GOP chairman says ‘people just don’t care’ about misogyny allegations against Donald Trump
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said Donald Trump would have to answer for allegations about repeatedly disrespecting women, but deflected concerns that it posed a major challenge for his presidential candidacy.
The GOP chairman appeared on Sunday television talk shows and was asked to respond to a New York Times report that documented Trump’s checkered history of disparaging females and making unwelcome advances toward them.
“These are things that he is going to have to answer for,” Priebus said on ABC’s “This Week.” “But I also think there are things from many years ago and I think that, you know, as Christians, judging each other I think is problematic.”
The New York Times story was based on interviews with women and men who have known Trump since the days when he was known as a “ladies man” at the New York Military Academy in the 1960s. The report said the GOP presumptive 2016 presidential nominee made offensive comments about female co-workers, humiliated other women and used his purchase of the Miss Universe Organization to cozy up to unsuspecting contestants.
When asked about the allegations on “Fox News Sunday,” Priebus said it wasn’t likely to affect Trump’s campaign because the American people want change to come to Washington.
“All these stories that come out, and they come out every couple weeks, people just don’t care,” Priebus said. “I think people look at Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton and say, ‘Who’s going to bring an earthquake to D.C.?’”
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