John Oliver once again offered a searing critique of Donald Trump on Last Week Tonight not for his performance during the second, restive presidential debate (he taped the show prior to its live airing), but for the Republican nominee’s vulgar comments about women that threaten to derail his campaign.
“Yes, that is audio of Donald Trump in 2005 telling a giggling Billy Bush that one of the perks of fame is that he can grab women’s genitalia without permission,” Oliver said after playing the 2005 recording of the billionaire business man bragging about attempting to “bleep” married women. “Since [last week], we have sunk so low we are breaking through the earth’s crust where drowning in boiling magma will come as sweet, sweet relief.”
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/oct/10/john-oliver-trump-groping-tape-last-week-tonight
1) Farther down in the article, he refers to Clinton as "the first female presidential candidate" while Trump is "human embodiment of every backwards condescending Mad Men-esque Boys Club attitude that has ever existed, rolled into one giant, salivating dick-size-referencing, bleep-grabbing warthog in a red power tie." Nice glossing over of Clinton's vileness.
2) I am honestly curious:Could the GOP have said, "Thanks, but no thanks, we won't let you run in the primary?" I just don't know enough about the inner workings of the Republican Party to know if they could have done that. Not that it really matters now, I just wonder.