HOW THE WEINSTEIN FALLOUT DID AND DID NOT CHANGE POLITICS: Today marks the debut of New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s book detailing Harvey Weinstein’s decades-long track record of alleged sexual harassment and assault. Almost two years after Kantor and Twohey broke the story that sparked the #MeToo movement, its “seismic social change” is still influencing politics as not so usual.
- “The key to change,” Kantor and Twohey write in “She Said,” “was a new sense of accountability.”
But last night in North Carolina — in a sign the Trump family remains unconcerned about the political reckoning from the wave of women speaking out about male misbehavior — Donald Trump Jr. made a #MeToo joke at his dad’s campaign rally. Pollsters and political strategists believe that’s a big mistake.
- “I will not be getting #MeToo’d this evening, alright?” Trump Jr. joked to the Fayetteville crowd after kissing his girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle, noting she had consented to it. “Kimberly may #MeToo me later but that’s a different story.”
- It was not the first time Trump Jr. made light of the global phenomenon that has toppled powerful men.
View the complete September 10 article by Jacqueline Alemany on The Washington Post website here.