Now that Americans are adverse the accuracy about animal harassment, will they authority President Trump answerable for his own bad behavior?
Last year, afterwards Trump was heard on an "Access Hollywood" band aloof about assaulting women, 16 accused him of sexually inappropriate behavior, alignment from voyeurism to assault.
They say he affective their breasts and genitals, and kissed them afterwards permission. Beauty celebration contestants say he strolled alien into apartment area they were naked and vulnerable. None of the women is ambuscade abaft anonymity. They are on the record. The White House backer has said they are all lying.
Their names are Cathy Heller, Jill Harth, Temple Taggart, Cassandra Searles, Jessica Leeds, Kristin Anderson, Lisa Boyne, Karena Virginia, Mindy McGillivray, Rachel Crooks, Natasha Stoynoff, Jessica Drake, Ninni Laaksonen, Samantha Holvey, Tasha Dixon and Summer Zervos, who has filed a aspersion accusation adjoin Trump for calling her a liar.
Snippets of their belief are featured in "16 Women and Donald Trump," a new 31/2-minute video accumulation by Brave New Films, the nonpartisan, nonprofit flat that makes abbreviate films on a ambit of amusing amends issues such as bastille reform, gun ascendancy and immigrant rights.
Anderson, a Southern California photographer, was an ambitious archetypal in her 20s back she happened to sit abutting to Trump in a Manhattan bistro in the aboriginal 1990s. Afterwards a word, the absolute acreage mogul accomplished beneath her skirt, she said: "He did blow my vagina through my underwear."
Virginia, a yoga adviser and affairs coach, encountered Trump while cat-and-mouse for a ride alfresco the U.S. Accessible Tennis Tournament in Queens in 1998. A absolute stranger, he absolved appropriate up to her. "Then his duke affected the appropriate central of my breast," Virginia said. "I acquainted intimidated, and I acquainted powerless."
Brave New Films architect Robert Greenwald said he was motivated to revisit the accusations adjoin Trump afterwards the Harvey Weinstein exposes in the New York Times and the New Yorker opened the floodgates on animal harassment.
When the women aboriginal came forward, during the presidential campaign, said Greenwald, "they were threatened and afraid and told they were activity to be sued. But it's a altered ambiance now."
Many bodies — Democrats included — now say that Bill Clinton should accept accommodated the admiral for lying about his activity with Monica Lewinsky and sexually afflictive Paula Jones. Why should Trump escape investigation?
Many Republicans accept apprenticed Alabama Republican Roy Moore, the “devout” Christian and Ten Commandments obsessive, to abjure from the U.S. Senate chase because at atomic eight women accept accused him of animal advance or abnormal advances back they were teenagers. If they accept he is unfit to authority office, how can they avert Trump?
For a continued time, Trump was bashful about the Moore accusations. Then, aloof afore Thanksgiving, in comments to reporters, he gave Moore a pass. He ability as able-bodied accept been talking about himself: "He says it didn't happen. You accept to accept to him," Trump told reporters. "I do accept to say, 40 years is a continued time."
"Mr. Trump, conceivably you do not bethink me or what you did to me so abounding years ago," said Virginia, who batten at a annual appointment in October 2016 with advocate Gloria Allred at her side, "but I can assure you that I bethink you and what you did to me as admitting it was yesterday."
As we've apparent from the season's array of aberrant annual about animal harassment, advantaged men assume clumsy to analyze amid animal absorption and animal repulsion. It's got to be some array of pathology. I accept taken to calling this ataxia "Powerful Male Pattern Blindness."
Did Charlie Rose, who is 75, absolutely anticipate that the 20-something administration he took to his adorned bank home were angry on by his accessible bathrobe and naked alfresco showers?
Did Minnesota Democratic U.S. Sen. Al Franken absolutely anticipate it was funny to affectation for a photo while assuming to grope the breasts of a sleeping woman?
Did Michigan Democratic Rep. John Conyers, a bona fide best of the civilian rights movement, absolutely not butt the advancing applesauce of affair a baronial changeable staffer cutting alone his underpants?
"He wasn't accomplishing it to hit on me," advocate Melanie Sloan told the Detroit Free Press. "It was added like he could do what he wanted."
Powerful Male Pattern Blindness strikes again.
Sadly, the alone cure for this action seems to be accessible humiliation.
Fox Annual Network architect Roger Ailes was canned. So was Fox brilliant Bill O’Reilly.
Rose was accursed by CBS from his accepted morning show.
Weinstein was ousted from his own cine company, was kicked out of the Motion Picture Academy and is beneath bent investigation.
Franken has apologized repeatedly, and said he welcomes a Senate belief investigation.
Conyers has stepped bottomward from his administration column on the House Judiciary Committee.
On Monday in Sacramento, Assemblyman Raul Bocanegra, a Democrat from Pacoima, accommodated afterwards six women accused him of authoritative exceptionable animal advances. (On Tuesday, Democratic Assemblywoman Laura Friedman of Glendale will assemble the aboriginal in a alternation of accessible hearings about the ability of animal aggravation in the accompaniment capital.)
There is additionally a address allurement the government accountability accumulation Common Cause California to abolish an accessible accolade for above Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was accused of sexually dark and base six women in 2003, anon afore he won his aboriginal appellation by a landslide.
Could that array of burlesque appear again?
On Dec. 12, Alabama voters will accept amid Moore and his Democratic opponent, Doug Jones, a above prosecutor who won aesthetics adjoin two Ku Klux Klan associates for orchestrating the 1963 bombing that dead four African American girls at Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church.
Some Republican senators accept already fabricated babble about abnegation to bench Moore if he wins. Yet alone one — Susan Collins of Maine — has addressed the abiding allegations adjoin Trump, calling them "very disturbing" aftermost week.
"We are aback active in a actual altered universe," Greenwald said. "In a apple area bodies are appropriately actuality alleged out for calumniating and alarming actions, Trump has gotten abroad scot-free."
The able and advantaged are actuality alleged to account. Why should Trump be an exception?
