Posted on 10/26/2017 6:19:26 PM PDT by markomalley
Author Christina Baker Kline has come forward saying she was groped by former President George H.W. Bush in 2014 during a Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy fundraiser during a photo opportunity.
"'You wanna know my favorite book?' he whispered. I had to lean close to hear him," Kline wrote in an op-ed for Slate.
"President Bush put his arm around me, low on my back. His comic timing was impeccable. 'David Cop-a-feel,' he said, and squeezed my butt, hard, just as the photographer snapped the photo. Instinctively, I swiped his hand away," Kline wrote.
Kline is the third woman to accuse Bush of sexually assaulting her.
Actress Heather Lind initially came forward Tuesday claiming Bush sexually assaulted her and described the interaction four years ago in a now-deleted Instagram post. The incident happened during a photo opportunity to promote a TV show.
Late Wednesday, a second woman, New York actress Jordana Grolnick, also accused Bush of groping her, according to Deadspin.
The latest statement from the office of Bush was released Wednesday and offered a detailed defense of the 93-year-old after Lind claimed that he sexually assaulted her.
The statement said that Bush has been in a wheelchair for five years and explains that he cannot reach people around the waist.
"His arm falls on the lower waist of people with whom he takes pictures," the statement read. "To try to put people at ease, the president routinely tells the same joke and on occasion, he has patted women's rears in what he intended to be a good-natured manner. Some have seen it as innocent; others clearly view it as inappropriate."
"To anyone he has offended, President Bush apologizes most sincerely," the statement added.
May God forgive you.
“Any woman ever grab your ass at work. And then laugh about it?” Actually yes.
“Won’t be long now and we will have women coming forward claiming assault by those buried already “
Exactly,they are all on the #Me too! merry go round.
It will soon be like the boy who cried “Wolf”-——no one will pay attention.or care.
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Frontotemporal dementia? It can lead to inappropriate behavior.
All I can think when I read this is ‘idiot snowflakes.’ HW’s joke in bad taste, but he obviously does think it’s funny because he’s doing it in front of everyone, out loud, with the intention of people hearing him. Weird, for sure, but nothing like a Weinstein.
Women of my generation were really good at dealing with grabbers, and the sky didn’t fall when it happened. I remember one with high hopes even without his false teeth. Some like that were simply funny. And the majority were like that. Not scary. Just idiots.
Weinstein is a completely different situation. He was coercing with the bribe and threat of work given or withheld. And he was not taking no for an answer. That man belongs behind bars. And the ones in the news media are sounding like the Weinstein types. Using power and scaring people. They could use some jail time, too.
HW needs a lecture from someone who isn’t afraid of someone who was once president and can tell him that his joke isn’t really funny. And maybe give him something like a rubber ball to keep his hands busy.
The last person he screwed was the voters when he went back on his “read my lips” no taxes pledge.
I was groped by a fellow construction worker today as he squeezed past me on the gangplank, then he said “F-—” real loud when he got a splinter, it made me pucker up inside, I felt nauseated by the invasion of my safe zone, I was shocked and hurt. I want to file a sexual harrasment claim
The best family the Saudis ever bought.
GW assaulted the Kurds pretty good on that road out of Baghdad at the end of GW-1
These women are COMING out d’ bushes!
sexual assault? Oh good grief...
Yet to catch a convincing UFO? There are hundreds and hundreds of UFO videos.
I was rubbed up on by an older woman at work one time while she walked behind me. She grabbed my upper sides(both) and went all the way down as she went by. There was no doubt in my mind it was meant to be sensual.
I honestly didn’t really care.
You didn’t look very happy.
“The last person he screwed was the voters when he went back on his read my lips no taxes pledge.”
He did say he was voting for Hillary.
More egregious condemnation? I thought God counted sin as sin. That murder is sin, and a lie is a sin. To him they are both sin. Neither more egregious than the other.
No?
No wonder he thinks of BJ Clinton as a ‘son’.
Seriously...
To claim you were ‘sexually assaulted’ by an 89 year old man in a wheelchair...
Vs Clinton being accused of actual rape or having sexcapades in the White House with an intern...
Move on, folks, just move on...
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