It's very real and it's a trap Trump is falling into by his own actions.
The Hillary Campaign is trying to make Donald Trump guilty of exactly what Trump is accusing Hillary of doing - destroying the lives of women who make charges of long ago real, imagined or totally fabricated sexual offenses against Trump.
Just because the Clinton/Media players seriously sociopathic people who could care less the damage they do to the country does not mean they are not fiendishly clever propagandists
Trump should consider responding by attacking the Clinton Campaign and it's Media surrogates for using these women as anti Trump weapons but scrupulously avoid attacking the women themselves who are making the totally unsubstantiated sex charges.
Trump might even consider calling a spade a spade and declaring that the above is exactly what the media's plan is and calling them on it help to defuse the attacks effectiveness.
This is precisely what he did today in Palm Springs.
He made it clear that these tactics will not divert him from making his case to the American people. He has clearly defined the Clinton campaign as a criminal enterprise and the Clintons are, in is words, criminals.
Americans are willing to see if he actually will appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the Criminal Crime Syndicate. He will be elected to blow the rotten mess up.