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In reply to the discussion: Something no one mentions... [View all]Wiz Imp
(6,646 posts)14. A little more has been made of this than it probably merits I think in part because people have misrepresented Trump's
interview with Howard Stern. Trump said this:
Well, I'll tell you the funniest is that before a show, I'll go backstage and everyone's getting dressed, and everything else, and you know, no men are anywhere, and I'm allowed to go in because I'm the owner of the pageant and therefore I'm inspecting it. You know, I'm inspecting because I want to make sure that everything is good. [...] You know, the dresses. 'Is everyone okay?' You know, they're standing there with no clothes. 'Is everybody okay?' And you see these incredible looking women, and so, I sort of get away with things like that. But no, I've been very good.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/posts-claim-trump-admitted-entering-020000708.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAE-XzkwEQ6a_M6A6c-6dqyGdIMjF3BBlckEx3EcYzCIZvYPzz2kNXerchHpF6wFdtvOvSarI80bJi4bV034wcvPZuAF6q02awOjSkqcgDreM4EdNTzJ2Ns68co4AQMI_jL1gSTUmfSLjlHer0FLvE5Ae9VUa-FOcco_NNUKPr6EX
That was in response to a question about the Miss Universe & Miss USA pageants., NOT Miss Teen USA. You also have to consider that Trump lies or exaggerates about everything and you know he was trying to brag to Howard Stern and his audience thinking that confessing to disgusting and creepy behavior would actually make him look better.
Someone else posted the Buzzfeed article with quotes from several contestants in a Miss Teen USA contest saying saying he walked in while they were changing, but also note that a much larger group of contestants in that article said they don't remember it happening. Also, another contestant in that pageant says he came in but that the contestants were first warned by chaperones:
Victoria Hughes, Miss Teen New Mexico in 1997, said she remembers chaperones saying that we had a visitor and to get covered up, but stopped short of accusing Trump of inappropriate behavior.
While I do not support Donald Trump, stories about him barging in on teenage girls is not correct, Hughes wrote in an email to NM Political Report. Our chaperones would never have allowed that to happen, and no one, not even Donald, deserves to be lied about in this way.
While I do not support Donald Trump, stories about him barging in on teenage girls is not correct, Hughes wrote in an email to NM Political Report. Our chaperones would never have allowed that to happen, and no one, not even Donald, deserves to be lied about in this way.
https://nmpoliticalreport.com/2016/10/13/trump-backstage-activity-in-97-exaggerated-says-former-miss-teen-nm/
I have no doubt Trump engaged in some of that kind of disgusting and creepy behavior, but I doubt it was pervasive as some have made it out to be. Particularly with the under age girls.
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Trump not just a dirty old man leering at young girls. He was identifying potential victims
Irish_Dem
Jul 17
#5
I hadn't seen that before, but this person's story is the exact opposite of what was being claimed.
Wiz Imp
Jul 17
#25
One girl is said to have complained to Ivanka and she replied, "Oh, daddy just does that"
Hekate
Jul 17
#11
That is incorrect. In the interview, he was asked about Miss USA & Miss Universe, NOT Miss Teen USA
Wiz Imp
Jul 17
#15
I swear, if this dirty bastard ever did anything to one of my family members, i would investigate until
bluestarone
Jul 17
#13
A little more has been made of this than it probably merits I think in part because people have misrepresented Trump's
Wiz Imp
Jul 17
#14
He would pop into the dressing room when they were changing to bathing suits & watch them.
appleannie1
Jul 17
#19