Like falling into a deep, dark bottomless pit, I sometimes wonder just how low the “trump effect” will take us. When I think we have reached rock bottom, almost like purgatory, I find the surprise of another level to which we must sink.
I doubt that there is a person in the United States with access to a television who has not seen the infamous Access Hollywood video with #45 and Billy Bush—the one where #45 describes his methodology of sexual assault. In an act that must be characterized as ABSURD, #45 would now have us believe that the video was “doctored” and that the voice that we heard was not his. Video tape and the memories of concerned individuals can verify that #45 admitted making those “locker room” comments.
I can only believe that the recent, non-stop accusations of Sexual Harassment against famous and powerful men and the resulting condemnation and consequence for them has caused him to re-think his public admission. I think he has been forced to reevaluate the effectiveness of the “denial defense.” That defense isn’t really working for Roy Moore outside Alabama and any eventual Moore ‘pushback’ could eventually come back to bite #45. While #45 and Moore, have received little to no pushback yet, two otherwise good men—Conyers and Franken—have already been forced out. Why the difference?
The quotation with which I began WAS NOT a quote from #45. It came from the same voice that brought you the idea that, “A lie told once remains a lie, but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth.” He was Josef Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda for Germany from 1933 to 1945.
Knowing that, we’re left to ponder whether similarity of thought indicates similarity of purpose.
(Dr. E. Faye Williams is president of the National Congress of Black Women, 202/678-6788, www.nationalcongressbw.org.)
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