Summary

At a North Carolina rally, Donald Trump used aggressive language, questioning if he was “allowed to hit” Michelle Obama after her recent criticism of his values and policies.

Though Trump spoke metaphorically, his comments drew backlash, with analysts calling the remark in poor taste. Trump recounted an imaginary conversation with his staff advising him to tone down his rhetoric, prompting cheers from supporters urging him to “hit back.”

The statement, shared widely on social media, has raised concerns about its impact on the gender gap and support among conservative women voters.

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Call it a hunch. But I doubt it would be the first time he’s hit a woman.

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I mean he’s been found guilty of raping at least one woman… so he’s easily hit one already.

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You don’t need to hit someone in order to rape them

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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/24/documenting-trumps-abuse-of-women

The part of the book that caused the most controversy concerns Trump’s divorce from his first wife, Ivana. Hurt obtained a copy of her sworn divorce deposition, from 1990, in which she stated that, the previous year, her husband had raped her in a fit of rage. In Hurt’s account, Trump was furious that a “scalp reduction” operation he’d undergone to eliminate a bald spot had been unexpectedly painful. Ivana had recommended the plastic surgeon. In retaliation, Hurt wrote, Trump yanked out a handful of his wife’s hair, and then forced himself on her sexually. Afterward, according to the book, she spent the night locked in a bedroom, crying; in the morning, Trump asked her, “with menacing casualness, ‘Does it hurt?’ ” Trump has denied both the rape allegation and the suggestion that he had a scalp-reduction procedure. Hurt said that the incident, which is detailed in Ivana’s deposition, was confirmed by two of her friends

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“Does it hurt?”

We saw the same contempt during the debate when he said, “I’m talking now. Does that sound familiar?” What an utter psychopath.

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Trump has denied both the rape allegation and the suggestion that he had a scalp-reduction procedure.

And I bet dumpster donnie is more annoyed by the scalp reduction coming to light…

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I guess he’s got a deep wish to be beaten by a black woman. Let’s make it happen

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Would be wild to watch Michelle’s Secret Service detail beat up Donald’s Secret Service detail.

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It’d probably be more like:

Michelle’s detail: “Can’t you just tell him to sit down?”
Donald’s detail: “yeah don’t worry about it. we’re used to it by now, skinny Jonas over there can hold him in a seat one handed, just put a big Mac on the table and he’ll forget all about this in like 30 seconds”

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Theyre eating the bigmacs, theyre eating the mcchickens, theyre eating the fast food of the people that live there.

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It would be wild to watch Michelle walk Trump up and down the streets.

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I suspect both details would detain him. Like, you have to be an idiot to bring any secret service to attack someone protected by the secret service. It’s on par with attempting to counterfeit around them

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Even better is the fact that Trump’s Secret Service detail would likely be… shall we say “less than motivated” to protect their charge

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I don’t know about that. Remember that the Secret Service “lost” all their text messages from Jan 6th.

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I want to believe they “lost” them because they called him names

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Achh, good point. I’d forgotten about that

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Would be nice to think so, but apparently they’re Trumpers.

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4 points

Makes sense. Very few others want anything to do with him in person even in an official capacity.

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So a friend works in a building in DC that also has some USSS offices. They said that a lot of them are Trumpers. I had the same thought as you when the news came out years ago that he had bankrupted their budget. Friend said no, they still love him.

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Does she have secret service?

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Already showing us how he wants to protect women.

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Whether they like it or not

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“He was never nice to the Obamas,” said The Hill opinion writer Tara Dublin. “He also looks & sounds like he died last week but no one wants to tell him.”

Looks, sounds, and by all accounts smells like he died last week.

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It’s utterly repulsive to me that, regardless of the elections outcome, this walking shit stain is getting Secret Service protection paid for by the tax payers.

I’m not American, but I feel for you all. As far as I’m concerned, it should be like Witness Protection; if you commit a crime (or are in others ways a total piece of shit) while protected, that protection can and will be removed like they did with Henry Hill when he kept committing crimes.

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