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Donald Trump 'Groped' A Minor At Donor Event? Claims Of Bombshell Video Surface (www.timesnownews.com)

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No video released yet but the right wing blog-sphere is already claiming it's AI. Put on your seat-belts and keep your hands inside the car at all times.

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[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

As someone who had to sit through a seemingly unending stream of videos of Biden sniffing hair etc, none of which were as damning as the people boosting them claimed, I really hope they either don't release this, or it actually is what it claims to be, not some similar crap.

"Donald Trump loses his balance and accidentally makes contact with a girl's butt" or similar ambiguous clip is probably not going to do anything except make me have to start ignoring videos of Biden sniffing hair again when magas start posting them in retaliation or whatever.

[-] archomrade@midwest.social 2 points 20 minutes ago

Same with "Trump speaks slowly and closes his eyes for a couple seconds" being paraded around as him being 'exhausted' or even 'sundowning'.

None of it could possibly sway voters, it's just to make the voting base feel good about their choice of support.

[-] x00z@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKMGRPVXdT0

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 34 points 4 hours ago

His sycophants forgive any crime he commits. They will blame the minor not him.

[-] FrowingFostek@lemmy.world 9 points 1 hour ago

Riley: Oh, yes, the victim! At what point does personal responsibility become a factor in this equation?

Dubois: I don't think that's--

Riley: I see piss coming, I move.

Huey: mmm

Riley: She saw piss coming, she stayed.

Dubois: Yes, she did, but--

Riley: And why should I have to miss out on the next R. Kelly album! Just for that?!

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Is this a transcript? Please tell me it isn't.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 5 points 56 minutes ago

It's an excerpt from an episode of The Boondocks

[-] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 53 minutes ago* (last edited 53 minutes ago)

It's become relevant again as a fringe group of people are defending their favorites that got implicated in the diddy parties. At least this time it seems like much less people are on the offenders side, but maybe thats because there are so many offenders that the misplaced support is more distributed than when it was just R Kelly or just Bill Cosby.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 points 53 minutes ago

It was the last episode of boondocks for many people.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 11 points 4 hours ago

Obviously a liberal sleeper agent

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 4 hours ago

No, I don't buy it. He's awful. He's a fascist. He has assaulted lots of women (when there were no cameras). I don't believe he'd be this self-destructive at this moment when he needs to win to stay out of prison.

[-] Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 1 points 33 seconds ago

Don 'grab em by the pussy' dementia trump?

[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 1 points 18 minutes ago

May I introduce you to the last few months?

You're just long at this one story with fresh eyes. Reasonably. Probably an indicator of sanity. So of course it doesn't sound credible.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 52 minutes ago

Oh I think he'd do it. This is the same guy that keeps starting more grifts while he's being prosecuted for previous ones.

As to whether he actually did it? Show me the video. But the first sentence is already enough for me not to vote for him.

[-] prof_wafflez@lemmy.world 13 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

yeah I don't buy it either. a) I don't trust anything on TikTok b) Why is everyone talking about a video when a video doesn't seem to exist? If it exists show it

[-] Amanduh@lemm.ee 7 points 3 hours ago

You don't think the famously stupid person could do something stupid? I know it's a stretch but cmon

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 27 points 5 hours ago

He's bragged about doing it before. I don't see how this would affect his popularity.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 8 points 4 hours ago

It isn't, in fact despite the video not being released it's already being "debunked" as AI on Far Right websites.

[-] EatATaco@lemm.ee 29 points 6 hours ago

This is just conspiratorial garbage. That article is garbage. I would love for something like this to take him down, but if you think this has any credibility, please realize that your ability to critically analyze new information is ridiculously clouded by confirmation bias.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 hours ago

It’s such a waste of time

“Without proof, claims of video of event exists”

And then it’s just random people on twitter

[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago

Did Charlie Kirk tweet that? If so, I'd believe it's 100% for real and they're trying to get out in front of it. Like many posters below point out, his base won't care.

[-] ATDA@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I have a hard time discerning if Kirk knows this, or if he's just projecting after the Swift AI nonsense.

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[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

The fact that the some of the most immoral spin-doctors that aren't directly related to the Trump campaign -- Posobiec and Kirk for starters -- are clearly trying to get out in front of some sort of bad news that, based on their comments, appears to be a video grants more weight to claims than this random article.

That being said, whether there is actually a video or they're reacting to the same rumored threat is unknown. Even if it were true, I honestly don't know if it would make enough of a difference for Trump's supporters. And, again if true, the longer they hold the video and allow advance spin and damage control to run unopposed, the less effect it will have. The simple fact is that Trump supporters would then be looking for any reason to simple dismiss/ignore it, and they will undoubtedly be given many reasons by affiliates of Trump's campaign.

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[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

Perhaps explains his seemingly defeated attitude recently. His canceling of multiple events. His comment at yesterday's rally...

Trump: I realized our time is coming to an end. In many ways it’s sad. I’ve been doing this for 9 years.

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 35 points 9 hours ago

This could actually get him more votes. After all, the GOP is the Party of Pedophila.

[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 16 points 5 hours ago

They're the party of "PEDOPHILES SHOULD BE KILLED, DEAD PEDOPHILES CAN'T REOFFEND, I HUNT PEDOPHILES, AND IT'S TOTALLY NORMAL AND NOT PROJECTION THAT I'VE MADE THIS MY ENTIRE IDENTITY." Which is effectively the same thing but is slightly different.

[-] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago

PEDOPHILES SHOULD BE KILLED, DEAD PEDOPHILES CAN'T REOFFEND, I HUNT PEDOPHILES

Always weirds me the fuck out when I see this stuff. Like, my dude, pedophiles are quite universally reviled, even amongst hardcore criminals, why the hell do you feel the need to loudly signal this ?

[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

You know why they feel the need to loudly signal it.

[-] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Yeah that is definitely a rhetorical question here

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 hours ago

, why the hell do you feel the need to loudly signal this ?

Same reason they always do this: projection

[-] Juigi@lemm.ee 34 points 10 hours ago

He could eat then punt a baby on video and maga cultist wouldn't care.

[-] Masta_Chief@lemmy.world 24 points 9 hours ago

eat... And THEN punt??

[-] Burninator05@lemmy.world 9 points 6 hours ago

Clearly you don't eat the baby skull so it is left for punting.

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Clearly you don't eat babies! The whole point of eating babies is the skull comes apart.

[-] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 hours ago

Pff. Who brought the new guy right? It's getting to the point you can't have Sunday afternoon baby BBQ and skull football game anymore. Whats happened to us these last few years?

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