Anecdotal Evidence

[The Grand Nudger]

People make false confessions.  No, it's not evidence, because it makes nothing -evident-.

And this is the problem with the position that anecdotes are in no way evidence. While people do make false claims, we all know that we found it more likely that Trump had done such things after the tape came out than before.

A tape isn't anecdotal, firstly.  It isn't a story people tell, relying on subjective experience and faulty memories thereof..so you're already barking up the wrong tree.  This isn't an issue of someone saying they remember hearing trump say that he grabbed women by the pussy. -That- would be an anecdote. He said it, it's on tape, it's empirical, that much is evident......?

While some people (and those are the people a prosecutor would look for as jurors) might see that tape as a damning indictment of Trump /w regards to some specific allegation of sexual assualt - it isn't.  It's just a convenient way to speak to character...which is generally what's put on trial before a jury in the absence of -actual- evidence, for better or for worse. It only takes a word from a defense attorney to remind the jury that they don;t have to like the defendant.....maybe he;s a shitty person, and the tape definitely speaks to that, on some level...but he wouldn;t be on trial for being a shitty person who says objectionable things. That's not a valid charge.

What you may find more likely hardly speaks to whether or not anecdotes are useful, or evidence..though I'm not sure what pussygate has to do with either in context.