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October 9, 2017

Protesters Outside White House Loop Footage of Trump's Sex Assault Boasts
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In Washington, D.C., a women's advocacy group set up a giant TV screen
on the National Mall Friday and looped a 2005 video showing Donald Trump
boasting about sexually assaulting women. The 12-hour protest was
organized by the group Ultra Violet on the first anniversary of the
release of the "Access Hollywood" video in which Trump boasts, "When
you're a star, they let you do it. … Grab 'em by the pussy." This is
Ultra Violet campaign director Emma Boorboor.

Emma Boorboor: "We want to remind the American people who the president
really is and who he said he was on that tape: a proud, self-professed
sexual predator. … This is a prime example of how, when you elect a man
who is very hostile towards women, that he's now in office actively
pursuing an anti-woman agenda."

Friday's protest came on the same day that President Trump ended a
federal requirement that employer-based health insurance cover the cost
of women's birth control.


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