something happens with the staff. he is the leader. he needs to take accountability, but funny why some on the left say someone in his staff did this, automatically, trump did this. trump is an abuser, trump is an assaulter. they do it day in and day out. not a giant leap. they re conflating the two. he has been accused by 16 women of abuse, the accusations are on the record and comes out publicly and only defends the alleged abusener his white house, i don t think it s true. i think if people i think if trump came out and said exactly what i said right now. this is horrible, we didn t know about it. make sure that people who knew about it in the staff get reprimanded or let go, this is a serious issue. maybe some on the left make an issue of it, finally he s saying something nice. steve: tomi s right, that actually and i take the point, i m not saying i literally agree it s an
what frustrates me is when something happens with the staff. he is the leader. he needs to take accountability, but funny why some on the left say someone in his staff did this, automatically, trump did this. trump is an abuser, trump is an assaulter. they do it day in and day out. not a giant leap. they re conflating the two. he has been accused by 16 women of abuse, the accusations are on the record and comes out publicly and only defends the alleged abusener his white house, i don t think it s true. i think if people i think if trump came out and said exactly what i said right now. this is horrible, we didn t know about it. make sure that people who knew about it in the staff get reprimanded or let go, this is a serious issue. maybe some on the left make an issue of it, finally he s saying something nice. steve: tomi s right, that actually and i take the point, i m not saying i literally agree it s an
story, i found it so painful that people in the white house, john kelly, don mcgann, chose to believe the assaulter, not the women who were the victims, not the women who were the victims of his violence and his anger. i think john kelly should pick up the phone and apologize to those women for not having believed them, for not having done more, for the process failing them. i think don mcgann should do the same thing. look, i think this is a learning moment for the white house. and they could take it as an opportunity to really cast a light on domestic violence, the same way we have seen done with sexual harassment after harvey weinstein. this could be a water shed moment for women, for victims of spousal abuse, not just women, and the white house could lead on this. so i think there is a lot more that people like john kelly and don mcgann could do right now, starting with talking to the american people, acknowledging they mistake, acknowledging that there is no room in this white
that is crisis of competence. it underscores a complete crisis of character that we have seen from the beginning of this white house. i ll also say, shouldn t this really surprise us all? don t we always say an administration, a government gets its tone from the top? let s look and see who is at the top. at the top is a president of the united states who has been who has been accused himself by more than 16 women, from sexual harassment to sexual assault, to even rape, who he himself has professed himself a sexual assaulter and is proud of it apparently. he had a chief of staff in steve bannon that is accused of domestic abuse. this is a hole they have dug for themselves. i don t know how they re going to get out of it. but it underscores how unfit donald trump is to be president of the united states. scott, this is the latest in a string of blunders for kelly.
greatest downfalls of a religious order, if you want to put it that way, we ve ever known. only comparable with the breaking news of the vast phenomena of child abuse inside the roman catholic church. at that time the leaders themselves were saying, yes, this is bad and pretending not to go along. now the evangelicals have gone to the next step, become the instigators of evil themselves. when franklin graham defended donald trump, he s defending a man not only destroying the reputation of this country but has become the figurehead for, in a bad sense, the me too movement. the president himself a criminal assaulter of women who bragged on it and called anyone who accused him a liar. in a party that now represents the grossest underbelly of human prime mate behavior. how s that for the end of a movement talking about saving babies, remaining virgins until marriage, the sacredness and so