According to MSNBC, the only reason some Republicans are dropping Donald Trump after his disgusting comments on an audio tape is because it involves “white women.” Discussing Friday’s tape in which the candidate insisted he could “grab [women] by the p***y,” AM Joy guest and author Rebecca Traister on Saturday insisted, “I'm really struck by these Republicans who are suddenly disavowing him, as if this is a particularly different sentiment. And I think it's interesting this was something he voiced about white women.”
She added, “But this tape is somehow thought of in a different category. Why? Because he's saying these things about a white woman?” Regarding an Associated Press story on The Apprentice and yet more lewd talk from Trump, host Joy Reid wondered, “This same week, a blockbuster story came out from the Associated Press that described the treatment of women on that show, interestingly enough, the white women on that show.”
A partial transcript is below:
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MSNBC
10/8/16
10:15REBECCA TRAISTER (Author, All the Single Ladies) One of the things that’s interesting to me about the degree of response and all these Republicans suddenly distancing themselves from Trump, this is not that different from what we've seen from Donald Trump from his entire career and for his time on the presidential campaign trail. The stuff about women as pigs and evaluating them aesthetically and talking about their weight gain. The stuff we were seeing with regard to Alicia Machado, not to mention the way he talks about people of color, Mexicans as rapists. This is a man — the racism and the misogyny that this man has had on display for his entire time as a candidate, the misogyny part was made particularly explicit last night, but it is not that different from what we've seen from him consistently. He has Steve Bannon. He’s advised by Roger Ailes, a man who just left the Fox News network for serial harassment, sexual harassment of his female employees. This is not that different and I'm really struck by these Republicans who are suddenly disavowing him, as if this is a particularly different sentiment. And I think it's interesting this was something he voiced about white women.
JOY REID: Yeah.
TRAISTER: It wasn't about Alicia Machado. It wasn’t about the Mexicans. It wasn’t about the Central Park Five, who yesterday he said he believed were still guilty, despite DNA evidence that exonerated them and the fact they were jailed without having been proven guilty, you know, for all those years. No one got that upset about any of these people, but this tape and I’m not devaluing its importance and incredible moment that was caught and published. It’s an incredible story, but this tape is somehow thought of in a different category. Why? Because he's saying these things about a white woman?
REID: And it’s interesting, Tara, you were an alumnus of The Apprentice. This same week, a blockbuster story came out from the Associated Press that described the treatment of women on that show, interestingly enough, the white women on that show. All right. You have the Alicia Machado the same morning this tape came out from Access Hollywood, you had, to Rebecca’s point Central Park Five revelation and yet Republicans didn't distance themselves through any of that.
