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The Epstein files are rife with allegations of Trumps sexual misconduct with children. The DOJ has tried to contain the damage, reportedly withholding interviews with a woman who claimed Trump sexually abused her when she was 13. But a 2018 BBC documentary, little seen in the USA, lends credence to those charges.
On the eve of Trumps 2018 visit to the UK, the BBC documentary series Panorama aired an episode called Trump: Is the President a Sex Pest? in which women described their encounters with Trump when they were teenagers. These brave women were all willing to go on the record, on camera. They had nothing to gain and everything to lose.
https://open.substack.com/pub/borowitzreport/p/the-video-trump-doesnt-want-you-to
poli-junkie
(1,538 posts)BaronChocula
(4,326 posts)They're also clean, affectionate, and lovable. This trump thing is more like a, say, child rapist.
Shellback Squid
(9,997 posts)niyad
(131,220 posts)calimary
(89,521 posts)Mainly, the press is cowed.
1) fear of losing insider sources and/or contacts.
2) fear of retribution - pissing off the powerful! OMG!
Its all about access. (Oh, that almighty precious ACCESS!!!) No more invitations to BIG events with big names and all the big parties where your ego is fed the finest cuisine of rubbing elbows (AND being SEEN rubbing elbows) with the rich and powerful players of every stripe. That makes YOU look like a player.
I remember listening to an outtakes reel of a media elder who actually went on the air drunk. He was barely able to read his script, and the burbles and fumfers flew like big flocks of geese headed south for the winter. UNBELIEVABLE! But by Jove they kept him on staff, AND on the air (radio), because his sources were so good.
What a revelation THAT was! I was on the air myself, at the time. I can still remember marveling at what you could get away with if you knew all the right people.
BaronChocula
(4,326 posts)Access and fear. But the access obsession is pretty outdated in a lot of situations. In a criminal case, for example, you don't have access to the accused, but it's not necessary. In this case, we don't need access to the accused whom we know as a lying scumbag. What's the point of having access to him? He's sat through several challenging interviews with media peeps in his first term. The media had access, he lied and yet, here we are.
Rob H.
(5,808 posts)TheRickles
(3,285 posts)niyad
(131,220 posts)niyad
(131,220 posts)I have been sharing this as widely as possible.
TheRickles
(3,285 posts)niyad
(131,220 posts)3catwoman3
(29,114 posts)...for everything TSF is accused of.
niyad
(131,220 posts)NJCher
(42,905 posts)"Sex pest" is a lightweight word. I think of it as appropriate for someone in Andrew Cuomo's league. You can swat them off, just like you swat off a fly.
But trump and epstein trapped women on an island. That's far-flung predatory behavior that goes all the way up to kidnapping.
PatSeg
(52,819 posts)and the MSM often contributes to that.
PCIntern
(28,165 posts)He wouldnt be allowed to work in his favorite restaurant, McDonalds, with evidence like this.
Donald in McDonalds. Whoda thunk it?
niyad
(131,220 posts)his campaign?