Once again, the media is asking the wrong questions, spinning for the Clintons.
The evil stench of media bias may have gone too far with the disclosure of a hidden recording made of Donald Trump in a 2005 conversation aboard a private bus.
Typical of the pile-on coverage of the story is the Washington Post piece “Trump recorded having extremely lewd conversation about women in 2005.” What’s missing is disclosure about how the recording surfaced.
While the press is free to report anything they wish, one “armchair lawyer” in the outback of East Texas offers you more serious food for thought:
All (good) reporters know that California is a 2-party consent state WRT recordings.
This is clearly detailed on the Digital Media Law Project website here: http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/california-recording-law
Since the recordings in question were apparently made on a bus in California, on its way to the Days of Our Lives set in California, and in a private setting where Trump had what seems to us to be a “reasonable expectation of privacy” the portion of the DMLP page that I would direct you to says this:
“California’s wiretapping law is a “two-party consent” law. California makes it a crime to record or eavesdrop on any confidential communication, including a private conversation or telephone call, without the consent of all parties to the conversation. See Cal. Penal Code § 632. The statute applies to “confidential communications” — i.e., conversations in which one of the parties has an objectively reasonable expectation that no one is listening in or overhearing the conversation. See Flanagan v. Flanagan, 41 P.3d 575, 576-77, 578-82 (Cal. 2002). A California appellate court has ruled that this statute applies to the use of hidden video cameras to record conversations as well. See California v. Gibbons, 215 Cal. App. 3d 1204 (Cal Ct. App. 1989).”
The Digital Millennium Law Project notation continues:
“If you are recording someone without their knowledge in a public or semi-public place like a street or restaurant, the person whom you’re recording may or may not have “an objectively reasonable expectation that no one is listening in or overhearing the conversation,” and the reasonableness of the expectation would depend on the particular factual circumstances. Therefore, you cannot necessarily assume that you are in the clear simply because you are in a public place.”
While no charges are likely to ever be filed, due to the political nature of the case, and the criticality of this Clinton distraction, we are not surprised that the democrats of California and Washington D.C. in the media control nexus, would not shrink from engaging in possibly illegal activity of covert recording to “invent an issue” to use against the republican nominee.
But then again, when comes to sex and spin of the most salacious kind, Trump is but an amateur compared to the Clintons.
But this is how it works: Forget the democrats record of eight failed years, a new war launching in Syria, and Clinton’s disastrous terms of Secretary of State in which she presided over serial foreign policy blunders in places well beyond Benghazi.
Notice how the email scandal has evaporated?
The Clinton’s are trying to make Trump’s mouth a bigger issue that Bill’s roving pechewzelwhacker and rape allegations. Again, the distraction game.
Were it not for the democratic apologists in the closing hours of the Clinton I presidency, Bill would have been impeached.
And is we are now looking at a potentially felonious disclosure.
I doubt it is the first time the law has been forced to take a back seat to the Clinton agendas. And with plausible deniability, of course.
Do hope Trumps sues to hold media mutts at true
A lot of Trump’s trysts were forced, with Bill C., most were consensual, women were attracted to his personality, not his bank account.
Just another lucid nightmare from the wounded animal (everybody’s out to get him!)
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/09/us/politics/trump-women-history.html?action=click&contentCollection=Politics&module=RelatedCoverage®ion=EndOfArticle&pgtype=article
Don’t quote the Clinton Times to us…I challenge you to back up the “Trump’s were forced” crap. Like Bill’s weren’t? Read Juanita Broaddrick account here http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/10/09/breitbart-news-exclusive-video-interview-bill-clinton-accuser-juanita-broaddrick-breaks-describing-brutal-rapes/
Guess what? I was raped in the late seventies, and I immediately went to the police and had swab specimens taken to put the dude in jail..(I’m not buying her line of “it was the late seventies so things weren’t reported”…)
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/trump-campaign-says-it-paid-for-bill-clintons-accuser-to-be-at-the-debate
Clintons were RAPE, you must be a typical democrapper with his head so far up his DONKEY you have NO idea from real and make believe!! it is idiots like you that have killed this country!! STUPID IS as STUPID DOES and your on that wagon!!!
WOW!
It’s well stated, but after all, responsibility rests with “US the people.” We gobble up this crap and it seems we can’t get enough of gossip to fill our own (empty!) lives.
Just the fact H.C. running for office after abt. 30 years of fake public (service?) makes me want to give up on our system called democracy. Then again, we have to take a good look at ourselves!
The Republicans had – from a large group of ‘contestants’ – the chance to pick someone to represent their party in the ‘race for the presidency’. Most of the group were well versed in the art of politics. Donald Trump (along with at least one other) wasn’t.
The ‘rules’ of how one conducts oneself in politics differs greatly from how things are done in the entertainment/business field. None the less, I think that you have made an error when considering the basic situation of how the 2005 recordings were made (and frankly any of the other recordings that ‘show up’.)
Donald Trump was participating in a television program where basically he was an entertainer – and (I have never actually seen the show as that kind of cr*p is boring) was being recorded on the bus as part of the program ALL ACCESS which gives people ‘a behind the scenes’ look at how some popular program is made.
I will bet that he signed some kind of waver allowing ‘recordings’ of the conversation on the bus – look at the recordings of the Howard Stern show and on the apprentice shows – all those recordings were permitted and often featured on Trump’s shows.
Nothing illegal – only someone thinking that they could say anything, anytime . . .
Nuts falling out of the trees
Trump was wearing a hot mic on the bus during taping of a show. How is that private?
He was led to believe t5he interview was done, ergo the locker room/potty mouth stuff.
He’d been having ‘hot mic’ risque recordings for years and apparently ‘didn’t care’ – I bet he got some kind of satisfaction from them (remember ‘Howard Stern’ in 1996?).
I’ve long believed that how a person talks in private is how they think . . .
I’d like to see the evidence that ties the release of the tapes to the Clinton campaign. Trump has made himself lots of enemies. It could have been anyone with an axe to grind or looking to make a buck.
IMHO Trump’s no. 1 motivation is fame and celebrity for himself. Remember the “Vision Thing?”
The Aristocracy, remember?
I wasn’t for trump at all untell now any one but the hell -itch
LOL! some of you must be waiting for Donald to shoot somebody on 5th Avenue before you decide that he’s unfit for office…. amazing
Don’t ya think Billy Bush offered Uncle George a perfect way to avenge Jeb’s defeat?
Duh
When the alternative is h c Trump could shoot 5 people on 5th Ave on live tv and I would still vote for him. There is NOTHING he could do to make me vote for that pos. clinton is the bottom of the barrel. Clinton supporters ?LMAO The evidence is staring you in the face. Just how stupid are you people ?