Chasten Buttigieg destroys JD Vance's claim that Trump is 'a person of character'

Chasten Buttigieg appears on The Ellen DeGeneres Show Photo: screenshot

Chasten Buttigieg, the husband of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, mocked former President Donald Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), for calling Trump a “person of character.”

At a recent campaign rally, Vance said, “The most important thing is not that we agree on 100 percent of the issues, it’s that we have a person of character and courage under fire criticism in the Oval Office. »

In response, Chasten Buttigieg posted a video of Vance’s comment and added Trump’s infamous recorded statements he made in September 2005. Access Hollywood co-host Billy Bush.

At the time, Trump told Bush he might try kissing actress Arianne Zucker whom he and Bush were waiting to meet, saying, “I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start to kiss him. You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful people – I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Kiss yourself. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.

Buttigieg released an abbreviated version of the quote.

“I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. …Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.” – Donald Trump https://t.co/BugavRgfDl

– Chasten Glezman Buttigieg (@Chasten) September 26, 2024

A tape of Trump’s famous quote was leaked to the press in October 2016, just two days before Trump’s presidential debate with Hillary Clinton. In response, many congressional Republicans withdrew their support for Trump’s candidacy and condemned his comments.

“Going after married women? Approve an attack? Such despicable degradations demean our women and daughters and corrupt the face of America to the world,” former governor of Massachusetts and not yet a senator. » said Mitt Romney.

Ultimately, Trump himself responded to the backlash, saying he would not drop out of the presidential race, saying: “It was a locker room joke, a private conversation that took place many years ago. many years. (Former President) Bill Clinton said much worse to me on the golf course – not even close. I apologize if anyone was offended.

As Trump won the 2016 election, at least 26 women publicly accused him of rape, sexual assault or sexual misconduct. Although Trump denied all allegations, in May 2023 he was found responsible for sexual abuse against E. Jean Carroll, a writer who accused Trump of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman fitting room around 1996 A jury ordered Trump to pay it. $5 million for the assault, but he said he would appeal the decision.

This isn’t the first time Buttigieg has mocked Vance for his comments on the campaign trail.

In September, Vance suggested that American families struggling with child care costs should simply ask grandparents, aunts and uncles to help raise their children. In response, Buttigieg said, “Asking grandma to watch them for free” is not policy.

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