Monica Lewinsky was not “violated” — and Rudy Giuliani’s sleazy claims minimize the seriousness...

[DonViejo]

Monica Lewinsky was not “violated” — and Rudy Giuliani’s sleazy claims minimize the seriousness of sexual abuse

The Trump campaign's effort to characterize a consensual affair as abuse muddies the crucial issue of consent

AMANDA MARCOTTE

Just when you think this election season can’t get any worse, Team Trump has decided to start doing what right-wingers are always accusing feminists of doing: lodging false accusations of sexual abuse, in this case at Bill Clinton. Well, really more at Hillary Clinton, who Donald Trump seems to believe is the person mainly culpable for whatever choices her husband makes about his behavior.

“But I sure would’ve talked about what she did to Monica Lewinsky — what that woman standing there did to Monica Lewinsky, trying to paint her as an insane young woman when, in fact, Monica Lewinsky was an intern,” former New York mayor and Trump surrogate Rudy Giuliani told Elite Daily’s Alexandra Svokos. “And after being married to Bill Clinton for 20 years, if you didn’t know the moment Monica Lewinsky said that Bill Clinton violated her that she was telling the truth, then you’re too stupid to be president.”

At this point, readers should simply assume this about anything said by anyone from the Trump campaign, but every bit of this rant is a lie. Hillary Clinton did not try to paint Lewinsky as an “insane young woman.”

(There are reports that Hillary may have derided Lewinsky using ugly language to a friend, but adults should understand that privately expressing uncharitable thoughts about your husband’s mistress is hardly something to get fussed about. Even Lewinsky said, “If that’s the worst thing she said, I should be so lucky.”)

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http://www.salon.com/2016/10/01/monica-lewinsky-was-not-violated-and-rudy-giulianis-sleazy-claims-minimize-the-seriousness-of-sexual-abuse/

[VMA131Marine]

1. Giuliani is desparate to be relevant again

[joeybee12]

2. Does Ghouliani's son speak to him? He stopped after Ghouliani carried on a public affair

while mayor and abandoned the mayor's house to dump his wife and move in with his mistress...kid wouldn't speak to him for years he felt Ghouliani had treated his mother so badly.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Ghouliani - the serial adulterer

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1582686

[Wounded Bear]

4. I always figured Monica for a gold digger...

who intended to have the affair and then write a tell-all book later. It blew up in her face when the Repubs decided to take it to politics. I guess she got her book, and a movie IIRC, so maybe she got part of what she wanted.

Such a lot of bullshit.