U.S. Senator Gillibrand calls Trump Twitter post 'sexist smear'

[webfact]

U.S. Senator Gillibrand calls Trump Twitter post 'sexist smear'

 

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) speaks to the media on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., December 12, 2017. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand fired back at President Donald Trump on Tuesday and said she would not be silenced after he attacked her on Twitter for calling for an investigation into accusations of sexual harassment and misconduct against him.

 

Six U.S. senators, including Gillibrand, have said Trump should resign.

 

Trump lambasted Gillibrand on Twitter on Tuesday writing, "Lightweight Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a total flunky for Chuck Schumer and someone who would come to my office 'begging' for campaign contributions not so long ago (and would do anything for them), is now in the ring fighting against Trump." Schumer is the Senate Democratic leader.

 

Gillibrand, whose name has been floated as a possible Democratic presidential candidate in 2020, said she would not back down.

 

"It was a sexist smear attempting to silence my voice, and I will not be silenced on this issue," she told reporters at a news conference.

 

Trump did not answer a reporter's question at a White House event later on Tuesday when asked what he meant by the tweet.

 

White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders, told that some people thought Trump's tweet contained sexual innuendo, said, "Only if your mind is in the gutter would you have read it that way ... it's obviously talking about political partisan games that people often play and the broken system."

 

Sanders told a regular White House briefing that Trump had used similar language previously to refer to men of both major parties.

 

Other Democratic lawmakers rallied behind Gillibrand, including U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, another possible 2020 presidential candidate.

 

In a tweet directed at Trump, Warren wrote on Tuesday, "Are you really trying to bully, intimidate and slut-shame @SenGillibrand? Do you know who you're picking a fight with? Good luck with that, @realDonaldTrump. Nevertheless, #shepersisted."

 

U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said Trump's attack on Gillibrand was "nasty, unbecoming of a president," but he did not join her call for Trump to resign the presidency over sexual misconduct accusations.

 

More than a dozen women have accused Trump, a New York-based real estate developer and former reality television star, of making unwanted sexual advances against them years before he entered politics. Trump, a Republican, has denied the allegations.

 

Reuters has not independently verified the accusations against Trump.

 

Interest in accusations of sexual harassment and misconduct came to the fore again on Monday when three women who had previously accused Trump of misconduct called on the U.S. Congress to investigate his behaviour.

 

On Tuesday, a fourth woman who had also previously made similar accusations backed their call for an investigation during an interview with NBC.

 

Nearly 60 female Democratic U.S. lawmakers called for an investigation in a letter on Monday.

 

By Tuesday, the group said many male colleagues had also joined on, bringing the number to more than 100 lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives.

 

Trump has called the accusations fabricated stories and he has said he did not know his accusers.

 

On Monday, Gillibrand called the allegations credible and called on Trump to resign over them.

 

The attention to sexual harassment accusations against Trump comes amid a wave of similar accusations against prominent men in Hollywood, the media and politics in recent months.

 

Federal Election Commission records showed Trump gave $4,800 to Gillibrand's Senate campaign in 2010, and that he donated $2,100 to her in 2007 while she was a member of the House of Representatives.

 

Concerns over sexual impropriety have become a political issue the United States, leading to the resignations of two Democratic and one Republican lawmaker. Reuters has not independently verified accusations against them.

 

The issue of sexual harassment has also become central to Tuesday's U.S. Senate election in Alabama after accusations of misconduct were made against Republican candidate Roy Moore.

 

The White House said on Monday that the women's accusations against Trump were false and "totally disputed in most cases by eyewitness accounts" and later promised to provide a list of those accounts to reporters.

 

On Tuesday, the White house sent a list of three 2016 media reports, including a New York Post interview with a British man who disputed one of the accusers' accounts of alleged groping and said he never saw it happen. It also included New York Daily News and CNN reports with two other former pageant participants supporting Trump.

 

(Reporting by Makini Brice; Additional reporting by Susan Cornwell and Lisa Lambert; Editing by Susan Heavey and Adlen Bentley)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-12-13

[selftaopath]

Trump and his minions are moral misfits. They are the lowest of low. When will America be rid of this degenerate bunch of dictator minded dregs of society?  The day is rapidly approaching when Trump will be the most hated human in the world.

[rudi49jr]

2 hours ago, selftaopath said:

Trump and his minions are moral misfits. They are the lowest of low. When will America be rid of this degenerate bunch of dictator minded dregs of society?  The day is rapidly approaching when Trump will be the most hated human in the world.

You are quite right, but the thing is that many Americans are still behind Trump, whatever he says or does or twitters. They keep cheering him on, even when he says he can shoot someone in broad daylight in the middle of the street and get away with it. What are these people thinking? The lying pussy grabber in charge supporting a kiddy fiddler in Alabama apparently doesn't mean a thing to them and they would rather vote for an orang oetan or a head of lettuce to prevent a democrat from winning.

Edited December 13, 2017 by rudi49jr

[craigt3365]

Sad times when the president of the US tweets pure trash.  Embarrassing.  Sadly, he's still got some who like him.  Crazy times.

[boomerangutang]

A new accusation against Trump showed up today.  She was interviewed on a major news show.  She's still young and pretty and blonde (her hair hasn't yet gone gray), so Trump can't as readily say, "Did you see her?! She wouldn't be my first choice, believe me."   She claimed Trump grabbed her butt cheek.  Believable, as are all the other Trump accusers.

 

 

[rudi49jr]

2 minutes ago, craigt3365 said:

Sad times when the president of the US tweets pure trash.  Embarrassing.  Sadly, he's still got some who like him.  Crazy times.

Sad times indeed, but who knows where this is going to end? Trump doesn't give a f*** about anyone or anything, all he is interested in is boosting his giant ego and making money.

[klauskunkel]

Congratulations Donald Trump, you are now the Innuendo President of the United States. May you be dragged by the short and curlies to your impeachment.

[selftaopath]

45 minutes ago, rudi49jr said:

You are quite right, but the thing is that many Americans are still behind Trump, whatever he says or does or twitters. They keep cheering him on, even when he says he can shoot someone in broad daylight in the middle of the street and get away with it. What are these people thinking? The lying pussy grabber in charge supporting a kiddy fiddler in Alabama apparently doesn't mean a thing to them and they would rather vote for an orang oetan or a head of lettuce to prevent a democrat from winning.

Frank Schaeffer has an explanation worth viewing. He also describes the reason many "evangelists" defend Trump. 

 

[ballpoint]

3 hours ago, selftaopath said:

Trump and his minions are moral misfits. They are the lowest of low. When will America be rid of this degenerate bunch of dictator minded dregs of society?  The day is rapidly approaching when Trump will be the most hated human in the world.

You mean Trump and his droogs.

 

 

Edited December 13, 2017 by Scott
Nudity edited out

[selftaopath]

53 minutes ago, rudi49jr said:

Sad times indeed, but who knows where this is going to end? Trump doesn't give a f*** about anyone or anything, all he is interested in is boosting his giant ego and making money.

Yes and unfortunately "bible thumpers" remain. And here might be the reason:

 

[Dagnabbit]

Which part of what he said was sexist?

[thomash]

Trump is really not that popular with the American people besides a minority of his hard core supporters.  First of all he did not win the popular vote he actually lost by almost 3 million votes! Secondly in most polls he is only getting at the most 30% support and those numbers keep dropping. So actually the vast majority of American do not support him. And I predict he will get his but kicked by a woman like Senator Warren in the next Presidential election. 

[stevenl]

19 minutes ago, Dagnabbit said:

Which part of what he said was sexist?

Agree with you.

 

His tweet was a president unbecoming, sexist it was not IMO.

[Jonnapat]

More  and more pathetic day by day.

Is there no end to this man-child's idiocy?

The good news is the smack in the eye he received in Alabama.

[selftaopath]

Oh how true. What a regime.... disgusting.

 

[farcanell]

8 hours ago, craigt3365 said:

Sad times when the president of the US tweets pure trash.  Embarrassing.  Sadly, he's still got some who like him.  Crazy times.

Lol.... I think you could copy and paste this comment somewhere on thai visa every single day!

 

ironically, if he simply stopped tweeting, his credibility would be much improved (although some may say it’s too late already)

[Jingthing]

USA Today is most certainly not a liberal newspaper.

 

So this is significant coming from USA Today.

 

 

Quote

 

Will Trump's lows ever hit rock bottom?
 

A president who'd all but call a senator a whore is unfit to clean toilets in Obama's presidential library or to shine George W. Bush's shoes: Our view
...
The nation doesn’t seek nor expect perfect presidents, and some have certainly been deeply flawed. But a president who shows such disrespect for the truth, for ethics, for the basic duties of the job and for decency toward others fails at the very essence of what has always made America great.

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/12/12/trump-lows-ever-hit-rock-bottom-editorials-debates/945947001/

 

Anyone still supporting this human stain troll potus, there is no excuse any longer. Deplorable and irredeemable -- 100 percent!

Edited December 13, 2017 by Jingthing

[thomash]

9 hours ago, stevenl said:

Agree with you.

 

His tweet was a president unbecoming, sexist it was not IMO.

The part where he said she would do anything for the donation, I think we know what he meant by that.

[Jingthing]

The part where he said she would do anything for the donation, I think we know what he meant by that.

Of course we do. Even right winger Santorum acknowledged that. trump is basically evil. Decent Americans of all parties need to fire his orange arse ASAP.

Sent from my Lenovo A7020a48 using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app

[Jingthing]

Sad times indeed, but who knows where this is going to end? Trump doesn't give a f*** about anyone or anything, all he is interested in is boosting his giant ego and making money.

Yep and he's got the nuclear football.

Sent from my Lenovo A7020a48 using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app

[Jingthing]

A new accusation against Trump showed up today.  She was interviewed on a major news show.  She's still young and pretty and blonde (her hair hasn't yet gone gray), so Trump can't as readily say, "Did you see her?! She wouldn't be my first choice, believe me."   She claimed Trump grabbed her butt cheek.  Believable, as are all the other Trump accusers.
 
 

Lock him up!

Sent from my Lenovo A7020a48 using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app