• ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    That’s a hard one to delineate though. Is any sexual contact with the President of the United States consensual? Can the President only get a reach around from Xi Jinping?

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      4 months ago

      Can the President only get a reach around from Xi Jinping?

      Oh my! I just had a disturbing mental image.

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        4 months ago

        Brother what do you think they do behind those closed doors at executive summits. It sure as hell ain’t anything regarding policy.

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      4 months ago

      The easy answer is the person he was already in a relationship with before becoming President.

      We aren’t talking about just any citizen though, she was literally working for him. This is no different than a CEO and a secretary. The power imbalance is… Blatant.

      She says it was consensual. So I go with that, because even decades later it’s her view on the situation. That said, any President (just like any CEO, etc) having any sort of sexual relations with people they literally employ is a sexual predator. So yes, Bill Clinton is a sexual predator. I won’t go so far as to say she was sexually assaulted though, because she doesn’t consider it to be so.