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Yesterday's paper. Christopher Frizzelle

In case you missed it, there was a New York Times cover story yesterday based on more than 50 interviews with "dozens of women who had worked with or for Mr. Trump over the past four decades, in the worlds of real estate, modeling, and pageants; women who had dated him or interacted with him socially; and women and men who had closely observed his conduct since his adolescence."

It's strange that it would take so long to get these stories out, but he was aided in his free ride by Republican primary candidates who never seriously challenged him until they were in their own final throes, and by a mainstream media convinced he wasn't going to be the nominee.

The first sentence of the story is: "Donald J. Trump had barely met Rowanne Brewer Lane when he asked her to change out of her clothes."

That's quite a first sentence, although it should be pointed out that Rowanne Brewer Lane disagrees with how her story was presented, saying this morning on Fox News that the New York Times "put a negative connotation" on her story, and that "I did not have a negative experience with Donald Trump." She is voting for him.

Other women in the story include Temple Taggart, a woman who was 21 years old when she says Trump introduced himself to her at Miss USA in 1997 by kissing her on the lips:

He kissed me directly on the lips. I thought, "Oh my God, gross." He was married to Marla Maples at the time. I think there were a few other girls that he kissed on the mouth. I was like "Wow, that's inappropriate."

Several stories come from Barbara A. Res, a woman Trump hired as his head of construction in the 1980s, back when no developer was hiring women in executive positions, especially not in construction. The story of Res is often upheld as an example of Trump treating women well, but from Res's own statements, it doesn't sound like Trump treated her well. Res says:

He said: "I know you're a woman in a man's world. And while men tend to be better than women, a good woman is better than 10 good men."... He thought he was really complimenting me.

Res also recalls Trump insulting her body because she was overweight (she says he told her, "You like your candy"), Trump insisting on a new woman to take their lunch orders during a big meeting because the woman whose job it was wasn't hot enough ("That was purely about looks," Res says), and Trump evaluating "the fitness of women in Marina del Rey, Calif." ("They take care of their asses," she says he said).

And that's not including the 21-year-old model whom Trump encouraged to say she was 17 ("because in his mind, 21 is too old"); the story of Trump's first wife, Ivana—"Mr. Trump was said to have raped Ivana in a fit of rage" (Ivana said as much during a deposition, according to a 1993 book, although later, through lawyers, Ivana softened her claims); and Miss Universe Brook Antoinette Mahealani Lee saying that Trump sat next to her and "asked for her opinion of his daughter's body" when his daughter was 16, saying things to her like, "Don't you think my daughter's hot? She's hot, right?"

Trump denies raping Ivana, he denies introducing himself to Temple Taggart by kissing her, and he denies most of the rest of the claims in the story, which you really should read, because this person could become the president.

Trump calls it a hit piece:


And he keeps tweeting about how that one woman in the story who's a Trump supporter thinks her anecdotes were taken out of context. To be clear: She was more than happy to strip down into a bikini at a party once. Got it!

Meanwhile, in this morning's New York Times there's a story that begins:

Donald J. Trump plans to throw Bill Clinton’s infidelities in Hillary Clinton’s face on live television during the presidential debates this fall, questioning whether she enabled his behavior and sought to discredit the women involved.

And he's been tweeting about this too. As if we are all going to be shocked by new allegations about Clinton's infidelities. It's hard to see how a man who's been married three times has any standing when it comes to arguing with Hillary Clinton about her one long-lasting marriage, but I am sure he will be as reckless and ruthless and disgusting about it as he is about everything.