The president’s team is trying to stomp out coverage of his prior comments about young girls amid fallout regarding his alleged ties to pedophilic sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Steven Cheung, Trump’s communications director, torched The Daily Beast for dredging up remarks that Donald Trump made during an interview with Howard Stern in 2006, when he told the radio show host that the best part about being Donald Trump was that he could get “all the girls” he wanted—if he wasn’t married to his wife.


But then Trump got into a questionable back-and-forth with the show’s co-host, Robin Quivers, who asked the real estate mogul: “Do you have an age limit?”

“No, no, I have no age—,” Trump started, before backtracking. “I mean, I have an age—I don’t want to be like Congressman Foley, with, you know, 12-year-olds.”

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    Is this the same interview where he said he promised Ivanka not to date anyone younger than her when she was 17 or is that a separate one? A promise that it definitely makes sense to make with no inciting incident.

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        It looks like he told people about the promise when she was 17, so yeah just even worse.

        “I have a deal with her. She’s 17 and doing great ― Ivanka. She made me promise, swear to her that I would never date a girl younger than her,” Trump said. “So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.”

        Saying the field is getting limited as she gets older when she’s not even 18 is just so foul

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    Wanted to look up Foley, only to find out he tendered his resignation to Dennis Hastert,.

    From Wikipedia: “Hastert himself was described by a Federal District Court judge as a “serial child molester”[37] and jailed in 2016 for illegally structuring bank withdrawals in an attempt to hide his own sexual abuse of four high school boys during his pre-Congressional career [38]”

    Hastert was a Republican speaker of the house…

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      I was just looking Dennis Hastert up to remember which party seems to always have congressmen doing this. I’d say 10 dollars if you can guess Foley’s party, but come on. You already know by the statistics.

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    Please remove if opinion pieces aren’t allowed, but I’d never heard these comments from Donald Trump, and it feels relevant that he offered this creepy shit up publicly in the wake of his ties to Epstein coming under public scrutiny.

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    They are in damage control mode but none of them have quit or spoken out. They’re fine with the child sex traducing as long as they can make money out of it.