Arbitrage1980
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« on: October 19, 2016, 05:03:16 PM » |
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Both Trump and Bill Clinton have sexually assaulted women. I have no doubt about that. Now, many people will say that it's irrelevant because Bill is not on the ballot. I'm not quite sure I agree with that.
First, if we are to take sexual assault charges seriously, it should not matter whether the accused is running for political office or not. Assault is assault, and someone who is found guilty needs to be punished.
Second, Hillary has made it explicitly clear that if she becomes President, Bill will have a major role to play in terms of policy. We don't know exactly what such a role would look like, but we can assume that Bill is not going to sit around and bake brownies. This then raises the question of whether we want a rapist to be in a position of power.
Third, this brings to the forefront the hypocrisy of the liberal media, the same media that argued that Bill's sexual transgressions and women's accusations are not pertinent to his ability to do the job of President while arguing that they disqualify Trump from the same office. The media also tells us that we should automatically accept at face value all of Trump's accusers while ignoring Clinton's.
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