IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump wants to be a provocateur again. Why else would he bring up his specious and repeatedly disproven claim that millions voted illegally in California, where he was walloped by Hillary Clinton? And why would he intentionally recall and brag about one of the single most controversial things he’s ever said (a distinction not thrown around lightly)? Trump was speaking in West Virginia on Thursday [4-5-18]… ‘And remember my opening remarks at Trump Tower, when I opened. Everybody said, ‘Oh, he was so tough,’ and I used the word ‘rape.’ And yesterday, it came out where, this journey coming up, women are raped at levels that nobody has ever seen before. They don’t want to mention that…’ The President did not provide a scintilla of evidence to back up his claim. And what’s truly troubling is that Trump continues to generalize such allegations against a large group of people. Trump is correct that he mentioned rape when he announced his campaign at Trump Tower in June 2015. But it’s not true that people called him tough. In fact, a lot of people — even Republicans — called him racist at the time.”
-Z. Byron Wolf, “Trump basically called Mexicans rapists again, ” CNN Politics, CNN.com, April 6, 2018 1:38 pm