• mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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    Actual quote:

    The Vanity Fair article also features Eliza Cooney, a former part-time babysitter who worked for Kennedy between 1998 and 1999, alleging that he groped her in his kitchen. Kennedy declined to directly acknowledge the sexual assault accusation at first, instead dismissing ā€œthe other allegationsā€ as part of a ā€œvery, very rambunctious youth.ā€

    ā€œIā€™ve said this from the beginning. I am not a church boy. I am not running like that. I said ā€¦ I had a very, very rambunctious youth. I said in my announcement speech that I have ā€¦ so many skeletons in my closet, that if they could all vote, I could run for king of the world,ā€ Kennedy said, adding, ā€œVanity Fair is recycling 30-year-old stories, and I, you know, am not gonna comment on the details of any of them.ā€

    When asked directly whether he denied sexually assaulting Cooney, Kennedy repeated, ā€œIā€™m not going to comment on it.ā€

    This comes right after he directly and at length denied the allegations that he ate part of a dog.

    Also, this part of his very, very rambunctious youth happened (allegedly) when he was 45 and had several children.

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      Saying ā€œI had a rambunctious childhoodā€ and ā€œIā€™ve got so many skeletons in my closetā€ like it absolves him from anythingā€¦

      ā€œYeah, I strangled that hooker while high on coke and while getting blown by that other hooker. So what? Why are you surprised? I told you I had a rambunctious childhood!ā€

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      Thatā€™s par for the course. Trumpā€™s ā€œlocker room talkā€ about the joys of sexual assault happened when he was in his 60ā€™s, but they still hand waved it away as if it was a minor transgression by a teenager.