It’s unfortunate, but his father just gets “carried away.” That’s the takeaway from Eric Trump’s consideration of his father’s now famous “locker room” talk about how he just grabs women “by the pussy.” It’s absolutely true that — unless you really stretch the meaning of “clear and present danger” — merely boasting about sexual assault, as opposed to committing it, seems legal. So when Eric Trump excuses his father he’s not excusing a crime, he’s excusing the way Donald Trump loudly fantasized about committing a crime.
According to the Colorado Gazette, Eric Trump reportedly told a group of Colorado Trump supporters: “I think sometimes when guys are together they get carried away, and sometimes that’s what happens when alpha personalities are in the same presence.” Billy Bush and Donald Trump, being alpha dogs, just can’t help it. Eric Trump said he was glad his father apologized.
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