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[Donald Trump]:
“Look, I’m very pro-choice. I hate the concept of abortion. I hate it. I
hate everything it stands for. I cringe when I listen to people debating the
subject, but you still—I just believe in choice. … I am strongly for choice, and
yet I hate the concept of abortion. … I am pro-choice in every respect … but I
just hate it.” (NBC
News, October 24, 1999)
“I’m totally pro-choice.” (Fox News, October 31, 1999)
October 8: Donald Trump bragged in vulgar
terms about kissing, groping and trying to have sex with women during a 2005
conversation caught on a hot microphone, saying that “when you’re a star, they
let you do it,” according to a video obtained by The Washington Post.
October 14: Donald Trump in 1994: I tell my
friends to "be rougher" with their wives ... "Psychologists will tell you that
some women want to be treated with respect," Trump
told Nancy Collins in a previously unreleased 1994 transcript from ABC’s
Primetime Live. "I tell friends who treat their wives magnificently, get treated
like crap in return, 'Be rougher and you’ll see a different relationship.'"
At one point, he compared both Ivana and Marla to one of his buildings.
"I love creating stars. And to a certain extent, I've done that with Ivana. To a
certain extent, I've done that with Marla. And I like that," Trump said.
"Unfortunately, after they're a star, the fun is over for me. It's like a
creation process. It's almost like creating a building; it's pretty sad."
https://www.vox.com/2016/6/2/11833912/donald-trump-1994-women-buildings-misogyny
October 16: At the second presidential
debate, CNN's Anderson Cooper posed a pointed question to Donald Trump in
regards to the leaked 2005 Access Hollywood video that caught him saying of
women that he felt entitled to "grab them by the pussy."
"For the record, you're saying you never did that?" Cooper asked.
Trump, downplaying his remarks
as "locker room talk," denied he had ever kissed or groped women without
consent.
October 24:
Donald Trump on Monday addressed the latest accusations of inappropriate sexual
contact made against him, saying of the accuser, an adult film performer, "Oh,
I'm sure she's never been grabbed before."
At a news conference Saturday, Jessica Drake accused Trump of grabbing and
kissing her without permission and offering her money to go up to his hotel room
alone a decade ago.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/24/politics/trump-on-latest-accusations/index.html -- 2017 --
Back to top January 23: Trump Strikes at Abortion With a
Revived Foreign-Aid Rule ...
The president has reinstated a contentious policy that blocks funding to
international family-planning organizations unless they agree not to promote
abortion.
This rule, known as the Mexico City policy,
blocks U.S. family-planning assistance to these groups, even if their
abortion-related activities—including information, referrals, or services—are
conducted with non-U.S. funds. Opponents to the restriction have dubbed it the
“Global Gag Rule” because it hinders communication between health-care providers
and patients ... [and] can ultimately expose women to unsafe abortions ...
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/01/mexico-city-policy/514010/
:Global Gag Rule 101... What
is it & what does it mean for women? ... The
“global gag rule,” also known as the Mexico City Policy, is a ... US foreign
policy that forces health providers to choose between receiving US global health
funds and providing comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care—at the
risk of women’s health and lives.
http://www.pathfinder.org/global-gag-rule-101/?gclid=CLmooKeSvtMCFQGPaQodHvgKaQ
February 9:
On Inauguration Weekend, an estimated
3.2 million people in
hundreds of cities
across the country took to the streets to protest the incoming president.
More than 400,000 people marched in Washington, D.C., similar numbers turned
out in New York and Los Angeles, and even in Houston, Phoenix, New Orleans,
Santa Fe, and Reno, marchers numbered in the
tens of thousands. It was, as organizers promised it would be, the most
massive coordinated demonstration an incoming president has ever faced. But its
real power will be measured not in crowd size but in the
lasting impact it has on the political process. And one of the clearest
results of the march — and of the election as a whole — is the wave of political
participation among women at local, state, and national levels that’s emerging
in its wake.
https://www.thecut.com/2017/02/an-unprecedented-number-of-women-plan-to-run-for-office.html
March 20: Trump ...
told reporters at a press conference after the dossier was published that he
was aware that he might be a target for surveillance and acted cautiously. “When
I leave our country, I’m a very high-profile person, would you say? I am
extremely careful. I’m surrounded by bodyguards. I’m surrounded by people. And I
always tell them — anywhere, but I always tell them if I’m leaving this country,
‘Be very careful, because in your hotel rooms and no matter where you go, you’re
gonna probably have cameras.’ I’m not referring just to Russia, but I would
certainly put them in that category.”
https://medium.com/@abbievansickle/trump-and-russia-the-questions-that-need-to-be-answered-ac74f46faa8c
March 30: Vice President
Mike Pence ... cast a tie-breaking vote on legislation to undo an
Obama-era regulation on funding for abortion providers. Democrats spent hours
on the Senate floor ahead of Thursday's final vote, blasting Republicans and
warning that the move would negatively impact women's access to healthcare....
The regulation required that state and local governments distribute federal
Title X funding for services related to contraception, fertility, pregnancy care
and cervical cancer screenings to health providers, regardless of whether they
also preform abortions.
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/326595-pence-breaks-tie-allowing-senate-to-revoke-obama-order
April 1: An investigation by The New York Times has found a total of five
women who have received payouts from either [Bill] O’Reilly or the company in
exchange for agreeing to not pursue litigation or speak about their accusations
against him [for sexual harrassment]. The agreements totaled about $13 million.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/01/business/media/bill-oreilly-sexual-harassment-fox-news.html
April 4:"The O'Reilly
Factor" is facing a growing advertiser revolt, as 21 companies have pulled their
commercials from the show amid a scandal involving the host, Bill O'Reilly ...
Mercedes-Benz, Hyundai, BMW of North America, Mitsubishi Motors, Lexus, Constant
Contact, Bayer, Ainsworth Pet Nutrition, Orkin, UNTUCKit, Allstate, Esurance
(which is owned by Allstate), T. Rowe Price, GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi, Credit
Karma, Wayfair, The Wonderful Company, TrueCar, the Society for Human Resource
Management and Coldwell Banker are pulling ads from "The O'Reilly Factor" after
a report about five settlements with women who alleged sexual harassment or
verbal abuse by O'Reilly.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/03/media/mercedes-ads-bill-oreilly/index.html?iid=EL
April 5: Bill O’Reilly, the [sexual
harrassment] embattled Fox News host, received a powerful show of support on
Wednesday from a longtime friend, interview subject, ideological sympathizer and
fellow scandal-survivor: the president of the United States.
April 13: "(Women's) worst fears are now coming true. We are facing the
worst political attack on women's health in a generation as lawmakers have spent
the past three months trading away women's health and rights at every turn,"
Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of Planned Parenthood, said in a
statement.
http://fox40.com/2017/04/13/trump-privately-signs-anti-planned-parenthood-law/
April 13: The bulk of federal money Planned Parenthood receives
...
goes toward preventive health care, birth control, pregnancy tests and other
women’s health services. Federal law prohibits taxpayer dollars from funding
abortions and Planned Parenthood says 3% of the services it provides are
abortions [not paid for by taxpayers].
http://fox40.com/2017/04/13/trump-privately-signs-anti-planned-parenthood-law/
April 13: Trump supporter Jeffrey Lord
compared President Donald Trump to Martin Luther King, Jr. on Thursday — and
fellow panelist Symone Sanders [a
Democratic strategist and political commentator] rained hell down on him.
During a discussion of the president’s threat to withhold payments for health
insurers as a negotiating tactic to force Democrats to help him repeal the
Affordable Care Act, Lord claimed that Trump was essentially the “Martin Luther
King of health care” because he wasn’t afraid to take political risks in
proposing unpopular actions because he believed they were right.
April 13: “Stripping millions of Americans of the critical health care
services that Planned Parenthood provides doesn’t just hurt women — it hurts
entire families and their economic security,” said Stephanie Schriock, the head
of EMILY’s List, a Democratic political action committee.
http://fox40.com/2017/04/13/trump-privately-signs-anti-planned-parenthood-law/
July 7:
The election of a president whom detractors view as misogynistic and
backward-thinking has done nothing less than spark a wholesale resurgence of
feminism. His defeat of the first woman who might have been president -- coupled
with his incendiary comments about women and his divisive policies on
reproductive rights and other issues -- lit a fire under a movement that had
failed to excite younger generations of women who benefited from the battles of
the last century and saw no need to keep fighting.
July 14: Donald Trump sexism tracker: Every
offensive comment in one place
Fat. Pig. Dog. Slob. Disgusting animal. These are just some of the names
that Donald Trump has called women.
The President of the United States has been widely called out for his
objectification of women - he has a tendency to criticise them for their looks -
and sexist remarks.
August 14:
[After Trump refrained from calling out alt-rights}:
An article posted on the Daily Stormer [calling
itself The World's Most Genocidal Republican Website] called Heyer
[Heather Heyer who died after a car rammed a crowd of counter-protesters
gathered to oppose a "Unite the Right" rally of white nationalist and other
right-wing groups] "fat and a drain on society."
August 30: The Trump White House
on Tuesday stopped a planned Obama-era rule that would have required
companies to submit data on worker pay by race, ethnicity, and gender, after
deeming the regulation too burdensome to business.
September 17 on twitter:
I just reported @realDonaldTrump for promoting violence against women.
@Alyssa_Milano
I'm filing a complaint against
@realDonald Trump with @Twitter for using this platform to incite & promote
violence against women, join me.
Simar @sahluwal
October 15: [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. The subpoena
seeks “all documents concerning any accusations that were made during Donald
J. Trump’s election campaign for president, that he subjected any woman to
unwanted sexual touching and/or sexually inappropriate behavior.” Last year,
Trump
tweeted a blanket denial, saying, “Nothing ever happened with any of these
women.”
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicagarrison/subpoena-orders-trump-to-turn-over-documents-from-assault?utm_term=.lfOBE3jk7#.jwMQ7bMVg
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: Lawyers for Zervos [Summer
Zervos, who accused Trump of groping her in 2007], a former contestant on
Trump’s reality show "The Apprentice," reportedly filed the subpoena in March.
October 25: While the most salacious
allegations contained in the dossier (such as the claim that Trump was
videotaped consorting with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel room) remain
uncorroborated ... some of the meetings that allegedly took place between Trump
campaign officials and agents of the Russian government had been
confirmed by sources familiar with U.S. intelligence intercepts.
https://www.snopes.com/2017/10/25/dnc-clinton-campaign-pay-trump-russia-steele-dossier/
November 9: President Donald Trump's
long-time confidant Keith Schiller privately testified that he rejected a
Russian offer to send five women to then private-citizen Trump's hotel room
during their 2013 trip to Moscow for the Miss Universe pageant, according to
multiple sources from both political parties with direct knowledge of the
testimony.
Schiller, Trump's former bodyguard and personal aide, testified that he took the
offer as a joke, two of the sources said. On their way up to Trump's hotel room
that night, Schiller told the billionaire businessman about the offer and Trump
laughed it off, Schiller told the House intelligence committee earlier this
week.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/09/politics/keith-schiller-russian-offer-women-2013-moscow/index.html
November 13: President Donald Trump is
nominating white men to America’s federal courts at a rate not seen in nearly 30
years, threatening to reverse a slow transformation toward a judiciary that
reflects the nation’s diversity.
So far, 91 percent of Trump’s nominees are white, and 81 percent are male, an
Associated Press analysis has found. Three of every four are white men, with few
African-Americans and Hispanics in the mix. The last president to nominate a
similarly homogenous group was George H.W. Bush.
https://apnews.com/a2c7a89828c747ed9439f60e4a89193e
November 27: "Access Hollywood” is
responding to reports that President Trump doesn’t believe that the infamous
tape of him on the program — bragging about groping and kissing women without
their consent — is real.
“We wanted to clear something up that has been reported across the media
landscape,” host Natalie Morales said during a Monday broadcast.
“Let us make this perfectly clear — the tape is very real,” she said.
January 19: Coinciding with Friday's March
for Life in Washington, President Donald Trump's administration announced new
measures to support the anti-abortion cause.
Included is a move that may allow states to cut Medicaid funding to reproductive
healthcare programs like Planned Parenthood.
“On the anniversary of the historic Women’s March, the Trump-Pence
administration makes their agenda crystal clear: They are laser-focused on using
their power to control women’s bodies and lives,” Laguens said in a statement.
“Their latest action encourages states to try to block access to care at Planned
Parenthood and control where women can go for health care. Without Planned
Parenthood, many of our patients would lose access to health care altogether —
either because there are no other providers in their community or because other
clinics cannot serve all of our patients.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/white-house-rolls-back-protections-for-planned-parenthood_us_5a62134be4b01d91b2551fa4?section=us_politics
January 22: A good government group filed
complaints against President Trump’s campaign charging his lawyer’s payment of
hush money to a porn star who allegedly had an affair with Trump broke election
laws.
January 26:An affair with Trump? Nikki
Haley on ‘disgusting’ rumors and her rise to a top foreign policy role ... The former anti-Trump governor became one of the
president’s favorite officials, giving her rare standing on the global stage.
The U.N. ambassador explains how in POLITICO’s Women Rule podcast.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/26/nikki-haley-trump-foreign-policy-370851
January 27: Candidates of color get off the
sidelines in the age of Trump: 'The soul of America is at stake right now'
Run For Something, a national group started after the election to recruit and
train Democratic candidates, has recruited more than 15,000 potential
candidates, according to co-founder Amanda Litman, a former Hillary Clinton
campaign staffer. Two-thirds of those candidates are women, and one-third
identify as persons of color.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/27/politics/candidates-of-color-age-of-trump/index.html
February 5: Rachel Crooks, one of the
women who accused
Donald Trump of sexual misconduct, is running for Ohio’s state legislature.
February 8: Hope Hicks, elusive Trump aide,
in the spotlight amid Rob Porter scandal
Hicks is the White House communications director and one of President Trump's
closest aides. Yet she has never given a TV interview. She is rarely quoted at
all. She is the yin to Trump's attention-grabbing yang.
February 10: David Sorensen, a member of the
Trump administration's speechwriting team, has resigned after being accused of
domestic abuse, a White House official says.
He is the second administration official to resign this week over domestic abuse
allegations, after top White House staffer Rob Porter resigned on Wednesday.
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: ... Sen. Tammy Duckworth, an Illinois Democrat, opened up about the challenges
she prepares to face in raising a newborn while continuing her senatorial
duties. She is expecting her second child in the spring.
"I'm even being told right now that I can't technically take maternity leave,"
Duckworth said, "because if I take maternity leave, then I won't be allowed to
sponsor legislation or vote during that time period."
February 14: “In a private transaction in
2016, I used my own personal funds to facilitate a payment of $130,000 to Ms.
Stephanie Clifford,” [Trump’s longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen] said in
a statement ... “Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a
party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the
payment, either directly or indirectly. The payment to Ms. Clifford was lawful,
and was not a campaign contribution or a campaign expenditure by anyone.”
Before the payment, Daniels told reporters ... that she’d had an affair
with Trump in 2006, but she did not go public before the election.
February 16: In June, 2006, Hugh Hefner,
Playboy’s publisher, threw a pool party for [The
Apprentice’s] contestants with dozens of current and former Playmates, including
Karen McDougal ... At the time of the party, Trump had been married to the
Slovenian model
Melania Knauss for less than two years; their son, Barron, was a few months
old ... McDougal later wrote that Trump “immediately took a liking to me,
kept talking to me - telling me how beautiful I was, etc. It was so obvious that
a Playmate Promotions exec said, ‘Wow, he was all over you - I think you could
be his next wife.’ ”
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 2: Days before the election, Stormy
Daniels threatened to cancel deal to keep alleged affair with Trump secret ...
The 2016 election was less than a month away, and Donald Trump’s attorney had
blown the deadline for paying Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about her alleged
affair with the future president.
In an Oct. 17 email, an attorney for Daniels — a porn star whose real name is
Stephanie Clifford — threatened to cancel the nondisclosure agreement by the end
of the day.
March 8: Trump upset with Sanders over
Stormy Daniels response
On Wednesday, Sanders told reporters that the arbitration was won "in
the President's favor." The statement is an admission that the nondisclosure
agreement exists, and that it directly involves the President. It is the first
time the White House has admitted the President was involved in any way with
Daniels.
March 8: Woman named in Stormy Daniels'
document accused Trump of unwanted advances
When adult film star Jessica Drake accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct a
month before the presidential election, Trump said through a spokesperson that
he didn't know the woman and had "no interest in ever knowing her."
Less than a week later, a woman named Angel Ryan was listed in a secret
settlement agreement negotiated by Trump's personal attorney as having
"confidential information" about the then-Republican nominee.
March 9: Michael Cohen used Trump company
email in Stormy Daniels arrangements
President Donald Trump's personal attorney used his Trump Organization email
while arranging to transfer money into an account at a Manhattan bank before he
wired $130,000 to adult film star Stormy Daniels to buy her silence.
The lawyer, Michael Cohen, also regularly used the same email account during
2016 negotiations with the actress — whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford —
before she signed a nondisclosure agreement, a source familiar with the
discussions told NBC News.
March 14: A hearing date as been set for
Stormy Daniels' lawsuit filed against President Donald Trump to get out of a
nondisclosure agreement relating to an alleged affair.
The hearing has been set for July 12 in Los Angeles, according to
CNN.
The adult film star's lawsuit says that the nondisclosure agreement meant to
silence Daniels about a sexual encounter with Trump before the 2016 election is
invalidated since it was never signed by Trump.
https://ijr.com/2018/03/1075825-stormy-daniels-hearing-date-trump/
March 14: A top Trump Organization attorney
[Jill Martin] filed a secret legal document to keep Stormy Daniels from talking
about her alleged affair with President Trump, deepening links between Trump’s
company and the effort to silence the porn star. https://www.washingtonpost.com/
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.
April 10: The 2018 midterm elections are
already historic when it comes to the number of women candidates running. A
record 309 women have filed to run for seats in the US House,
according to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.
There are 29 women running for US Senate and 40 women running for governors
races so far.
More and more women are putting themselves forward in the hope of increasing the
number of women in legislatures and across government. EMILY's List, the
political action committee that backs Democrats who support abortion rights,
tells CNN they are actively involved in more than 70 races featuring women right
now.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/10/politics/axe-files-emilys-list/index.html
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
April 23: Trump’s State Department Erases
Reproductive Rights From Human Rights Report
“Reproductive rights are human rights, and omitting the issue signals the Trump
Administration’s latest retreat from global leadership on human rights."
The report, titled “Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2017,”
is meant to “document the status of human rights and worker rights in nearly 200
countries and territories” and is “used by a variety of actors, including the
U.S. Congress, the executive branch, and the judicial branch as a factual
resource for decision making in matters ranging from assistance to asylum.”
May 1: Trump may deny Planned Parenthood
$50M+ per year in Title X funding
On Friday, senior White House counselor Kellyanne Conway presented the president
with a case for disqualifying any provider that performs or refers abortions
from receiving Title X funds, Axios
reports. The new rules would mandate complete physical as well as financial
separation between subsidized Title X services and privately-funded abortion
activities.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/trump-may-deny-planned-parenthood-50m-per-year-in-title-x-funding-report
May 3: Taking President Trump to Court —
Again
The administration is preventing patients from visiting Planned Parenthood
health centers and is promoting harmful
abstinence education instead of providing access to birth control.
They’re doing this by completely remaking the
Title X program, aka the nation’s federal program dedicated to affordable
birth control and reproductive health care.
This is a big deal — more than four million people rely on Title X for their
health care. Health care services provided through Title X mostly serve people
with low incomes, who couldn’t otherwise afford health care services on their
own. In fact, 78% of Title X patients have incomes below 150% of the federal
poverty level. Planned Parenthood health centers are the nation’s largest Title
X provider, serving 41% of all Title X patients. That means that attacks on
Title X are also attacks on Planned Parenthood.
https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/blog/were-taking-president-trump-to-court-again
May 18: President Donald Trump's
administration plans to propose a new rule Friday that would bar abortions at
facilities receiving federal family planning funds, according to two people
familiar with the plans -- a move aimed squarely at Planned Parenthood, which
accepts some federal money for non-abortion services.
Long sought by conservatives, the step would take the administration's push to
curtail abortions further. There are already laws in place that prevent federal
money from directly funding abortions, but groups like Planned Parenthood still
accept federal dollars for services like annual screenings and checkups.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/17/politics/trump-planned-parenthood-funds/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: 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: [From "why do people love -or
hate- Trump? Here Are The 20 Top Reasons "]
9.
He says disrespectful things about women.
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: 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 24:Supreme Court nominee
Brett Kavanaugh listed himself as a “Renate Alumnius” in his Georgetown
Preparatory School’s high school yearbook — an apparent reference to Renate
Schroeder Dolphin, who attended a Catholic girls’ school nearby.
After Kavanaugh was first accused of sexual misconduct by Christine Blasey Ford,
Dolphin joined more than 60 other women who knew Kavanaugh in high school and
signed a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee saying “he has behaved
honorably and treated women with respect.”
September 24: Kavanaugh included "Renate
Alumnius" as an entry in his high school yearbook page, and two of Kavanaugh's
classmates told the Times the mentions of "Renate" were part of the high school
football players' unsubstantiated boasting about their conquests.
When Dolphin, who attended a nearby Catholic girls' school and was then known as
Renate Schroeder, signed the September 14 letter, the Times reports, she wasn't
aware of the "Renate" yearbook references about herself on the pages of
Kavanaugh and his football teammates.
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.”
Kelly reportedly sent an email in 2017 following a heated phone
conversation with Warren about Trump’s Muslim ban. In the email, he dismissed
her as an “impolite
arrogant woman,” BuzzFeed reported. The then-Homeland Security Secretary
also called it the “absolutely most insulting conversation I have ever had
with anyone,” adding:
On Twitter: Was I tough on John Kelly in
that phone call? You bet I was. Apparently he thought I was an “impolite
arrogant woman.” “Blah blah blah” – that’s all he had to say when he was called
out for breaking the law and destroying lives.
October 12, 2018
— Elizabeth Warren (@elizabethforma)
October 12: “There
are some men who can only hear 'blah blah blah' whenever a woman’s talking. But
there’s nothing impolite about people’s right to speak out and hold their
government accountable. And sometimes, people are right to be angry,” she added.
October 16:
Trump referred to Stormy Daniels, whose defamation lawsuit against the
president was tossed out on Monday, as “Horseface” in a tweet, saying he’d go
after her and her “3rd rate lawyer” in Texas, where Daniels is a resident. A
judge ordered the adult-film actress to pay Trump’s legal fees, and her attorney
Michael Avenatti said he planned to appeal. Avenatti fired back at Trump on
Twitter, calling the president a “disgusting misogynist and an embarrassment to
the United States.”
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-today-president-attacks-elizabeth-warren-stormy-daniels-with-insult-laden-tweets-2018-10-16
October 16: States Are Challenging New
Policy That Denies Asylum to Survivors of Domestic Violence
Eighteen states and the District of Columbia filed an amicus brief in support of
a legal challenge to the Trump administration’s new policy that denies asylum to
applicants fleeing domestic or gang violence.The policy hits women and
children—the most common survivors of domestic abuse—particularly hard.
According to District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine, the
administration’s new policy “ignores
decades of state, federal, and international law.” As the
friend-of-the-court filing asserts, “Federal law requires that all asylum claims
be adjudicated on the particular facts and circumstances of the claim,” the
filing reads, “and such a bar violates that principle.”
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
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 28: Gone Girl: Lower Manhattan
'Fearless Girl' Statue Is 'On The Move'
She was last seen in the New York City financial district standing akimbo and
facing down a large bull. She left only a pair of footprints and a
not-so-cryptic message in her wake.
December 2: NFL's Chiefs Cut Player Seen
Attacking Woman — After Video Becomes Public
The Kansas City Chiefs cut Kareem Hunt, one of the NFL's top running backs, on
Friday, hours after the release of a video showing him attacking a woman.
Now, fans are asking a familiar set of questions: What did the NFL know about
the domestic violence incident, and did it try to conceal what happened?
The security camera video
obtained and published by TMZ shows Hunt and a few other people in the
hallway of a Cleveland apartment building. Hunt appears to argue with a woman.
He shoves her several times — at one point knocking her to the ground and then
kicking her — as other people try to break up the fight.
The victim told police after the February incident that they should watch the
video and that she wanted Hunt arrested,
USA Today reported. Police said they did not see the video until it was made
public. The NFL investigated but didn't interview Hunt or the victim and also
didn't see the video,
ESPN said.
December 11: Pelosi brings up Trump
'manhood,' says meeting with him was like 'tinkle contest' with skunk
The Democratic minority leader, who is expected to become Speaker next month,
made the comments after speaking with the president at the White House ... as
soon as she returned from the White House, Pelosi strolled into a closed-door
meeting in the Capitol basement, where fellow Democratic lawmakers were in the
process of selecting committee chairs for the new Congress, and questioned
Trump’s manhood.
“It’s like a manhood thing for him,” she said of the wall, according to an aide
who was present. “As if manhood could ever be associated with him. This wall
thing.”
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.
"It’s such a movement, and it’s so empowering to be around so many people who
are celebrating women and fighting for change," one of the marchers said.
Attendees this year appeared less in number than Women's Marches in the past,
potentially a result of allegations of
anti-Semitism made against the organizers. Nonetheless, those who show up
for the march expressed excitement for the event.
The Women’s March organizers said it would be difficult to estimate the turnout
overall this year, but said “there are almost 300 marches happening nationwide.”
Attendance overall may have been hampered as several
high-profile organizations and individuals have pulled their support because
of allegations that Women's March leaders Tamika Mallory and Carmen Perez stated
that Jews needed to confront their role in racism and and that they "bore a
special collective responsibility as exploiters of black and brown people,"
according to Tablet.
February 2: As U.S. Seeks To Withdraw
Troops, What About Afghanistan's Women?
Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. special representative, told the New York Times the
Taliban has agreed not to permit Afghanistan from becoming a home for
international terrorists. Khalilzad did not mention any negotiations regarding
the rights of women.
Under the Taliban, women couldn't leave their homes without a male relative.
Women couldn't go to school or work. They couldn't speak in public. They
couldn't be treated by a doctor. They could be beaten for reading a book.
If so much as an inch of a woman's flesh was exposed — like a flash of ankle
beneath the burqa when they walked — they could be beaten. Many women were
beaten,
and raped, and stoned to death.
The constitution Afghanistan adopted in 2004 enshrines the rights of women, and
today, 27 percent of the members of the
Afghan parliament
are women. But as many as two-thirds of school age women in Afghanistan may
not be in school, because they live in areas where the Taliban is powerful.
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.
