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Barack Obama calls for unity after White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting
Trump erupts in '60 Minutes' interview: 'I'm not a pedophile'
LetMyPeopleVote
(182,047 posts)An awful lot like "I'M NOT A CROOK" strongly denying a fact dosen't make it disappear.
ornotna
(11,556 posts)PatSeg
(53,550 posts)There was so much that I took for granted over the years. I could never have imagined this kind of bizarre craziness. It feels like we're living in a low budget comic book.
Farmer-Rick
(12,786 posts)"I'm not a pedophile. Excuse me. Excuse me. I'm not a pedophile."
Who would think the president of the United States would have to deny abusing children.
"Methinks the lady doth protest too much."
AZJonnie
(4,024 posts)in an interview. If he'd not denied it people would be saying "how hard would it have been to deny it if it's not true?". I understand why he's protesting the characterization by the alleged gunman. Doesn't mean I necessarily believe him, but the protesting of it in that context seems logical. I would scream and yell "fuck that, I am no such thing!" in that situation as well
Farmer-Rick
(12,786 posts)Applied directly to him? The reporter had read the line about how the shooter was going after all the administration immediately before pedo Trump spoke up to deny something she had not accused him of.
Yeah, we all need to defend the psychopath in charge. God forbid we miss characterize a proven sexual abuser.
AZJonnie
(4,024 posts)It makes sense in the context to say "no I'm not" because Trump knows people are accusing him of this extremely widely, and he was asked to respond to what the shooter wrote.
There's a billion misdeeds to tear him down over, I'm not convinced this is a particularly logical angle with which to do so, but to each their own.
CROOK,
Johonny
(26,607 posts)Now equals totally exonerated. He does rape people. The jury believed the women.
Seinan Sensei
(1,643 posts)Gonna put that on my sign next time I march
mercuryblues
(16,515 posts)I'm not a witch, moment.
CTyankee
(68,478 posts)and he calms me down.
Zelda_Orchid
(104 posts)Bayard
(30,275 posts)Exp
(1,025 posts)OMGWTF
(5,217 posts)Torchlight
(7,059 posts)He's still throwing tantrums at the religious community for not endorsing his violent wars of aggression (and for the sake of Statler and Waldorf... Epstein story got some play today... and yesterday... and the day before. Cool your jets, man) .
SamuelAdams
(195 posts)highplainsdem
(63,104 posts)gordianot
(15,798 posts)Why would Trump associate that with pedophilia and focus on denials?
The Wizard
(13,858 posts)Release the Epstein files.
IronLionZion
(51,554 posts)Dave Bowman
(7,454 posts)Oh really? Exonerated by whom?
UpInArms
(55,364 posts)niyad
(134,035 posts)face is the colour of sludge, while krasnov's colour looks almost normal.
pansypoo53219
(23,170 posts)lier.
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