Trump dismisses GOP calls to quit race: ‘Never’
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump made a series of lewd and sexually charged comments about women as he waited to make a cameo appearance on a soap opera in 2005. The Republican presidential nominee issued a rare apology Friday, “if anyone was offended.”
NEW YORK >> A defiant Donald Trump insisted Saturday he would “never” abandon his White House bid, facing an intensifying backlash from Republican leaders across the nation who called on him to quit the race following the release of his vulgar and sexually charged comments caught on tape.
With Republicans from Utah to Alabama to New Hampshire turning their back on their nominee, GOP loyalists like House Speaker Paul Ryan refused to give up on Trump, who has long faced criticism from within his own party, but never to this degree. Frustration turned to panic across the GOP with early voting already underway in some states and Election Day one month away.
“As disappointed as I’ve been with his antics throughout this campaign, I thought supporting the nominee was the best thing for our country and our party,” Alabama Rep. Martha Roby said in a statement. “Now, it is abundantly clear that the best thing for our country and our party is for Trump to step aside and allow a responsible, respectable Republican to lead the ticket.”
Trump declared he would not yield the GOP nomination under any circumstances. “Zero chance I’ll quit,” he told The Wall Street Journal. He told The Washington Post: “I’d never withdraw. I’ve never withdrawn in my life.” He claimed to have “tremendous support.”
In a videotaped midnight apology, Trump declared “I was wrong and I apologize” after being caught on tape bragging about aggressively groping women in 2005. He also defiantly dismissed the revelations as “nothing more than a distraction” from a decade ago and signaled he would press his presidential campaign by arguing that rival Hillary Clinton has committed greater sins against women.
“I’ve said some foolish things,” Trump said in a video posted on his Facebook page early Saturday. “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.”
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Trump addressed what was arguably the most difficult day of his candidacy on Twitter later in the morning: “Certainly has been an interesting 24 hours!”
The latest explosive revelation marked a tipping point for some party loyalists, while forcing vulnerable Republican candidates to answer a painful question: Even if they condemn Trump’s vulgar comments, will they still vote for him?
New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte answered the question with a loud No on Saturday, reversing her previous position that she would vote for Trump even though she declined to endorse him.
“I’m a mom and an American first, and I cannot and will not support a candidate for president who brags about degrading and assaulting women,” Ayotte said. “I will not be voting for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton and instead will be writing in Gov. Pence for president on Election Day.”
The release of the videotape almost completely overshadowed the release of hacked emails from inside the Hillary Clinton campaign that revealed the contents of some of her previously secret paid speeches to Wall Street.
The Democratic nominee told bankers behind closed doors that she favored “open trade and open borders” and said Wall Street executives were best-positioned to help overhaul the U.S. financial sector. Such comments were distinctively at odds with her tough talk about trade and Wall Street during the primary campaign, when she catered to the party’s left under pressure from rival Bernie Sanders.
Republican strategist Terry Sullivan, who previously led Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign, predicted Trump’s defeat. “It’s over,” he said. “The only good news is that in 30 days Trump will be back to being just a former reality TV star like the Kardashians, and Republican candidates across America will no longer be asked to respond to his stupid remarks.”
Some Trump loyalists defiantly defended their nominee.
“I still have my Trump sign on my yard and everybody on my street does too,” said Pennsylvania GOP chairman Rob Gleason. “It’s business as usual, with door-knocking today.”
He went on: “I don’t agree with what was said — it’s not a good thing to be saying.” But he added: “campaigns are filled with lots of ups and downs.”
One by one, outraged GOP lawmakers have condemned Trump’s comments in a 2005 video obtained and released Friday by The Washington Post and NBC News. In the video, Trump is heard describing attempts to have sex with a married woman. He also brags about women letting him kiss and grab them because he is famous.
“When you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything,” Trump says in the previously unaired comments. He adds seconds later: “Grab them by the p——. You can do anything.”
House Speaker Ryan said Friday was “sickened” by Trump’s remarks. Ryan revoked an invitation for Trump to appear at a GOP event Saturday in Wisconsin. But Ryan did not pull his endorsement.
Republican Sen. Mike Crapo of Idaho did, however.
“This is not a decision that I have reached lightly, but his pattern of behavior left me no choice,” the Republican senator said in a statement.
Meanwhile, Ryan fundraising chief Spencer Zwick said he’s been fielding calls from donors who “want help putting money together to fund a new person to be the GOP nominee.”
Zwick told The Associated Press that a write-in or “sticker campaign” relying on social media could “actually work.”
While there has never been a winning write-in campaign in a U.S. presidential contest, such an effort could make it harder for Trump to win. Zwick did not identify which “new person” might be the focus of a write-in campaign, although he was briefly supportive of a third run for Mitt Romney, the 2012 nominee, last year.
While funding another candidate could siphon votes away from Trump, the GOP’s biggest donors have little leverage even if they threaten to withhold money for the rest of the campaign. Trump’s campaign has relied far more on small contributors across the country than from the party’s stalwart donors who write the biggest checks possible.
Utah Sen. Mike Lee, like Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz, said Trump had finally gone too far.
“You, sir, are the distraction,” Lee said in a video posted to his Facebook page after Trump’s apology.
Lee called on Trump to abandon his campaign, saying it was time for the Republican Party to “expect more. There is no need for us to settle.”
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He should stay in the race. With a month before the election, HRC is a shoo-in, especially if more Trump scandals arise.
Tomorrow’s debate will be fun.
There is much more to come out on Trump’s odd financial relations with Russian organized crime. Much more. Trump is a shibai artist of the first order and got a year-long free ride by the media here who loved his entertaining remarks and funny qualities.
Crooked Hilliary should quit the race. She has rocked Democracy to its core.
Why should Hillary quit? It is the Donald who keeps putting his foot in his mouth.
Hillary should quit? Another stupid remark that only an uneducated person could make, I mean a Trump supporter.
I think they should both quit and we should do without a President this time round.
Lespark you know nothing about democracy or choose to ignore it. Defending the indefensible, makes you just as corrupt
This is yet more evidence of the internal rot that has seized the GOP for the last decade: so anxious are these political eunuchs to fall on their swords and concede the election to Crooked Hillary, lest they be called unpleasant names, that they willingly overlook the serial rapist/sex predator whose nominal ‘wife’ not only approved of him indulging his promiscuity but enabled these degenerate behaviors by attacking the women who had been victimized by him.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2016/10/08/hillary-clinton-for-president/FskxtCff9ErrN3TW4OJb6O/story.html
Guess you’re ok with Trump groping any of your lady friends (or your wife or daughter if you have one) in the “p….y” because he feels he can. Or telling them they’re ugly like fat pigs or they bleed from all their orifices. Really, people like you prove Clinton’s assertion that most of Trump supporters are “deplorables” absolutely correct.
lesspark, “CAN’T FIX STUUUPID” Agree?
Where are the comments from Trump’s wife and daughter backing up their man? Maybe they want to be grabbed to.
All this is going to plan beyond Trump’s wildest dreams since the whole purpose of his candidacy from the beginning was to take down the entire GOP party from the top down. Beware of wolves in sheep’s clothing since by the time you realized the price was too high for selling your soul to the devil, it’s way too late to do anything about it.
I frankly thought the Donald was a democratic plant designed to destroy the republican party from within. lol
Mission accomplished I think.
I don’t think it’s a Democratic plant, they wouldn’t stoop that low. Really low.
Probably right Amela but if they did, it would have been a home run. Sadly, the republicans have only themselves to blame for abandoning republican values. When will they start being fiscally responsible again?
He’s thinking, “I’m not quitting and I’m taking the entire Republican party down with me!” It would be funny if he wasn’t so pathetic.
I think you are exactly right. Trump’s mentality is … ‘If I can’t win then no one wins. If I go down then everyone down.’
Too late to remove his name from the ballots.
Remove his name from the ball lots.
Keep his name on the ballots. Just remove his balls. The apha male is much more calm when castrated.
If Trump is smart he will put his behavior into context. He was a show-biz celebrity attending a show-biz event, and he was engaging in show-biz trash talk. He would never behave in such a way in business or politics.
Yes, but he’s not smart. So that teleprompter “apology” is all we’ll get from this “genius.”
FIRE TRUMP, he is a disgrace and a phony.
Racist comments? Nah, we’re good.
A veep who calls for open discimination against LGBT people? We’re cool with it.
Candidate retweets white power memes 75 times? Meh.
Delegates chanting “Lock her up!” and wearing “Hillary sucks” and “Trump that B@!$#%” shirts? Hey, it’s just the free market dude.
Multiple legal cases for fraud and rape? Yeah, but emails. Emails!
Ripping off veterans and insulting POWs? No biggie.
Great observations. He has drawn the lowest scum of the earth up out of the shadows and into the open by giving them a voice. Just read the comments here. People are actually proud of his overt racism. He has destroyed the Republican Party.
Funny how the Trump headlines moves to the top of the SA Top News, and the Hilary wikileaks about her private speeches to Wall Street, discretely fades off the page. Here’s the choice, a crude talking businessman or a behind the scenes conniving plotter.
Senator McCain has just come out against Trump. The Party wants him out. It may to too late for that as they played ball with Trump for far too long. Shame on all Republicans for burying their heads in the sand hoping to win. Trump is done. He played evangelicals and conservatives for fools. He had a great laugh but he is finished. Djou wants to denounce Trump although no one cares.
IRT ShawnChun, Mr. Trump is staying in the Presidential race and will win the White House. He did say some very bad things and there may be more old records of him saying other bad things some five to ten years ago. He has changed, and his naming all the Conservative Originalists that he will nominate to the Federal Court is reason enough for us to vote for he and Mr. Pence. The impact of Mr. Trumps nomination will impact America for the next 50 years, and there is no challenge to the impact. We will not even post Ms Hillary’s scandals and reasons why America does not trust her. Interesting that this Presidential election is voting for who is less liked, which is Mr. Trump.
You are delusional. Totally delusional. He has no path to an electoral college victory. None.
If you are so sure, promise when loses to never post another comment….
“When the going gets tough, the tough get going”
He said he’s getting more support than ever, who’s delusional? And you want someone like that to lead this country. The country could be sinking into the oceans and he would still say everything is looking up. LSD.
IRT Amela, the Trump/Pence campaign and the GOP are raising more contributions than ever, following the attack on Mr. Trump. Try figga. Seems the more the Establishment GOP and liberal media go against Mr. Trump, he gains more support. Maybe America has woke up and will not let the RINO’s and liberal media control this Presidential election. What do you think?
When the going get rough………the rough run away.
“There is no problem sooooooo big you can not run away from” a quote from Linus of Peanuts.
Until you self righteous liberals hold the Clinton’s to their lewd and abusive behavior against women for the past 26 years your opinion and hypocrisy doesn’t matter.
and everybody’s “cool” with stained dresses in the oval office. But don’t SAY bad things.
soundofreason,you CAN’T FIX STUPIDM
Stewpid,
And there’s a lot of that running around. Gotta love subsidies.
@soundof, who was “cool” w/what B Clinton did? He got impeached, didn’t he?
Stop blaming liberal Democrats, the “liberal media,” liberal beauty pageant winners, liberal chipmunks, etc. And stop blaming the “president from Kenya!”
Your hero is such an azzwipe that Republican leaders are telling him to quit (READ THE ARTICLE). Maybe they are liberal Republicans? Yeah, that’s the ticket….
Banana’s are $1.49 at the super market. Brain food!
As used in your statement, it should be “bananas”, not “banana’s”. Brain food, indeed.
You maroon! People who use apostrophes incorrectly are maroon’s! Hahahahaaa!!!
Again, what lewd and abusive behavior against women are you talking about? Please be specific. And keep in mind consenting behavior is rarely abusive.
Wazdat can you state the facts instead of making things up like you candidate. Did Hillary beat them up? What are you talking about, facts please.
Wazdat, stop deflecting from Trump to Hillary and Bill. Standard operating procedure of the Trump campaign surrogates. Deflect, distract ad nauseum
Give me a fricken brake. Clintons Corruption is so bad you democr@ps are in Denial !
Too bad for you that she’s going to be the President. Probably for eight years.
At least you’ll have something to whine about.
Wazat, here’s good advice for you: Stop being under-educated. Learn how to read the news. Don’t just seek out weird news sources that support your pre-assumptions. In other words, be media savvy.
Then the Trumpster won’t be able to fool you again. Say NO to Trump!!!
Yeah, you said this on SA’s FB page too. But what do you think of GOP leaders leaving Trump/saying he should quit. They’re hardly “self righteous liberals.” So what’s yr view on them? Seriously; not snark.
Jason Chaffetz, Utah representative: “I’m pulling my endorsement. I cannot support in any way, shape or form the comments or approach Donald Trump has taken.” This summer, after some public struggle, Chaffetz said he would support the nominee.
Bradley Byrne, Alabama representative: “It is now clear Donald Trump is not fit to be president of the United States and cannot defeat Hillary Clinton. I believe he should step aside.”
Gary Herbert, Utah governor: “Donald Trump’s statements are beyond offensive & despicable. While I cannot vote for Hillary Clinton, I will not vote for Trump.”
Washington Post: “People focused Friday on House Speaker Paul D. Ryan’s pronouncement that Donald Trump’s 2005 taped sexually predatory conversation was “sickening,” but anyone interested in the health of the Republican Party should focus on the next part of Mr. Ryan’s statement. The sentence that counts — the statement that reveals the amoral, abject corruption that was and apparently remains at the heart of the Republican Party in this sad season — was this: “I hope Mr. Trump treats this situation with the seriousness it deserves and works to demonstrate to the country that he has greater respect for women than this clip suggests.””
trump was probably influenced by the success inouye had reaching for the prize at barber shops.
Mr. Trump is a sniveling coward who manufactured a foot ailment (that he can not recall now) to avoid the draft. On the other hand, Senator Inouye showed incredible bravery at war.
You should not mention the two men together. Trump is a coward who is now boasting about sending other people’s children to war. He’s a pathetic loser.
Don’t hold back.
Tell us how you really feel. LOL.
Tommorrow nights debate will be called TRUMP UNHINGED. He will be using the P and C word on Hillary. CAN’T FIX STUUUPID. MAKE AMERICA GRAPES AGAIN.
With Hillary say good bye to America. It was better 15 years ago, the last five was some thing else.
lol, FortunatelyHillary is going to be our next president. She may not be perfect but frankly no one is. She should do a decent job as president. At least she won’t be following the republican mantra that Deficits don’t matter.
15 years ago, America had just suffered its worse attack since WWII. We had a new president who was determined to convert the economy to Voodoo. We were hardly better, in fact weren’t we in another recession 15 years ago?
where’s the Republican’s call for Hillary to quit her Presidential race on the grounds of all the lies she spewed? You can see the Rep.’s still are looking to unseat TheDonald thereby having Pence be the Presidential candidate! These Rep.’s not standing behind TheDonald don’t understand what they are really doing to let Hillary win. That’s the bottom line! The Old Rep. Guards are FOOLS!
Hmmmn, perhaps readings over and above Mad Magazine and Fox News propaganda is warranted? Specific case in point, Jason Chaffetz US Rep. of Utah and Kelly Ayotte, US Senator of NH, are “new guard” , not old. They both represent the new face and leadership of the Republican Party. Both summarily dumped him in the last 24 hours.
Further, I find it rather contradictory, as his closest advisors are Chris Christie, Rudy Giuliani and Roger Ailes. They are in fact, one of the only folks currently still advising him who can still withstand the extreme stench in the room. Perhaps, because their own stench is just as strong as Trumps. And btw, they are ALL old guards. Sir, run to community college and try finish your AA degree……
I appreciate that you now keep your unimaginative comments to 500 words or less. You are a bigot much like two faced four flushed Crooked Hilliary. She doesn’t care how smart you are, what color your skin as long as you vote for her.
Hahahahaha,stupid,stopid,stewpid.
What’s telling Les, aside from you entirely elementary writing style (and that is being very generous), is that you never confront or refute that substance and thrust of my original post.
Why, can’t you respond?? Well, first, limited cognitive ability. Second, a minimal if any, knowledge of contemporary politics. Third, your an ideologue. Fourth, and more to the point, I am exactly correct.
She is also a graduate of of Elihu, so I’m with her….
Les the problem is that this is not the end of it. Ben Carson said on TV last night that more is coming. The Dems had all this stuff in their back pocket all along and now they are dripping it out week by week. The media has been waiting for the opportunity to take Chump down because of he has basically belittled the press through the primaries so they are eating this stuff up, pay back is a …. So look, no one expects Chump to quit, being a quitter is much worse than losing an election in his book. He will go out claiming the election in rigged and his legions of followers will believe him and follow him to Trump TV or what ever media operation he starts which was the whole purpose of his candidacy in the first place.
Ailes the sex predator, Giuliani mental breakdown and Christie along for the free food. What a supporting cast. I think his campaign team seems like they’re enjoying this. I wonder if he did the same things to get Melania?
The people around Trump are truly awful. They are almost ghoulish.
Take it easy, liberals, don’t count your justices before they’re sitting. There’s a massive base of voters totally disgusted with BOTH candidates, and having one of them sink lower than the other, to the point where the other appears to be a shoo in, just may drive a real shift toward a third party rally. Forget the polls, they haven’t been relevant for awhile, and don’t count on an inflamed media with victory guarantees either, as fewer people than ever believe they’re reading the truth. Let’s wait till November, our last chance for actual recovery still remains a slim one, but fresh air is fanning it’s embers..
Why don’t you align that with statement polling data that will occur in the next 48-72 hours? Prior to the epic debacle of yesterday, HRC was firmly, 5-6 points ahead nationally (see 538 as of yesterday). Numbers are numbers are numbers. Unless you can substantiate this and create an emperical nexus to the numbers, sorry, that is just political platitude……
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/20/opinion/stop-the-polling-insanity.html?_r=0. Political platitude? More like “empirical” reality. For those absorbed with poll fluctuations, they indeed provide a “fix” offering satisfaction and prompting ascebic commentary, yet when contrasted with actual numbers, hardly measuring up to a meaningful representation. Perhaps their predictions will materialize, but relatively miniscule samplings heralded by pundits as proof of their posturings are not the definitive end of the conversation.
Many of those Republican defections are strategic rather than sincere, of course. If the news had broken when Trump was 5 or 6 percentage points ahead of Clinton instead of 5 or 6 points behind her, we probably wouldn’t see quite so coordinated and forceful a reaction. But the timing of this is just about as bad as possible for Trump. Even before the “hot mic” tape, there were reports that GOP elected officials might abandon Trump if he had a poor second debate. That makes sense, given that the Senate is still close to a toss-up and hasn’t made a definitive break in either direction. With one month left until the election, there’s perhaps just enough time for vulnerable Republican candidates to convince themselves that they’re better off abandoning Trump than sticking by him.
Furthermore, the story comes in advance of the second presidential debate on Sunday and is likely to color both the substance of the debate and the reaction to it. And especially given that Trump had reportedly done little debate prep to begin with, it could lead to him going into the event off-balance. Maybe the debate will turn out OK for Trump. He’s certainly done a good job of — and I throw up a little bit in my mouth every time I use this phrase — lowering expectations. But given his perilous position in the polls, an OK debate wouldn’t be enough for Trump. He needs at least a good debate, and maybe a very good debate, since it represents one of his last and best opportunities to turn the race around.
Now for the uncertainty part. As I said above, “this will probably hurt Trump” is a much better prior than “we don’t know what effect this will have.” But for now, I’m only willing to make a prediction about the direction (bad for Trump) — we’ll wait for the polls to measure the magnitude.
Perhaps the most relevant piece of context, however, is that Trump was extremely unpopular to begin with. In our national polling average, he’s varied between having 36 percent of the vote and 41 percent and was at about 40 percent heading into the weekend. That’s awfully low for our modern, highly partisan era, in which all major-party nominees since 2000 have received at least 46 percent of the vote.
Mark my words, and quote me later this week, within the next 72 hours, HRC will open up a double digit lead in national polls.
As long as you offer no objections to my assertion that polls have dwindled in significance to the point of approaching irrelevance, then we have no argument. Other than a relatively minor amount of respondents, polls have lessened dramatically as an accurate reflection of the voter’s will, made even more so by the absurdities surrounding this cycle. Trump? Why harp on his shortcomings? They’re obvious enough. Are there in fact undecided voters still watching? Unquestionably. Will Trump’s demise push them towards Johnson? Certainly possibly, especially if their hesitation is mired in the justifiable dislike of both frontrunners. Am I predicting anything other than a surge in Johnson’s numbers? Absolutely not, but again, as of late, “numbers” only provide conversational stimuli.
And as an added muse, is it not barely feasible, in light of the ever increasing foul taste permeating this campaign, that a Paul Ryan, or another of reasonable merit, might find themselves suddenly carrying the GOP banner? The immense sense of relief alone would likely propel them into the White House. You’re certainly not one to begrudge a dreamer his dreams, are you?
Oh, please dream away. Just note, by the night stand is a clock radio for the eventual wake up call.
Oh I’m wide awake. What you’ve got to worry about is that the alarm doesn’t go off before the election. Tic tok, tic tok..
Hmmmn, I’m a changed man? That is a rather curious statement. What the record clearly demonstrates, whether it was 10 years ago or 10 days ago (see A. Machado), is that at his very very best he is boorish, vulgar and sophmorically adolescent, and at his worse, he is chronically unprepared, inexplicably temperamental to the point of being a mere child, and demonstrates traits more aligned with a pathological sexual predator.
Well, he did change into a man who reads off a teleprompter. But it wasn’t his travels that changed him; it was sinking poll numbers. Look for more change coming soon!
Change I don’t think so. He is what he is there’s no hiding that. I want to know the names of the Republicans who are still endorsing him so I don’t visit their states.
Trump has become a disaster for the conservative cause in America. Now the floodgates to the destruction of America through immigration from inferior cultures will be opened, and we will become just like the inferior countries from which they flee.
Trump’s not a REAL Conservative. Why you tink so many OLD Rep. Guards were against him during the primaries? Rep.’s were afraid of what’s happening today, if Trump wins the Old Party is gone but I feel rightfully so. You cannot WIN being PC any longer, you have to tell it like it is as the many adversaries there are against the GOP
And the Clinton’s and Obama has become a disaster to all of the USA
Are you KKK?
Sadly conservatives have only themselves to thank. When they took over in 2001 they threw out republican values for Voodoo economics. How dumb was that? For 40 years I listened to them preach how important it is to have a balanced budgets and then over night, deficits don’t matter.
IRT Peter (Boots), yes America elected a RINO in 2000 and over time I learned that even if Mr. McCain had won, he is another RINO that would create the same economic situation for all of us. Today, we have a hard core businessman with rough edges that concern the RINO’s and establishment republicans and democrats, for they will lose their hold on Washington D.C. It’s the opponent that is critical in 2016, Ms Hillary v Mr. Trump for who will nominate Conservative Originalists to the Federal Courts. With less than 30 days to go, only Mr. Trump has made the commitment to nominate Conservative judges. That decision alone keeps most Republicans home and excited to vote for they do have an opportunity to have a say on abortion, rebuilding our military, reversing same-sex marriage, controlling of illegal immigration, controlling of ISIS, balancing the Federal budget, reducing America’s debt, balancing America’s trade, and providing incentives to rebuild our infrastructure. For certain, Ms Hillary following Hawaii born President Obama will provide the same failing economy and World Peace.
You are in failing mental health. By Monday, there will be over 50 prominent Rs rescinding their endorsement of Trump. Further, there is a good chance Pence will leave the ticket…..
I have not seen one R pundit, yes R, that says he can still win. When your belief in the unreal becomes fantacial and against facts, you you know crouch closer to a psychotic break….
IRT Ike, no ptsd is not in my military medical records, but is normal. My sight is fine also, with the “50” RINO’s pulling their unwanted endorsements. Mr. Pence has no intension to leave the ticket. “R” pundit(s), who is or are they? The “R” pundit’s all support Mr. Trump and as you must have seen at the Trump Tower, know Mr. Trump will win the electoral votes and become the next President of the United States. Ike, you can begin to take your psychotic rest for the next eight years.
Is that so, why is the RNC, at this very moment looking for his ousted–see:http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/republicans-replace-trump-229352
Allaha didn’t you learn from the debate? Looks like you’re going through a second meltdown. When are going to realize that being a Chump supporter is not good for your health.
Well, if Trump becomes President, buy the stock that makes Tic Tacs.
If by some miracle he wins, he’ll be popping even more TicTacs. If he kisses and gropes every hot woman when he’s a reality TV star, imagine what he’d do as POTUS. He’ll be a TicTac-popping, Putin-admiring, Mexican-deporting, wall-building, finger-wagging, orange haired, kissing/groping maniac!
“Changed man.” Yeah, right!
If you’re female and want to work for him in the WH you need to wear tighter and shorter skirts to get interviewed. Them do other things to secure the job for him and Ailes.
Imagine Hillary winning the Presidency and Bill having free reign of the White House.
Watch out INTERNS!
I like Mitt; reminds me of Reagan.
too bad Mitt lost. hahahahaha
Replace Trump and Pence with Romney and Rubio and I will vote Republican.
Don’t like him but i must admit this guy is a fighter till the end.
Fighter like Ikaika.
Trump still gets my vote.
Melanie = HAWT!!!!
Of course you’ll vote for him. You’re his type.
It seems that alot of Americans are his type, why else would he be the nominee, lots of like minded voters. This recordings only confirm his heroic place in their minds.
He’s just a man…flesh and blood. Plus, I want Melanie to become the hottest First Lady ever!
Hawaii, we have to come out for Trump. Our 4 votes will make the difference. Crooked Hilliary has made a mockery of democracy. Her cover ups are unrivaled.
lespark, I would rather write in Mitt Romney’s name on the election ballot, than vote for evil Trump. Your idol’s day’s are numbered and you desperately know it.
We?
No way in hell.
Right, your “4 votes.” I’ll stop by and say hi to you and the other 3 Trump supporters. LOLOL, 4 VOTES FOR TRUMP!!!
CAN’T FIX STUUPID!
Yea we know, you keep repeating yourself. Is that being stupid?
Obviously..
Funny how this “uncovered” video is causing such a stir. No one should be surprised at what’s being said in the video. We’ve all known he’s a womanizer who talks crudely all the time.
But since people apparently have been slow to realize what an azz this Trump guy is, it’s good that the video came out at this time. Another month before Donald can go back to reality TV. I bet he can hardly wait!
I’m sure a ton of other stuff is going to come out soon. This will give strength to those who were afraid to speak out about this joker.
Yeah, I bet a lot of serious Republicans are glad this came out, so they can stop supporting Trump for political reasons. Any self-respecting, non-racist, non-misogynist GOP is now free to dump Trump. Just Paul Ryan and Mike Pence have to handle this cautiously due to their respective positions.
So a responsible, respectable Republican should be chosen instead of the Donald? Now who would that be? Face it republicans no longer have anyone who is responsible or respectable. Pence has shown himself to be a liar. Bring back fabulous Ted? Sad to say the republicans have brought this on themselves by abandoning republican values and fully endorsing Voodoo. A pity. I am sure Eisenhower is spinning in his grave.
Trump either gave Paul Ryan a whole lot of money or major promise to support him!
But I am a Republican and we are supposed to stand for some kind of moral standard. We are the party of Dwight Eisenhower, who never had the slightest moral stain on his character. We’re the party of Reagan, whose charisma was based on his basic dignity. We’re the party of George W. Bush, who made terrible mistakes, but whose fundamental morality was never in doubt. He is a handsome man and was much sought after by women, but never even returned the gaze of flirting women. He was no prude, but he was dignified.
Now comes Donald Trump. He talked on a hot mike about the most lewd acts imaginable on women he had just met or maybe did not even know. He talked on a hot mike about grabbing women by their genitals and getting away with it because he was rich and famous.
He now says that Bill Clinton has said much the same and worse. So what? I wouldn’t want Bill Clinton to be leading the Republican Party either. I want someone clean, after eight years of Barack Obama mess and lies and deceit. I don’t want someone who talks like a dirty-minded eighth grader leading the greatest party on earth.
I disagreed with Trump on trade and taxes and Hispanics. But I stood up for him on TV and in print because he was a force for change and washing out the slop-filled stables of DC and because he was not afraid to be non-PC.
But this is too much. I do not claim to be a better person than he is. I’m not at all. But I’m not fit to be President either.
The hour is desperately late. At this rate, Mr. Trump is leading my party to catastrophe….
So, who wrote this? Libs? Radical democrats? Even independents? Nope, nope and nope. This is from Ben Stein ( the Harvard Law educated lawyer/actor from Ferris Bueller) and the very conservative American Spectator……e hui hou Republican Party for the next 40 years.
Saying Bill was worse? See how this man can just make up things on the run and can never be accountable for anything except Pence’s debate taking credit for that. What a winner.
Juanita Broaddrick – accused Clinton of rape.
Kathleen Willey- accused Clinton of groping her without consent.
Paula Jones – accuses Clinton of exposing himself and sexually harassing her.
Women have admitted to adulterous affairs with Bill Clinton.
Dolly Kyle, Gennifer Flowers, Monica Lewinsky(Famed Blue Dress-Causing Impeachment of Bill Clinton.)
Trump made nasty – uncalled for comments. He was wrong to say those things. He did NOT carry those comments to fruition.
Billy, however made his ‘thoughts’ come true……..
Why are you lying like this? The facts are all in the public record.
Mr. Trump abandoned his first wife and his children following serial adultery with strangers that he bragged about in public. He described sexual assault that he committed in graphic terms on audio tape in his own words.
Then he left his second wife after serial adultery. Now he’s on wife #3, and the tape just released has him describing an attempt at adultery with yet another stranger shortly after he married Mrs. Trump # 3.
Lying about him isn’t going to help him at this point. He’s finished. No chance whatever of recovery. Zero.
Wrong. He has dozens of documented incidents where he moved past words. Wait, in the coming weeks, as it is all released.
But Bill isn’t running for President. We should be addressing Hillary instead of Bill, but then we’d be ignoring Trumps misdeeds.
Don’t forget he raped as 13 year old girl, as did his pedophile pal Jeffrey Epstein. Status conference on December 16. http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/federal-judge-orders-hearing-in-donald-trump-rape-lawsuit-case/
Don’t forget Honest Abe Lincoln.
If Arnold is not supporting Trump, good enough for me……lol.
Now Hillary is a shoe-in for sure.
don’t quit, just because you were having men talk about a woman’s anatomy and it was taped, men and women talk about a lot of that stuff when there hanging around together, some men say I would like to grab her you know what, women talk is my boyfriend has a bigger one than yours or say man I would like to grab that mans you know what, years ago a lot of that was in public on talk shows on t.v. heck joan rivers was really funny talking about the same thing that people are saying, just because trump is running for president these news media, men and women make a big deal out of nothing, those are what you call hypocrites, so everyone is making a big deal out nothing.
Those people aren’t running for President of the United States. They are not representing the United States on the world stage. They are not meeting with heads of state concerning international situations.
Trump has embarrassed the United States on an international level. That is just one of his fatal errors.
It’s almost like people don’t realize the difference between “normal, everyday” people and The President of The United States. Sort of like how kids say to their parents, “yeah but you do it so why can’t we?”, but it is happening on both sides, Republican and Democrat.
Your brain is smaller than a pea just like the Chump.
Trump isn’t man enough to quit. His ego is too huge.
And now his Howard Stern interviews are out. I just read some of it and I’m actually feeling ill. What is wrong with this guy?
GOP leaders are requesting the Donald to quit! If he does, will it be possible to replace him with one of their own? One of whom has all his/her marbles intact? Although, it doesn’t make sense for all this uproar for things done and said more than a decade ago. Judge him for what he said and done at the present time. Out of the pool of GOP leaders, who would make a better candidate than Trump?
I don’t get why Trump has to even think about quitting now that this recording has come out, has he changed his view on women with this recording? Why are people on both sides calling for his removal from candidacy, is what he said on the recording that much of a surprise? He hasn’t really been hiding his views of women throughout his campaign and prior to his campaign. I just find it odd that republicans were willing to support him even though they didn’t agree with his views until now. It just goes to showing that as soon as their interest are in jeopardy people will bail on you.
They were OK with his overt racism and xenophobia; his courting white supremacists and imbeciles; OK with Mr. Pence’s homophobia. The problem with this one is that more than 50% of the electorate are women. He can’t win.
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Make America Great Again!!!!
Not this time. It’s over for Mr. Trump. His poll numbers have collapsed entirely.
No one believes in poll numbers.
Let’s see what the final tally is on November 8.
“No one believes in poll numbers?”
Actually, the ignorant don’t believe in poll numbers. Polling is a science. It actually works.
You really need to learn something. Anything would probably help at this point.
As an observer I would say that polls don’t matter if they don’t support your point of view, democrats say that polls don’t matter when they show Trump ahead but point to poll numbers that support Trumps numbers are falling.
Haha! Trump believes in polls, if they’re from the National Enquirer and are in his favor.
National Enquirer – LOLOLOL!!!
jusris – What Democrats, exactly, say that polls don’t matter? Who, specifically, and when?
Democrats and generally educated people who know better.
Gross! Don’t use a Gandhi quote for Trump!!! Never Trump!!!
1. Pence must have been blind to accept being Dishonest Donald’s VP. 2. The world might very well see Trump foaming at the mouth during Sunday night’s debate, he is LOSING TO A WOMAN. 3. There will be more tapes and videos released with Dishonest Donald discussing females of all ages, sizes, and sexual appearance. 4. How could all of this stuff surrounding Dishonest Donald not have been vetted 1 year ago?
If it never occurred to Trump that his prior controversial business practices and negative remarks toward minorities and women wouldn’t come back to haunt him it has come back with a vengeance during the height of this campaign.
Oh where oh where has our little sarge gone. Oh where oh where can he be.
Out and about, groping in the dark, lespark is ready to join him.
They like each other’s company. They play tea and tell tall tales….
How can hair grow on his hard head?
It’s not growing, it’s been dead for 20+ years as there’s no nutrients up there to sustain it. He just spray paints it to hold it in place. Just like his supporters, all brain dead and are like zombies feeding off each others hatred for the world.
Ayotte said. “I will not be voting for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton and instead will be writing in Gov. Pence for president on Election Day.”
I urge all Republicans to do the same. This should seal the deal for Clinton.
check out barry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKYmiWiNqOw&feature=youtu.be . barry smoked pot he still president. if they caught donald smoking would be one big story. the media pushes out hype to distract you from whats really going on. news media = david blane
It’s not what he said that is the problem. It’s his actions – just like Cosby.
Another okole Republican blind mouse who doesn’t know anything about history. Bush/Cheney/Powell cost 1,000s of lives based on their lying to Congress and to the UN, and Dishonest Donald backed them. In 2007 Bush announced the decision to remove all American troops from Irag by 2011 which Obama honored and was cheered for doing, Dishonest Donald backed this, too. Dishonest Donald donated $1,000s to Clintons to have inside access, he has bragged about buying inside access since the 1960s with his Dad / New York City. Dishonest Donald’s mentor was Roy Cohn, a blatantly gay attorney which fits right in with the conservative Christian coalition, who taught him to sue everyone and everything. DEAR REPUBLICAN MICE, CONGRESS HAS BEEN RUN BY REPUBLICANS FOR HOW MANY YEARS AND WHAT HAVE THEY ACCOMPLISHED? 12 OF THE LAST 22 YEARS IN THE SENATE AND 18 OF THE LAST YEARS 22 IN THE HOUSE. DIDDLY!