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Robert Laurie , Bio and Archives--September 29, 2016
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During the first debate, Donald Trump famously chose "not to go there" when it came to Bill Clinton's long, storied, history of sexual misconduct. Whether he was truly being a gentleman, or simply bringing-it- up-by-telling-you-he's-not-bringing-it-up, the impact has been the same. Almost every media outlet has discussed both the facts and allegations from Bill's past - as well as Hillary's pattern of enabling her husband and targeting his accusers.
Yesterday, the "journalists" at Cosmopolitan magazine took a break from writing "10 things that will really turn him on" articles to interview Chelsea Clinton. In their piece, they asked Chelsea about Trump's non-attack. She offered the following, limp, defense of her father's misdeeds and her mother's habit of trying to shame his victims:Well, my reaction to that is just what my reaction has been kind of every time Trump has gone after my mom or my family, which is that it’s a distraction from his inability to talk about what’s actually at stake in this election and to offer concrete, comprehensive proposals about the economy, or our public school system, or debt-free college, or keeping our country safe and Americans safe here at home and around the world. And candidly, I don’t remember a time in my life when my parents and my family weren’t being attacked, and so it just sort of seems to be in that tradition, unfortunately. And what I find most troubling by far are Trump’s — and we talked about this when you interviewed me the night before the Iowa caucus — are Trump’s continued, relentless attacks on whole swaths of our country and even our global community: women, Muslims, Americans with disabilities, a Gold Star family. I mean, that, to me, is far more troubling than whatever his most recent screed against my mom or my family [is].That didn't sit well with Clinton rape accuser Juanita Broaddrick. She took to Twitter and issued an absolutely scathing response via a series of six tweets:


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