“You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful – I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything … Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.”
“Ask what you can do for your country.”
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
“Grab ’em by the pussy.”— Kumail Nanjiani (@kumailn) October 7, 2016
That Donald Trump “Grab The Pussy” audio was sitting Somewhere with a label that said “In Case of Emergency break glass and release this.”
— Charlamagne Tha God (@cthagod) October 8, 2016
You know what will grab you by the pussy and do whatever it wants: the cold, unfeeling dead hand of encroaching doom.
Enjoy Arbys— Nihilist Arby’s (@nihilist_arbys) October 8, 2016
Trump initially tried to play the audio off as nothing serious – joking that he’d heard Bill Clinton say worse on the golf course – but the blowback is now so severe that senior Republicans are turning against him.
As the grandfather of two precious girls, I find that no apology can excuse away Donald Trump’s reprehensible comments degrading women.
— Jeb Bush (@JebBush) October 7, 2016
Utah Republican Gary Herbert took the nihilistic Bernie Bro approach, declaring that, while he can’t vote for his guy, he won’t be voting for the other side either:
Donald Trump’s statements are beyond offensive & despicable. While I cannot vote for Hillary Clinton, I will not vote for Trump. #utpol
— Gary R. Herbert (@HerbertForUtah) October 8, 2016
The meek and mild Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, got as angry as he has probably ever been in his life:
Hitting on married women? Condoning assault? Such vile degradations demean our wives and daughters and corrupt America’s face to the world.
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) October 8, 2016
These comments are disturbing and inappropriate, there is simply no excuse for them.
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) October 8, 2016
This is horrific. We cannot allow this man to become president. https://t.co/RwhW7yeFI2
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 7, 2016