you
now no one can say i made this up
these women who say that Trump has groped them
are watching him say to Anderson
Cooper's face that he doesn't do that
you describe kissing women without consent
grabbing their genitals that is sexual
assault you brag that you have sexually
assaulted women do you understand that
no I didn't say that at all i don't
think you understood what was it
so for the record you're saying you
never did that I said things frankly you you hear
these things they're said and I was
embarrassed by it but I have tremendous
respect for women have you ever done those things
women have respect for me and I will
tell you no I have not
they wanted to tell their truth so that his testimony
would not be all that was out there
about this about what really happened to
them