Female Trumpers -- how do they do it?

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There's something that's been baffling me for years and it was brought to my attention again this morning by two unrelated news stories: Donald Trump and the women who support him.

I don't get it. I admit it. And I would welcome any women readers' attempts to explain it to me.

One story, the one getting all the headlines, concerned an exchange between Trump and CNN reporter Kaitlin Collins at a press conference in the Oval Office. Collins was pressing Trump about what he might say to survivors of the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking operation who feel they have not received justice.

Trump, whose name appears thousands of times in the recently released Epstein files, did what he typically does with a female reporter -- he insulted her.

He called her the "worst reporter" and then said, "l don't think I've ever seen you smile. You know why you're not smiling? Because you know you're not telling the truth."

Collins didn't take the bait, but kept pressing for an answer that never came. Trump, of course, had previously called a female reporter "piggy" for daring to bring up the same subject.

The other story I just happened to come upon while glancing over old copies of the New York Times that I was preparing to toss in the recycling can. It was the typical overlong Times profile of a young woman, Andrea Lucas, whom Trump has made chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Her job, as with practically everyone else Trump named to head a government agency or department, appears to be to make it unnecessary.

In a nutshell, she says she wants to remake the image of the commission in Trump's vision of workplace discrimination. No diversity, no equity, no inclusion for those discriminated against in the past, because young white males are having difficulty finding jobs and, if that's the case, they should report it to her because they might be entitled to some compensation. (That might also explain the surge of interest for jobs in ICE.)

How can she do this? I asked myself. How can she support this man? Is she not aware of the struggle women have fought for decades to gain respect in the business world? To even have the right to vote? To have the right to make decisions about their own bodies? Heck, for her to even hold the job she has.

And even more to the point here, how can she do this when every sane person of reasonable intelligence in the entire world knows that Trump was fully immersed in the Epstein sex-trafficking of young teenage girls? Rape.

How can she -- and I look at the history here -- fully support a man who cheated on his first wife with his second wife and cheated on his second wife with his third wife? Who cheated on his third wife while she was taking care of their newly born son? Who tried to cover up that cheating (with a porn star) and was subsequently convicted of four felony counts? Who, in a civil trial, was adjudicated liable and ordered to pay millions of dollars for sexual assault and defamation of character in what a judge called rape for his attack on a female journalist, yes, in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.

How? How do you look at a man like this, smile, nod and say, yes sir, never heard of Jeffrey Epstein, when you're a woman?

How does Pam Bondi do it? Kristi Noem? Karoline Leavitt? Tulsi Gabbard? Linda McMahon (Education), Brooke Rollins (Agriculture), Lori Chavez-DeRemer (Labor), and Susie Wiles, chief of staff?

I'm stumped, angry and saddened by this allegiance to a man who the recently released trove of files show Epstein referring to him as "the worst person" he's ever known.

That's it. That's what I don't get. Maybe it's as simple as being a man and not a woman, but I'd really appreciate it if some women readers could share some thoughts with me on this.