Why is it that unappealing rich guys like former President Donald Trump and Harvey Weinstein all seem to employ the same seduction technique? They lure young women to their hotel rooms with promises of a business chat, then surprise them at the door wearing a bathrobe or silk pajamas, thereby making their true motives obvious.
Apparently, they do it because it often works for them, as it allegedly did when Trump invited Stormy Daniels to his lair after meeting the adult-film performer at a celebrity golf event. If he knew that he might end up in court someday facing that woman on a witness stand, would he have passed on the opportunity and gone home to see his wife and their newborn child?
Weinstein must surely have regrets for his lurid exploitation of aspiring actresses, now that he is spending the rest of his life in prison, but it is a pretty sure bet that Trump remains unrepentant. For him, denial ain’t just a river in Egypt. He claims the tryst with Daniels never happened, but nobody, including his pals on Fox News (and surely his wife, Melania), has any doubt that the lothario from Queens did what he did. That’s because he did similar things so many other times and boasted about it on the famous grab-’em-by-the-you-know-what tape.
Since almost everyone understands exactly how Trump has lived his life, hearing the details of his creepy encounter with Daniels laid bare in a courtroom will not lose him many votes and may even improve his standing among retrograde males who envy him for bedding a voluptuous woman. Clearly, there is nothing that can disqualify a Republican candidate for president these days if he has enough gall to claim he is a champion of traditional values in a holy war against godless, commie, baby-killing liberals.
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