there were literal stories of Clinton using his police escorts to bring him women and multiple stories of assaults.
I don't really care if a president cannot keep it in their pants as long as it's consensual and not assault. What Trump was describing was assault.
I don't understand your response, what Clinton was accused of was actual assault with a real person, what Trump described was at best a hypothetical that you could assume he actually did, and as you describe below you seem to be unaware of a inconsistency in your thoughts:
Arranging to have sex with groupies is unseemly and, unpresidential (at least the being obvious about it part) but it's not assault... My views on sex is pretty wide open.
If Rock Star finds a groupie in his dressing room, grabs her by the item and has consensual sex with her, that parses differently from Trump finding a woman in an area where she was seeking him out, grabs her by the item and has consensual sex with her in what way?
If the Rock Star grabs the person by the item and it turns out she was a catererer and not interested is that any less an assault than in Trump had done it? Don't know if you ever saw Days of Thunder, that kind of situation plays out in that virtually directly and is passed off as a humerous mistake (the main character mistakes his doctor for a hooker and places her hand on his groin).
What if the groupie really did like the Rock Star but hated the way they were treated and only had sex because they were afraid to fight back, or because they believed it would start a relationship?
Why if Bill Clinton is accused of an assault do you respond as if it it were a consensual situation? It seems to me like it must be for the exact reason I said above, you've decided it's just a lie, the women who it happened too (and it's more than one) really did engage in a consensual activity and just made up the story about it not being consensual afterwards? At the very least, the stories about how he got into the situations are every bit as one sided and non-consensual as with you believe about Trump.
That this president cheated on wives with new lovers, and later married one of them, (or was it 2?), I find tacky and a character flaw, but it's probably worth being compared against Bill. Assault allegations or joking that you are able to (implying you just may have done so) is different. At least to me.
It's interesting that you conflate Trump's cheating (which is a voluntary activity), with Clinton being accused of assault, and then flip it as if Clinton was just a voluntary cheater and Trump the one with the assaults. You seem to have a consistent ethic -assualt intolerable, cheating just reprehensible - but to be choosing which facts you give credibility to with a flexible weighting. Is that because you found the actual women that accused Clinton less credible than a comment that doesn't identify anyone and for which no one stepped up?
But I guess (if strain myself to the point of hurting something) I get how someone may take away that he's just describing them as his groupies.
I don't even get how that would strain you, the conversation was literally about the topic of how famous people have groupies who let them get away with anything. The creepy part about Trump's role in it was his seeming belief that all women are groupies.
If you see it that way, I guess there would be a double standard with Bill, for the most part, getting a pass. It's probably a lot more superficial as well. Bill was portrayed as charming / attractive. Trump as a buffoon / gross. That shouldn't matter, but probably did/does, quite a lot.
"Portrayed" exactly. That matters a lot. And who is it exactly who's potraying them? Oh yeah the media that Trump should not fight back against.
I don't even think it's a double standard. The objective facts on the table are much worse for Clinton. You have multiple cases where we have identified people - that no one believes at all were not engaged in a sexual act with Clinton - and where one says consensual and the other not. Do you have anyone where that's true for Trump? You have pornstars that want to talk about their consensual relationships with Trump, which is totally creepy but an actual reality.