Saturday, March 6, 2021

#Metoo CONTRADICTIONS, The GOP and RNC's Best Friend in THE TRUMPER/QANON CUOMO SMEAR CAMPAIGN

    New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (courtesy of the site)

As a reminder of the difference between Republican views of sexual harassment and the Democratic view, none of the RED MEDIA OR EVEN THE NEW YORK TIMES have gone on record to repeat what the Huffington Post listed in 2016 about the women who came forward against Trump. Now is the perfect time to reveal Trump's egregious behavior while they conduct a smear campaign of calumny against Governor Cuomo for what cannot be compared to Trump's egregious behaviors. Why won't they? Indeed, is it because the New York Democrats have been extraordinarily pressured by billionaires and businesses to OPEN THE STATE TO A 100% level, like RED STATES that jumping on the band wagon of premature, reckless opening? Is this THE LEVERAGE being used? Tragic.
 
Conservatives want to "get back to normal" despite the fact it will raise the COVID VARIANT RATES AND POSSIBLY PLUNGE US INTO A WORSE DEPRESSION THAN WE ALREADY ARE IN, but for the passage of the American Rescue Plan. As the president has said, there is no more normal until COVID AND ITS VARIANTS ARE MITIGATED AND CONTROLLED. They can't be ERADICATED. As long as people are careless, don't mask, don't get the vaccine and carry on like COVID does not exist, we are in trouble. Folks travel; COVID IN ONE PLACE IS COVID everywhere. Trump/Republicans make sure STOPPING COVID AND VARIANTS is a pipe dream as fanciful as the American Dream of home ownership, that realtors float for dupes to entail themselves for the rest of their lives.
How many medical workers are jeopardized by premature 100% reopening the society to make money and endanger the unvaccinated? (courtesy of the site).

These malignant folks couldn't twist, contort and hammer the QAnon lies about nursing homes enough. They needed to twist/distort out of context Secretary to the Governor Melissa De Rosa's comment that "we froze" when DOJ Bill Barr demanded nursing home death counts from Blue States. Barr obeyed Trump, intending to bludgeon New York with Federal punishment. The lies about nursing homes counted differently than Trumpers want are based on QAnon smears in the New York Post since March. When that didn't have the impact Trumpers and the RNC wanted, they conveniently conflated Lindsey Boylen's complaints against Cuomo to pile on the Enquirer-type scandal sheet. Boylen whorishly uses the "celebration of publicity" for her run for Manhattan Borough President by tarring and feathering Governor Cuomo with the imputations of a kiss and sexual interest in her.
 
There has been no investigative reporting about who, why, how her campaign finances have been conducted; are Republican conservatives or politically agenda-minded Democrats helping her smear campaign along, at their own exploitation or another's request?

The #metoo campaign is a convenience for Republicans, with regard to smearing Cuomo using Boylen, Charlotte Bennett and the "hand on the back and face" wedding woman. On Social Media posts, both men and women note the hypocrisy of this smear to remove Governor Cuomo's Executive Powers (which would have dissolved on April 30th anyway) and impugn his reputation as a heroic leader who guided the country and world through the disastrous impact of TRUMP'S COVID BOTCH JOB until Biden's presidency. Cuomo's ability to use his temporary Executive Powers to override programs that the legislature would have kept in oblivion for eternity, including reforms long overdue, making healthcare efficient to stop the spread of COVID, may now be unwisely cut off. 

New York State Health Commissioner Dr. Zucker who is also a Lawyer (courtesy of the site)

Cuomo's book highlights the achievement and MO of how he and New Yorkers brought the infection rate from the worst on the globe to the third lowest, despite the population density. At best it is a fascinating and important imprimatur for how to attack a pandemic. At worst it is a great black stain on the Republican Party, Trump, QAnon, and Putin who supports Trump and the destruction of US democracy. The book identifies Trump and the Republicans' faults, herd immunity policy and egregious death and suicide cult. For that Cuomo is being smeared. Repeatedly, Cuomo said these deaths didn't have to happen if twice impeached Donald John Trump had acted immediately using the DPA. Trump didn't. He lied; 400,000 died. We have been on a treadmill against COVID and never have been able to be ahead of this disease like Taiwan, South Korea, New Zealand, Iceland and other nations. 
 
Cuomo's competence is unquestioned. That must be blotted from memory: everyone take a dementia pill, and listen to smears, says the RNC/GOP.
 
Regardless, New Yorkers and his national and global audience (whose lives and sanity he saved and uplifted during his briefings) know what is going on. They disapprove and it may cost Democrats elections because of their conspiracy with Republicans to attack Cuomo, unless THEY STAND BY CUOMO AND LOOK INTO THE WOMEN AND THE HANDLERS BEHIND THE CALUMNY.
 
Cuomo held up his hands and said "peace be still" when Republicans and their psychotic minions wanted and still want war and death and destruction via COVID for "the sake of business," an incredibly stupid concept which gave rise to actions of RED STATE herd immunity, BEFORE THERE WAS A VACCINE. Unless COVID and its variants are mitigated, business will continue to be stalled because of vast community spread, hospitals overwhelmed and high death rates.

President Biden, Vice President Harris (courtesy of the site)

Under Biden, this folly of 100% openings in RED STATES has been noted and labeled Neanderthal. Republicans wear this label as a badge of honor to continue killing. Murder is OK in their book. They think the American public is too brain dead about themselves and their relatives in RED STATES not to overlook gerrymandering and the 100 bills to stop free elections, making it impossible to choose Democrats. But it is clear Biden and his team will require an accounting of death tolls in all the states and nursing homes. The CDC has recently published a study outlining the increased death rates and community spread without mask wearing, social distancing and hand washing. 

Republicans should wear T-Shirts saying:
 
 "We are the Murderers, MY FRIEND. We'll go on KILLING 'TIL THE END."  And another fitting T-Shirt might be. "I am a Republican. Please Sue Me for DEPRAVED INDIFFERENCE. I! DON'T CARE!"
 
Contrary to what the Trump administration asked of RED STATES and the oppressed CDC who was forced to mitigate its mitigation UNDER TRUMP, Biden asked Americans to be patient and mask up for 100 days, social distance and get vaccinated. Trump gave up on mitigation 8 months from the end of his presidency, ridiculed COVID'S SEVERITY, MASK WEARING AND SOCIAL DISTANCING. He botched the vaccination distribution, which has been questioned to have favored his friends like Governor De Santis who gave his donors early access beyond CDC guidelines. He and Republicans never wanted to know about death tolls of the old; they didn't care. 
 
PS Trump and Melania got vaccinated the moment he left the WH; he doesn't want QAnon and Trumpers to know.
 
EXPLOITATION AND CALUMNY: A FORM OF REPUBLICAN WHOREDOM
 
That Democrats and these women have whored themselves to be used by QAnon and Republicans to smear Cuomo is a tragedy. The Democrats have lied to New Yorkers claiming that Cuomo is guilty of overreach and must be "watched." Truly? The Democrats could not ably nor articulately reveal to their constituents that in order to get business up faster, the spread must be mitigated. A simple equation that is playing out is, the Republicans plan to foment chaos if they OPEN UP TO 100%. This will spread infection rates to the American people and businesses, keep the variant spread going despite the vaccination program, upset the populace to blame the Democrats so Republicans can get their power back in 2022; in other words continue killing, stealing, lying and destroying for money then point to the Democrats and accuse them of causing the problems.
 
President Joe Biden's Reform and COVID Rescue Bill have been passed (courtesy of the site)

The Reform Bill was passed. Republicans are going to have to work like the devil to convince the American people to switch to THE DEATH CULT to have a glorious future. Maybe if Republicans gave $100,000 to each American to vote for their candidate, that might work. Most probably they have spent at least that much funding campaigns against Democrats.
 
Sex and the #metoo movement are convenient for Republicans to use, but only when it comes to using it against the Democrats. Democratic women must wake up to this outrageous whoredom of the Republicans, and not fall prey to it. As a reminder, once more look the women who have come forward with complaints against Donald Trump. Republicans refused and still refuse to censure Trump for his misogyny and egregious actions. They stand by Trump but point the bloody finger at Cuomo. This is beyond hypocrisy; it is political crucifiction. Democrats must repudiate and not fall for tempting Democratic whoredoms to exploit smears against their own..
 
Do Democrats need to be reminded of what Republicans FIND ACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOR BECAUSE THEY ARE MISOGYNISTS AND ENCOURAGE SEXUAL VIOLENCE? Democrats, including the Governor who has employed more women than any other Democratic Administration except perhaps, President Biden, deplores misogyny and has apologized profusely to the women and expressed that he is embarrassed. REPUBLICANS ARE THRILLED ABOUT THE WOMEN WHO CALUMINIZE CUOMO AND ARE COMPLICIT WITH THEM. What is going on?
 
 
(L to R): Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump, BFF at an earlier time before political ambitions (courtesy of the site)

Compare their complaints with women who came forward with charges against Trump including rape and pussy grabbing. Not considered are those women who were sex trafficked by Trump friend and partiers Jeffrey Epstein (who supposedly killed himself) and Gislane Maxwell, Epstein's former girlfriend turned recruiter. This partial list of women is from the Huffington Post. Click on links for additional references.

                                             1. Amy Dorris 

Her account: Dorris, a former model, told The Guardian that Trump forcibly kissed and groped her at the U.S. Open in New York on Sept. 5, 1997. Dorris was 24 at the time and lived in Boca Raton, Florida, but was visiting her then-boyfriend Jason Binn, the founder of several luxury lifestyle magazines who was close friends with Trump. Dorris and Binn joined Trump in his private box at the U.S. Open. Dorris alleged that Trump assaulted her when she went to the bathroom.  
“He just shoved his tongue down my throat and I was pushing him off,” she said. “And then that’s when his grip became tighter and his hands were very gropey and all over my butt, my breasts, my back, everything.”
Trump’s response: Trump denied the accusation via his lawyers in a statement to The Guardian                                                                            When we found out: Sept. 17, 2020                                                              When she says it happened: Sept. 5, 1997

                                             2. Karen Johnson

Her account: Johnson alleged that Trump grabbed her vagina without her consent and forcibly kissed her at a New Year’s Eve party at Mar-a-Lago in the early 2000s. The allegation was first revealed in journalists Barry Levine and Monique El-Faizy’s book, “All the President’s Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator,” excerpted by Esquire
“When he says that thing, ‘Grab them in the pussy,’ that hits me hard because when he grabbed me and pulled me into the tapestry, that’s where he grabbed me ― he grabbed me there in my front and pulled me in,” Johnson told Levine and El-Faizy.
Trump’s response: N/A                                                                                 When we found out: Oct. 9, 2019                                                                When she says it happened: Early 2000s
 
(L to R) Trump back to camera, E. Jean Carroll, News Host, Ivanna Trump (courtesy of The New Yorker, E. Jean Carroll & St. Martin's Press)

                                                    3. E. Jean Carroll
 
Her account: In an excerpt of her memoir published in New York magazine, Carroll, a longtime Elle magazine advice columnist, alleged that Trump raped her in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.
The then-real estate mogul spotted Carroll, then 52, at Bergdorf Goodman. Recognizing her as “that advice lady,” he asked if she would help him buy a gift for an unnamed woman. Carroll agreed, and after browsing gifts, Trump allegedly led her to the lingerie section. He suggested that she try on a lace bodysuit, and after expressing reservations, she reluctantly agreed.
“The moment the dressing-room door is closed, he lunges at me, pushes me against the wall, hitting my head quite badly, and puts his mouth against my lips,” she wrote. Trump then held her against a wall and began pulling down her tights, according to Carroll.
“The next moment, still wearing correct business attire, shirt, tie, suit jacket, overcoat, he opens the overcoat, unzips his pants, and, forcing his fingers around my private area, thrusts his penis halfway — or completely, I’m not certain — inside me,” she wrote.
Trump’s response: In a statement to New York magazine, the White House said: “This is a completely false and unrealistic story surfacing 25 years after allegedly taking place and was created simply to make the President look bad.”
Trump later responded in a longer statement, accusing Carroll of fabricating “false stories of assault” for publicity, and attacked New York magazine as “a dying publication [trying to] prop itself up by peddling fake news.”
He also falsely claimed that “I’ve never met this person in my life,” despite a picture of Carroll and Trump at a party that was included in the book excerpt.                                                                                                          When we found out: June 21, 2019                                                             When she says it happened: The fall of 1995 or spring of 1996 
                                                  4. Ninni Laaksonen
Her account: Laaksonen, a former Miss Finland, told Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat that Trump groped her in July 2006 while she was in New York competing in the Miss Universe pageant. She says the incident occurred right before she and three other contestants, along with Trump, appeared on the “Late Show with David Letterman.” “Trump stood right next to me and suddenly he squeezed my butt,” she told Ilta-Sanomat. “He really grabbed my butt. I don’t think anybody saw it but I flinched and thought: ‘What is happening?’” Laaksonen also says that at a party she attended during that time, she was told by another guest that Trump liked her “because [she] looked like Melania when she was younger.”
Trump’s response: Trump did not dispute this allegation specifically, but has denied the broader accusations that he walked into pageant changing rooms unannounced. 
When we found out: Oct. 27, 2016                                                               When she says it happened: 2006

                                            5. Jessica Drake

Her account: Drake, an adult film actor and director, said in a press conference with attorney Gloria Allred that Trump grabbed her, kissed her without her consent and offered her $10,000 to have sex with him at a Lake Tahoe golf tournament. She said that she met Trump at a booth for her employer at the time, Wicked Pictures, where Trump flirted with her and asked for her number. According to Drake, later that night he invited her to his penthouse suite. She said she brought along two other women because she “didn’t feel right going alone.” During the press conference, Drake said that Trump “grabbed each of us tightly in a hug and kissed each one of us without asking for permission.” Drake said he was wearing pajamas and there was a body guard present. Later that night, Drake said a man called her on Trump’s behalf to ask her to dinner, but she declined. According to Drake, Trump then called her directly and, after she declined again, asked: “What do you want? How much?” Drake said in the press conference that she declined once more, then received a call from a man on behalf of Trump offering her $10,000 and the use of his private jet to “accept his invitation.” 
Trump’s response: The campaign issued a statement calling Drake’s allegations “false and ridiculous.”
“The picture is one of thousands taken out of respect for people asking to have their picture taken with Mr. Trump. Mr. Trump does not know this person, does not remember this person and would have no interest in ever knowing her,” the campaign said, calling Drake’s announcement “just another example of the Clinton campaign trying to rig the election.” Also, during a policy speech on Saturday morning in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Trump threatened to sue all the women who have accused the candidate of sexual assault.                                                                                               When we found out: Oct. 22, 2016                                                                When she says it happened: 2006                                          

                                              6. Karena Virginia

Her account: Virginia said in a press conference with attorney Gloria Allred that Trump groped her while she was leaving the US Open in 1998. She said that she was waiting for a car to take her home when Trump approached her with a group of a few other men. According to Virginia he said, “Hey look at this one!” and “Look at those legs.” Virginia alleged that he then grabbed her right arm with his right arm, then touched the inside of her right breast before reportedly asking, “Don’t you know who I am?” Virginia said that her shock soon turned to shame and that she changed the way she dressed as a result of the encounter, hoping to avoid unwanted male attention. She was 27 at the time.
Trump’s response: A Trump campaign spokesperson denied the accusation in a statement to The Washington Post: “Voters are tired of these circuslike antics and reject these fictional stories and the clear efforts to benefit Hillary Clinton.”                                                                When we found out: Oct. 20, 2016                                                               When she says it happened: 1998

                                            7. Cathy Heller

Her account: Heller, now 63, told The Guardian that the first and only time she interacted with Trump, “he grabbed her, went for a kiss, and grew angry with her as she twisted away.” This was all while Heller was having Mother’s Day brunch at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, with her husband, in-laws and children. She alleges that Trump said, “Oh, come on” when she protested and held her still while he kissed her on the side of the mouth before walking away. A relative who was seated at the table that day confirmed to The Guardian that Trump was “very forceful” and got “in her face.”
Trump’s response: Trump campaign spokesperson Jason Miller told The Guardian: “There is no way that something like this would have happened in a public place on Mother’s Day at Mr. Trump’s resort. It would have been the talk of Palm Beach for the past two decades.”                                    When we found out: Oct. 15, 2016                                                                  When she says it happened: Around 1997 (Heller says she is not 100 percent sure)

                                            8. Summer Zervos

Her account: Zervos, a contestant on season five of “The Apprentice” (and a self-described Republican) said in a press conference with attorney Gloria Allred that Trump assaulted her on several occasions. She said the first time, she met with Trump in his office and he kissed her on the mouth, which Zervos rationalized as simply a strange greeting. On a separate occasion, she said she met with Trump at the Beverly Hills Hotel to discuss business opportunities. Instead Trump grabbed her while she sat next to him and began kissing her and touching her breasts, Zervos said in her statement. Trump later walked her into the bedroom, she told reporters, and “began thrusting his genitals.” The two did go on to have dinner and discuss real estate, according to Zervos. When asked why she chose to come forward now, she said: “I want to be able to sleep when I’m 70.” As of December 2017, Zervos is moving forward with a defamation lawsuit against Trump. 
Trump’s response: Trump denied Zervos’ allegation in a lengthy statement. ”I vaguely remember Ms. Zervos as one of the many contestants on The Apprentice over the years. To be clear, I never met her at a hotel or greeted her inappropriately a decade ago. That is not who I am as a person, and it is not how I’ve conducted my life,” Trump said in an October 2016 statement. “In fact, Ms. Zervos continued to contact me for help, emailing my office on April 14th of this year asking that I visit her restaurant in California.” (Head here to read the full statement.)             When we found out: Oct. 14, 2016                                                               When she says it happens: 2007 

                                          9. Kristin Anderson

Her account: Anderson says she was out at a Manhattan nightclub with friends, sitting on a red velvet couch, when she felt Trump reach into her skirt and touch her vagina through her underwear, The Washington Post reports. She told the paper that the incident was brief, but that she and her friends were “very grossed out.” Anderson was in her early 20s at the time, and an aspiring model.
Trump’s response: A spokeswoman for Trump told The Washington Post that he “denies this phony allegation by someone looking to get some free publicity. It is totally ridiculous.” It’s worth noting, though, that Anderson did not approach the Post with her story. She was contacted by a reporter who’d heard about her experience from other people, and reportedly deliberated for several days about whether or not to go public. When we found out: Oct. 14, 2016                                                              When she says it happened: The early 1990s

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin did not reveal the discussion at Helsinki, DJT a puppet (courtesy of the site)

      10. Mindy McGillivray

Her account: McGillivray, 36, told the Palm Beach Post that Trump groped her while she was attending a concert at Mar-a-Lago, his estate-slash-private-club in Palm Beach, Florida. She was there to help a friend who was photographing the concert, when she says Trump groped her. “All of a sudden I felt a grab, a little nudge. I think it’s Ken’s camera bag, that was my first instinct. I turn around and there’s Donald,” McGillivray told the Palm Beach Post. “This was a pretty good nudge. More of a grab,’’ she continued. “It was pretty close to the center of my butt. I was startled. I jumped.”
Trump’s response: A day after the account was published, CNN reportedthat Trump’s campaign was drafting a lawsuit against the paper.
When we found out: Oct. 12, 2016                                                                 When she says it happened: 2003

       11. Natasha Stoynoff

Her account: In a harrowing essay for People, Stoynoff ― a journalist ― described how Trump assaulted her while she was interviewing him and his wife,Melania, at their Palm Beach estate. She writes that Trump insisted ongiving her a private tour of the grounds, at which point he pinned and kissed her: “Trump shut the door behind us. I turned around, and within seconds, he was pushing me against the wall, and forcing his tongue down my throat ... I was grateful when Trump’s longtime butler burst into the room a minute later, as I tried to unpin myself.”
Trump’s response: At a campaign rally, Trump questioned her claims saying, “Look at her. ... I don’t think so.”
When we found out: Oct. 12, 2016                                                                When she says it happened: 2005   
                                                12. Jessica Leeds
Her account: More than 30 years ago, Leeds was traveling for work when she sat next to Trump on a flight to New York. Leeds, who is now 74, told The New York Times that she and Trump spoke for a bit, then about 45 minutes into the flight he lifted the armrest between them and began to grab her breasts and put his hand up her skirt. “He was like an octopus,” she told The New York Times. “His hands were everywhere.”
Trump’s response: Trump vehemently denied the story. An attorney representing him has called upon The New York Times to retract it and has threatened to sue the publication. (The New York Times responded.)
When we found out: Oct. 12, 2016                                                                When she says it happened: The early 1980s

                                          13. Cassandra Searles 

Her account: Yahoo News reported that last summer, Cassandra Searles ― Miss Washington 2013 ― posted a photo on Facebook of her fellow contestants and the question: “Do y’all remember that one time we had to do our onstage introductions, but this one guy treated us like cattle and made us do it again because we didn’t look him in the eyes? Do you also remember when he then proceeded to have us lined up so he could get a closer look at his property?” In a follow-up comment on the post, she reportedly added: “He probably doesn’t want me telling the story about that time he continually grabbed my ass and invited me to his hotel room.”
Trump’s response: Trump did not specifically dispute this allegation, but has denied the broader accusations that he walked into pageant changing rooms unannounced. 
When we found out: June 2016                                                                   When she says it happened: Unclear, but possibly in 2013

                                            14. “Jane Doe” 

Her account: In June, a California woman — “Jane Doe” ― filed a lawsuit alleging that Trump raped her at a party when she was 13 years old. As Buzzfeed reported, an initial hearing in the case had been scheduled for December 2016. However, on Nov. 4 of that year ― several days after the attorney for “Jane Doe” announced a press conference, then abruptly canceled it at her client’s request ― she instructed her attorney to dismiss the lawsuit
Trump’s response: Trump has vigorously denied the claims, saying that the lawsuit was designed to smear his presidential campaign.
When we found out: June 2016                                                                    When she says it happened: 1994

                                            15. Jill Harth

Her account: Harth worked with Trump in the 1990s (she and her partner operated a competition called American Dream Calendar Girls), but it ended in a bitter legal battle. In a 1997 lawsuit, Harth alleged in court documents that Trump repeatedly sexually harassed her, at one point groping her under the table. (The documents were surfaced by The Boston Globe.) Though she eventually dropped that suit, she stands by her story. “How can people not believe me now?” she asked “Inside Edition” after footage of Trump emerged in which he said he can grab women by the pussy. 
Trump’s response: In a May New York Times article on Trump’s treatment of women that also included Harth’s account, Trump said it was, in fact, Harth who had pursued him. 
When we found out: April 2016                                                                        When she says it happens: 1993
 
The article of the list included more women who essentially credited Trump with forcefully kissing them or walking in on them in dressing rooms at various beauty pageants he owned. The women were discomfited with him walking in while they were nude and completely dismissing it like they were his property. Ivanna Trump's rape allegation was most probably used to leverage their divorce. It has been rescinded.
The #metoo movement should be repeating these women's stories at least once a week if not more. Why doesn't the press? The RED PRESS thinks such behavior is OK, as misogyny and violence against Democratic women is OK. However, if a black man were to do this, or a Democrat? They would be in prison. Al Franken was excoriated and now Cuomo. Republicans are over the moon that the self-righteous "we are perfect Democrats" that they have helped to encourage them to accept as "who they are" can just as easily be used to destroy, smear and caluminze them by the Feminazis, a Steve Bannon term they seem to be living up to. 
The photo credit above is of E. Jean Carroll who is currently suing Donald Trump for defamation, a lawsuit he told his DOJ William Barr to scuttle, but failed in this attempt when the courts stated it must go forward. If E. Jean Carroll has her day in court, it reveals a trail of testimony that has not been changed since she first came out and discussed the rape (physical violence against her). 


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