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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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[–] HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Is this the same interview where he said he promised Ivanka not to date anyone younger than her when she was 17 or is that a separate one? A promise that it definitely makes sense to make with no inciting incident.

[–] habitualcynic@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I heard he made this promise when she was 12. Maybe different stories?

[–] HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It looks like he told people about the promise when she was 17, so yeah just even worse.

“I have a deal with her. She’s 17 and doing great ― Ivanka. She made me promise, swear to her that I would never date a girl younger than her,” Trump said. “So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.”

Saying the field is getting limited as she gets older when she's not even 18 is just so foul

[–] habitualcynic@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

He’s such a gross pervert.

I’ll never understand how people can have the cognitive dissonance to support him.

[–] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

They are in damage control mode but none of them have quit or spoken out. They’re fine with the child sex traducing as long as they can make money out of it.

[–] Today@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

That’s the implication. He said on record that 12 was too young, but he never said that 18 (for example) was too young.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's what he said. What a creep.

[–] WizardofIs@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s not just creepy, it’s literally criminal. And well before any treasonous SCOTUS gave him a presidential pass.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

it’s literally criminal

Good point.

[–] 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.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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 6 days ago

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

[–] 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."

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Please remove if opinion pieces aren't allowed, but I'd never heard these comments from Donald Trump, and it feels relevant that he offered this creepy shit up publicly in the wake of his ties to Epstein coming under public scrutiny.