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I mean believing Mr. Grab 'em by the pussy measures genital tightness with a finger isn't quite the stretch that adrenachrome is, but I take your point.
It really is a huge stretch.
"Grab 'em by the pussy" was about adults. It was presumably about over-the-clothes groping. It's something that you can talk about in public, as evidenced from the fact that the famous clip comes from a time when Trump was bragging about it to someone.
The phrase "He measured the children’s vulva and vaginas by entering a finger and rated the children on tightness" is not something you'd expect to hear except in a courtroom where someone is being tried for child sexual abuse. And, we're supposed to believe that happened at "Calendar Girl" parties at Mar-A-Lago? I just don't buy it. This would have leaked a lot earlier if it were true. I mean, this isn't even about a private island where it's easy to control every person who comes and goes. Mar-A-Lago is just some private club in West Palm Beach, Florida, which presumably has a lot of cooks, janitors, waiters, security guards, groundskeepers, IT people, etc. coming on and off-site regularly just to keep the place running. Even if you think that somehow there was a cabal of child sex predators who were buddies and were honest enough to all trust one-another and not turn each-other in. Somehow, you're also avoiding any of the staff noticing what's going on?
Keep in mind that we know how lax the security was at Mar-A-Lago, from the fact that classified docs were found just piled in a random bathroom. If we were talking about some place that was known for ultra tight security, where there were presumably back rooms that were guarded at all times and where something secret might have been happening, then maybe I could believe that this might have happened. But, not at Mar-A-Lago.
So, it's not that Trump might do this that's hard to believe. I can easily believe he'd do something depraved like that. But, not at a party, in front of a crowd of people who could identify him, at his semi-public golf club.