As horrific as the news of nearly a dozen women accusing Donald Trump of sexual assault (on top of tales of his pedophilish tendencies a la the Teen USA pageant and an audio clip of him telling a 10-year old girl that he’d be dating her 10 years later), I thought we could all use a bit of comic relief.
Thankfully, moronic Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson was up to the task:
DON LEMON (HOST): My question to you is "Do you believe Jessica Leeds' account that this happened 30 years ago, on an airplane?"
KATRINA PIERSON: I do not believe it at all, it is 100% patently false. And as I was saying, this is the exact same New York Times that tried the same stunt back in March, and then those women came forward and debunked that article. But this is why this story is particularly ridiculous, to answer your question more thoroughly.
We're talking about the early 1980s, Don. Seriously? Back then, you had planes, what, a DC-9, a DC-10, and MD-80, 707, and maybe an L-1011?
But she said specifically this was to New York, and this is what's important, because we can X out the L-1011 and the DC-10.
Guess what? First-class seats have fixed arm rests, so what I can tell you about her story --
LEMON: OK, Katrina --
PIERSON: If she was groped on a plane, it wasn't by Donald Trump and it certainly wasn't in first class.
LEMON: We'll get -- we'll get our aviation expert here to talk about the airplane.
PIERSON: How can that happen? Explain how that happens. There are fixed seats on first class, so if it happened, it wasn't by Donald Trump.
I’m pretty sure Pierson was trying to replicate these classic scenes from My Cousin Vinny…
x YouTube Video x YouTube Video...tragically...she made the mistake of not having the slightest clue what she was talking about. As Don Lemon noted a moment later, “we don’t know what type of plane they were on...we don’t know what the seats were like.”
Oh, and one more thing:
xHi @KatrinaPierson, the aircraft types you mentioned all did operate into New York City. https://t.co/pfFWPqlcDQ
— NYCAviation (@NYCAviation) October 13, 2016 x@NYCAviation@cd_hooks also movable arms https://t.co/NfruQ4IxBw
— manderbabble (@manderbabble) October 13, 2016 x@jasongay@PeterBeinart@KatrinaPiersonpic.twitter.com/KKqlqIaWaA
— Lynn (@emt40ish) October 13, 2016