Byron York has an early look at Herman Cain’s Fox News interview tonight, where the GOP presidential frontrunner will apparently detail one of the incidents that led to a sexual harassment complaint against him while he was CEO of the National Restaurant Association.
Politico said there were two allegations that led to cash settlements behind the story it published Sunday, lead to a long day of questions for Cain. In York’s preview of the taped interview tonight, Cain details one formal harassment complaint he said was found to be “baseless.”
Cain said the complainant was a woman in her “late 30s [or] early 40s,” who worked in the restaurant association’s communications department.
There were reportedly more than one accusations in the complaint, but Cain said he recalled just one incident. “She was in my office one day, and I made a gesture saying — and I was standing close to her — and I made a gesture saying you are the same height as my wife. And I brought my hand up to my chin saying, ‘My wife comes up to my chin.'” At that point, Cain gestured with his flattened palm near his chin. “And that was put in there [the complaint] as something that made her uncomfortable,” Cain said, “something that was in the sexual harassment charge.”
Cain said he turned the charge over “to my general counsel and one of the ladies that worked for me, the woman in charge of human resources,” who ruled the charge “baseless.”
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