Oprah gives tape with Puzder abuse allegations to Senate

[mobeau69]

Source: POLITICO

Senators in both parties have viewed an episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in which Labor Secretary nominee Andrew Puzder's former wife leveled allegations of physical abuse against him, according to sources familiar with the matter.

The decades-old video, which is not easily found, has been provided by the Oprah Winfrey Network, those sources said. The video has been provided to senators in a Capitol Hill office building, according to people who have seen it. OWN did not immediately comment for this story.

The Campaign For Accountability, a left-leaning nonprofit, will appear Tuesday in court in St. Louis County to try to unseal divorce-related documents concerning the abuse charges that were sealed after Puzder's nomination.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/susan-collins-andrew-puzder-oprah-tape-allegations-234964

[billymike]

1. O Yay! Oprah!

This is way more significant than your forty-five pound weight loss, no matter how often you've lost forty-five pounds. This is true public service; thank you.

[SticksnStones]

3. Wow, what a mean way to compliment Oprah...

Why?

[mobeau69]

7. Notice the number of posts.

[SticksnStones]

8. Is there a single raised eyebrow emoji?

that would capture my response at the moment...

<---- close enough

[Corey_Baker08]

18. On My Phone It Doesn't Show Post Count...

Can I change the settings?

[murielm99]

4. What a nasty thing to say.

Oprah has always fought her weight. Some people just do. My oldest daughter is like that.

Thank you Oprah, for drawing attention to this. Thank you for all you do for women and girls. Thank you for giving us a voice, and getting people to read.

You are rich because you are smart, hard-working and deserving.

[Raine1967]

6. WTF?

Seriously, you are fat shaming to make a point, how and why?

[forgotmylogin]

13. Oprah has done a whole lot to benefit people.

She went and did a show in the heart of backwoods racism early in her career. She's promoted reading. She's provided an uplifting "spiritual but not religious" alternative to Sunday morning programming on her channel.

I'm sure you meant well with your post, but if "weight loss" is the only thing you know about Oprah, you aren't acquainted with her work.

[zentrum]

14. I know what you mean.

Sounds like fat-shaming but I know you meant that a billionaire with personal chefs finally does something more risky and with a bigger impact than just on a particular group---i.e. the women who follow her. BTW, I speak as a woman. I too think this is one of the most important things Oprah has ever done, apart from the cultural break through meaning of her over-all success.

[Me.]

2. Why Would They Care

When they're thrilled to have a serial abuser as Potus

[JudyM]

16. That was my thought too. But voters put tRump in and the Senate has to justify its votes.

One would hope it'd matter, but... Anita Hill, etc. The majority of their majority likely don't even care.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. I can lend them a VCR. Beta, if necessary. NT

[7962]

9. They've already gotten a letter from his ex-wife denying the abuse,

blaming it on "bad advice" from her attys at the time. We'll see what this tape shows/says

[anneboleyn]

11. Just like Bannon's ex-wife? Both of them were accused of spousal abuse? Good lord.

[mobeau69]

15. The old, unreliable recant, huh? With a dose of blame it on her

unethical attorneys thrown in for good measure.

Sure, that's the ticket.

[bucolic_frolic]

10. Wow

[femmocrat]

12. Maybe she can find the "golden showers" tapes!

Thanks, Oprah!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

17. The GOP troglodytes will ignore it.

Of course that worked for them so well in the 1992 election after Anita Hill.

[Kimchijeon]

19. wtg OWN

[bettyellen]

20. Unseal the divorce!!

[itcfish]

21. Why would they care?

They support Putin whose nation just made spousal abuse legal, who just told Elizabeth Warren to shut up and sit down, who want to take women's rights away.