ICYMI: Trump's long history of employing -- and defending -- men accused of hurting women

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https://www.vox.com/2018/2/9/16995854/rob-porter-staff-secretary-donald-trump-me-too
Trump’s long history of employing — and defending — men accused of hurting women

Rob Porter is one of a string of Trumpworld men accused of abuse.



Trump’s long history of employing — and defending — men accused of hurting women

Rob Porter is one of a string of Trumpworld men accused of abuse.

by Anna North
Feb 9, 2018, 7:00 PM CST



When two women told the FBI that White House staff secretary Rob Porter had abused them, Porter joined a line of Trumpworld men accused of choking, grabbing, threatening, hitting, or otherwise abusing women.

At least five administration and campaign figures (including Trump himself) have been the subject of abuse allegations. Rather than treat such allegations with gravity, Trump and his team have chosen to ignore them, to fire back at the women on Twitter, or to parrot men’s assurances of their innocence over women’s reports.

On Friday, for instance, Trump reminded Americans that Porter maintains his innocence, and said, “we certainly wish him well and it’s a tough time for him.”..........................................


The Trump camp has embraced a whole list of men accused of abuse

Porter, who played the pivotal White House role of managing the flow of documents and memos across the president’s desk, announced his resignation on Wednesday. Two of his ex-wives publicly reported that he had abused them. Porter’s first wife, Colbie Holderness, says he kicked, punched, and choked her. She provided the Intercept with photographs of bruises she says Porter inflicted on her. The former White House staffer’s second wife told the Daily Mail that he dragged her by her shoulders out of the shower to yell at her; in an April 2017 blog post, she wrote, “in my home, the abuse was insidious.”..............................




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