‘I would consider it’
Republican U.S. Congressman Blake Farenthold of Texas, a Donald Trump surrogate, Tuesday evening stunned MSNBC’s Chris Hayes when he could only muster up the courage to say he would “consider” condemning Donald Trump if the Republican nominee said, “I like raping women.”
The exercise of course was hypothetical – Trump has not said he likes raping women – but Farenthold’s response was not. He literally could only say he would consider condemning Trump even if, hypothetically, the GOP nominee admitted to raping women.
At first, Hayes asked, “If someone said, ‘I really like raping women,’ would that be locker room talk?”
Rep. Farenthold, struggling to answer, offered up, “You don’t know the entire context.”
Hayes continued: “If a tape came out with Donald Trump saying that, saying, ‘I really like to rape women,’ you would continue to endorse him?”
“I, again, I, that would be bad,” Farenthold responded, to a thoroughly stunned Hayes (see photo above). “And I would have to, I would consider it,” the Texas Congressman concluded.
Before he was a congressman, Farenthold was a conservative radio talk show host, which makes his comments on Twitter, offering an apology by claiming he was unprepared to discuss a hypothetical wholly unbelievable. And it’s not like the Texas congressman isn’t media savvy – he holds a a bachelor of science degree in Radio, Television, and Film from the University of Texas at Austin.
Here is his apology:
And here are some reactions via Twitter:
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