Trump’s fans were happy to overlook the president’s closeness to the late sex offender, but now that Clinton is being associated with him they are up in arms
Donald Trump’s supporters are often dismissed as violent misogynists, but nothing could be further than the truth. There is no one more feminist, no one more concerned about survivors of sexual abuse, than a Trump supporter who spies an opportunity to “own the libs”.
When Joe Biden was accused of sexual assault by a former staffer earlier this year, for example, the claim was immediately weaponised by the same people who were unmoved by analogous allegations against Trump. When the Ghislaine Maxwell court documents revealed last week that the Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre claims to have seen Bill Clinton on Epstein’s island (he denies ever being there), it was a similar story. The same people who have played down Trump’s ties to Epstein – whom the president once called “terrific” – were very worked up about the Clinton connection: #clintonisapedo started trending on Twitter as Trump supporters accused the liberal media of protecting the former president.
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