Posted on 11/22/2017 4:17:49 AM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
President Trump said Tuesday that he believed lawmakers who paid settlements to sexual harassment accusers should be outed.
'I do – I really do,' Trump told reporters on the South Lawn as he was leaving the White House to spend Thanksgiving at Mar-a-Lago.
Rep. Jackie Speier, a California Democrat, said last Tuesday that about $15 million had been paid out to victims of harassers from the House of Representatives over the last ten to fifteen years.
Speier didn't disclose the names of the members, nor did she name the two men – besides saying one is a Democrat and one is a Republican – who she testified were currently serving in Congress and accused of sexual harassment.
On Tuesday, however, the House Ethics Committee announced it had opened an investigation into the behavior of Rep. John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat.
BuzzFeed reported Monday night that multiple staffers had accused Conyers of sexual harassment, producing four signed affidavits, three of which were notarized, which accused the congressman of making sexual advances on female staffers, including requests of them to perform sex acts.
Trump, who's been accused by multiple women of sexual harassment and assault, wasn't ready to comment on Conyers Tuesday.
'I just heard about Conyers two minutes ago,' the president said.
Sen. Al Franken, the Democratic comedian-turned-lawmaker under fire for inappropriate kissing and groping, Trump said, also needed to speak for himself.
'I don't want to speak for Al Franken. I don't know what happened,' the president said, five days after mocking Franken in his tweets.
While Trump said he'd like members of Congress to be outed, he suggested an alleged harasser's denial was enough to keep the president's support.
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Gonna be some Repubs in there too - maybe one for every 50 Dems......
And get all that tax payer money back. These dip wads should be paying settlements out of their own pockets.
Thank you for your service.
God bless you and thank you so much.
Important to see who in Congress and the media supports this, and who DOESN’T!
It's gonna be higher than that.
Gonna be some Repubs in there too - maybe one for every 50 Dems......
Good - expose the Republicans as well and kick them out of office.
Once again, does anyone believe any of this would be exposed if Hillary won?
It would have been business as usual.
Great. This means that Trump has never settled a sexual harrassment suit and can call anyone he wants out. That’s why these allegations aren’t sticking and the left knows it.
He would not be saying this if it was the case.
I could not care less what party they belong to. If they are sexual predators get them out of office!
Chaps my hide congress uses OUR hard earned dollars to pay off victims of abuse by members.
How freaking wrong is this?
None of this would be happening if any other candidate of either party would’ve won. Trump is rocking the world.
Now that’s a story with a reliable source; POTUS!
Now we know why the Repubs in congress always sided with the Dems on most issues. Blackmail.
My understanding is that all these settlements had non-disclosure agreements binding on the defendant as well as the plaintiff.
They will be leaked. Watch.
Then the person who settled can sue again.
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My understanding is that all these settlements had non-disclosure agreements binding on the defendant as well as the plaintiff.
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IMO, they’d have more cred vs. non-disclosure if it weren’t the People’s\tax-payer $$$.
Too, it isn’t covered under ‘national security’ or the like.
The People paid for it, it’s the People’s biz and right to know.
Don’t need to expose the victims’s names, just the Congress critters’.
Maybe give the perps one chance to quit before exposure?
Drain the swamp!
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