Now that she knows Donald Trump is her opponent, Hillary Clinton had the New York Times do a hit piece on him and his "women issues" this past Sunday.
It’s curious; Trump has been running in the primaries against 16 other GOP candidates for over a year, and “The Old Gray Lady” just now decided to run the piece.
I read it. It’s a foundering reach to make Trump look bad. The Donald was far ahead of competitors in promoting women in his organizations, and yeah, he was a bachelor who liked being around pretty women. Shocker!
The attempted attack on Donald Trump was short on facts, even after 50 women were interviewed. The main person the NY Times used, an ex-model named Rowanne Brewer Lane, has since insisted the reporter distorted what she said. A Trump supporter, she said he was “kind, thoughtful and generous.”
In short, Trump, while being a 68-year-old man about it, has been fair to women. The NYT did this exhaustive piece on him, going back to his New York Military Academy days in the late 1950s, and found nothing on him. No smoking gun from smoking hot women.
Women do, and will increasingly, support Trump as an agent of change. A recent poll said that women in America are angrier than men about the current state of political affairs.
The left has always treated women worse than the right. They spin it otherwise, but even now the left plans to have 100 naked women outside the GOP Convention in Cleveland, posing for an artist to distract right-wingers. Or maybe that is the only way to get people to come to Cleveland, Ohio. But you get the point.
Compare Trump's inoffensive dating behavior to Bill Clinton’s sexploits and the way Hillary viciously went after all his accusers. Bill's bad behavior against women ranges from rape allegations by Juanita Broaddrick to just plain disrespect of Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky and countless others on whom the Clinton press henchmen tamped down. Trump did not treat his mistresses that way; he married them.
Bill Clinton was impeached for being an alley cat, and for lying, by a hypocritical triumvirate of “family values" Republicans: multi-marriage aficionado Newt Gingrich, Rep. Robert Livingston (who had to resign over his affairs), and — to put a nice climax on the "moral" majority — former Speaker of the House Denny Hastert. He just went to prison for involvement with high school boys. Talk about people in glass houses!
Bill Clinton was later disbarred for perjury over the Monica affair while Hillary attacked Bill’s accusers, sent her secret police after them, and did all she could to prevent these “bimbo eruptions” from derailing her outsized political ambitions.
For Hillary and Bill Clinton to say that Trump has treated women unfairly is like Jared the Subway guy telling you you’re creeping him out.
A Dixon Diaz cartoon sums up the left. It depicts a liberal Democrat woman talking to a man. The man says to her, “I don’t believe that women have any rights, and I think gays should be hanged.” She says, “Wow, what a complete ass you are, you must be a Republican." He says, “No, actually I’m a Muslim, and those are my religious beliefs.” She then looks embarrassed and apologetically says, “Oh! I’m sorry! I hope you do not think I’m Islamophobic!”
Ron Hart, a libertarian op-ed humorist and award-winning author, is a frequent guest on CNN. Contact him at Ron@RonaldHart.com or tweet @RonaldHart.
This article originally appeared on Crestview News Bulletin: HART: Who treats women worse: Trump or the Clintons?