FUTURE PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I don’t want to be like Congressman Foley, with, you know, 12-year-olds.
Was that Mark Foley? IIRC, he was caught with (male) Congressional Pages, who are older than 12. But the key thing about Foley was that he was caught. So I read this as “I don’t want to get caught with someone underage”…
You forget that Trump is a pathological liar. Never tell the truth when a lie will do.
Trump was almost certainly aware that the congressional pages were around 16 or 17 years old. But Trump wanted to say something nasty to tear someone else down, and that’s exactly what he did. It’s exactly what he always does.
So what Trump was really saying was, “don’t look at me! Look at that other “perv”! I’m definitely not a perv! “
Was that Mark Foley? IIRC, he was caught with (male) Congressional Pages, who are older than 12. But the key thing about Foley was that he was caught. So I read this as “I don’t want to get caught with someone underage”…
You forget that Trump is a pathological liar. Never tell the truth when a lie will do.
Trump was almost certainly aware that the congressional pages were around 16 or 17 years old. But Trump wanted to say something nasty to tear someone else down, and that’s exactly what he did. It’s exactly what he always does.
So what Trump was really saying was, “don’t look at me! Look at that other “perv”! I’m definitely not a perv! “
Classic projection, as with practically every other statement that flies out of that disgusting mouth of his.