Conservatives React To Predatory Trump Comments With Shock And Deflection

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016, in Reno, Nev. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
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Conservatives have had to explain away a lot in the interest of supporting Donald Trump as the GOP nominee. After the Washington Post on Friday published audio of an extremely lewd conversation Trump had with a former “Access Hollywood” host in 2005, in which he made predatory comments, they had a much tougher time of it.

For some, the strategy was deflect, deflect, deflect, choosing to focus on what sins Democrats have committed or spinning Trump’s comments as locker room talk:

For the #NeverTrump crowd and those who hadn’t already hopped on board the Trump train, on the other hand, the leaked audio was another reason to decry the party’s nominee:

As for former Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren, it was a relief not to be responsible for analyzing such comments from the GOP nominee anymore:

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  1. Although Donald Trump is a creepy pervert who likes to hang around teenage beauty contestants, he is the darling of religious conservatives and evangelicals because he a wonderful christian with very high moral standards. Indeed he has the highest moral standards of any Republican candidate including the sainted Ronald Reagan (PBUH).

    Donald Trump has openly expressed a fervent desire to bang his daughter Ivanka Trump and has been accused of raping a 13-year old girl with his hedge fund pal Jeffrey Epstein. Therefore all this should come as no surprise.

  2. Avatar for lew lew says:

    Yep the GOP and Women–they go together like fish and bicycles.

  3. Republican pushback:

    oh! he’s older now and he’s matured…

    and he never said it either…

  4. trump will forever be known as a perve from today forward.

  5. with apologies to Monty Python:

    Man 1: “Look, are you insinuating something?”
    Man 2: “Oh, no, squire! No, no, no, no, no…yes.”

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