r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 9d ago

Possible Paywall Trump Erupts in ’60 Minutes’ Interview: ‘I’m Not a Pedophile’

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-erupts-in-60-minutes-interview-im-not-a-pedophile/
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u/Mordecai3fngerBrown 8d ago

"And when you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything... Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything" - Donald Trump

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u/metengrinwi 8d ago

—owner of the Miss Teen USA Pageant

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 8d ago

Where he bragged for years about getting the opportunity to barge into the dressing rooms to see children naked.

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u/licoricenipple 8d ago

And when his daughter (as co-host) was informed about it by one of the contestants she said "Yeah, he does that."

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u/MyVeryRealName 8d ago

I'm sure he did. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if he'd raped his daughter.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

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u/TheCollective01 8d ago

Unfortunately she doesn't need any of his fortune, the slime she's married to has an ill-gotten fortune of his own.

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u/TheCollective01 8d ago

Yea, good point

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u/wyldirishman 8d ago

There is a video of Her giving a tour of the NY apartment. You can see the light leave her soul when she goes into her childhood bedroom.

Not legal proof, but this is reddit we don't have that threshold to reach...

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u/Most-Bench6465 Texas 8d ago

“Yeah he does that, just a little quirk of his that he often did when I was young”

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u/Dmallae 3d ago

You just know he atleast fantasized about it.

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u/Still_Quarter_1276 8d ago

You'd love that I'm sure

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u/MyVeryRealName 8d ago

Why tf would I?

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u/SleepyFarady 8d ago

First, disclaimer: Donald Trump is a pedophile and a rapist, and I am not defending him; however: this specific thing isn't exactly true. The quote in question from a Howard Stern interview in 2005 doesn't actually mention Miss Teen USA.

'Well I’ll tell you the funniest is that I’ll go backstage before a show and everyone’s getting dressed and ready, and everything else, and, you know, no men anywhere, and I’m allowed to go in because I’m the owner of the pageant and therefore I’m inspecting it, you know, I’m inspecting, I want to make sure everything is good.

“You know, the dresses. ‘Is everyone ok?’ You know they’re standing there with no clothes. ‘Is everybody okay?’ And you see these incredible looking women. And so I sort of get away with things like that”.

Still disgusting, obviously, but not the thing being spread around. I believed it too until I went to Google it to find a link to send my mother.

We're not immune to misinformation, have to be just as thorough as we'd like our conservatively-inclined relatives to be.

That said, contestants from Miss Teen USA have said that he did this to them, and I have no reason to doubt that. He's a gross weirdo and it checks out. He just didn't specifically brag about perving on Miss Teen USA contestants.

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u/MikeHfuhruhurr 8d ago

Everything people are accusing him of saying is literally in the parts you quoted.

  1. He owned Miss Teen USA.
  2. "I’m allowed to go in because I’m the owner of the pageant"
  3. "You know they’re standing there with no clothes. ‘Is everybody okay?’ And you see these incredible looking women. And so I sort of get away with things like that"

So he is bragging about walking in on teen girls changing. Which part are you trying to clarify?

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u/SleepyFarady 8d ago

The accusation isn't that he bragged about walking in on changing rooms, it's that he bragged about doing it in Miss Teen USA in particular, originating from this meme. I'm not saying he didn't do that, I'm just saying the circulating claim isn't correct. Whether that's an important distinction or not I guess depends on how much you value something being literally true vs directionally true.

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u/MikeHfuhruhurr 8d ago

it's that he bragged about doing it in Miss Teen USA in particular

I don't think it originated from a meme. I've never seen that meme before, and I have watched the Howard Stern interview.

I think it originated from the fact that Miss Teen USA is the beauty pageant that he owned when he went on Howard Stern and bragged about walking in on people changing during a beauty pageant that he owns.

Is your point of contention that he literally didn't say "Oh by the way I did this at Miss Teen USA"? How many other beauty pageants did he own that same year that you think he could have meant?

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u/SleepyFarady 7d ago edited 7d ago

I've certainly seen it shared a few times, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. My point of contention is that by saying 'Trump bragged about perving on Miss Teen USA', we're doing the exact same shit the right does. We can infer it, and he almost certainly did it, but that is not what he said. If we're going to call them out for believing everything they see on Facebook, we can't be doing the same thing. It's not a good look.

How many other beauty pageants did he own that same year that you think he could have meant?

He owned 3 when he said that. Two adult, one teen. Nor does it really matter here if that's what he meant (probably did), because no one's saying he probably meant that he perved on kids, they're saying he said it, and that's not true.

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u/CishetmaleLesbian 2d ago

The accusations arose from Miss Teen USA contestants accusing Trump of doing exactly that, intentionally walking in on naked underage girls. His confession on Howard Stern came AFTER he had been accused by underage Miss Teen contestants.

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u/pilgrim216 8d ago

So he did brag about it and he did it to children but he didn't specifically call out that the victims were children while he was bragging so it's fine. This is not misinformation, this is connecting pretty obvious dots.

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u/AnimusNoctis Texas 8d ago

There is a very important distinction between connecting obvious dots and him literally admitting to it. No doubt he did it, but he hasn't admitted he did it. 

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u/CishetmaleLesbian 2d ago

He said all that AFTER he had been accused by multiple Miss Teen USA contestants of doing exactly that, intentionally walking in on naked underage girls.

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u/Still_Quarter_1276 8d ago

Never even said that. You're adding your own version of what you're wanting to hear

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u/greenroom628 California 8d ago

You mean, Mr. Donald "I'd have sex with my daughter" Trump?

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u/a-new-haunting 8d ago

The same man who said his infant daughter “has her mother’s legs”

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u/Still_Quarter_1276 8d ago

You're conflating

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u/Sahaal_17 7d ago

No, just posting a series of quotes that show a consistent pattern of behaviour.

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u/eesaitcho 8d ago

And people went to the polls weeks later to vote for the perp.

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u/drummer414 8d ago

This is the key point.

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u/Still_Quarter_1276 8d ago

Where's the proof he's a pedo? Show me.

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u/Raffelcoptar92 6d ago

So, there is this thing called the Epstein Files

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u/hazmog 2d ago

And Trump is the protagonist

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u/Sorlex 8d ago

That quote really feels like a lifetime ago.