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It is generally illegal to touch someone who doesn't want to be touched. Battery
is a tort – a violation of civil law for which the victim can sue – that entails
a "harmful or offensive contact with the person of another." It doesn't require
a physical injury, just an offensive touching. As
one court explained, "the slightest unlawful touching of the person of
another is sufficient, for the law cannot draw the line between different
degrees of violence and therefore totally prohibits the first and lowest stage,
since every individual's person is sacred and no other has the right to touch
it." Criminal laws also prohibit a range of unconsented touchings, which have
different names such as "battery," "assault" and "rape."
October 8
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/the-violence-of-donald-trump-w444012
Ongoing updates: For now, Trump seems entirely
unfazed by the allegations hanging over him. Press Secretary Sarah Sanders has
said that it is the White House’s official position that every single one of
the women is lying, and Trump has not shied away from condemning other men
accused of sexual misconduct (if
they’re Democrats).
Here’s a reminder of what behavior the president has been accused of, organized
by when the alleged incident occurred. It includes, when available, an update on
how the women have continued trying to make their stories heard.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/12/what-happened-to-trumps-16-sexual-misconduct-accusers.html -- 2015 --
Back to top July 28:
Donald Trump distanced himself Tuesday
from comments one of his top advisers made in an explosive interview while
defending the Republican presidential candidate from a decades-old rape
accusation.
Michael Cohen, special counsel to Trump and an executive vice president at The
Trump Organization, apologized Tuesday after telling
the Daily Beast that legally "you cannot rape your spouse."
The rape claim stems from an accusation Trump's then-wife Ivana Trump leveled at
her husband during divorce proceedings in the early 1990s, an allegation she
walked back Tuesday.
https://www.cnn.com/2015/07/28/politics/donald-trump-adviser-michael-cohen-rape/index.html -- 2016 --
Back to top June 29: In covering a story, a media outlet
is not finding guilt. It is simply reporting the news that a lawsuit has been
filed against Mr. Trump, and ideally putting the complaint in context. Unproven
allegations are just that - unproven, and should be identified that way. (Mr.
Trump’s lawyer says the charges are “categorically untrue, completely fabricated
and politically motivated.”) Proof comes later, at trial. But the November
election will come well before any trial. And while Mr. Trump is presumed
innocent, we are permitted — no, we are obligated — to analyze the
case’s viability now.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-bloom/why-the-new-child-rape-ca_b_10619944.html
October 13: "... for the New York Times
to launch a completely false, coordinated character assassination against Mr.
Trump on a topic like this is dangerous. To reach back decades in an attempt to
smear Mr. Trump trivializes sexual assault, and it sets a new low for where the
media is willing to go in its efforts to determine this election.
http://www.npr.org/2016/10/13/497799354/a-list-of-donald-trumps-accusers-of-inappropriate-sexual-conduct -- 2017 --
Back to top February 1: Evangelical Jerry Falwell Jr. to
head Trump education task force
March 30: ... former Vice President Joe
Biden [who started the “It’s On Us” campaign in 2014 ... in an effort to combat
an “epidemic”
of sexual violence on college campuses and universities across the country]
tweeted a new video PSA from the “It’s On Us” campaign — and it makes a
compelling point about how easily rape culture can affect our daily
conversations.
The video, titled “Autocorrect,” makes real-time edits to a conversation two men
have about a hook up.
October 7: Dirty Words Won't End Trump
– Endorsing Sexual Assault Might ...
The Washington Post's David Fahrenthold dropped a
Friday afternoon bombshell: a 2005 hot-mic recording of Donald Trump talking
to Billy Bush before filming a soap opera cameo.
October 15: A woman who said Donald Trump
groped her [Summer Zervos] has subpoenaed his campaign for documents about “any woman alleging
that Donald J. Trump touched her inappropriately.” Trump has denied her
accusations and is fighting the subpoena.
[The subpoena] also
asked for “all documents” concerning other women who have accused Trump of
groping them, including Jessica Leeds, Mindy McGillivray, Rachel Crooks, Natasha
Stoynoff, Temple Taggart, Kristin Anderson, Cathy Heller, Jill Harth, and
Jessica Drake.
October 16: President Trump on Monday again
denied allegations of sexual assault made against him before he took office,
calling the claims "fake news" and "made-up stuff."
“All I can say is it’s totally fake news — just fake. It’s fake, it’s made-up
stuff. And it’s disgraceful what happens,” Trump told reporters during an
impromptu White House Rose Garden press conference.
October 16:
Hillary Clinton, when asked about the Weinstein scandal, took a
shot at Trump, saying there is a lot of work to be done in the sexual assault
arena if a man with several sexual assault claims against him can win the White
House.
“Look, we just elected someone who admitted sexual assault to the presidency. So
there’s a lot of other issues that are swirling around these kinds of behaviors
that need to be addressed,” Clinton told the U.K.’s Channel 4 News in an
interview on Saturday.
October 26: Lady Gaga and former Vice
President Joe Biden are teaming up again to advocate against sexual assault,
releasing a PSA as part of the "It's On Us" campaign started by Biden and former
President Barack Obama. '... we want to make it real clear: It's on us, it's on
everyone to intervene to stop abuse when they see it and when they hear about it
... to intervene."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/26/politics/joe-biden-lady-gaga-sexual-assault-psa/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist
November 9: A woman says that Senate
candidate Roy Moore (R-AL) started a sexual encounter with her when she was 14
and he was 32, the Washington Post
reported Thursday.
Leigh Corfman says that in 1979, Moore started a conversation with her at an
Alabama courthouse when she accompanied her mother to a child custody hearing.
She was 14 years old at the time. Then a 32-year-old assistant district
attorney, Moore offered to watch Corfman while her mother went into a courtroom
and asked for her phone number, she says. A few days later, Corfman says he
picked her up at her home and drove her to his house, where he touched her over
her bra and panties and guided her hand to touch him over his underwear.
https://www.metro.us/news/the-big-stories/roy-moore-sexual-assault-allegation
November 10: [Fox News'] Sean Hannity
interview ... with former Alabama chief justice Roy S. Moore, now running for a
Senate seat from that state ...
In a particularly damning exchange, Hannity asked Moore if he’d had a habit of
dating teenage girls. “Do you remember dating girls that young at that time?”
“Not generally, no,” Moore said. “If I did, I’m not going to dispute anything,
but I don’t remember anything like that.”
Trump could not have watched the segment live, as he was shown arriving at a
forum in Vietnam. But when he does get around to viewing the program, he will
surely recognize that Moore has become a distraction [to the Republican party].
Not only that, but the allegations against Moore serve only to remind that a
dozen women have made allegations of sexual misconduct against Trump himself.
http://www.newsweek.com/sean-hannity-interview-roy-moore-fox-news-708817
November 13: Two of the women say that they
first met Moore at the Gadsden Mall, and the Post
reports that several other women who used to work there remembered Moore’s
frequent presence—“usually alone” and “well-dressed in slacks and a button-down
shirt.”
November 16: Al Franken Issues Apology After
Accusation of Forcible Kissing and Groping ... during a 2006 U.S.O. tour of the
Middle East before he took public office ... Mr. Franken, who has been mentioned
as a possible presidential candidate, almost immediately released an apology to
the newscaster, Leeann Tweeden, who said that Mr. Franken forcibly kissed her
during a rehearsal and groped her for a photo as she slept.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/16/us/politics/al-franken-sexual-harassment-groping-forcible-kissing.html
November 16: 16
Women or Donald Trump—Whom Would You Believe?
On Twitter: The Al Frankenstien picture is
really bad, speaks a thousand words. Where do his hands go in pictures 2, 3, 4,
5 & 6 while she sleeps? .....
November 16
@realDonaldTrump
November 17: In a normal Republican
administration,
an allegation that Senator Al Franken, a Democrat, had
groped a woman as she slept, accompanied by a damning photo, would be a
political gift to the White House. When its occupant is
Donald Trump, however, the story is altogether different—late in
his presidential campaign, Trump was faced with accusations of sexual misconduct
and assault from more than 16 women, which many believed would spell his
political doom.
November 20: Minnesota Democratic Sen. Al
Franken is facing a second allegation that he groped a woman without consent
while her husband took a photo of her with the senator at the Minnesota State
Fair in 2010.
Franken "pulled me in really close, like awkward close, and as my husband took
the picture, he put his hand full-fledged on my rear," said Lindsay Menz,
who told her story to CNN. "It wasn't around my waist. It wasn't around my
hip or side. It was definitely on my butt," she said.
"He denies it. Look, he denies it," Trump said of Moore. "If you look at all the
things that have happened over the last 48 hours. He totally denies it [the
accusations of sexual assault of teen girls]. He says it didn't happen. And
look, you have to look at him also." ... "We don't need a liberal in there ..."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/21/politics/donald-trump-roy-moore-alabama/index.html
November 22: Roy Moore's Senate campaign
quickly seized on President Donald Trump's apparent support for the embattled
Alabama GOP nominee, parroting Trump's attacks on Moore's Democratic rival while
trying to put the sexual misconduct allegations that have dominated the race in
recent weeks on the back-burner.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/22/roy-moore-trump-support-alabama-258375
November 22:
[In a contradiction to Donald Trump's reaction], Republican Rep.
Scott Taylor (R-Va.) ripped Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore on Wednesday,
telling CNN he would have physically attacked Moore if he had sexually assaulted
his own daughter.
"The 14-year-old girl that was there, I can tell you right now if it was my
daughter, I'd break his face, I'd break his fingers, and I'd probably do a lot
worse," Taylor told CNN's John Berman, referring to allegations of Moore's
sexual misconduct with a 14 year old in the 70s, when he was 32.
November 23: President Donald Trump's
decision to speak out in Roy Moore's defense was "sickening" and "beyond
stupid," according to former Republican National Committee chairman Michael
Steele.
November 24: Rep. Kathleen Rice said that
the congressional ethics committees being proposed as a way to investigate
serial sexual assault offenders on Capitol Hill are "not real" and "not
accountable." ...
"We don't have a legal standard here. We're talking about the court of public
opinion. We're talking about holding men accountable for their actions," Rice
said. "And a lot of these men, against whom these allegations have been made,
are never going to face their day in court. The victims in these cases are never
going to have their day in court."
https://firenewsfeed.com/politics/781490
November 27:
Donald Trump has reportedly told aides the now
famous tape which caught him boasting about women's genitalia is not an
authentic recording.
November 30: One Michigan Democrat running
for office has a suggestion for how to end sexual harassment.
"If the last few weeks have taught us anything, it's that we need more women in
positions of power, not less," she [Dana Nessel, a Democrat running to be
Michigan's attorney general] says. "So when you're choosing Michigan's next
attorney general, ask yourself this: Who can you trust most not to show you
their penis in a professional setting? Is it the candidate who doesn't have a
penis? I'd say so."
In the ad, Nessel outlines what she promises not to do if she's elected. "I will
not sexually harass my staff, and I won't tolerate it in your workplace either,"
she says. "I won't walk around in a half-open bathrobe. And I'll continue to
take all sex crimes seriously, just as I did as a prosecutor."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/30/politics/michigan-democrat-dana-nessel-elect-more-women-ad/index.html
December 1: President Trump Will Hold a
Rally Near Alabama Just Before the Special Senate Election ...
While the White House has said that President Donald Trump
won’t be campaigning for Roy Moore before the Alabama special election on
Dec. 12, the president may still bash Moore’s opponent within earshot of Alabama
voters.
December 2: With the special election for
Alabama's Senate seat less than two weeks away, the candidates appear headed for
a photo finish, with Democrat Doug Jones gaining a slight edge over his
Republican competitor Roy Moore, according to a new poll out Saturday.
December 4: President Trump on Monday
offered his most explicit endorsement to date of Roy Moore, the embattled
Republican Senate candidate in Alabama who stands accused of making
unwanted sexual advances toward teenage girls more than three decades ago.
December 7: Sen. Al Franken said on Thursday
that he would resign after seven women came forward in recent weeks and said he
groped or tried to forcibly kiss them.
"I, of all people, am aware that there is some irony in the fact that I am
leaving while a man who has bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault
sits in the Oval Office [Trump] and a man who has repeatedly preyed on young
girls [Roy Moore] campaigns for the Senate with the full support of his party,"
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/07/franken-resigns-285957
December 8: Alabama voters struggle with
whether to support Roy Moore ... Accusations that the Republican nominee for a
US Senate seat from Alabama pursued relationships with teenagers, molested a
14-year-old and sexually assaulted a 16-year-old when he was in his 30s have
thrown Tuesday's special election race into chaos.
Republican leadership in Capitol Hill, the Republican National Committee and the
White House for a time appeared to dump his candidacy -- but now President
Donald Trump, as well as party resources, are firmly back behind Moore, a former
chief justice of the state Supreme Court, and his supporters predict a win.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/08/politics/roy-moore-voters-alabama/index.html
December 11: Several women who have accused
President Donald Trump of sexual misconduct are
giving a group press conference Monday morning to call on Congress to
investigate their allegations.
The White House has said the women who accuse Trump of sexual harassment are
lying, and Trump himself has called the accusations
“total fiction.”
December 11: By the time President Donald
Trump took office in January, more than a dozen women had accused him of groping
them or other types of sexual misconduct, even assault, dating back to the
1970s.
December 11: Former President Barack Obama
is making an eleventh-hour bid for Democrat Doug Jones in the Alabama Senate
race against Republican Roy Moore,
CNN reports. "This one's serious," the former president says in a robocall
to voters ahead of Tuesday's election. "You can't sit it out."
December 11: Two Democratic senators called
for President Donald Trump's resignation over the weekend, citing the multiple
accusations from women of sexual harassment and assault against him.
December 13: The usually staid editorial
board of USA Today torched President Trump on Tuesday after his tweet claiming
that Senator Kirsten Gillibrand “would do anything” in exchange for campaign
contributions.
December 28: The Alabama secretary of state
said Thursday he will certify Democrat Doug Jones
as the winner of a Senate race
despite an 11th-hour lawsuit filed by Republican Roy Moore claiming that
election fraud affected the “outcome of the election.”
December 28: Alabama Secretary of State John
... Merrill stressed that any citizen can come forward to bring up allegations
of voter fraud that they've seen and that his office would adjudicate them.
December 28: Democrat Doug Jones was
certified Thursday by Alabama’s secretary of state as the winner of the state’s
Senate race, less than an hour after a judge rejected Republican nominee Roy
Moore’s last-ditch attempt to challenge the election results.
January 25: A Housing and Urban Development
official with strong ties to the President has apologized for calling a member
of the press "Miss Piggy" on Twitter Wednesday night.
"I hear #MissPiggys still on a rampage. Gee, I must've struck a nerve, @AprilDRyan!
#BankruptBlogger," Lynne Patton, the HUD administrator for a region which
encompasses New York and New Jersey, tweeted from her personal account on
Wednesday.
January 26: Hillary Clinton decided not to
fire a senior adviser on her 2008 presidential campaign who had been accused of
sexual harassment, against the recommendation of her campaign manager ...
February 12: Supreme Court Justice Ruth
Bader Ginsburg Says the #MeToo Movement Is Here to Stay
The #MeToo
movement that has seen women come forward to expose pervasive sexual
harassment has “staying power” and will not succumb to a backlash, according to
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
February 12: President Trump and crimes
against women are starting to go hand-in-hand now. He defended Roy Moore, who
molested teenage girls. He defended Rob Porter, who physically and emotionally
abused two ex-wives and an ex-girlfriend. He defended David Sorenson who abused
his ex-wife. And he continually denies that he has ever sexually assaulted a
woman in his life, even though he once bragged that he could walk up to a woman
and “grab them by the pussy.”
https://www.truthexam.com/2018/02/trump-campaign-co-chair-receives-20-years-in-prison-for-sexual-abuse-and-trafficking-teens/?source=right-rail-recent
February 14:
FBI Director Wray contradicts White
House on Porter investigation
Wray told the Senate intelligence committee that the FBI had completed a partial
report on
Porter in March, finished its full report in late July, responded to a White
House request for follow-up information in November, and closed the file in
January.
February 20: The facts on the porn star
[Stormy Daniels] and Trump became clear last week when Michael D. Cohen, the
president’s lawyer, said he personally paid $130,000 to Daniels.
The money changed hands just before the 2016 election to allegedly stop her from
talking about a sexual affair with candidate Trump that took place in 2006, just
after Trump’s wife had a baby.
March 14: Hearing set in Stormy Daniels'
lawsuit against Trump
A hearing date has been set for the lawsuit adult film actress Stormy Daniels
filed against President Donald Trump and his lawyer Michael Cohen's company to
dissolve their non-disclosure agreement.
March 14: New documents obtained by CNN's
"Anderson Cooper 360" on Wednesday suggest a deeper link than previously known
between the Trump Organization and the company that Donald Trump's personal
lawyer, Michael Cohen, established in 2016 to pay off porn star Stormy Daniels
in exchange for silence about her alleged affair with Trump.
March 16: The attorney representing the
adult-film star who claims she had an affair with
President Trump said Friday that some of the accusations by Stormy
Daniels against the president occurred after he entered the White House.
March 20: Former Playboy model who alleges
affair with Trump sues company that didn't publish her story
Karen McDougal is suing to be released from an agreement mandating her silence.
Shortly before the presidential election, the Wall Street Journal
published a story saying American Media Inc., the company that owns The
National Enquirer, paid $150,000 to McDougal, but did not run her story in a
tabloid maneuver known as "catch and kill." The contract, according to the
Journal, did not require the Enquirer to run the story and required McDougal's
silence.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/20/politics/karen-mcdougal-donald-trump/
April 10: FBI raid targeted records of
payments to porn star, ex-Playmate ... The FBI raid on President Donald Trump's
personal attorney Michael Cohen sought information that included payments
allegedly made to keep women silent about affairs with Trump more than a decade
ago.
A source familiar with the matter told CNN Tuesday that a focus of Monday's raid
was to seek records on the deal set up between ex-Playboy Playmate Karen
McDougal and a company that reportedly paid her amid the 2016 presidential
campaign cycle to keep her account from publication.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/10/politics/michael-cohen-search-warrant/index.html
April 10: Voters believe 58 - 14 percent
that President Trump had an extramarital affair in 2006 with an actress known as
Stormy Daniels. Republicans are divided 32 - 32 percent, with 36 percent
undecided. Every other group believes there was an affair
https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2534
April 12: Reports: National Enquirer paid
doorman with gossip on Trump $30,000 to keep quiet
April 13:
On April 13, 2018,
The Wall Street Journal reported that [Elliott] Broidy had a sexual
relationship with
Playboy Playmate
Shera Bechard, resulting in a pregnancy in late 2017.[39][40]
The model later had an abortion. Donald Trump’s personal lawyer
Michael Cohen negotiated for Broidy to pay $1.6 million for the woman's
silence. The settlement was falsely characterized at the time as a personal
injury settlement.[41][42]
In response to the Journal article, Broidy issued a statement
acknowledging that he had had a "consensual relationship with a Playboy
Playmate", that Cohen had contacted him after being approached by the woman's
attorney,
Keith M. Davidson, and that Broidy had then hired Cohen to work out a
non-disclosure agreement.[43]
Broidy resigned his post at the RNC the same day the article appeared.[44]
A few days later Cohen confirmed in court that Broidy was one of the three
clients he had given legal advice to in the previous year.[45]
Some columnists have since speculated that
Donald
Trump was really the person who had the affair with Bechard.[46][47][48]
Broidy's lawyer, Chris Clark, stated that Broidy will withhold forthcoming
payments to Bechard due to an alleged breach of the non-disclosure agreement on
her part.[49]
On July 6, 2018, Bechard filed a lawsuit against Broidy and the attorney
Michael Avenatti, in relation to the cessation of the settlement payments.[50][51][52]
Bechard has alleged in a complaint that Broidy was physically, sexually, and
emotionally abusive of her, and that he exposed her to
herpes.[53][54]
Broidy has denied the allegations.[54]
On September 7, 2018, California Superior Court Judge Elizabeth White granted
Broidy’s request to strike allegations from the case going forward that were not
relevant to the breach-of-contract dispute.[55]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Broidy
May 3: When one of the president's lawyers
tells the truth, it's blockbuster news. That's what happened Wednesday night
when Giuliani, a relative newcomer to President Trump's ever-rotating legal
team, went on Hannity for what should have been another softball
interview. To everyone's surprise, Giuliani announced that President Trump
reimbursed his attorney Michael Cohen the $130,000 Stephanie Clifford (a.k.a.
Stormy Daniels) was paid to keep silent about an affair she says she had with
Trump.
http://theweek.com/articles/771190/rudy-giulianis-truth-bomb
May 4: Rudy Giuliani, the newest member of
President Donald Trump’s legal team, is attempting to clarify some of his
remarks about payments to porn star Stormy Daniels to silence her allegations
she had a tryst with Donald Trump.
The former New York City mayor released a statement Friday in which he again
stressed his belief that the $130,000 payment made by Trump’s personal attorney
Michael Cohen in 2016 to Daniels was not a campaign violation.
May 16: President Donald Trump acknowledged for
the first time that he repaid his lawyer Michael Cohen more than $100,000 for
expenses Cohen incurred during the 2016 presidential election, according to a
financial disclosure form released Wednesday.
May 16: New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten
Gillibrand spoke from the Senate floor Thursday trying to force Senate
leadership's hand to advance sexual harassment legislation, which would overhaul
how such complaints are handled on Capitol Hill.
"Enough is enough, we should do better," she continued. "We have waited a
hundred days and we should not have to wait any longer, so I urge my colleagues
to do the right thing now to support this bill, fix this system here in Congress
that is failing ... on this issue of sexual harassment. This one is as easy as
it gets. So lets have a vote. And lets pass it."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/16/politics/kirsten-gillibrand-sexual-harassment-legislation/index.html
May 24: Harvey Weinstein will be charged
with rape, source says
Harvey Weinstein is expected to turn himself in to the NYPD on Friday morning on
charges that he raped one woman and forced another to perform oral sex on him, a
source familiar with the investigation told CNN.
July 5: Veteran Fox News executive Bill
Shine is President Trump's new right-hand-man for White House communications.
... Shine's title is Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications
His move from Fox to the White House further solidifies the backscratching
relationship between TV network and Trump's orbit. But it's especially
eyebrow-raising because Shine resigned last year amid a flurry of sexual
harassment allegations within the network.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/05/politics/bill-shine-white-house-announcement/index.html
September 22: A press adviser helping lead
the Senate Judiciary Committee’s response to a sexual assault allegation against
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has stepped down amid evidence he was
fired from a previous political job in part because of a sexual harassment
allegation against him.
September 23: Sen. Mazie Hirono on Sunday
suggested that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's "outcome-driven"
conservative judicial philosophy directly undermines the credibility of his
denials that he sexually assaulted California professor Christine Ford at a
house party more than three decades ago.
"I put his denial in the context of everything that I know about him in terms
of how he approaches his cases," Hirono told host Jake Tapper, in response to a
question about whether Kavanaugh was entitled to a presumption of innocence.
"His credibility is already very questionable in my mind. ... When I say that
he's very outcome-driven, he has an ideological agenda, and I can sit here and
talk to you about some of the cases that exemplify his, in my view, inability to
be fair."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/23/top-democrat-cites-kavanaughs-outcome-driven-legal-philosophy-as-reason-to-deny-him-due-process.html
September 24: [From "why do people love -or
hate- Trump? Here Are The 20 Top Reasons "]
This is the man who called Hillary Clinton a “nasty woman,” who rates women on a
scale from one to 10, who said Megyn Kelly was acting crazy because blood was
coming out of her “wherever,” and who is constantly calling women “fat” and
“ugly” and “pigs.” This is also the man who gave Rape Culture a big boost by
saying that when you’re rich and famous, you can just grab women by the pussy
and get away with it. It’s a huge shame, and a sign of al the progress we still
need to make, that over 40% of women still voted for him. What’s even worse is
that a majority of white women voted for him.
https://thoughtcatalog.com/jeremy-london/2018/07/why-do-people-hate-trump/
September 24:
Just as negotiators reached agreement on an extraordinary hearing for Brett
Kavanaugh and his accuser, a second allegation of sexual misconduct by the
Supreme Court nominee put the White House and Senate Republicans on the
defensive and fueled calls from Democrats to postpone further action on his
confirmation.
https://apnews.com/ca62798d66554461876a42cceb6eac19
September 24:
Both allegations against Kavanaugh involve incidents that allegedly occurred
when he and his accusers were heavily drinking as teenagers.
Psychology researcher and Palo Alto University professor Christine Blasey Ford,
51, alleges that Kavanaugh and his Georgetown Preparatory School classmate Mark
Judge locked her in a bedroom at a party in 1982. She said Kavanaugh held her
down, put his hand over her mouth to silence her, and tried to remove her
clothes. Ford's attorney Debra Katz said her client considers the alleged
incident to be an "attempted rape."
September 24:
[Ramirez] recalled another male student shouting about the
incident. “Somebody yelled down the hall, ‘Brett Kavanaugh just put his penis in
Debbie’s face,’ ” she said.
September 25:
With Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh facing multiple accusations of sexual
assault and misconduct, President Donald Trump finds himself in a familiar
place, falling back on familiar rhetoric.
“Judge Brett Kavanaugh is a fine man, with an impeccable reputation, who is
under assault by radical left wing politicians who don’t want to know the
answers, they just want to destroy and delay. Facts don’t matter.” the president
tweeted Friday.
September 26:
The Senate Judiciary Committee is reviewing a statement from a third woman who
has come forward with sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court
nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
The allegations, from a woman identified as Julie Swetnick, were made public by
attorney Michael Avenatti on Wednesday morning.
September 26: Attorney Michael Avenatti, on
the eve of Brett Kavanaugh's high-profile hearing to address sexual misconduct
allegations, identified and released a "sworn declaration" from a woman who
claims the Supreme Court nominee was involved in "gang" rapes in the early
1980s.
September 28: Senate Judiciary Committee
Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, set a committee vote on Kavanaugh for Friday
afternoon, while Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., planned a full
floor vote for early next week.
October 2: The audience laughed as Trump
ran through a list of what he described as holes in Christine Blasey Ford's
testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. She testified that Kavanaugh
pinned her on a bed, tried to take off her clothes and covered her mouth in
the early 1980s, when the two were teenagers. Kavanaugh has denied Ford's
allegations.
"How did you get home? 'I don't remember,'" Trump said at the rally in
Southaven. "How did you get there? 'I don't remember.' Where is the place? 'I
don't remember.' How many years ago was it? 'I don't know. I don't know. I
don't know.'"
October 4: A GOP leader in North Carolina
this week shared a fake photo this week mocking Christine Blasey Ford, the
first woman to accuse Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually
assaulting her, for her looks.
Lanny Lancaster, the Carrabus County GOP chairman, shared a photo of a young
woman wearing braces and glasses with the comment, “This is the alleged sexual
assault victim. Wow.”
October 23:
A woman flying from Houston to Albuquerque on Sunday had just settled into her
seat and fallen asleep when she was awoken by an unwanted touch — a hand from
behind her grabbing the right side of her breast. And the man authorities say
is responsible allegedly cited U.S. President
Donald Trump’s past lewd language about women.
Federal prosecutors allege the hand belonged to 49-year-old Bruce Michael
Alexander from Tampa, Florida, another passenger on the Southwest Airlines
flight, who reportedly told authorities after being arrested Sunday that “the
President of the United States says it’s ok to grab women by their private
parts,” according to a criminal complaint.
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2018/10/23/man-accused-of-groping-woman-on-flight-invokes-trumps-example.html
October 30:The Atlantic
is reportingthat the FBI is looking into a matter sent to them by
the office of special counsel Robert Mueller about an anonymous woman who is
alleging she was offered $20,000 to make a false allegation of sexual
harassment against Mueller. The woman had initially spoken to at least ten
reporters from a variety of news outlets, who were unable to verify her
account. In a letter to a reporter, she claimed, a man “offered to pay
off all of my credit card debt, plus bring me a check for $20,000 if I would
do.” She added, “He knew exactly how much credit card debt I had, right down
to the dollar, which sort of freaked me out.”
November 3:
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, the Iowa Republican who presided
over Kavanaugh's contentious confirmation hearings, requested
in a letter to the Justice Department and the FBI on Friday that the
agencies investigate Judy Munro-Leighton for making false statements to
committee investigators and obstructing committee investigations.
Grassley has also referred for investigation another Kavanaugh accuser, Julie
Swetnick, as well as her attorney, Michael Avenatti — best known for
representing adult film actress Stormy Daniels in her suit against President
Donald Trump.
Avenatti fired back at Trump in a tweet Saturday, writing: ".@realDonaldTrump
- my client Ms. Swetnick and I are still waiting on the supposed 'criminal
investigation' that Chuck 'I Never Went to Law School' Grassley demanded. I
have only heard from the FBI once - to tell me I was a target of your MAGA
bomber. You are a complete fraud."
November 16: Education Secretary Betsy
DeVos
announced sweeping rules on how colleges handle cases of sexual assault
and harassment that she says will fix a "failed" and "shameful" system that
has been unfair to accused students. In what the administration is calling a
"historic process," the proposed rules aim to significantly enhance legal
protections for the accused and reflect a sentiment expressed by President
Trump that men are unfairly being presumed guilty. More than a year in the
making, the rules replace Obama-era policies on how to implement Title IX, the
law barring gender discrimination in schools that get federal funding.
November 23: ‘National Enquirer’ Editor May
Spill Trump Secrets in New Book
Ultimate insider Barry Levine may reveal details about Trump's relationship with
‘Enquirer’ editor David Pecker, who has been moving away from his old ally in
recent months.
December 2: Neil DeGrasse Tyson Rejects
Claims Of Sexual Misconduct
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has responded to recent allegations of
sexual misconduct by posting a
lengthy statement online, in which he denies wrongdoing and says he
welcomes an impartial investigation by the producers of his show Cosmos.
"In any claim, evidence matters. Evidence always matters. But what
happens when it's just one person's word against another's, and the stories
don't agree? That's when people tend to pass judgment on who is more credible
than whom," wrote Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City.
December 12:Donald J. Trump unleashed this morning the following official
statement:
On Twitter: Despite thousands of hours
wasted and many millions of dollars spent, the Democrats have been unable to
show any collusion with Russia - so now they are moving on to the false
accusations and fabricated stories of women who I don’t know and/or have never
met. FAKE NEWS!
December 12
Donald J. Trump ✔
@realDonaldTrump
Trump’s tweet–which is, remember, an official White House statement–could
expose the president to a series of legal slam dunks from the multiple women
who have accused him of sexual assault, groping, forced kissing, harassment,
attempted rape and rape.
Specifically, here’s the part that could get him in trouble: “[S]o now they
are moving on to the false accusations and fabricated stories of women who I
don’t know and/or have never met.”
A cursory read of this statement shows the president is lying like a middle
school virgin who insists he’s had sex with celebrities.
December 13:
President Trump insists that he didn't violate campaign finance laws and that
any legal liability for hush money paid to two women who claimed to have had
affairs with him rests with his former personal attorney and fixer, Michael
Cohen.
"I never directed him to do anything wrong," Trump said Thursday afternoon in
an interview with
Fox News. "Whatever he did, he did on his own."
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/13/676465610/trump-defends-hush-money-payments-in-fox-news-interview -- 2019 --
Back to top April 30:
The Massachusetts Gaming Commission
said Tuesday that it would impose a $35 million fine on Wynn Resorts
(WYNN)
and Wynn MA, LLC. The move comes after the commission completed its
investigation into sexual assault allegations levied against the company's
founder and former CEO — Steve Wynn — and how the company handled those
claims.
The billionaire casino mogul denied the accusations of misconduct but said the
"avalanche of negative publicity" made it impossible for him to continue as
CEO and chairman of the company.
