Laurie Roberts

opinion columnist

Pity poor Donald Trump.

The man wants to make America great again and for that he’s been tortured.

So says former Gov. Jan Brewer, who apparently doesn’t believe any of the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 – count ‘em ELEVEN – women who’ve come forward to accuse him of inappropriately touching them or outright assaulting them.

Women who, according to Trump, are liars.

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“The events never happened – never,” he said on Saturday. “All of these liars will be sued after the election is over.”

Brewer has rushed to Trump's side to defend him, presumably believing that all 11 women are lying.

“He’s been water boarded by these issues,” she said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Jake Tapper. “It seems like it’s really been kind of somewhat of a put-up oppression of Donald Trump from all these people lining up. It’s just unbelievable.”

Unbelievable?

Was that Trump video made up, too?

A “put-up oppression” of a man who in 2005 bragged about being able to grope women and get away with it?

“I’ve gotta use some Tic Tacs, just in case I start kissing her,” Trump said to Billy Bush in now-infamous Access Hollywood video. “You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful -- I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait.”

“And when you’re a star they let you do it,” Trump added. “You can do anything.”

“Whatever you want,” Bush replied.

Did you see that video, Gov. Brewer?

Or was that, too, made up? Like Elvis' death and the moon landing and Obama's birth certificate?

I suppose it's easier to just believe that all women report rapes and assaults as they happen -- especially when powerful men are involved -- because, of course, they're always believed and justice always prevails.

I suppose it's easier to believe that these women have come forward years later and put themselves out there on a national stage, just for the sheer fun of knowing that they'll be attacked as liars and sued by Trump.

I suppose it's easier to believe that it's OK to suspend common sense and to discount the words out of Donald Trump's mouth.

"Grab them by the p---y," Trump bragged in 2005. "You can do anything."

Is it really that hard to believe that he meant it, Gov. Brewer?