Do Donald Trump Supporters Know He is Also a Liar?

I am going to start this post in a way in which I rarely start posts off doing. Instead of informing you about stuff and then forming an opinion, I am going to ask straight out. And before I ask the question I am going to come out and say NO I am not voting for Hillary Clinton. While she actually has experience in politics, she doesn't deserve my vote based on lies and scandals. Speaking of lies though, this question goes out to staunch Donald Trump supporters. I have been asking myself and others this question for about a year and a half because for the life of me, I cannot wrap my mind around how people think. When I die and I see St. Peter at the "Pearly Gates" I am going to ask him if Donald Trump supporters actually think he doesn't lie or if they believe him when he says he doesn't lie.

All I have been hearing since he has decided to run for president is that he tells the truth, he tells it how it is, he isn't a politician, and he doesn't lie. You can imagine Donald Trump wearing an Abraham Lincoln costume with the top hat and the beard or as a little boy telling his father that he chopped down a cherry tree. Yeah, I am not buying it. Besides being probably the weakest presidential candidate we have ever had in an election where his opponent is the second weakest candidate of all time he does have a decent chance of winning because the election should be semi close.

However, to say he doesn't lie? That is baffling to me because on all of the "truth and lies" websites that I have been to, the result is that Trump is lying his pants off. The funniest part of his campaign was when he called Republican opponent Ted Cruz "Lyin' Ted", but the thing is that Ted Cruz tells the truth more than Donald does. It just baffles me that his supports don't think that he lies when he clearly does. I mean it could be because they are just mindless people who just believe everything he says, but off the top of my head, I can tell you at least five times that he has lied. Donald Trump lied when he:

Said Hillary Clinton was wrong when he mocked a disabled reporter, which he did...

Said that he didn't support the war in Iraq, when he said that "I guess I do"...

Said that he wouldn't profile Middle Eastern and Muslim men when coming into this country, when he did...

Said that Hillary Clinton wanted to abolish the Second Amendment, when she never said that...

and my favorite...

Said that the unemployment rate in this country is 59%, which is in every way, completely impossible.

So clearly, yes, while Hillary is a liar and Hillary is crooked and I live in California so I don't have to vote for her anyways, Donald Trump is and will always be a liar. If you are reading this and still want to vote for him, okay, that is fine, I am not pleading with you to not vote for someone that you like. But you lose a lot of credibility by coming out and saying that the man doesn't lie and always tells the truth, because the reality is that he rarely tells the truth and is usually pants on fire lying. With these statements said, I know that my comments will be followed up with me being a Hillary supporter and me just being a Trump "hater". I scoff at those sentiments. So I ask finally to all of his staunch supporters, do you believe him when he says that he doesn't lie?

Does Donald lie? I'll let you decide

Why Rape and Sexual Assault Victims Wait to Step Forward

First and foremost, I want to preface this post by telling any man or woman who has been a victim of rape and/or sexually assault to IMMEDIATELY go to the police and officials as that will give them the best chance to press charges on the people or persons responsible for this horrible transgression. I have never experienced the horror of rape or sexual assault so I cannot even think about how it may make a victim feel, nor can I even imagine the level of embarrassment and hurt that might come from it. According to Scope of the Problem, 17.7 million women and 2.78 million men have been raped in this country since 1998. The way things stand, 9/10th of the cases are when a woman is the victim, making 1/10th of the cases having a man is the victim. One of the biggest divisions in this country is about whether rape culture exists amongst celebrities and whether or not you should believe people that come out years after the event.

One of the biggest cases of women coming out years after the fact when a celebrity has raped them was Bill Cosby. According to the women who claim to have been raped or assaulted by him, Cosby would drug them so that they passed out and he would have his way with them. They would add that they would lose consciousness and would be unable to remember what happened while they were blacked out. Last time I heard, most of the cases were beyond the statue of limitations, however, there were two or three recent cases that came out that could put the former sitcom star in front of a jury of his own peers. Many people came forward to defend the man, saying that the accusations are false and they know the man and there were also people who came forward and believed the women who accused Bill Cosby.

This is not about whether I believe he or current Presidential Candidate, Donald J. Trump, have or have not sexually assaulted or raped women in the past. This is about something that defenders of these people have always said to detract from these allegations. You see, I always hear people saying "The reason why he didn't rape or sexually assault her was because she waited so long to come out about what happened, she didn't even tell the authorities about it, clearly she is lying." I never understood that reaction, whether or not she was or wasn't lying about the claim. What people need to realize is that while yes, victims or so-called victims do lie up to 10% of the time in rape or sexual assault cases, that has nothing to do with the time that they come forward.

I think there are many reasons why people don't come out IMMEDIATELY after being assaulted is and I will explain the following below. The first is that they could be afraid of their attacker. If they feel as though the person who carried out the rape or assault is stronger than them or is in any place of power where they might feel bodily harm if they come forward, could fear for their lives. Instead of coming forward and risking what they feel is injury, they might just do nothing and move on. While this does hinder the police getting the perpetrators charged with the crime, it might make the victim less uncomfortable because if they do go in front of the police, they might have to risk re-remembering the pain that they went through by explaining what happened.

Which leads me into the second reason why people don't come forward. That reason is the fact that they risk skepticism in front of the police or whoever is questioning them. More often than not, there have been times where a person is explaining what happened after they were raped and/or assaulted and being told that they were being untruthful or lying. This often times comes from the court of public opinion because the woman dressed "slutty" or "scandalously" so she might have deserved what happened to her. It also happens when they are accusing someone of power and this might add to a lot of skepticism by the authorities, especially if they like or support that person or think that they would never do something like that.

Sometimes people don't come out to say anything because they are too embarrassed to come forward. Often times it isn't the fear that they might get physically attacked by their attacker for coming forward, it is the sheer fact that their name is going to be smeared all over the news. Everyone is going to know what happened to them or what they claim happened to them. While people might come out and try to console them, there will always be people who come out and again, accuse them of lying. People want to try to be strong and say that, "maybe I deserved what happened to me," or they might even say "well, he is a nice guy or she is a nice girl, this is probably just a normal occurrence and I should just forget all about it." Often times, they will try to make themselves believe that nothing ever happened so that they can keep their lives private and not try to mess up the lives of other people who may or may not deserve it.

Personally, I think it is a lot of the above. You can add in the fact that the survivor might not have enough evidence or the belief that the police won't do enough to help. I have honestly talked to women who have come forward immediately with charges and the police did not find enough evidence to convict the people responsible for the attack. A lot of times, schools do not do thorough enough investigations or absolutely no investigation at all into these crimes. I mean, yes, there are times when college rape cases are falsified, see the Rolling Stone and the University of Virginia and Duke Lacrosse rape cases for examples. As a matter of fact, people don't trust Rolling Stone because of the allegations that the magazine made attacking the accusers.

I just never understood why people have jumped on accusers of rape and sexual assault for coming out of the wood work saying that they were lying for doing so. Lets be honest, if you felt like any of the above after being raped or sexually assaulted, you kept it in for years and finally someone came out and said the same thing happened to them as what happened to you by the same person who attacked you. Wouldn't that give you the confidence to come out and say something about it? I also love it when people call accusers liberals for doing this especially when people like Gretchen Carlson, Megyn Kelly, and Andrea Tantaros, who while accused Roger Ailes of sexually harassing them in the work place, are about as conservative as it gets. I don't know, it always makes me chuckle because while not coming forward often makes trying a sexual assault or rape suspects impossible it doesn't legitimate or illegitimate a possible victim of sexual assault.

Donald Trump and Bill Cosby