Trump defends Acosta

I think Trump is lying. He watches a lot of TV and this has been a big story. I am sure he knows about it. Remember, Trump and Bill Clinton know Epstein, too.

Labor Secretary Acosta must go.

Asked about criticism of Labor Sec’y Acosta for his handling as US Attorney of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex abuse of underage girls, POTUS said “I really don’t know too much about it. I know he’s done a great job as labor secretary and that seems like a long time ago,”
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 22, 2019

As with every case involving Epstein, this one could further embarrass his once-impressive roster of A-list friends and associations, which included Bill Clinton, President Trump and Prince Andrew. A guide to Epstein’s inner circle: https://t.co/v4pzuFAaQg #PerversionofJustice
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) February 21, 2019

The Pulitzer committee should seriously consider @jkbjournalist for her work in turning over the rocks covering Jeffrey Epstein's scandalous plea deal.https://t.co/KwS8zruHKa
— Patrick Nonwhite (@NonWhiteHat) February 22, 2019

Judge’s order is actually pretty uncomplicated and clear: DOJ and then-US Attorney Acosta’s office demonstrated everything but fealty to the accused pedophile and misled his victims. The question is WHY. https://t.co/7wv64f3RXx
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 22, 2019

Ken Starr is the attorney for Jeffrey Epstein. You really can’t make this stuff up. All so disturbing and just plain awful.
— Karine Jean-Pierre (@K_JeanPierre) February 22, 2019

Taking a closer look at Judge Kenneth Mara's opinion and order finding that the DOJ — and specifically then-US Attorney, now Labor Secretary Alex Acosta — violated the law in the Epstein plea deal. (Thread)https://t.co/QfengNVRAa
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 22, 2019

Miami Herald: A judge ruled Thursday that federal prosecutors — among them, U.S. Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta — broke federal law when they signed a plea agreement with Jeffery Epstein and concealed it from more than 30 of his underage victims.https://t.co/N8XIFFdvyc
— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) February 21, 2019

Republican hypocrisy on Al Franken

I am not defending Al Franken’s behavior but he was pushed out of the Senate without even a hearing. Republicans only care about sexual assault if Democrats do it. Trump’s quote sounds like he thinks Franken should have fought it. Trump would never admit to doing anything wrong and that’s how he thinks people should act.

This made no sense @senatorcollins. @alfranken should have kept his seat until there was an investigation. Voters could have decided at the end of his term in 2020. It wasn’t as if you were considering him for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. Speaking of which … https://t.co/CZqUQ8aT5I

— Richard W. Painter (@RWPUSA) October 7, 2018

When Al Franken was accused of sexual impropriety, Susan Collins demanded he resign. Without a hearing.

— Stephen King (@StephenKing) October 6, 2018

When Franken was accused—he resigned

When Schneiderman was accused—he resigned

When Conyers was accused—he resigned

When Trump was accused—he was elected

When Moore was accused—he was endorsed

When Kavanaugh was accused—he was confirmed

Never say the parties are the same

— Rantt Media (@RanttMedia) October 6, 2018

Al Franken was accused of sexual assault and resigned. Kavanaugh and Trump were separately accused of sexual assault and now one is a Supreme Court justice, the other president. Maybe are Dems really the “wet rag” party? https://t.co/SrDpFg7wBp

— POLITICO (@politico) October 7, 2018

Collins in Nov. '17: Franken allegations 'credible, disgusting and appalling'.

As @Lawrence noted last night, Collins' talk of 'presumption of innocence' with Kavanaugh is in contrast to her calling for Franken to resign without an Ethics Committee probe. https://t.co/9blTCcTRns

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 6, 2018

Speak for yourself @RealDonaldTrump.
Every one of your associates who talks with Robert Mueller folds up “like a wet rag.”
Then it will be your turn.

Trump mocks Al Franken over resignation: He folded ‘like a wet rag’ https://t.co/WbIS2zbfQU

— Richard W. Painter (@RWPUSA) October 5, 2018

A 56% majority of Republicans say they would consider voting for a candidate facing multiple accusations of sexual harassment

A 56% majority of Republicans say they would consider voting for a candidate facing multiple accusations of sexual harassment (@PRRIpoll) details: https://t.co/VsHwmGuUns pic.twitter.com/qFwVKjqeFh

— OpinionToday.com (@OpinionToday) October 5, 2018

Most college assault victims do not go to the police

Trump doesn’t have a damn clue. He only cares about sexual abusers like Moore and Ailes, not the victims. Of course, over a dozen women have accused Trump of assault. I think Trump is lying like he does on many other issues.

Here are the numbers. https://t.co/NAo6PWKAH4 pic.twitter.com/zeGWkxT2R7

— Philip Bump (@pbump) September 21, 2018

This tweet has inspired the #WhyIDidntReport hashtag. Well worth reading the accounts there — a depressing chronicle of how our society has failed to support women who have been attacked. https://t.co/KKXSuyHlBq

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) September 21, 2018

The assault Kavanaugh is accused of was over 30 years ago – why it still matters

I believe Christine Blasey Ford.

My TL is full of women trying to make the world understand that it can take a long long time to talk about assault. Many of these expressions include personal revelations, some for the first time.

How many of us have to put ourselves on the line to give one of us credibility?

— Jina Moore (@itsjina) September 17, 2018

Why does a high school assault matter, after so many years? Maybe this is why. https://t.co/4v07Q10kv1

— Jayne Anne Phillips (@jayneanneonly) September 17, 2018

"I was never concerned about the 'timing' of the allegations… The fact that you spoke publicly, for the first time, some 35 years after the incident gives me no pause." —@goldietaylor to Christine Blasey Ford https://t.co/WA54RvD0aA

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 17, 2018

I think a lot of men find it hard to face the fact that statistically, many of their sisters, mothers, female friends, + colleagues have likely similar stories about being academically, professionally and/or emotionally, derailed for years after a “youthful indiscretion.”

— Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) September 17, 2018

Sexual abuses happen to all sorts of women and girls. Well-off women. Poor women. Educated women. Religious women. Women who grew up with two-parent households and those who didn’t.

The rot of misogyny is deep and unsparing.

— Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) September 17, 2018

I had a similar coercive incident college. I ended up depressed and in on-campus therapy. My mom threatened to pull me out of school if i didn’t report it. All the while I felt it didn’t matter because he was older and going to law school.

— Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) September 17, 2018

I reported it to campus police, but nothing was done.

I was messed up for a good year. Thought sex was an inherently violent act.

Got a bunch of piercings to try to feel like I was in control of my body while liking that the pain of the piercings matched how I felt.

— Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) September 17, 2018

And of course, I was told by family members that it was my fault for letting him up to my room (sober) in the first place.

I was told after that that if I had followed God’s commands it wouldn’t have happened, and that I needed to go to church to cleanse his spirit from me

— Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) September 17, 2018

I saw sincerely, what you may fail to understand is that for women who were in HS in 80s (& even later), it’s credible. Happened all the time. We didn’t talk about it, tried to forget it. But fact that it was common didn’t diminish the toll it took. And that bill has come due. https://t.co/m7L0LCtwWm

— Jennifer Palmieri (@jmpalmieri) September 17, 2018

Brett Kavanaugh may lose a job opportunity. Christine Blasey Ford has already lost so much more.

My latest. https://t.co/z6AUvUl86n

— Melissa Jeltsen (@quasimado) September 18, 2018

Don’t make up your mind about Kavanaugh without reading this. https://t.co/XFFjndwxyH

— David Brooks (@nytdavidbrooks) September 18, 2018

I personally know twenty women who have either been sexually harassed or assaulted. I don't know one woman who has ever lied about it.#BelieveChristine #Kavanaugh

— Emily Brandwin (@CIAspygirl) September 18, 2018

Why did Judge Kavanaugh's accuser take so long to come forward? Experts say a long delay in reporting or a foggy recall of events are the very hallmarks of sexual assault. https://t.co/01nyhJjBVy

— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) September 18, 2018

update 9/21

Patti Davis, the daughter of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, pens a @washingtonpost op-ed on her sexual assault: "I never told anyone for decades — not a friend, not a boyfriend, not a therapist, not my husband when I got married years later" https://t.co/qqERQHRkzo

— Jennifer Hansler (@jmhansler) September 21, 2018

Hey, @realDonaldTrump, Listen the fuck up.

I was sexually assaulted twice. Once when I was a teenager. I never filed a police report and it took me 30 years to tell me parents.

If any survivor of sexual assault would like to add to this please do so in the replies. #MeToo https://t.co/n0Aymv3vCi

— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) September 21, 2018

I waited over 20 years to report my sexual abuser.
Because I was 14.
Because it was my hero.
Because it was my priest.
Because I thought I'd be expelled.
Because I feared no one would believe me.
Because I thought suicide was easier than telling 1 person#WhyIDidntReport

— Thomas Roberts (@ThomasARoberts) September 21, 2018

I want to share my experience on assault and memory in a thread:

— Anne Dickerson (@adickerson) September 21, 2018

I wrote an Op-Ed for @nytimes about something terrible that happened to me in my youth, something that happens to young women every day. We all have an opportunity to change the narrative and believe survivors. https://t.co/pqFt50t4R1

— Padma Lakshmi (@PadmaLakshmi) September 25, 2018

.@KirstenPowers tells @AndersonCooper she was sexually assaulted in the 1980s and "thought it was my fault."

"We didn't call it sexual assault," then, she said. "Sexual assault was something strangers did to you… It wasn't something that happened with a popular boy at school." pic.twitter.com/74a1AO0pOq

— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) October 3, 2018

"It wasn't until I read — and reread — Ford's account that I gained some sort of clarity. I felt in my bones that I had to take action."

Christine Blasey Ford inspired me to break my silence, writes Naomi Seligman via @CNNOpinion https://t.co/8AKhV2FYC3 pic.twitter.com/OwbKV0sPpT

— CNN (@CNN) October 3, 2018

Connie Chung says she was sexually assaulted by the doctor who delivered her – and she didn't tell anyone for five decades https://t.co/nYc8D5uglt pic.twitter.com/nugUXqr4WO

— CBS News (@CBSNews) October 3, 2018