We reported just recently on Nebraska GOP gubernatorial candidate, Charles Herbster, who currently stands accused of inappropriately and without consent groping at least 8 different women — one of which was a state senator — all of which he vehemently denies.
But it seems Donald Trump, the disgraced ex-president and serial sexual assaulter himself, still has absolutely no trouble in having Herbster’s back, who he recently publicly endorsed in his race.
Over the weekend, Trump held a rally in Nebraska, where he called the accusations lodged against Herbster “unfair” and claimed that the groping GOP candidate is “the most innocent human being.”
“He’s been badly maligned and it’s a shame. That’s why I came out here,” Trump declared to the Nebraska rally crowd Sunday night.
“I have to defend my friends, I have to defend people that are good. He was with us from the beginning… He’s been my friend for 30 years, he’s the most innocent human being, he’s the last person to do any of this stuff.”
Trump defending Herbster & campaigning for him in the face of a multitude of accusations, mirroring his defense of Roy Moore. Tonight in Nebraska: “He’s been badly maligned, and it’s a shame…I defend people when I know they’re good.”
8 women have accused Herbster of groping. pic.twitter.com/T7OFAAPvP2
— Vaughn Hillyard (@VaughnHillyard) May 1, 2022
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A report from the Nebraska Examiner originally broke the accusations that Herbster had inappropriately touched and groped at least 8 women — many of which claim they were assaulted by the Republican gubernatorial candidate during a 2019 Republican fundraising event in Douglas County, Nebraska.
Two of Herbster’s alleged victims have publicly spoken out against the GOP candidate — state Sen. Julie Slama and an employee of State Sen. Dave Murman, Elizabeth Todsen. Three other individuals have since gone on the record to corroborate the allegations.
Herbster, a Nebraskan gubernatorial candidate on the Republican ticket and CEO and president of Carico Farms and Herbster Angus Farms, previously sent a press release to Business Insider, in which he denied all of the allegations lodged against him.
“Charles W. Herbster has already filed legal action against one of the people named in reports and will be taking legal action against others,” the press release read. “He will not stop fighting until his name is cleared and he is vindicated.”
In addition to calling the groping allegations against his endorsed candidate “unfair,” Donald Trump went on to say that they were “designed to “derail him long enough that the election can go by before the proper defense can be put forward,” during his weekend rally.
Herbster also personally spoke at Trump’s rally yesterday, and spent the good majority of his time on stage promising to take sex education “out of the schools and put it back in the homes where it belongs.” — a campaign promise that’s certainly ironic coming from the mouth of a man who stands accused of numerous sexual assaults.
Of course, as sickening as it is, this isn’t even the first GOP candidate that Donald Trump has publicly thrown his support behind, despite disgustingly similar allegations against them.
Business Insider reports:
Trump endorsed Ohio congressional candidate Max Miller, who has denied allegations reported by Politico in July 2021 that he assaulted his ex-girlfriend, former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham.
Trump has also endorsed Monica De La Cruz for her congressional run in Texas. De La Cruz has denied accusations made by her ex-husband and reported by The Washington Post that she physically and verbally abused her teenage stepdaughter.“
But, frankly, none of it should really come as any surprise, given that Donald Trump himself has personally been credibly accused of sexual misconduct, assault, and rape by at least 26 women, hailing all the way back to the 1970s — all of whom he’s dubbed as “liars.”
They mean it when they say that birds of a feather flock together.
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