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Every four years we have a presidential election. Every four years we have new voters who come of age eligible to vote. Every four years we all get to look back, if we care to on what has happened before, knowing that nothing happens in a vacuum. So this is really a psa:
A new voter’s guide to presidential candidate Donald Trump
Voters newly eligible to cast a ballot in November were 10 when Trump was first elected. Here’s the background on the former president they might lack
"Donald Trump announced his bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination on June 16, 2015. That means that some Americans who will be voting for the first time this November were only 8 years old when he came down the escalator in Trump Tower to launch his campaign. Meaning, further, that they have no idea what we’re talking about with that escalator reference."
Marveling at the loyalty of his supporters, Trump told an audience in Iowa: “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, okay? It’s, like, incredible.”
He insulted Fox News host Megyn Kelly, one of the anchors of the first Republican debates, by suggesting she had been inappropriately angry and had “blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.”
Trump subsequently skipped a Fox News debate in January 2016, instead holding a fundraiser for troops. It wasn’t until The Washington Post asked where the money had gone that the Trump campaign allocated it. (His private charitable organization was later sanctioned and shuttered for having violated IRS rules, including in aiding his campaign.)
Trump claimed to have a close relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin — until questions about his relationship (including potential business deals) with Russia began to circulate. (It would later emerge that his attorney was trying to secure a deal for a project in Moscow as Trump was running for president.) At one point, he suggested that the Russians should unearth emails from Clinton; that same day, Russian hackers attempted to access her server.
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The other development on Oct. 7 was The Post’s publication of the “Access Hollywood” tape. During a taping for the entertainment show in 2005, Trump was caught on a hot microphone talking about assaulting women.
“You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait,” Trump said on the recording. “And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the p---y.”
After the tape’s release — and Trump denying during a debate that he’d ever assaulted a woman in the way he described — a number of women came forward to allege that he’d touched or kissed them without permission.
A new voter’s guide to presidential candidate Donald Trump
Voters newly eligible to cast a ballot in November were 10 when Trump was first elected. Here’s the background on the former president they might lack
"Donald Trump announced his bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination on June 16, 2015. That means that some Americans who will be voting for the first time this November were only 8 years old when he came down the escalator in Trump Tower to launch his campaign. Meaning, further, that they have no idea what we’re talking about with that escalator reference."
Marveling at the loyalty of his supporters, Trump told an audience in Iowa: “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, okay? It’s, like, incredible.”
He insulted Fox News host Megyn Kelly, one of the anchors of the first Republican debates, by suggesting she had been inappropriately angry and had “blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.”
Trump subsequently skipped a Fox News debate in January 2016, instead holding a fundraiser for troops. It wasn’t until The Washington Post asked where the money had gone that the Trump campaign allocated it. (His private charitable organization was later sanctioned and shuttered for having violated IRS rules, including in aiding his campaign.)
Trump claimed to have a close relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin — until questions about his relationship (including potential business deals) with Russia began to circulate. (It would later emerge that his attorney was trying to secure a deal for a project in Moscow as Trump was running for president.) At one point, he suggested that the Russians should unearth emails from Clinton; that same day, Russian hackers attempted to access her server.
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The other development on Oct. 7 was The Post’s publication of the “Access Hollywood” tape. During a taping for the entertainment show in 2005, Trump was caught on a hot microphone talking about assaulting women.
“You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait,” Trump said on the recording. “And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the p---y.”
After the tape’s release — and Trump denying during a debate that he’d ever assaulted a woman in the way he described — a number of women came forward to allege that he’d touched or kissed them without permission.
