No One Wanted To Mention Gaetz’s Adopted Son Nestor
Yesterday, Michael Grynbaum reported that Señor T has been “turning to television to recruit the key cast members of his new administration,” including Peter Hegseth, Dr. Oz , Mike Huckabee, Tulsi Gabbard, Tom Homan and Sean Duffy, a former cast member of MTV’s The Real World, who’s wife, Rachel Campos-Duffy, is Hegseth’s former Fox & Friends co-host. “At this rate,” wrote Grynbaum, “the second season of the Trump administration may end up with more television stars than the first one.”
But it isn’t the entertainers per se that are most worrying. Like Trump himself, many of his nominees are weighed down with sexual scandals. Yesterday, Michael Collins and Erin Mansfield referred to a new era in American politics when sexual misconduct allegations are overlooked. Maybe “overlooked,” maybe sought after. “There was a time in American politics,” they wrote, “when allegations of sexual misconduct would end a political career. But accusations of sexual misdeeds are not a roadblock to landing a high-powered job in Donald Trump’s new administration. Sexual abusers included not just Gaetz but RFK, Jr and Pete Hegseth (not to mention de facto second-in-command Elon Musk). Julian Zelizer, a history professor at Princeton University and author of the book, The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: A First Historical Assessment, noted that “By giving jobs in his incoming administration to other men accused of sexual misconduct, Trump is kind of putting up his middle finger to everyone who has talked about his own behavior with women.”
Trump himself is no stranger to allegations of sexual impropriety. Nineteen women have accused him of sexual misconduct going back as far as the 1970s. Last year, a federal jury found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation of author E. Jean Carroll, who said Trump sexually assaulted her in a New York department store nearly three decades ago. Trump denied the allegations, but the jury awarded Carroll $83.3 million in damages. He has appealed the award.
The verdict was a rare rebuke of Trump, who has managed to confound his accusers at almost every turn. Trump's appeals against the Carroll verdicts are ongoing and it's unclear if and how his presidential election might affect them.
…Trump’s decision to put four men accused of sexual misconduct in prominent government positions is "just the president-elect saying one more time he will do what he wants to do,” Zelizer said. “He doesn’t care about convention. He doesn’t care about perceptions and norms. This is him asserting himself, as he does all the time.”
… As for Musk, the lawsuit filed by the former SpaceX employees carried a 31-page attachment that included dozens of pages of the billionaire businessman’s posts on Twitter, which he also owns. The lawsuit, a copy of which was reviewed by USA Today, said the posts inappropriately targeted groups of people and individuals.
In one post, for example, Musk announced his idea to create a Texas university similar to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) but noted his institution would be called “TITS” and that “Ds [women’s bra size] would get degrees,” the lawsuit said. Another post was accompanied by an altered photo rendering a rocket to appear to be a giant penis. Other posts included sexual innuendo, references to male genitals and comments about transgender people’s use of pronouns.
At least four other private lawsuits have been brought against SpaceX in California alleging sexual harassment or discrimination. In one case, filed in March, a woman alleged that her supervisor (not Musk) began a forced sexual relationship with her in 2019 that resulted in a child. The suit said SpaceX attempted to help the former supervisor avoid paying child support even after leaving the company in 2022.
The news website Business Insider reported that same year that it had documents relating to accusations that Musk propositioned a massage therapist for sex and exposed himself to her. Musk denied the allegations, telling the publication, “If I were inclined to engage in sexual harassment, this is unlikely to be the first time in my entire 30-year career that it comes to light.”
Conservatives don’t really care about men raping and abusing women. Liberals lose support and suffer the consequences forever a hint of misconduct. Look at the difference between what happened to Eliot Spitzer, Andrew Cuomo, Al Franken, Jim McGreevey and Anthony Weiner compared to not just Trump but to sex-crazed Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh, as well as right-wing characters like Scott DesJarlais, Don “The Choker” Sherwood, Mark Souder, Roy Moore, Newt Gingrich, Eric Greiterns, Trent Franks, and David Vitter— not to mention the evangelical freaks like Ted Haggard, Jim Bakker, Tony Alamo, Bill Gothard, Jack Schaap. Republicans tend to draw the line when the Republicans are gays, caught and forced out of their closets, like Mark Foley, Denny Hastert and Madison Cawthorn.
But speaking of Anthony Weiner… now that Gaetz has withdrawn, I’m sure he’d be available. And after all, if Trump wants a perv for the position, Weiner “is in search of a public reset… [and] is weighing a political comeback.” He wants to start with City Council, but I’m sure he’d be happy to join Señor T’s cabinet.
Weiner, who now hosts a radio show on WABC, used the language of addiction and recovery to describe how he has tried to make amends, and said that an important step of that process was service.
If people want to talk about his past, they are welcome, he said, adding that he does not see himself in the vein of Trump or others convicted of misdeeds who say that the justice system was unfair or that the culture was too quick to judge them.
“I got removed from society. That happened,” he said. “I was removed from society for 18 months and five days, and for years I have lived as a civilian in this neighborhood. Maybe this campaign will be an opportunity for me to engage those people, even if they do not like what I did.”
His seven-term career in Congress ended in 2011, when he resigned after admitting to sexting online. An attempt at a comeback run for New York mayor fell apart in 2013 when he was caught again sending explicit photos to women under the name Carlos Danger.
Then in 2016, his behavior veered into criminal territory. Federal officials opened an investigation into his exchange of sexually explicit photos with a 15-year-old girl.
The inquiry had broad implications: Because Weiner’s wife at the time, Huma Abedin, was vice chair of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, investigators reopened an investigation into Clinton’s emails— a development that some Democrats blame for her loss to Trump.
…In 2017, Weiner pleaded guilty to transferring obscene material to a minor, which is a felony. Abedin asked for a divorce, and is now engaged to the billionaire Alex Soros.
Yet tons of women voted for many of these A holes, including T himself. Women put T in office.
MAGAT women have destroyed their own bodily freedom as well as the freedom of the rest of us American females, especially if a national ban is passed. Thank you MAGAT women, screw you. “Enemy within” is real, only it’s the opposite of what T thinks. Bizarro Superman world on steroids.