As more women came forward this week to accuse movie mogul Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment or assault, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton released a statement on Tuesday condemning Weinstein’s behavior.
Statement from Secretary Clinton on Harvey Weinstein: pic.twitter.com/L1l2wl9l0I
— Nick Merrill (@NickMerrill) October 10, 2017
Weinstein is a big Democratic donor, contributing to both Clinton’s and Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns. Several Democratic lawmakers in Congress over the past week have pledged to donate campaign contributions from Weinstein to charity, given the spate of recent reports about his harassment and abuse of female employees, models and actresses.
Clinton said in the statement that she was “shocked” by the revelations.
The New York Times published a report last week detailing sexual harassment accusations from several women, including the actress Ashley Judd. The New Yorker followed up on Tuesday with additional accounts from women, three of whom accused Weinstein of rape. The New Yorker also made public an audio recording on which Weinstein can be heard confirming that he groped an actress.
What a pity there’s no one of any stature in the White House who could condemn the outrageous sexual misdeeds of a Weinstein …
(America, you really blew it last November. You really did.)
Jesus Christ. I guess we can expect endless Chris Cillizza pieces on “What took her so long?” and lots of hot takes about the Democrats problem. The media has a problem with women, and Chris Cillizza is the poster child for that problem.
Also, the amount of $ donated by Weinstein over the years is dwarfed by the what fucking Mercers donated to the GOP LAST YEAR ALONE.
Once again, Mr. Weinstein is a pig. Who cares which political party he contributed money to? This is a non-story being ginned up by Republican PR people and adapted to the need to fill a 24 hr.news cycle. How anyone can use this nonsense to defend Trump is really amazing?
Why do we need to continue this dance of who condemns and who doesn’t? There’s an accused and admitted sexual harasser in the WH now that enough of the population chose to ignore. Does this matter?
Now after 5 cycles of haranguing her to weigh in, detestable MSM pundits will say, “She’s injecting herself into controversy as usual. Here’s why she’s wrong. What took her so long? Why won’t she go away?”
Plenty of talk and opinion; no illumination.