Why I Smell A Rat With These Trump Allegations . . .

. . . I've been there - Familiar patterns of deception.

by Herman Cain: This all feels so familiar. I’ve gotten over it, but I’ll never forget it. It was November 2011, and I was leading the polls in the Republican nomination race. My 9-9-9 tax play was attracting national attention and interest in my candidacy was as its height.

Then came the women. I won’t recount all their names or their claims here because they don’t deserve the attention. If you really want to read about it in detail, along with my detailed refutations of every allegation made against me, knock yourself out.

But there are some patterns I notice about what’s happening to Donald Trump, and they’re the kinds of things that make me smell a rat.

An obvious one is the timing. Trump has been running for president for more than a year. When he was cruising to the nomination, these women could have come forward. When the race tightened a few weeks ago – and many polls show Trump surging into the lead – they could have come forward. But instead, it’s all happening just a week after the infamous tape of his comments 11 years ago. It’s almost . . . too perfect, wouldn’t you say? As if someone coordinated the whole thing?

It’s the same thing that happened to me. As soon as I started scaring the living daylights out of the establishment by surging into first place in the polls, here came the steady stream of accusations and innuendoes. Just when you thought you’d put one away, another one surfaced. It was like playing whack-a-mole. It got the point where the whole thing was impossible to manage because you never knew when the next one might be coming, or from whom.

Another thing that feels familiar about this is how unfalsifiable the accusations are. A woman claims you said a certain thing, or touched her in a certain way, or made a certain kind of proposition. There was one woman who claimed I had done something while sitting alone with her in a car. I hadn’t. But how can you prove that something didn’t happen? You can’t go through every minute of your life or her life and prove that you were never in a place or with a person, or that you never ever did a certain thing. You can insist all day and all night that it never happened, but people who want to believe it did will believe it did. You can never prove your innocence.

Also, I notice that in at least one case, an alleged victim was inexplicably silent at the time the incident supposedly happened. People Magazine reporter Natasha Stoynoff was not a powerless nobody at the time she claims Trump acted inappropriately toward her. Yet she simply wrote her feature story and said nothing to anyone, only to show up now years later with an accusation no one can prove or disprove. I faced the same thing. If I had really done the things I was accused of doing, it would make sense that someone would have spoken up at the time. Instead, at a time when I’m in the spotlight and vulnerable to scurrilous accusations, here they come.

Here is one other commonality: Like Trump, when I was accused, women who knew me well and had worked with me for years came forward and testified that I had always been professional and appropriate in their dealings with me. Female associates of Donald Trump have done the same thing. And yet in both cases, the media gave more credence to women who barely knew the men they were accusing, while giving almost no credence at all to those who knew us well and worked with us on a regular basis.

So when you look at the timing, the unfalsifiable nature of the accusations, the strange silence of the accusers for years, and the egregiously ignored support of women who really know the people in question – you can’t help but recognize that the same phenomenon is repeating itself again.

I wasn’t there when these incidents allegedly happened with Donald Trump, so I can’t say definitively what’s true and what’s not true. But I know for a fact that none of the accusations against me were true, and I was very much there to see the smear campaign against me unfold in exactly the same way it’s unfolding against him.

Oh, by the way, I can’t help but note that all this came out at the perfect time for the media to obsess over it and ignore the steady stream of WikiLeaks releases that basically prove every allegation against Hillary Clinton has been true. That’s some coincidence, don’t you think?

So that’s why I smell a rat in this stream of accusations against Donald Trump. It’s all just a little too perfect, and it feels awfully familiar in a stomach-wrenching sort of way.

You’re being manipulated into voting for Hillary Clinton. It’s a very sophisticated campaign of manipulation. I’ve seen it before. Don’t let them fool you.
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Herman Cain is a conservative radio host of CainTV, a 2012 GOP presidential primary candidate with over 40 years of experience in the private sector as an analyst for Coca-Cola, an executive at Pillsbury, a regional Vice President for Burger King, and CEO of Godfather's Pizza. Cain served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and a supervisory mathematician for the Dept. of the Navy.

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