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Trump And Hannity Want To Turn Bill Clinton ‘Into Bill Cosby’

Posted by Ellen -7835.60pc on October 13, 2016 · Flag

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Sean Hannity is supposed to unveil his latest smearfest in service of his beloved Donald Trump tonight. Yesterday, Bloomberg reported that Trump campaign CEO Stephen Bannon said about Bill Clinton, “We’re going to turn him into Bill Cosby.” Last night, Hannity pledged his part by announcing that he’d trot out (again) the supposed Clinton victims Trump trotted out at the last debate. But will the show still go on in the wake of the latest accusations of Trump’s groping and sexual assault?

Yesterday, Bloomberg reported:

The purpose of Trump’s sudden, intense focus on sexual abuse is twofold: First, to distract attention away from the 2005 Access Hollywood tape recently obtained by the Washington Post that shows Trump making appallingly lewd remarks about women. Second is to depress enthusiasm for Clinton among a key voter bloc in her quest for the White House: millennial women. 

Bannon has long believed that young, socially liberal voters unfamiliar with the Clinton scandals of the ’90s will become disillusioned if they learn more about them. ”There’s a whole generation of people who love the news but were 7 or 8 years old when this happened and have no earthly idea about the Clinton sex stuff,” Bannon told Bloomberg Businessweek last year.

That view has now become the guiding principle of Trump’s presidential campaign and explains why Trump is going to such lengths to portray Hillary Clinton as an enabler of sexual violence. On Tuesday, Bannon laid out the campaign’s argument. “She’s led a program of victim intimidation,” Bannon told Trump staffers, according to two advisers who were present. “This has nothing to do with consensual sexual affairs and infidelities. This is Bill. We’re going to turn him into Bill Cosby. He’s a violent sexual predator who physically abuses women who he assaults. And she takes the lead on the intimidation of the victims.”

And guess who was slated to kick off that Clinton sexual-smear campaign? Sean Hannity. He gave an unintentionally hilarious prelude to it last night in a segment recorded before the latest cascade of accusations of Trump groping or worse rained down. In it, Hannity complained that the media had focused too much on Trump’s words while it ignored actions of sexual misconduct. He was talking about Bill Clinton, of course. But, obviously, that meme - which Hannity has clung to since the 2005 Access Hollywood video rocked the 2016 presidential campaign – won’t work now.

According to CNN's Brian Stelter, Trump canceled his appearance on tonight’s Hannity. But Hannity's interviews with the Clinton accusers are still supposedly slated to go ahead. As I write this, there is nothing about tonight’s show on FoxNews.com’s page for the Hannity show. Hannity’s Twitter feed has not been updated since yesterday.

Watch Bloomberg discuss why, despite the abysmal poll numbers, Trump’s strategy might work, below.

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Antoinette commented 2016-10-15 02:40:21 -0400 · Flag
Grandpa Hannocchio remained silent when Nixon Trainee Ailes was sexually harassing female Fox “News” employees. This old hawk continues to remain silent on Trumpster’s sexual abuse of women.

Nonprofit organizations may distance themselves from Hannocchio and Merri Jill. Who wants to be associated with a man who gives a pass to sexual abusers?
Kent Brockman commented 2016-10-14 21:17:07 -0400 · Flag
It’s Trump or Bust, America. I mean, look at hiz hair, so perfect an angry an stuff.
w d commented 2016-10-13 23:14:16 -0400 · Flag
But tRump has his “serious” face on… doesn’t that mean we should believe him…? /s
w d commented 2016-10-13 23:13:46 -0400 · Flag
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David Lindsay commented 2016-10-13 23:09:45 -0400 · Flag
What’s gonna be fun is the day after the election.

“Lucy!!! You got some ‘splainin’,to do!!”
John McKee commented 2016-10-13 19:47:51 -0400 · Flag
Early on, Tony Schwartz (name may be wrong, the ghost writer of The Art of the Deal) advised us to watch for Trump’s tendency to lash out accusing others for anything that he is accused of or he fears he’s about to be accused of. It works every time – the Clinton Foundation, cheating on taxes, womanising, sexual assault… he even accused Hillary of colluding with Russia.
Eyes On Fox commented 2016-10-13 17:52:25 -0400 · Flag
Trump can’t expand beyond his base. No matter how loudly he shouts. So it’s leaking from his campaign his strategy is to go full tilt tearing down Hillary to discourage people from voting for her since the assumption is his base is so rabid he could crotch grab women live on TV during debate 3 and they wouldn’t care.

Since Trump is under fire for being a sexual predator what else does he have than find some similar poo to fling Hillary’s way? Serial philanderer Bill’s a soft target and obvious target.

I don’t see it working but a lot of it depends on Chris Wallace moderating debate 3. I suspect he will ambush Hillary with various scandals since one of the designated topics is the candidates’ fitness to be POTUS.
David Lindsay commented 2016-10-13 17:16:29 -0400 · Flag
Man they won’t leave Bill Clinton alone. The faithful can’t get enough Clinton smearing. Never have. Never will. But if there are any undecided voters in the audience they probably won’t be repulsed by the graphic details. But they will know that Bill Clinton was a beloved and popular President who is still getting dragged through the mud by Faux.

I could see this backfiring.








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