Trump's Cabinet picks seemingly require 'sexual abuse' allegations on resumes: Journalist

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Not only do you have to prove that you are a trump loyalist, you also need to be a sexual predator to work for trump

Link to tweet

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-cabinet-2669951096/

The Bulwark's editor-in-chief continued to express his disgust Tuesday with Donald Trump's Cabinet appointees who have allegations revolving around sex scandals in their past.

Fox News weekend host Pete Hegseth reportedly reached a financial settlement with a woman accused him of sexual assault during a Republican women's conference in 2017. He has denied the allegations and maintained the encounter was consensual.

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) was under investigation over allegations including sexual misconduct with a 17-year-old. He, too, has denied any wrongdoing......

"There is a moral dimension; you are talking about horrific behavior. Behavior that many people who voted for Donald Trump would never tolerate in their community in their family, in any context whatsoever. And yet Donald Trump is, you know, one appointment after another, it's almost as if this is now a requirement on your resume you have to have a sexual abuse or allegation against you."

[Lovie777]

1. Yep....

[Happy Hoosier]

2. It's about normalizing sexual violence against women.

Make no mistake... They want to return to a time where women are property, to be used and abused at the discretion of their owner. Welcome to Gilead.

[Irish_Dem]

7. Yes Trump is sending a strong message to women.

Rape is now normal and to be expected.
And will all be legal.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Is it the sense of entitlement in higher ends of the income scale?

More dominance, more abuse (even emotionally), and therefore more entrenched? Trump thinks obviously this is no problem, perhaps thinks it normal. Or is it to green light MAGA males?

This is a 10 alarm fire and then some. A signal for the abuse ahead perhaps. We are all powerless targets.

[Irish_Dem]

8. Raping women is the right of all privileged males.

Like in the old days, it was taken for granted that a rich white male could take any woman
he wanted, consent was not needed.

[Ocelot II]

4. It's the whole toxic masculinity thing.

It's possible to be toxically masculine without sexually assaulting women, but it's part of the whole vibe. So if you're the hairy-chested tough guy who struts around Wal-Mart with your AR-15 just to remind the world that because you've got a dick you can do any damn thing you want, wouldn't grabbing a woman wherever you feel like grabbing her be one of the things you can do just because you want to and you've got a dick?

[Solly Mack]

5. Kennedy has also been accused of sexual assault by his babysitter.

Woman who accused RFK Jr of sexual assault says he apologized by text


Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr has apologized to a former family babysitter who accused him of sexual assault, the woman told Reuters on Friday.

In 1994 Kennedy married Richardson, who had been Kerry Kennedy’s best friend since they attended Putney School in Vermont together. She and Bobby had four children, Conor, Kyra, Aidan, and Finn. In the fall of 1998, the Kennedys hired a 23-year-old woman, Eliza Cooney, as their part-time babysitter. She was a recent college graduate interested in working on environmental causes and had looked after Kerry’s and Max’s children in Hyannis Port that summer. Cooney moved into Bobby and Mary’s family home in Mount Kisco, New York, taking care of the kids and assisting Bobby at his environmental law clinic at Pace University during the week.

One night Cooney attended a meeting in the family kitchen with Kennedy and another young Riverkeeper volunteer named Murray Fisher to discuss business when she felt Kennedy’s hand moving up and down her leg under the table. She tried making sense of the incident in her diary, which I have read. In an entry dated November 7, 1998, she wrote:

From everything everybody says about the Kennedys + their Babysitters, they had me worried. Like I have to watch out, be careful. And the other night in the kitchen w/ Murray I could have sworn he was touching my leg + hand. It seemed like he thought I was somebody else or wasn’t paying attention. Like he would come to every once in a while and snap out of it or I would move away. It was like he was on something or really tired or was missing Mary or was testing me.

When asked about the allegation, Kennedy told a podcast on Tuesday, "I am not a church boy."
"I had a very, very rambunctious youth," he told podcaster Saagar Enjeti. "I said in my announcement speech that I have so many skeletons in my closet that if they could all vote, I could run for king of the world."

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. Only "the best people"

Link to tweet

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. Trump nominees are sexual predetators

Link to tweet

[Cha]

11. TY.. who are those two on the end?

[Cha]

10. Yep.. Not a Sexual Abuser? Forgiddaboutit.