As Lena Dunham reminds us, it’s easy to believe all women, until one of them accuses one of your male friends and allies.
During the Kavanaugh circus, Senator Kamala Harris was riding the Believe All Women express and tweeted, #BelieveSurvivors. Now her faith, as Darth Vader
Sen. Kamala Harris said Thursday that she did not know about the allegations of harassment made against one of her longtime staff members, who resigned Wednesday after The Sacramento Bee inquired about a $400,000 harassment and retaliation settlement resulting from his time working for Harris at the California Department of Justice.
take our poll - story continues belowCompleting this poll grants you access to DC Clothesline updates free of charge. You may opt out at anytime. You also agree to this site's Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.“I did not,” she said on the steps outside the U.S. Capitol. “Nope.”
Larry Wallace, who was the director of the Division of Law Enforcement under then-Attorney General Harris, was accused by his former executive assistant Danielle Hartley in December 2016 of “gender harassment” and other demeaning behavior, including frequently asking her to crawl under his desk to change the paper in his printer.
“It’s something that I take very seriously, and I think we all should,” Harris said. She did not answer whether she believes Hartley but said she has “not talked to her directly.”
It’s not just about Wallace.
Hartley accused the office of retaliation. And if her story is true, then she was abused and intimidated by Kamala Harris’ people.
Despite the settlement, Harris won’t stand by her or offer her an apology. There is absolutely no way that Trump won’t use this in a hypothetical election. Which means that she’s already been wounded. Like Hillary and Dunham, Harris was caught playing the victim card while standing with the perpetrators.
And you can’t do both.
There’s also this curious question.
Harris, who has said she will decide over the holidays whether to run for president in 2020, has been a prominent figure in the #MeToo movement against workplace sexual harassment. Last year, she was among a group of female senators that were the first to call for the resignation of Sen. Al Franken after multiple women accused him of sexual misconduct, and she introduced a bill in June to ban forced nondisclosure agreements in harassment settlements…
As part of the settlement, Hartley resigned her position and agreed not to seek employment with the Department of Justice again. She also agreed to a non-disclosure clause, forbidding her from discussing the settlement amount or alerting the media to the agreement.
Is Harris willing to call for Hartley’s release from that NDA considering that she’s publicly opposed to them? And if she is, why was Hartley forced to sign it?
The person most likely to be hurt by Hartley going to the media was… Kamala Harris.
Wasn’t this an NDA protecting Kamala Harris from the political consequences of her aide’s harassment? And is it really plausible that Harris knew nothing about what was going on in her own office?
Either Kamala Harris is incompetent or was protecting a sexual harasser.
Pick one.
Courtesy of Freedom Outpost
Article posted with permission from Daniel Greenfield
My name is Daniel Greenfield. I am a blogger and columnist born in Israel and living in New York City. I am a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and a contributing editor at Family Security Matters. My original biweekly column appears at Front Page Magazine and my blog articles regularly appear at Family Security Matters, the Jewish Press, Times of Israel, Act for America and Right Side News, as well as daily at the Canada Free Press and a number of other outlets. I have a column titled Western Front at Israel National News and my op eds have also appeared in the New York Sun, the Jewish Press and at FOX Nation.
