Would Pussygate have been more damaging against another candidate?

[morgankingsley]

Yes

[Devout Centrist]

I came back from Ohio (after fleeing from a major hurricane) to Florida and saw "Pussygate" on TV and thought Trump was finished.  And I was mega-disgusted with Trump . . . until I learned that the tape was from 2005 and was from the cutting room floor.

Classic Fuzzy!

[Pericles]

I'm pretty sure sexual assault was unacceptable in 2005.

[morgankingsley]

I'm pretty sure sexual assault was unacceptable in 2005.

But Trump seems to have a way to move above it better than anybody ever

[Fuzzy Bear]

I'm pretty sure sexual assault was unacceptable in 2005.

But Trump seems to have a way to move above it better than anybody ever

The tape, however, was not evidence of sexual assault; it was a rather foolish grown man trash talking with another foolish grown man while the camera was still running.

Is this locker room talk?  It was when I played jock sports.

Is it right?  Of course not.  But it WAS an old tape, made while Trump was a private citizen.  That is relevant in making a decision on such a bizarre event as the revelation of that tape.

One could only speculate what JFK and RFK would be saying on tapes and videos recorded from Camelot (if there were such private tapes).  That doesn't make Trump's behavior right, either.

People are rightly indignant about running embarassing tapes of people that happened decades ago when those tapes don't contain any illegal activities.  They saw the treatment of Trump over that episode as fundamentally unfair.  I'm sure a lot of folks thought of some of their embarassing escapades that weren't taped and viewed the running of this tape (which was supposed to have been destroyed) as fundamentally unfair.

[morgankingsley]

I'm pretty sure sexual assault was unacceptable in 2005.

But Trump seems to have a way to move above it better than anybody ever

The tape, however, was not evidence of sexual assault; it was a rather foolish grown man trash talking with another foolish grown man while the camera was still running.

Is this locker room talk?  It was when I played jock sports.

In all fairness this is what I have been saying since 2016

[KaiserDave]

Voted no, but meant to vote yes.

[Kingpoleon]

The tape, however, was not evidence of sexual assault; it was a rather foolish grown man trash talking with another foolish grown man while the camera was still running.

Is this locker room talk?  It was when I played jock sports.

Is it right?  Of course not.  But it WAS an old tape, made while Trump was a private citizen.  That is relevant in making a decision on such a bizarre event as the revelation of that tape.

Speaking as someone who’s been in a locker room since the 1860s, no, that’s not how “normal guys” talk. I’ve heard lots of stupid things there, but I’ve never heard such repulsive, vulgar language from teenage boys.