Tr*mp’s Epstein-esque words just came back to bite him in resurfaced Letterman clip
We've always known he was this person
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D*n*ld Tr*mp continues to swear up and down that he had no ties to or knowledge of Epstein’s sex trafficking ring—despite appearing over 1 million times in the Epstein files.
We know Tr*mp is not a reliable narrator, and we’ve covered his many contradictions concerning his relationship to Epstein. But a 1992 talk show appearence is shedding some interesting light on Tr*mp’s attitudes towards barely-legal girls being SA-ed.
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Even back then, Tr*mp was a hated figure in New York, where just a few years before he’d taken out a gruesomely racist ad calling for the execution of the (wrongly accused) Central Park Five. In 1991, Tr*mp was still shooting off his mouth and showing up at House hearings to put in his two cents…despite approaching bankruptcy in his own endeavors.
On a Letterman appearance the next year, his failed business ventures were so well known that the iconic talk show host starts the interview by asking “are you solvent?”
Tr*mp of course tries to blame “politicians” for his many embarrassing failures—and talks about “unloading” his ex-wife Ivana. But the interesting part of this clip comes later, when Letterman and Tr*mp discuss a recent news item: boxer Mike Tyson’s rape of an 18-year-old girl.
In 1991, Desiree Washington was competing in the Miss Black America pageant, where Tyson attended a rehearsal. After that rehearsal, Washington went with Tyson to his hotel room, where Tyson raped her, later claiming the sex had been consensual. Tyson would serve six years for the rape, but on his Letterman appearance, Tr*mp was on the boxer’s side, saying that Tyson had a “terrible defense,” and placing the blame entirely on Washington.
“Mike Tyson was greeted at his door at one o’clock in the morning by a woman,” Tr*mp begins.
Letterman quickly steps in, saying that they don’t need to go through the specifics of the case. But Tr*mp insists on blaming the victim in the crudest, cruelest possible terms. “This is ridiculous. The woman was dancing at 8 o’clock and this guy’s in jail for six years, I don’t understand, I think it’s wrong.”
Tr*mp goes on to say that he would have preferred for Tyson to pay “millions and millions of dollars to rape victims” than to sit in a jail cell.
“You’re saying that celebrities…should be treated differently than lay people,” Letterman says.
“I’m not saying that,” Tr*mp continues. “Here’s a woman that was dancing at his door at one o’clock in the morning, that’s an important thing.”
We’re seen and heard enough about Tr*mp’s wholehearted endorsement of rape culture through the years to not be in the least bit surprised by this. But in light of Tr*mp and Tyson partnering on a new MAHA-related venture—and more saliently, in light of the Epstein file revelations, it’s worth looking at.
We’ve heard Tr*mp talk about grabbing women “by the p*ssy.” We’ve heard him call a woman reporter “piggy.” We’ve heard the language he uses to talk about his own daughter, and now we’ve heard him use the fact that an 18-year-old girl was present in front of a man at 1AM in the morning justify the violence she suffered afterward. We’ve also seen him suggest that giving rape victims money is some kind of a solution to their pain and suffering. Not to mention the fact that all this revolves around a woman’s participation in a beauty pageant—something Tr*mp and Epstein knew quite a lot about.
Knowing all this—and again, knowing that Tr*mp’s name comes up one million times in the Epstein files—it’s impossible not to see the connection between what Epstein was doing with his sex trafficking ring and what Tr*mp was espousing in this and many other interviews.
In the words of one commenter, “he’s not defending Mike Tyson. He’s defending rape.”
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