Revealing

 TERRI GROSS, on her excellent NPR interview program "Fresh Air" was interviewing a lady whose knowledge of Donald Trump is quite up close and personal. Terri, the best in her business, was listening in stunned silence along with her several millions of listeners as the lady, paraphrased, said: "I'm an old crow (crone?) now, seventy five years old. butt forty five years ago I was quite a looker, tall, slender, curvy, with a pretty face, and let me tell you, I dressed to kill. Mini skirts, tight low cut tops, sleeves dresses, heels, you name it, the whole nine yards. I had the attention of men, and I loved it. It helped my career in advertising. I flew a lot. One day I got on the plane and headed for the back, as usual,  regular folks section. We called them "stewardesses" back then, and one of them came up to me, and said that a gentleman sitting in first class front row was inviting me to join him, that he had an extra seat. How could I reject that offer? I walked up front and sat down to, it turned out, a thirty year old Donald Trump, in suit and tie. He introduced introduced himself, we began chatting, he turned on the charm, and soon he got showed me a picture of his mansion, his yacht, and his private jet. Then he showed me his erection, the real deal, not a picture. Next thin I knew, he had his tongue in my mouth and his hands up my skirt, heading for my privates. I struggled free, got up, and went back to my original seat."......Terri asked question, including the obvious one. No, she said, i didn't say anything about it, to anyone. I didn't file a complaint with the airline or the police.  just told a few of my friends. This was the nineteen seventies,and things were different back then. Back then woman did not generally report mashers and sexual predators, unless they got raped, and even then, not necessarily. It was understood that that was just the way things were, that that's just the way some men were, and it part of life, part of what you had to deal with if you were a woman, like getting less pay and obeying your husband. If you spoke up you were risking not being believed, or retaliation, or public shame and ridicule. So she kept quiet, lived her life, pursued her career, and only when Trump became president and the others started coming forward did she decide to join them in revealing the true Trump to the world, so disgusted was she with the thought of a sexual predator in the white House. and of course, she is not along. She is among at least two dozen women with similar tales to tell,; there is no conspiracy to defame Trump, all the accounts have an eerily similar narrative, they all corroborate.  And still, Trump is a free man, for the time being. And once again, as with so many other aspects of Trump's behavior, you just have to shake your head and wonder at the thinking and the morality of people who still support him, even after all these years and all the garbage he brings to the table. Worst of all, he isn't done yet.