President Donald Trump has repeatedly railed against Lisa Page, the former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) attorney who, during the 2016 election, was critical of Trump in some text messages sent to FBI agent Peter Strzok. One of Trump’s anti-Page rants came during a rally in Minneapolis on October 11, when he resorted to a fake orgasm voice while insulting her — and Page, in an interview with the Daily Beast, is asserting that after the Minneapolis speech, keeping quiet is not an option.
“Honestly, his demeaning fake orgasm was really the straw that broke the camel’s back,” Page told the Daily Beast. “I had stayed quiet for years, hoping it would fade away, but instead, it got worse. It had been so hard not to defend myself, to let people who hate me control the narrative. I decided to take my power back.”
Although Trump’s comments about Page during the Minneapolis speech have been widely denounced as sexist, some at Fox News have vigorously defended the speech. Fox News’ Jeannine Pirro, an ardent Trump defender, told her colleague Stuart Varney, “That’s why he was elected president: because he speaks in a way that the ordinary Americans understand.”