CPAC Crowd Boos Speaker Calling Out Trump, Roy Moore As Sexual Harassers

on February 22, 2018 in National Harbor, Maryland.
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD - FEBRUARY 22: A woman waits for the beginning of CPAC 2018 February 22, 2018 in National Harbor, Maryland. The American Conservative Union hosted its annual Conservative Political Action Confere... NATIONAL HARBOR, MD - FEBRUARY 22: A woman waits for the beginning of CPAC 2018 February 22, 2018 in National Harbor, Maryland. The American Conservative Union hosted its annual Conservative Political Action Conference to discuss conservative agenda. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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The audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) responded angrily to conservative writer Mona Charen Saturday afternoon when she called out Republicans for embracing accused sexual harassers including failed Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore and President Donald Trump.

“I’m disappointed in people on our side for being hypocrites about sexual harassers and abusers of women who are in our party, who are sitting in the White House, who brag about their extra-marital affairs, who brag about mistreating women,” Charen said. “And because he has an R after his name, we look the other way, we don’t complain.”

Charen, who works at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and writes a column for the National Review, was cut off by booing and shouts from the angry crowd, who yelled out “Not true,” “Prove it,” and “It’s a witch hunt.”

“This is a party that was ready to endorse Roy Moore for the Senate in Alabama even though he was a credibly accused child molester,” Charen continued. “You cannot claim you stand for women and put up with that.”

The crowd booed Charen again when she said it was a “disgrace” that CPAC invited far-right French politician Marion LePen to speak earlier in the week.

“Her grandfather is a racist and Nazi. She claims she stands for him,” Charen said.

The crowd was so angry following the panel that Charen reportedly had to be escorted out of the room by multiple security guards.

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  1. Charen … was cut off by booing and shouts from the angry crowd,
    who yelled out “Not true,” “Prove it,” and “It’s a witch hunt.”

    "Burn her!"

    “Buuuurn her!”

  2. Avatar for tena tena says:

    Silly woman. I remember the calls of “Let them die” about universal health care. These are the people who booed an active military man who came out in video they watched.

    @tiowally - Yeah they’re all living in 415 AD, the year the christians murdered Hypatia and burned what was left of the Library of Alexandria.

  3. The first con to openly say the Emperor has no clothes is a woman.

    Always knew women were smarter.

  4. Avatar for zsak zsak says:

    GOP: Good Old Pedophilia

  5. Next year they are changing the name from CPAC to PPP: Proudly Pro-Pedo.

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