Donald Trump may have issued an apology for the words he said, but the fact that he can brush them off with a description of “locker room talk,” tells me that he does not believe what he said is truly bad. It tells me that this man says things like this all the time, because it is casual talk to him.

Ladies, please hear me when I say the words spoken by Trump are not normal. That is not what decent men talk about. Not even in high school. You mean so much more than that, and you deserve so much better than that.

Even for Liberty University, this seems like a minor rebuke. But because the rebuke is of Trump, a Falwell ally, it raised alarm bells in the president’s office. The editorial fell into a rule that “everything controversial” that is slated to run in the paper had to be approved by Falwell first, Schmieg said.
Cierra Carter, the paper’s opinion editor, has supported Schmieg. She recently published one of Schmieg’s criticisms of Falwell Jr., who earlier this week said that “it is a testament to the fact that Liberty University promotes the free expression of ideas unlike many major universities where political correctness prevents conservative students from speaking out.”
To this, Schmieg wrote “I find these words from Jerry amusing and extremely hypocritical.”