Serious thoughtful question: how have you been able to separate what you regard as Donald Trump's inspired and noble political leadership from the repeated behaviors in his private life long considered deeply immoral and degenerate under the most widespread and long-standing Christian and Western moral dogma:Greenwald is deflecting attention from a recently leaks homosexual sex tape.Overlapping affairs and marriages, serial adulteries, affairs with porn stars that he paid to cover up, closely cavorting with Jeffrey Epstein after he was publicly convicted of sex trafficking of minors, boasting of "grabbing womens' pussies" without asking, and I could go on and on. We'll leave to the side the multiple allegations of sexual assault from various women to whom he wasn't married even though one was repeatedly upheld in a court.
For his whole adult live, Trump lived the life of a libertine Manhattan billionaire, not even close to a paragon of sexual moral virtue.
One of the things I've always liked about Trump is he never purported to be a moralist because he knew his life didn't permit that pretense and it wasn't something he pretended to value, Nor -- as his many close libertine friends demonstrate, or, say, his choice of Matt Gaetz as Attorney General this demonstrates -- was it something he used to judge the moral worth of others.
Trump obviously didn't care to align his private behavior with the moral judgments of others: only with his own codes about right and wrong.
His accusations against Trump are completely false, and he knows better. He tries to imply that Trump cooperated in the sex-trafficking of minors. Not true. He falsely describes the famous Access Hollywood comedy routine. There were no affairs with porn stars. All we know is that his fixer paid off a blackmailer.
There was an allegation upheld in court in a civil case, but that was so ridiculous that it is nearly impossible to believe.
It is weird that Greenwald would compare himself to Trump in this way. There are no videos of Trump doing anything immoral. Some Trump allegations would be illegal if true. Did Greenwald do anything illegal? He is sensitive about adopting a couple of kids with a Brazilian partner who is now dead. Not sure what that is all about.
Other sex scandals in the news are the retrial of Harvey Weinstein, and trial of Puff Diddy, aka Sean Combs. I haven't followed these trials, but I am waiting for the smoking gun. The defendants may be scum, but the charges are ridiculous. Diddy's chief accuser is Cassie Ventura who had a long-term affair with him from 2007 to 2018. She sued him in 2023, and obtained a $20 million settlement. So what is the issue now?
Another complaint says Diddy behaved inappropriately at a 1997 party.
Here is the latest witness, apparently allowed to testify anonymously:
NEW YORK (AP) — A former personal assistant to Sean “Diddy” Combs who says he raped her testified Monday that she continued sending him loving text messages for years after her job ended in 2017 because she was “brainwashed.”I am expecting a prosecution expert to testify that it is completely normal for rape victims to send years of loving messages to their rapists. He will say the messages prove the brainwashing worked.The woman, testifying for a third day under the pseudonym “Mia” at the music mogul’s federal sex trafficking trial, ...
In an Aug. 29, 2020, message to Combs, Mia recalled happy highlights from her eight years working for him — such as drinking champagne at the Eiffel Tower at 4 a.m. and rejecting Mick Jagger’s offer to take her home — saying she remembered only “the good times.”
With both Weinstein and Diddy have attracted lawyers digging up dozens of gripes from decades in the past, and looking to collect legal settlement. No single complaint is provable, but the argument is that there are a lot of complaints and the defendant has deep pockets, so he should pay.
That was also the issue with Trump. The porn star figured that Trump had deep pockets, and he would have to pay off to avoid publicity, whether the allegation is true or false.
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Context is ALWAYS king. In the world of presidents, those in power would seem to have somethings in common...
How would JFK have been ranked by his numerous indiscretions?
How about Bill Clinton and his continuous bimbo eruptions or his Monica Lewinski cigar humidor and Lolita Island escapades?
John Edwards and his ever so slightly illegitimate affair and love child?
Al Gore the ever so noble jumping on masseurs before his wife divorced him??
Barry Obama and his odd preferences for hanging out with Rahm Emanuel in gay Chicago bath houses?
Or how about our recently vacated president Joe Biden, who had some slightly inappropriate affairs himself?
And now Trump... Oh dear. He's just the worst. It's not like anyone has done anything like...oops.
never mind.
Democrats are cute when they are trying to clutch their pearls.
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