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Dirty Donald

How revelations of Trump’s lewd ‘tude flung his campaign into freefall.

Dirty Donald
Jerry Roberts

Soon after the Republicans’ 2012 presidential defeat, the party’s national committee released a high-profile political “postmortem.” It concluded, among other things, that the GOP must “improve our brand with women throughout the country.”

How’s that workin’ out for you?

As every schoolchild knows, a bombshell leaked video from 2005, showing Donald Trump lewdly boasting about his taste and techniques for sexually assaulting women, struck and transformed the Republican nominee’s campaign against Democrat Hillary Clinton, 48 hours before the rivals met in their second debate on October 9.