Cain Changes His Tune on Allegations:
In an interview airing on Fox News on Monday night, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain says that a financial settlement was paid to one of two women who accused him of sexual harassment while he was serving as head of the National Restaurant Association over a decade ago.
However, in responding to the accusations in question earlier in the day, the former Godfather's Pizza CEO said, "I have never sexually harassed anyone and those accusations are totally false ... It was concluded, after a thorough investigation, that it had no basis." He added, "I am unaware of any sort of settlement." Cain was not asked how he could have been unaware of a settlement if he knew the results of an investigation into the charges. He said that once the charges were brought against him he recused himself from the investigation.
And he added that he does not want the NRA to confirm or deny the settlements, or give any information at all about the incidents.
Why doesn’t Cain want the NRA to comment on the matter or share important details and information? If there is nothing there why fear any disclosure? If the whole thing is made up, let the facts come out and let the matter play out so people will see it for what it is. Cain will come out of this more powerful than ever.
I haven’t had time to research much tonight, but the article I read said that Cain’s counsel told him about the settlement. I didn’t see the interview live, so I don’t know if he meant that his current counsel told him the information this afternoon, or if he meant he knew it all along.
In things like this, I have found that often reading it in the written word it comes across much different than the speaker meant it in real life, due to the inability of the written word to capture inflection and so forth. Also, an article can pick and choose which words to print, and which not to print. So I would want to see the interview before I know whether he was saying he found about (from counsel) later today about the settlement.