“Now the White House had been diligently keeping President Trump from weighing in…”
CNN’s Jake Tapper opened his show Friday afternoon with a segment that highlighted the women who’ve accused Donald Trump of varying degrees of sexual misconduct.
“Moments ago, Press Secretary Sarah Sanders suggested there is a distinction between accusations against Senator Al Franken and those against the president because Franken has admitted wrongdoing and the president has not,” Tapper said. “Asked if there should be an investigation into the Trump accusations, Sanders said that they’ve been addressed and the American people ‘spoke loud and clear when they elected President Trump.’”
That explanation didn’t sit right with the CNN anchor:
“Now the White House had been diligently keeping President Trump from weighing in on [Roy] Moore — trying to thread the needle by saying he found the charges disturbing, but assiduously avoiding saying whether he believed any of the women. This, of course, given the president’s own obvious vulnerabilities regarding women who have made accusations. It was an attempt to avoid this very segment that I’m doing right now.”
“But apparently President Trump could not resist,” Tapper added, before reading the president’s Thursday evening tweets about Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) and highlighting the hypocrisy of Trump:
“In Trump’s world, we’re supposed to believe the very compelling claims of Leeann Tweeden, to whom we spoke extensively on this show yesterday, but we are not supposed to believe these women — at least 12 women who have brought forward claims on the record about President Trump’s past behavior, alleging actions ranging from sexual harassment to sexual misconduct, to in some cases sexual assault.”
Tapper then read off the names and allegations of 12 women who have accused the president of various acts of sexual misconduct, some including sexual assault.
You can watch the full clip from CNN below.
