things in his record would have been a scandal and a problem to his running mate. it is testament to donald trump that he is so controversial that picking mike pence with mike pence s record, it hasn t given donald trump a single day of heartburn in the entire campaign. i mean if in this campaign anybody could pay attention to mike pence for more than ten seconds without passing out for lack of oxygen, this thing from him about women in the military, bad idea, that would be a scandal, right? that would be a problem for a campaign. maybe it will be still some day. for a long time i felt like this issue has been a lurking liability for trump and pence, just sort of waiting at some point to cause them trouble. well, now that trouble may finally be coming to pass, because now with this new tape that we are about to broadcast for the first time ever, this has never been heard publicly any time before, this is the first time anywhere, here is donald trump not 16 years ago or 18 years ago whe
donald trump two years ago in 2014, unprompted, answering a totally unrelated question. just deciding to bring up voluntarily his donald trump opinion on women in the military. when you were young, what did you think of the 60s counterculture, the hippies, the music? you didn t do any of that stuff. no, i wasn t into it. it wasn t that i wasn t into it. what did you think? well, i went i went to a military academy, which was from a different planet. we didn t have that. and we didn t have women in the academy at that time. today you have women, which is a whole other story, you know, women in the army, and you see what s going on. it s like bedlam. it is bedlam. it s something that people aren t talking about, but what s going on is bedlam, bringing women in the army.
consent decree that dates back to the 1980s on this subject. the rnc is under a consent decree that dates back to the 1980s on this subject. i mean technically donald trump himself can go out and talk about all of this stuff, but the rnc under this consent decree, they can t take part in any of it. it has to be crystal clear that there s no working together here between the trump campaign and the rnc on issues of ballot integrity and poll watching on election day, particularly when those efforts target minority districts. if there is coordination, that may be a problem. the democratic party now argues that would be a violation of that consent decree. i finally pulled aside kellyanne conway and said what is the campaign going to do. is this the central strategy to contest the election. she said she s actively working with the republican national committee, the official party and campaign lawyers to monitor precincts around the country. so this isn t just an outside
that the last occupants of the white house did to the grounds. the new president would be absolutely free to plow the vegetable garden under, if they like, right? jimmy carter, you want to put solar panels on the white house, ronald reagan wants to take them down. really expect melania trump or bill clinton to be out there tending to the turnips and harvesting the okra? really? are they going to keep it? as her time grows short, michelle obama has hardened the garden s defenses. she unveiled an expanded garden now twice its original size and it s got hard parts. stone walkways and planters made from concrete and steel and picnic tables and stuff. first lady michelle obama announced a multi-million dollar grant for maintaining it. so it won t be an excuse if they wanted to get rid of the garden for that reason. not incidentally, michelle obama planted a couple of crops that are in the ground now that won t be ready for harvest until the spring, when there s a new president.
he is on record being against women in the military. from the very beginning of him running for congress, mike pence was against not just women in combat, but even women being in combat support units. he was even against women being allowed to do basic training for the military. mike pence wrote this creepy column in 1999 about young nubile 18-year-old women in basic training. the column ends with this line, i kid you not. women in the military, bad idea. that s the bottom line of his column on women in the military. so that s on record already from mike pence, donald trump s running mate, when pence was a talk radio host. that was the time he lost running for congress. that run most remembered for mike pence using campaign contributions to pay for his mortgage, his grocery bills, his car payment and his golfing fees. he let his donors pay for all that stuff. if mike pence were running in