Trump Defies the #MeToo Movement With Cabinet Picks Facing Accusations

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Trump Defies the #MeToo Movement With Cabinet Picks Facing Accusations
The New York Times ^ | Nov. 19, 2024, 10:27 a.m. ET | Peter Baker

Posted on 11/19/2024 11:57:42 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

When he takes the oath of office in January, Donald J. Trump will make history as the first court-adjudicated sexual abuser to assume the presidency. But if he gets the team of his choice, he will not be the only one in the room whose conduct has been called into question.

Mr. Trump, who was found liable in a civil trial last year of accosting a woman, has selected a defense secretary, an attorney general, a secretary of health and human services and an efficiency czar, all of whom have been accused of variations of sexual misconduct and, like the president-elect, deny them.

The rise of the accused to positions of power raises new questions about the future of the #MeToo movement that swept through the country and upended societal expectations in recent years. The kind of accusations that took down titans of Hollywood, Wall Street, Silicon Valley, Washington, the news media, sports and state capitals have proved no obstacle in Mr. Trump’s selection process.

Rather than be deterred by such allegations, Mr. Trump seems determined to force a fight over them. He knew that Matt Gaetz, the renegade Republican congressman, had been accused of all manner of sordid conduct, including sex with an underage girl, but tapped him to run the Justice Department anyway. He may not have known that Pete Hegseth, the Fox News weekend host he named to preside over the Pentagon, had paid a woman who accused him of sexual assault, but has indicated that he will stand by him.


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TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: denialofdueprocess; enemieslist; enemyjournalist; newyorktimes; nytsedition; peterbaker

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Trump Defies the #MeToo Movement With Cabinet Picks Facing Accusations Without Evidence

Fixed it.


To: E. Pluribus Unum

NYTimes as irrelevant as always pumping out their leftist activist garbage.


2 posted on 11/19/2024 11:59:15 AM PST by 1Old Pro


To: E. Pluribus Unum

Really?

This is all that the ball-less POS Peter Baker has got?

Get him a fainting couch.

3 posted on 11/19/2024 12:01:30 PM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )


To: E. Pluribus Unum

I still remember the Kavanaugh hearing...what a farce..

And what about squeaky baby voice..she lied her butt off...

4 posted on 11/19/2024 12:05:15 PM PST by Sacajaweau


To: E. Pluribus Unum

The House Ethics Committee found that Gaetz's accuser was not credible. And the police found no evidence with which to charge Pete Hegseth when his accuser made her accusation.

This is lawfare and nothing more.

This is what the Democrats do.

5 posted on 11/19/2024 12:06:05 PM PST by RoosterRedux (Emerson (paraphrased): "If you strike at the king, don't fail." The Democrats failed. )


To: E. Pluribus Unum

If for no other reason to support Gaetz and Hegseth - the fact they send liberal heads a’splodin’ is schadenfreude.

Isn’t it funny they don’t mention the sexual misconduct allegations against Clinton, Obama, Biden and even Heels up Harris.


6 posted on 11/19/2024 12:06:42 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Climate Change is Real. Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall.)


To: E. Pluribus Unum

Democrats can shoot a woman on a movie set, drown a woman in an Oldsmobile, and go right on riding high. Republicans need only be accused of impropriety and they are anathematized.


7 posted on 11/19/2024 12:08:41 PM PST by Buttons12 ( )


To: 1Old Pro

Don’t care. One of our guys is accused of having sex with a whore - what democrats call a ‘sex worker’. Sex workers are democrat women and democrats defend them as virgins if a Republicans goes near one.

The WOKE game is men have to walk on water or be gay or trans where they can have a thousand hook ups a year and no one is allowed to say anything.

If a sex CRIME was committed the women should have two years to call the police or it’s just a he said she said...


8 posted on 11/19/2024 12:09:58 PM PST by GOPJ (Liberal cancel culture is dead. )


To: E. Pluribus Unum

Was/is the NYT concerned about Tara Reade’s accusations against Joe Biden?


9 posted on 11/19/2024 12:12:12 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)

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