Saturday Oct 01, 2016 · 2:01 PM EDT
Three of the most telling words that were uttered this week were also three of the most overlooked. When Hillary Clinton noted during Monday’s debate that Donald Trump had “called women pigs, slobs and dogs,” Trump defended himself, to no one’s surprise. Some of those things were said purely in the course of “entertainment,” he responded, but here’s how he justified his other characterizations:
Rosie O’Donnell, I said very tough things to her, and I think everybody would agree that she deserves it and nobody feels sorry for her.
O’Donnell, he charged, had been “very vicious” to him when that feud started in the mid-aughts, so he retaliated by calling her a “pig,” among other things. She deserved it. MSNBC’s Laurence O’Donnell (no relation to Rosie) did a great meditation on those three words Tuesday evening.
She deserves it, yes. That is what every man guilty of spousal abuse always thinks. I’ve talked to prosecutors who’ve handled these cases. I’ve talked to defense lawyers who represent these guys – she deserves it.
That’s what they say. That is what enables them to do what they do …
O’Donnell framed his discussion of the phrase around abusive men, which made perfect sense. But that got me thinking about how many times Trump has launched an attack on someone—women, men, strangers, whoever—because they deserve it, in his view.
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http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/10/1/1576512/-View-from-the-Left-She-deserves-it-What-Donald-Trump-s-wrath-could-mean-for-the-presidency
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