Tag Archives: Pussygate

Not even with the room rates slashed by 50%. New York Magazine reports: Last weekend bankers and dignitaries from around the world descended on Washington for the annual World Bank–IMF meetings. But just a few days before the conference, rooms were not only still available at Trump International, they were heavily discounted. On October 2, a deluxe room, with a …

The New York Daily News reports: Donald Trump, exposed Wednesday as an alleged serial groper, once said he’d spotted his future girlfriend on an escalator — when she was only 10. The would-be sexist-in-chief made the stomach-turning joke in 1992 when “Entertainment Tonight” taped a Christmas special in Trump Tower. Trump, then 46, makes a brief appearance and asks a …

This was really something to watch. Via Mediaite: Today, Donald Trump‘s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway had a very, very intense interview with CNN’s Brianna Keilar. Repeatedly, Conway took aim at CNN and insisted to Keilar that the network doesn’t want to cover Hillary Clinton. Keilar stood up for her employer, calmly letting Conway know that CNN has covered Clinton throughout …

The New York Post reports: Billy Bush isn’t going without a fight. While NBC bids to ax him over a “morality clause” in his contract, he is blaming NBC for the leak of the tape to the Washington Post, and may even sue. It is believed someone at NBC News leaked the tape to make it public ahead of the …

For the high rollers for whom the Trump Gold Card was too pedestrian. Quartz reports: Facing a tough uphill battle in the last weeks before the election, Donald Trump, newly “unshackled” from his party’s leadership, is offering his voters a fresh way to help him get elected: A “limited edition” Trump Black Card, which does absolutely nothing but remind you …

Christianity Today‘s scathing pussygate editorial is making lots of news today. An excerpt: This past week, the latest (though surely not last) revelations from Trump’s past have caused many evangelical leaders to reconsider. This is heartening, but it comes awfully late. What Trump is, everyone has known and has been able to see for decades, let alone the last few …

Buzzfeed reports: Four women who competed in the 1997 Miss Teen USA beauty pageant said Donald Trump walked into the dressing room while contestants — some as young as 15 — were changing. “I remember putting on my dress really quick because I was like, ‘Oh my god, there’s a man in here,’” said Mariah Billado, the former Miss Vermont …

Politico reports: Nebraska Sen. Deb Fischer on Tuesday reversed her call for Donald Trump to resign from the GOP ticket, telling a local radio station that it’s “not a tough choice” to back him just three days after she urged him to quit. “I plan to vote for Mr. Trump and Mr. Pence on November 8,” she said on Nebraska’s …

The Hill reports: Former Speaker of the House John Boehner says that despite numerous problems with the Republican presidential nominee, he is committed to vote for Donald Trump in November. “He is not a conservative. He is barely a Republican,” Boehner said in an interview with Vice News that was previewed Tuesday night. “But his ideas, when you can get …

Via press release from hate group leader Tony Perkins: In the race to recapture the White House, Donald Trump’s biggest obstacle has never been Hillary Clinton. It’s been himself. Saddled with baggage from years of crass comments, Trump has been his own worst enemy. Those self-inflicted wounds continued last week, when footage surfaced from 2005 of the GOP nominee making …

Yet another nod to the alt-right, for whom “beta male” is the second-favorite insult after “cuck.” The Colorado Gazette reports: Eric Trump, the presidential candidate’s 32-year-old son, came to Colorado Monday to talk business and energize volunteers, but he was armed and ready to defend his father’s personal reputation. He blamed Hillary Clinton’s campaign for releasing a 2005 “Access Hollywood” …

CNN reports: Ben Carson said Tuesday “of course” he’s heard similar language from other people along the lines of the recently surfaced lewd and sexually aggressive comments from Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. “I’ve heard people talking like that. Of course. Are you kidding me?” the former Republican presidential candidate told CNN’s Brianna Keilar. “As I was growing up, people …

Fired, pushed, or jumped? Business Insider reports: Billy Bush is leaving NBC after his involvement in a vulgar tape with Donald Trump that leaked Friday, CNN’s Brian Stelter is reporting. Bush has served as a cohost on NBC’s “Today” show in the 9 a.m. hour. Previously, he was the co-host of syndicated entertainment news show, “Access Hollywood.” Bush is featured …

So this just happened: CNN host Carol Costello seemed to have had enough of Donald Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson, cutting an interview short on Tuesday when Costello saw the interview was “going nowhere.” Pierson was trying to pivot the conversation with Costello and Angela Rye, former executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus, to Hillary Clinton’s record on Syria and …

Via Politico: Donald Trump celebrated his freedom from the Republican establishment Tuesday, boasting that it’s “so nice” to be unchained. Trump’s tweet was a tacit attack on House Speaker Paul Ryan, whom the Republican nominee has continued to lash out at since the top elected Republican on Monday told his conference he would no longer defend Trump. “It is so …

From Glenn Beck’s Facebook page: Every person, each of us must decide what is a bridge too far. Mike Lee has obviously reached that point, where the moral compromise his party is asking him to make is simply beyond what is acceptable. It is not acceptable to ask a moral, dignified man to cast his vote to help elect an …

Via Breitbart: Monday on Fox News Channel’s “The Kelly File,” former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR) weighed in some in the Republican Party’s reluctance to get behind party nominee Donald Trump’s presidential bid. The former Arkansas governor summed it up as those in his party being fearful of Trump threatening to “mess up the neat little package of fun.” “Let me …

TIME Magazine recaps: Seth Meyers slammed Donald Trump as a “pervert” and picked apart the 2005 tape in which the real estate mogul can be heard making lewd comments about women on a bus with Billy Bush. The Late Show host on Monday night criticized Trump, who has been embroiled in controversy since late last week when the vulgar conversation …

This morning Donald Trump tweeted the above message and as per usual it’s completely false: Hillary Clinton won the second debate and leads Donald Trump by five points in a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll that also shows voters perceive the Republican Party bitterly divided four weeks before Election Day. Clinton leads Trump in the four-way race for the presidency among …

Politico reports: There will be no Texas two-step on Ted Cruz’s much-belated decision to endorse Donald Trump. The Texas senator told a local TV station in Muleshoe, Texas, on Monday that despite lewd video showing Trump joking of unwanted sexual advances on women he would still back Trump over Hillary Clinton. “I am supporting the Republican nominee because I think …