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Originally Posted by Oberon
What about the bit where he admitted walking through backstage at the Miss Universe pagents quote:
"They're standing there with no clothes. Is everybody ok? And you see these incredible looking women. And so I sort of get away with things like that."
That was from the Howard Stern show in 2005, and that's after the NBC days, so the GOP could perhaps have got that...I don't know the internal workings on the GOP intelligence service but it seems that they have dropped the ball in a manner which would make the CIA jealous. I mean, it's Donald Trump for goodness sake, not some nobody from hicksville, there must have been something they could have used.
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It isn't a problem with vetting. Everybody knew what Trump was all about, but once he accumulated the appropriate number of delegates the die was cast. The thing is that the primary system in the US is more of a team of rivals. The candidates want to win, but they also want the party to win. So you go after the other guys on the stage but you don't tear them down so much that the damage is irreparable.
Of course Trump didn't play by that rule, but everybody else did. And so he bullied his way through relatively unscathed. The vetters in the party knew about these things, everybody did, but what were they supposed to do? The only option was to sit and wait for this stuff to be used.