Michelle Obama condemns Trump for “bragging about sexually assaulting women”

By Kimberly Wilborn 10/15/16
Michelle Obama says Donald Trump’s latest comments involving women “shook [her] to the core.”

The first lady, seeming emotional, said at a Hillary Clinton rally in Manchester, New Hampshire continued, “I can’t believe I’m saying a candidate for president of the United States has bragged about sexually assaulting women.”

Earlier this month, a tape surfaced of Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump saying crude sexual remarks.
In the tape, Trump says “ when you’re a star they let you do it.”
He said “Grab them by the p – – – y. You can do anything.”

Several republicans such as Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, withdrew their support for the Republican presidential nominee after the tape surfaced.

Mrs. Obama said in her speech Thursday night, that if she conducted a “normal campaign speech” it would have been “dishonest and disingenuous [of her] to just move on to the next thing like this was all just a bad dream.”
She said “I know this is a campaign but this isn’t about politics. It’s about basic human decency.”

Obama never once said Trump’s name but referred to him as a “candidate” instead throughout the speech.

Obama said “It’s that feeling of terror and violation that too many women have felt when someone has grabbed them or forced himself on them and they’ve said “No,” but he didn’t listen—something that we know happens on college campuses and countless other places every single day… [and] so many have worked for so many years to end this kind of violence and abuse and disrespect, but here we are. It’s 2016 and we’re hearing these exact same things every day on the campaign trail. We are drowning in it.”