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Misconduct Allegations Against 'Keith Ellison Reportedly Include 'Narcissist Abuse' & 'Soul Rape
Misconduct Allegations Against Rep. Keith Ellison Reportedly Include ‘Narcissist Abuse’ and ‘Soul Rape’by Caleb Howe | Aug 30th, 2018, 10:59 am
The New York Times on Thursday published a comprehensive detailing of the allegations being made against Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) by ex-girlfriend Karen Monahan, a long and sad story with little resolution.
The accusation of misconduct by Ellison first surfaced in a Facebook post by Monahan’s adult son, who claimed he saw a video of an alleged physical abuse incident from when his mother and Rep. Ellison were still together. The Facebook post and a subsequent newspaper article making it public were written three days before the Democratic primary, which Ellison went on to win.
Thursday’s Times article details what exactly was described by Monahan regarding the incident she claims to have on video, which video she and her son have refused to produce.
It was after [a] fight [one evening] that Ms. Monahan alleges that she was lying down on a bed and listening to a podcast episode when Mr. Ellison asked her to take out the trash. When she did not respond verbally, he grew angry, she said.
In a profanity-laced tirade, she said he asked her to leave and called her a bad guest.
“He kept trying to pull me and pull me and pull me off” the bed, she said. “And I just laid dead. Because I was scared.”
“Narcissist abuse is very difficult to understand,” Ms. Monahan said.
Mr. Ellison left to catch a flight, she said, but warned her to be gone when he returned.
In a profanity-laced tirade, she said he asked her to leave and called her a bad guest.
“He kept trying to pull me and pull me and pull me off” the bed, she said. “And I just laid dead. Because I was scared.”
“Narcissist abuse is very difficult to understand,” Ms. Monahan said.
Mr. Ellison left to catch a flight, she said, but warned her to be gone when he returned.
Monahan has stated that she will not produce the tape, telling Minnesota Public Radio in an interview that “”It sets the expectation for survivors of all kinds of forms of abuse, whether it be abuse toward women, abuse from police officers, abuse from other people in power, to have to be the ones, like I’m doing right now, to show and prove their stories.”
The New York Times adds that she also told CNN she misplaced the tape, and then told police her computer had been hacked.
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