Cenk Uygur
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Surrogates Desperately Defend Trump Tapes, Blame Beyoncé
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October 12, 2016
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Trump surrogates have been badly rocked by the recently leaked Trump tapes. At this point they’re basically out on their feet and flailing wildly. Cenk Uygur, Grace Baldridge, and Brett Erlich, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"Donald Trump supporters are desperately searching for a scapegoat to deflect blame for the recently leaked 2005 audio in which the GOP presidential nominee boasts of forcing himself on women and they seemed to have bizarrely chosen Beyoncé to blame.
Hours after the hot mic moment from a taped appearance on “Access Hollywood” was released on Friday, Trump surrogate and CNN contributor Scottie Nell Hughes began crafting the blame rap music deflection. Less than 48 hours after the tape that contained statements from Trump like “grab them by the pussy” was released on Friday, an adviser to failed GOP presidential candidate turned Trump surrogate Ben Carson expanded upon the “blame it on rap music” defense.
“There are two issues,” Carson adviser Armstrong Williams told Business Insider. “The tape itself, which unfortunately is the kind of language that we hear in rap music, we hear in probably coarse conversation, you know, unfortunately, we hear this.”
In his Daily Caller article, “Donald Trump Is Downstream From Beyoncé,” conservative writer Matt K. Lewis made a similar argument.
“The truth is that our culture has coarsened, and reality star Donald Trump is the political manifestation of this coarsening,” wrote Lewis.
Trump surrogate Betsy McCaughey, perhaps most recently known for hyping the myth of death panels in Obamacare, went on to make the explicit connection between apparent rapper Beyoncé and Trump’s offensive description of sexual assault.”*
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