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Posted: 2016-10-14T11:32:39Z | Updated: 2016-10-25T18:40:16Z Donald Trump Jr: Women Who Can't 'Handle' Harassment 'Dont Belong In The Workforce' | HuffPost

Donald Trump Jr: Women Who Can't 'Handle' Harassment 'Dont Belong In The Workforce'

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Donald Trump Jr. offered some unsolicited career advice for women concerned about sexual harassment in the workplace: Just quit, already.

“If you can’t handle some of the basic stuff that’s become a problem in the workforce today, then you don’t belong in the workforce,” Donald Trump ’s son told The Opie and Anthony Show in a 2013 interview that BuzzFeed just unearthed .

“You should go maybe teach kindergarten,” he said, apparently suggesting that teachers aren’t part of the workforce. “You can’t be negotiating billion-dollar deals if you can’t handle, like, you know.”

Gender-based harassment, both sexual and not, is against the law in the U.S.  “It is illegal to harass a woman by making offensive comments about women in general,” according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. 

So if the GOP presidential nominee’s son can’t handle not being able to make offensive comments about women, maybe he’s the one unfit for the workforce.

Trump Jr. later joked that saying he’d been harassed would be “my get rich quick scheme. I’m now suing you guys because I feel uncomfortable.”

Listen to the full interview here, courtesy of BuzzFeed:

Trump Jr. also deleted a 2011 tweet in which he said Sugar Ray singer Mark McGrath could “sexually harass the hell out of anyone” thanks to his looks.

Trump’s father has been hit with a slew of allegations of sexual assault and harassment in recent days though it’s far from the first time he’s been accused of such behavior. 

Though he brushed off comments he made in 2005 about groping and forcing himself on women as “locker room talk,”  his critics aren’t buying it.

“What I found astounding is that he would so publicly—no matter who he was talking to that he would acknowledge that he engaged in the textbook definition of sexual assault,” Vice President Joe Biden said.

 

Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence  and is a serial liar ,rampant xenophoberacistmisogynist  and birther  who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.

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