The Blue Light Special this week for the press, social media and ALL the cable networks is Trump and Women.
The past is fast becoming the present as regards the antics/temperament of Donald John Trump.
After the Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes opened for play in 2005, its world-famous owner did NOT stop by more than a few times a year to visit the course that runs along the coast of the Pacific.
When Trump did visit, the club’s managers went “on alert.” They scheduled the young, thin, pretty women on staff to work the clubhouse restaurant because when Trump saw less-attractive women working at his club, according to court records, he wanted them fired. That’s right, you read that correctly, “court records.”
“I had witnessed Donald Trump tell managers many times while he was visiting the club that restaurant hostesses were ‘not pretty enough’ and that they should be fired and replaced with more attractive women,” Hayley Strozier, who was director of catering at the club until 2008, said in a sworn court statement, according to The Los Angeles Times.
Initially, Trump gave this command almost every time he visited, Strozier said. Managers eventually changed employee schedules “so that the most attractive women were scheduled to work when Mr. Trump was scheduled to be at the club,” she said.
A similar story is told by former Trump employees in court documents filed in 2012 in a broad labor relations lawsuit brought against one of Trump’s development companies in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
The employees’ court statements in support of the lawsuit, which have NOT been reported in detail until now, show the extent to which they believed The Weave pressured subordinates at one of his businesses to create and enforce a culture of beauty, where female employees’ appearances were prized over their intellectual skills. Just imagine the length and breathe of a Trump administration, aunts and uncles.
Trump’s record with women got renewed attention after this week’s presidential debate, when Hillary Clinton told the story of a former beauty pageant winner who said Trump called her “Miss Piggy” when she gained weight.
The bulk of the lawsuit was settled in 2013, when golf course management, without admitting any wrongdoing, agreed to pay $475,000 to employees who had complained about break policies. An employee’s claim that she was fired after complaining about the company’s treatment of women was settled separately; its terms remain confidential.
If any one wants a pattern to Trump’s life, it’s simple: LAWSUITS & SETTLEMENTS.
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