When will people understand that Trump isn’t endorsing men like Parnell, Walker, and Miller who have faced domestic violence allegations *despite* those allegations but *because* of them? Not only can Trump relate—as a known sexual predator—but he loves a “lying woman” narrative. 
Trump’s 2016 campaign was little more than procedurally sanctioned misogyny—and after 2016 he found new women to abuse online: Pelosi, AOC, Ilhan Omar and countless others. Trump is a textbook monster whose fetish is hurting women. Maybe his endorsements should have that context?
I’m not kidding about this. As a Trump biographer I’m saying that if you put two candidates in front of him who were somehow equal in every way—but one of them had faced domestic violence charges—Trump would prefer him because he would see himself and his attitudes in such abuse.
So while I think CNN was doing its best here to acknowledge both Trump’s own history and his current predilection for domestic abusers, to properly report the story one really needs to see the full scope of both Trump’s own predation *and* his long history of *promoting* abusers.
In assessing men, Trump values aggression, ruthlessness, unchecked ambition, power-hungriness, an unstoppable id, possessiveness, unscrupulousness, cruelty, deception, toxic masculinity and obsessive persistence bordering on mania. Of *course* he deems domestic abusers “winners.”
You don’t have to take my word for it. Ask any other Trump biographer and they’ll tell you the same thing. This is who the man has been for a very long time—and the fact that in 2016 our country came within 3 million votes of wanting him to be the president is a stain on America.
One final point: in my years of research and writing on Trump, I discovered that he fundamentally prefers to be surrounded by men he knows are *already* morally compromised. He considers people of virtue to be an abiding threat to his activities. Again, I’m being totally serious.
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