Donald Trump's surrogates were spontaneously combusting even before a second wave of sexual assault allegations crashed on the candidate last night. So it was never likely to get any better. But Katrina Pierson's performance on Don Lemon's show last night was still something to behold, a masterclass in delusional nonsense. Pierson responded to the allegation that Trump sexually assaulted a woman on a flight in the early-'80s by moonlighting as some sort of 20th century aviation expert:

"Seriously?"

Is she hoping she can throw out enough letter-number combinations that people will become distracted, or think it's a game of Bingo? If so, then going back into the specifics of the assault with what will soon be known as The Armrest Defense probably wasn't wise. "First class seats have. Fixed. Armrests. So if she was assaulted on a plane, it wasn't by Donald Trump and it certainly wasn't in first class."

The other guest, and Don Lemon's response—to simply laugh—was entirely appropriate.

Next up was campaign manager Kellyanne Conway. It's not her first time trying to clean up this political Fukushima, and not her first unsuccessful oneeither. Conway also jumped on CNN, and went with the now-staple tactic of just only talking about Hillary Clinton, no matter what the question. Even if it's about how your boss is accused of going Peeping Tom on some underage beauty pageant contestants while they were in the changing room.

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Conway's apparent outrage is frankly bizarre. You don't have to have been in the changing room with him to have a view on the allegations. Then there was this:

"All you want to do it seems is talk about something he said 10, 15 years ago. And yet we never, ever want to talk—particularly CNN, where we've offered up these women to you—we never want to talk to the women who were shamed and blamed by Hillary Clinton."

Nice language. And when did those incidents take place?

Jack Holmes Politics Editor Jack Holmes is the Politics Editor at Esquire, where he writes daily and edits the Politics Blog with Charles P Pierce.

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