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The former president then described how he would "protect" women, though he noted that his team had urged him against using the line.
"My people told me about four weeks ago, I would say 'no, I want to protect the people. I want to protect the women of our country. I want to protect the women,'" Trump said, describing how his advisers said it would be "very inappropriate for you to say."
"I said, 'Well, I'm going to do it, whether the women like it or not, I'm going to protect them,'" Trump said.
Trump went on to ask the crowd, to applause, "is there any woman in this giant stadium who would like not to be protected? Is there any woman in this stadium that wants to be protected by the president?"
Harris responded Thursday morning to Trump's comments, telling reporters that it's "very offensive to women in terms of not understanding their agency, their authority, their right and their ability..."
"This is just the latest on a series of reveals by the former president of how he thinks about women and their agency," she added.
That is a rarified, highly intelligent, perceptive analysis by Kamala. It's bad enough that the messenger is a rapist. Whar is worse is that he thinks--as he asked his audience!--that women don't have "agency", that if a man didn't "protect" them, that they would not be safe; that he will do it "whether they like it or not"--without their consent!--for their own good. They are "the weaker sex" who need a strong man; they are children who aren't competent to make decisions themselves, who need a guardian. Who does he think he is, Nicholas Kristof?
Yes, this was a great "reveal".
