Riley: It's time to investigate the Sexual-Abuser-In-Chief, Donald Trump

Harvey Weinstein apologized for his sexual misbehavior, claiming it was the times in which he was living, then took a very Donald Trumpian turn and said he’d done nothing wrong.

Kevin Spacey apologized for assaulting a teenager, and then went away like Roman Polanski, the film director charged with drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl. He fled to France in 1978 to avoid possible prison.

Louis CK apologized and was lauded for being totally open as his shows and specials were canceled.

Al Franken apologized – twice – for groping and kissing a woman without her permission. He pledged to continue serving the people of Minnesota and America.

Roy Moore admitted asking some mothers for permission to date their daughters because he doesn’t understand that if you have to ask a mother’s permission, it’s not a date. It’s rape. And he’d already be on trial were he in a state besides Alabama.

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John Conyers denied allegations of sexual misbehavior and said the $27,000 agreement he reached with the offending employee was not an admission of guilt. Other women came forward. Longtime journalist Cokie Roberts said the media was complicit in hiding his behavior. He stepped down from the powerful House Judiciary Committee, and he came home to Detroit.

And Matt Lauer was just fired after an employee offered NBC a detailed account of inappropriate misbehavior. It was a story that played at the top of the news before North Korea having bombs that could reach the United States.

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You get the picture. A lot has happened, nearly all of it overdue. But here’s the thing: What message are we sending to our young American girls? Is it the same message that was sent to girls who became women who suffered in silence for years while so many were victims of sexual abuse and harassment at the hands of powerful men?

Now that victims are coming forward, by the dozens, by the hundreds, it is important to hold everyone accountable.

That means America must deal with the Sexual-Abuser-In-Chief, who admitted what he did – grabbed women by their vaginas – and apologized for it. But now that he wants to trade nukes with North Korea and create a tax plan to help his rich friends, he’s now claiming that what he apologized for never happened.

We, America, our leaders, are better than this. We should be better than this. At some point, we have to push politics aside and deal with what has now been revealed as an epidemic in our country.

And that epidemic reaches to the very top of our government.

So the question isn’t: How dare Trump? Nothing is beneath Trump.

The question is: Why are we letting him get away with it?

Contact Rochelle Riley: rriley99@freepress.com. Follow her on Twitter @rochelleriley. Listen to her radio show 6 to 7 p.m. weekdays on 910AM Superstation or at http://www.910amsuperstation.com. Order her book "The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery" (Wayne State University Press, 2018) from Wayne State University.