Admitted sexual assailant Donald Trump is ‘not surprised’ about Harvey Weinstein
I guess it’s worth discussing how right-wingers are trying to make this into a “thing.” “This” being Harvey Weinstein’s (alleged) systematic harassment and abuse of women over the course of decades. Weinstein has always been a big-time (“bigly”) donor to the Democratic Party, individual Democrats and many progressive causes over the years. Many of the Democrats who received personal donations from Weinstein have already donated those funds to various charities and women’s issues groups.
The Republicans – led by the Trump family and their merry band of white supremacists – have been engaging with a serious case of Whataboutism. As in, what about Harvey Weinstein, Democrat and alleged pervert, so don’t pay attention to Donald Trump’s strikingly similar history of assault, harassment and misogyny. For whatever record, I think Trump and Weinstein are cut from the same misogynistic and abusive cloth. The difference is that when Weinstein’s behavior was finally made public, he was widely condemned in the wake of the news and he will likely be shunned for the rest of his life. When Trump’s abusive behavior was made public, millions of dumb a–holes made him president of the United States. Donald Trump even name-checked Weinstein during an informal media scrum as Trump boarded a helicopter to go to another f–king golf course – Trump said: “I’ve known Harvey Weinstein a long time… I’m not at all surprised to see it.”
Don Trump Jr. has been on Twitter since the Weinstein story broke, trying to score political points off of it or something. Like, he thinks he’s making a good point when he points out that, like, abusing and harassing women is wrong when Harvey Weinstein does it? Yes. It is wrong. It’s wrong when Weinstein did it, it was wrong when your father did it too. And once again, Weinstein isn’t running for f–king president. Don Jr. and Jimmy Kimmel have been tweeting at each other and Kimmel ended up reposting the Access Hollywood tape where Donald Trump bragged about assaulting women. This is probably why Donald Trump was whining on Twitter about “equal time” and late-night talk show hosts.
Also: apparently the Deplorables are really mad that Saturday Night Live didn’t devote a skit or any jokes to the Weinstein situation. It IS strange that there wasn’t even a reference to it in Weekend Update, but then again, a million f–king things happened in the past week, and SNL was focused more on the Las Vegas Massacre. You remember that, when 58 people were gunned down with an machine gun and the NRA-sponsored Republican Party won’t be doing jack sh-t about it? BUT HARVEY WEINSTEIN! “But Harvey Weinstein” is the new “what about Chicago” and “but her emails!”
Hillary Clinton is apparently responsible for Harvey Weinstein, her husband, and Donald Trump. Are men ever responsible for what they do?
— Jill Filipovic (@JillFilipovic) October 8, 2017
Trump is an accused serial sexual abuser and harasser. He admitted, on tape, to committing sexual assault. Weinstein is trash, but come on. http://bit.ly/2wHhjLf
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) October 8, 2017
For the record…not one Democrat defended or made excuses for Harvey Weinstein…
But I can name plenty of the GOP who defended Trump.
— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) October 8, 2017
I'm glad to see folks are spending the 1-year anniversary of the Access Hollywood tape pinning Harvey Weinstein on Hillary Clinton.
— Sarah Lerner (@SarahLerner) October 8, 2017
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