Trump fires self after horror sexism scandal

Deary me, Donald, from Washington Post:

Donald Trump bragged in vulgar terms about kissing, groping and trying to have sex with women during a 2005 conversation caught on a hot microphone, saying that “when you’re a star, they let you do it,” according to a video obtained by The Washington Post.

Trump issued a midnight apology:

And the fallout:

Given the circus that the Republicans created around the gallivanting of Bill Clinton, they will have no choice but to dis-endorse Trump left right and centre. This will now be the defining issue of the campaign.

The polls have not moved post-scandal yet but Hillary is already at a five point lead:

Donald, you’re fired!

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.