10/18/2018

GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Former Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina on Thursday [10-18-18] denounced Donald Trump’s Twitter attack on Stormy Daniels earlier this week in which he referred to the adult film actress as ‘horseface’…Trump made the comment Tuesday [10-16-18] after a federal judge dismissed Daniels’ defamation lawsuit against the President for deriding Daniels’ account of an affair with Trump with subsequent threats from an unknown men not to come forward with her story…Fiorina, a former Hewlett-Packard executive, had her own appearance attacked by then-candidate Trump during the 2016 election. ‘Look at that face,’ he told Rolling Stone magazine of Fiorina. ‘Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?!’ When asked about the comment Thursday, Fiorina said she wasn’t surprised by the insult…While still condemning Trump for his comments, Fiorina added that she thinks the current political discourse is part of a larger cultural movement that ‘lifts up outrage.'”

Paul LeBlanc, “Carly Fiorina says Trump’s ‘Horseface’ insult has brought politics to ‘a new low’,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, October 18, 2018 10:04 pm