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Williams:“But to me, when I see the president do this, you know, as someone who’s been around awhile ....."

Yes, Juan has been around a while, long enough do be involved in the following.

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https://www.newsweek.com/another-former-npr-host-accused-sexual-harassment-699617

Another Man Who Worked At NPR Had Been Accused of Serial Sexual Harassment

By Melina Delkic -- 11/2/17

SEXUAL HARASSMENT NPR THE WASHINGTON POST

The same radio network that suspended its top news director this week for years of sexual harassment allegations once hired a controversial Washington Post writer whose history of sexual harassment allegations was well known.

Juan Williams, 63, joined National Public Radio in 2000, working first as the host of Talk of the Nation and later as a senior national correspondent, despite being at the center of a widely reported sexual harassment scandal at The Washington Post a decade earlier. Williams now works for Fox News as an analyst.

Post newsroom employees said that Williams had, for years, commented on their bodies, asked them about their sex lives, and said things that were "lewd" and "shocking." Nancy McKeon, then the features editor of the Post Magazine, told Newsweek she remembers Williams asking women, "Did your heels hit the ceiling last night?" and saying, "Now there's a chair I'd like to sniff" when one employee stood up from her seat.

The comments were known and were even covered by the Washington Post at the time. But NPR hired Williams anyway.

"This is ancient," Williams said when Newsweek reached out to him. When asked if the allegations were true, he declined to answer.

The Williams case, resurfacing in the days after NPR fired news director Michael Oreskes for allegedly harassing women when he worked at the radio network and, before that, at the New York Times, raises questions about how difficult it is to root out harassment even when there are many allegations against an offender.

"As a matter of policy, we do not comment about personnel matters," an NPR spokesperson said in an email, declining to specify whether NPR knew about the allegations against Williams.

• Williams was not fired by The Post when the allegations were revealed in 1991. Fifty female employees met with then-Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. to object to the newspaper's lack of transparency surrounding what disciplinary measures it had taken. Yet Williams was eventually hired by NPR.

'He was like a serial shocker'

The features editor of the Post Magazine Nancy McKeon who worked with Williams in the late 1980s, warned him several times during her tenure to "stop talking to these young girls like that" and that he'd "have a problem" if he continued. After one art director stood up from her chair, McKeon said she remembers Williams saying, "Now there's a chair I'd like to sniff."

McKeon said she still thinks about Williams's lewd behavior, and regrets not doing more to stop him. "I have a feeling that a lot of us thought we had the best intentions, and thought we were doing enough, but it all fell short of the mark," she said. "I blame myself."

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What is he doing on Fox News?