Sen. Gillibrand responds to Trump's "due process" request. Offers Cong. hearings for his 19 accusers

[Stonepounder]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/2/12/1740712/-Sen-Gillibrand-responds-to-Trump-s-due-process-request-Offers-cong-hearings-for-his-19-accusers?detail=emaildkre

A few days ago, Donald Trump questioned the #MeToo moment, lamenting the lack of “due process” when allegations are made.


Donald J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump
Peoples lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation. Some are true and some are false. Some are old and some are new. There is no recovery for someone falsely accused - life and career are gone. Is there no such thing any longer as Due Process?


Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has been working on improving the process to adjudicate sexual assault within the military for years. For example, in 2013, she did this:

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) stood on the Senate floor for hours Wednesday dominating a debate over how the Pentagon should manage sexual assault and rape in the ranks. — www.washingtonpost.com/...

So it’s appropriate that she would respond to a request by the commander-in-chief of the US military to properly adjudicate allegations of sexual assault.


Kirsten Gillibrand
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@SenGillibrand
The President has shown through words and actions that he doesn’t value women. It’s not surprising that he doesn’t believe survivors or understand the national conversation that is happening.


Kirsten Gillibrand
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@SenGillibrand
The lives of survivors of sexual assault and domestic abuse are being shattered every day. If he wants due process for the over dozen sexual assault allegations against him, let’s have Congressional hearings tomorrow. I would support that and my colleagues should too.

This from a post on KOS. The formatting doesn't come over very well when trying to include tweets. If you are interested, follow the link and you can see the article properly formatted as well as the White House's extremely snarky response by everybody's favorite harridan, Kellyann.

[rzemanfl]

1. Bookmarking and waiting for the usual suspects to show up.

Along with, of course, the ubiquitous "post removed."

[NCTraveler]

2. The more I learn about Gillabrand the more I like her. nt.

[riversedge]

3. The ball is in Trumps hands. He will ignore it.