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The president’s team is trying to stomp out coverage of his prior comments about young girls amid fallout regarding his alleged ties to pedophilic sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Steven Cheung, Trump’s communications director, torched The Daily Beast for dredging up remarks that Donald Trump made during an interview with Howard Stern in 2006, when he told the radio show host that the best part about being Donald Trump was that he could get “all the girls” he wanted—if he wasn’t married to his wife.


But then Trump got into a questionable back-and-forth with the show’s co-host, Robin Quivers, who asked the real estate mogul: “Do you have an age limit?”

“No, no, I have no age—,” Trump started, before backtracking. “I mean, I have an age—I don’t want to be like Congressman Foley, with, you know, 12-year-olds.”

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[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wanted to look up Foley, only to find out he tendered his resignation to Dennis Hastert,.

From Wikipedia: "Hastert himself was described by a Federal District Court judge as a "serial child molester"[37] and jailed in 2016 for illegally structuring bank withdrawals in an attempt to hide his own sexual abuse of four high school boys during his pre-Congressional career [38]"

Hastert was a Republican speaker of the house....

[–] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I was just looking Dennis Hastert up to remember which party seems to always have congressmen doing this. I'd say 10 dollars if you can guess Foley's party, but come on. You already know by the statistics.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Republican from Florida of course.

Here he is sitting in the exclusive seats during Trump's rally in Ft. Lauderdale Florida https://abcnews.go.com/US/disgraced-us-rep-mark-foley-spotted-trump-rally/story?id=41290454

"After the rally Foley confirmed to MSNBC his support of Trump's presidential bid and said that the two have a longstanding relationship. "He's been a friend of mine for 30 years and one of my biggest contributors," Foley said."

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Here's the the breakdown of political affiliation of all politicians caught being pedos. And Don't let the sliver fool you, libertarians are punching far above their weight.

[–] StinkySocialist@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

I would love the source for this, do you have one comrade?