Hannity Defends Trump Over Sexual Assault Allegations By Suggesting It May Have Been “Welcome” By Victim
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Now that Sean Hannity’s defense of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s bragging of committing sexual assault as only “words” and not “actions” has collapsed with numerous women accusing Trump of assaulting them, Hannity is defending Trump by questioning the women’s stories and calling the reporting on them a “distraction.”
On October 12, several women came forward and reported that they had been sexually assaulted by Trump, triggering a firestorm of coverage that Hannity cannot avoid. Trump’s campaign responded to these accusations by seeking to undermine the women’s stories, insulting their looks, and attempting to intimidate the accusers by threatening legal action.
Hannity called these accusations against Trump a “distraction” from stories generated from stolen Democratic emails that have been released by WikiLeaks, and claimed the accusations against Trump are not nearly as bad as those against former President Bill Clinton. Hannity’s defense of Trump went even lower when he suggested that the alleged sexual assault of Jessica Leeds on an airplane may have been “welcome.” From the October 13 edition of Premiere Radio Networks’ The Sean Hannity Show: