Former Maine Senate candidate the fourth woman to say George H.W. Bush groped her

[jpak]

Source: Bangor Daily News

A fourth woman has come forward saying former President George H.W. Bush groped her, this time a state Senate hopeful, the Portland Press Herald reported.

Amanda Staples — who was running as a Republican to represent the Kennebunkport area in the state Senate in 2006 — said in an Instagram post the former president grabbed her butt during a photo opportunity at the time.

“I rationalized it in my mind that he had become a dirty old man in his later years,” Staples wrote in her post, in part, adding, “I’ve thought about this and if I had a daughter, I’d never tell her to shrug it off because he was [p]resident. I can only imagine how many women have had their butt grabbed in a photo op.”

The latest accusation apparently pokes a hole in Bush’s initial explanation for the behavior, as a spokesman said that because he’s been wheelchair-bound for five years, his arm “naturally falls on the lower waist of the people with whom he takes pictures.”

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[sandensea]

1. And not just women.

[yurbud]

10. that's why this groping women story surprised me. I thought he swung the way W did.

with Jeff Gannon.

[zentrum]

2. And as the arm falls beyond his control,

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...creepy puns fall from his lips. It's just a wheel-chair-bound thing.

[truthisfreedom]

3. Here we go again.

Another high powered perv.

[keithbvadu2]

4. Does his family/staff warn women or just allow it to happen?

Apparently his family and staff have known about it.

What is wrong with his family/staff warning women about his sexual assaults?

Does his family/staff warn women or just allow it to happen?

[Orangeutan]

5. My wife and I visited an old man in a nursing home several years ago

out of sympathy--he was the father of one of her colleagues and had been a college professor of art. He was a recent widower and very old. Lying in bed, he exposed himself and made several inappropriate remarks. We attributed it to his declining state and never returned, as she found it very awkward and unpleasant, and so did I. Could it be that Bush, even as far back as 2006, was deteriorating mentally?

[Le Gaucher]

6. My guess is that right now- Trump must be feeling pretty good

Lot of dirty old men to give him company

[Pisces]

7. People lose their filter and boundaries when they are in old age. Even my grandmother said

Inappropriate comments in her later years. A wheelchair bound 90+ year old man does not pose a scary threat to a woman. I find these circumstances different than a Weinstein who threatened to ruin a career or assaulted countless women.

[Skittles]

8. do aging women start grabbing men's crotches?

just curious

[Kaleva]

11. Yep.

I've had my ass patted by a couple of elderly ladies and then some.

[JI7]

12. the people around him could do something to prevent him from doing it

[Pisces]

13. They should certainly warn the women if they can't control him.

[blueinredohio]

9. As my dad got older and the dementia got worse there was no telling

What he would say but he never grabbed women anywhere much less in places they didn't want to be grabbed so not all old men do that