Nor does it need to. You're responding to selective parts of my post, so I'll ask again---if he didn't ask before he kissed them, do you think he asked, "Can I grab your p-word?"
Do you really think that happened?
@CatherineofAragon There have been times in my life when I've touched a woman intimately. And I don't ever recall asking for permission. You sound like these SJWs who want a consent form filled out, when in the real world consent is often granted without a form or verbal request.
If no non-verbal consent was granted, then it was sexual assault. But the only bit of information pro-or-con that we have about consent was that he said that they let him do it. So there's no evidence that he was saying, "I force myself on unconsenting women."
He was bragging that they DO consent!Now you're assuming he was leaning in and testing the waters; he neither said nor implied it.
No, I don't assume anything. This is
exactly where the difference is. I'm saying we can't assume a specific meaning to what he said, since it's ambiguous. It could have been either.
On the other hand,
you're making the assumption of the worst-case scenario.
Seriously? Kissing is not the sexual assault---it's the grabbing of the crotch. The genitals, the private area, whatever. You didn't miss that part, did you?
So it's okay to grab a woman and kiss her without consent, but grabbing the crotch is where the line is drawn? Interesting worldview you have.
Yes, intimate areas are required for sexual assault, but that doesn't mean that one can grab a woman off the street and forcibly kiss her (unless it's V-E Day).
Rudy Giuliani, the former prosecutor, admitted it was assault, but you conveniently edited out that part of my post.
And you left out that he said that
he questioned whether Trump had done things.
But that would ruin your narrative that Giuliani is claiming Trump admitted to sexual assault. Let's remember,
that was your original contention...that Trump had admitted to sexual assault.
And I questioned it. He did no such thing. He gave an
ambiguous statement that you choose to interpret one way. If there was consent to the touching, it is
not sexual abuse (NYS legal term for sexual assault), by statute. (Note, I'm not a lawyer.)