{"id":2334137,"date":"2024-08-30T06:37:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T10:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-donald-trumps-sex-life-is-fair-game-so-is-kamala-harris\/"},"modified":"2024-08-30T06:41:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T10:41:57","slug":"if-donald-trumps-sex-life-is-fair-game-so-is-kamala-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-donald-trumps-sex-life-is-fair-game-so-is-kamala-harris\/","title":{"rendered":"If Donald Trump&#8217;s Sex Life Is Fair Game, So Is Kamala Harris&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fif-donald-trumps-sex-life-is-fair-game-so-is-kamala-harris%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2334137&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In\u200d a recent commentary, talk radio host Erick Erickson criticized\u200c the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mission-accomplished-ramaswamy-delivers-on-promise-to-be-unhinged-at-gop-debate\/\" title=\"MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: Ramaswamy Delivers on Promise To &#039;Be Unhinged&#039; at GOP Debate\">candidate selection \u200bprocess<\/a> by both major\u200c political parties, \u200cexpressing his frustration \u2064at what he sees as a lack of quality candidates.\u2062 Although he leans towards supporting Donald Trump, his\u2062 doubts about Trump&#8217;s candidacy \u200bhave \u2063sparked a \u2064backlash from \u2063the so-called Leninist wing of\u2062 the Never \u2064Trump movement, represented by \u200cSarah Longwell of The Bulwark. \u200dLongwell took issue with\u200b Erickson\u2019s commentary about Kamala Harris, where he made an inappropriate reference to \u2062her past relationship with former California\u2063 politician Willie Brown. <\/p>\n<p>Erickson contended that Harris&#8217;s rise \u200bin \u200dpolitics involved both personal \u2062and political corruption due to \u200dher\u2064 connection with Brown, who played a significant role in her career advancement despite her lack of legal prowess. He referenced instances where Harris&#8217;s \u2062decisions as district\u2062 attorney favored friends of Brown, illustrating what he sees as her compromised\u200b integrity. Longwell,\u200d however, \u200dcriticized Erickson&#8217;s harsh \u200dtone, questioning his character for highlighting \u200dHarris&#8217;s relationship in such a crude manner.<\/p>\n<p>The commentary further delves into \u2064the contrasting treatment of sexual scandals involving Bill Clinton and \u200bDonald Trump.\u2063 It \u200dargues\u200d that while Clinton&#8217;s past indiscretions were not viewed as corrupt by \u2063the Democratic establishment when he was campaigning for\u200b a \u2063fellow Democrat, Trump&#8217;s legal issues are portrayed as more serious, despite what \u200dthe author\u200b sees as inconsistencies in the handling of both cases.<\/p>\n<p>the piece highlights the \u200bcomplexities of political integrity\u2064 and \u200dpublic perception regarding personal\u200c relationships and \u200bscandals \u2063among \u200dpolitical figures, questioning the fairness of legal scrutiny\u200b faced\u2063 by\u2063 Trump versus \u2062Harris.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Pundit and talk radio host Erick Erickson recently went on a rant about how &ldquo;both parties have nominated terrible candidates whose supporters have decided to behave terribly to bully people into supporting their terrible candidate.&rdquo; Erickson makes it known he&rsquo;s still inclined to vote for Trump, but you&rsquo;d think any prominent right-wing pundit who publicly expresses doubt about Donald Trump two months before the election would be chalked up as a win for Kamala supporters.<\/p>\n<p>But then there&rsquo;s the Leninist wing of Never Trump. Sarah Longwell, publisher of The Bulwark, a site largely run by fraudulent conservatives who are funded by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/perspective-stop-whining-plebs-the-dc-elite-are-also-suffering\/\" title=\"Perspective: Stop Whining, Plebs, the DC \u00c9lite Are Also Suffering\">left-wing billionaires<\/a> to help Democrats win elections, really didn&rsquo;t <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SarahLongwell25\/status\/1828606460864975199\">like Erickson&rsquo;s tone<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Someone sent me a radio rant by @EWErickson about my disagreement with some at the Dispatch in which he said: &lsquo;Kamala Harris has done nothing but climb the ladder of power since the moment she got up off her knees in front of Willie Brown to put it bluntly to you.&rsquo; Swell guy. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Setting aside Erickson&rsquo;s crude imagery, I&rsquo;ve covered Kamala Harris&rsquo; relationship history <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/26\/the-media-wont-tell-you-political-corruption-defined-kamala-harris-affair-with-willie-brown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more extensively before<\/a>, but here&rsquo;s a summary of the facts as we know them: When Harris was a subordinate in the San Francisco DA&rsquo;s office, she started dating Willie Brown, the most powerful man in California politics, who was 31 years older and married. After the current DA passed over Kamala Harris, a woman who failed the bar exam and is not exactly known for her mastery of the law, Brown was instrumental in alienating the existing DA, and was personally involved in raising money and running Harris&rsquo; successful campaign to get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-southwest-pilots-epic-hot-mic-rant-about-san-fran-libs\/\" title=\"FACT CHECK: Southwest Pilot\u2019s Epic Hot-Mic Rant About San Fran Libs\">elected district attorney<\/a>. Once in office, Harris let a number of Willie Brown&rsquo;s friends off the hook when they were facing serious charges &mdash; including an egregious case where she let a city contractor and Willie Brown donor skate after endangering people&rsquo;s lives after defrauding taxpayers by using cheaper, structurally unsound recycled concrete to build bridges and other important structures. This was all reported on in detail by local San Francisco media when it happened, who aren&rsquo;t exactly in the business of pushing right-wing smears.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, Sarah Longwell thinks Erickson is a bad person because he rather bluntly states the fact that Kamala Harris abased herself personally and engaged in political corruption at the behest of a man who demonstrably advanced her political career. I would have been more circumspect than Erickson, but 26 years after Bill Clinton&rsquo;s &ldquo;dalliance with an intern,&rdquo; I&rsquo;m supposed to believe <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/amandacarpenter\/status\/1828887851741917437\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Longwell and her colleagues<\/a> are on their fainting couches because a pundit made a reference to oral sex?<\/p>\n<p>In addition to all of his well-known mistreatment of women as governor and president, one of Clinton&rsquo;s top aides told Vanity Fair he made a trip Epstein&rsquo;s notorious island and he spent extensive amounts of time with the notorious pedophile. Decades after the fact, several major liberal pundits finally got around to denouncing his treatment of women in The New York Times and other publications.<\/p>\n<p>Not that any of this made a difference. Bill Clinton was a primetime speaker at the DNC <em>last week,<\/em> campaigning on behalf of a woman who by all reasonable appearances engaged in political corruption on behalf of a dirty politician she was having a transactional sexual affair with. Weird how these same people were not outraged by that.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Trump&rsquo;s sex life, which however disdainful, was never a matter of public corruption. And yet the whole reason they&rsquo;re running around saying Trump is a Convicted Felon&trade; is that the Democratic Party engaged in an all-hands-on-deck effort to try and turn Trump&rsquo;s attempt to keep an entirely private affair with an onscreen prostitute from becoming public knowledge. By presenting an entirely novel legal theory into a courtroom presided over by a corrupt judge who had donated money, in violation of judicial ethics rules, to Trump&rsquo;s political opponent, they got a partisan New York jury to buy it.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, it&rsquo;s impossible to argue this incident merits more legal scrutiny than what Harris did in San Francisco. Even the former Democrat governor and attorney general of New York Andrew Cuomo &mdash; another politician laid low by a sex scandal less problematic than what Harris got away with in San Francisco &mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/4734858-andrew-cuomo-donald-trump-alvin-bragg-hush-money-case-new-york\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has said<\/a>, &ldquo;If his name was not Donald Trump and if he wasn&rsquo;t running for president &hellip; I&rsquo;m telling you that case would&rsquo;ve never been brought.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Now then some people will say, &ldquo;what about Trump being convicted of sexual assault in New York?&rdquo; Well, the heavily Democratic New York legislature passed a special law to undo the statute of limitations to make the case possible, and in any event, Trump&rsquo;s accuser doesn&rsquo;t even remember what year the assault took place. And while being wary of attacking the credibility of sexual assault accusers might be a good practice, E. Jean Carroll&rsquo;s various public appearances strongly suggest she had questionable motivations and is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/2024\/02\/08\/the-e-jean-carroll-circus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a little crazy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In any event, it&rsquo;s also worth noting that Carroll&rsquo;s lawsuit was cooked up by two regular contributors to Longwell&rsquo;s Bulwark publication, George Conway and Molly Jong-Fast. Ultimately, the lawsuit was bankrolled by megadonor Reid Hoffman, who&rsquo;s one of the most influential figures in the Democrat Party. Who is Reid Hoffman? Well, he&rsquo;s the billionaire founder of LinkedIn who has admitted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2018\/12\/reid-hoffman-distances-himself-from-alabama-campaign\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">funding Facebook misinformation modeled after Russian propaganda<\/a>. Oh and he&rsquo;s yet another guy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/billionaire-who-visited-epstein-island-pours-thousands-coffers-vulnerable-dem-senate-races\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">who&rsquo;s taken the Lolita express to pedophile island<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, this is not about defending Trump&rsquo;s private life, which is in many ways indefensible. This is about being honest about the state of American politics. If you want to understand why someone as allegedly immoral as Donald Trump wasn&rsquo;t immediately kicked off the political stage because of his supposedly outrageous character flaws, you merely have to recognize that the American public rightly understands that the Democrat Party is itself fully in the thrall of figures whose personal dealings and sex lives are in many ways worse than Trump&rsquo;s peccadilloes.<\/p>\n<p>Eight years later, people are still in total deniable about this, and maybe you shouldn&rsquo;t feign outrage over a talk radio guy being cruder about the truth than your sensitive ears can handle. Especially when you&rsquo;re silent about Kamala Harris&rsquo; past, the Clintons&rsquo; continued influence, and your friends and allies cashing checks from Reid Hoffman. But other than that, I&rsquo;m sure Longwell is a swell gal.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Mark Hemingway is the Book Editor at The Federalist, and was formerly a senior writer at The Weekly Standard. Follow him on Twitter at <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/heminator\">@heminator<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pundit and talk radio host Erick Erickson recently expressed his frustration, stating that \u201cboth parties have nominated awful candidates whose supporters are resorting to bullying tactics to coerce others into backing their poor choices.\u201d While Erickson indicates he still leans towards voting for Trump, one might expect that any notable right-wing commentator who openly questions Donald Trump just two months before the election would be seen as a victory for Kamala Harris&#8217; supporters. However, this sentiment is met with criticism from the Leninist faction of Never Trump. Sarah Longwell, publisher of The Bulwark\u2014a site primarily operated by conservatives funded by left-leaning billionaires to aid Democratic campaigns\u2014took issue with Erickson&#8217;s remarks. <\/p>\n<p>Longwell shared her discontent regarding a radio segment where Erickson commented on her disagreement with some at the Dispatch, saying: \u201cKamala Harris has done nothing but climb the ladder of power since she got off her knees in front of Willie Brown.\u201d Setting aside his crude language, I\u2019ve previously examined Kamala Harris\u2019 relationship history in detail; here\u2019s a brief overview: While working under the San Francisco DA\u2019s office, she began dating Willie Brown\u2014an influential figure in California politics who was 31 years her senior and married. After being overlooked for promotion by the current DA (who had passed over Harris due to her failure on the bar exam), Brown played a significant role in undermining that DA and actively supported Harris\u2019 successful campaign for district attorney. Once elected, Harris allowed several associates of Brown to evade serious legal consequences\u2014including one case involving a contractor who endangered lives while defrauding taxpayers using substandard materials.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this documented history reported by local media not known for right-wing bias, Longwell believes Erickson is morally wrong for bluntly stating that Kamala Harris compromised herself personally and engaged in political corruption at Brown&#8217;s behest. While I might have chosen my words more carefully than Erickson did, it seems hypocritical given Bill Clinton\u2019s past indiscretions\u2014such as his well-documented mistreatment of women during his presidency\u2014which only drew widespread condemnation from liberal commentators decades later.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, Bill Clinton was featured prominently at last week\u2019s DNC event supporting someone who appears to have engaged in political corruption linked to an affair with an influential politician. It\u2019s curious how those same critics didn\u2019t express outrage over this situation.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, Trump&#8217;s personal life\u2014while distasteful\u2014is not tied directly to public corruption allegations like those against Harris. The ongoing narrative labeling Trump as a &#8220;Convicted Felon&#8221; stems from efforts by Democrats attempting to expose Trump&#8217;s attempts at keeping private matters out of public view through questionable legal means involving partisan judges and juries.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, it seems unjustifiable that Trump&#8217;s actions warrant more scrutiny than what occurred during Harris&#8217; tenure in San Francisco. Even former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo remarked that if Trump weren\u2019t running for president or named Donald Trump specifically\u2014the case against him likely wouldn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n<p>Some may point out Trump&#8217;s conviction related to sexual assault; however, it&#8217;s important to note that New York lawmakers created special legislation allowing such cases after statute limitations had expired\u2014and even then there are doubts about the accuser&#8217;s credibility based on inconsistent recollections regarding timing.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, E. Jean Carroll&#8217;s lawsuit was orchestrated by contributors associated with Longwell&#8217;s publication and financed by Reid Hoffman\u2014a major Democratic donor known for controversial practices including funding misinformation campaigns online.<\/p>\n<p>This discussion isn\u2019t about defending Trump&#8217;s private conduct\u2014which can be criticized\u2014but rather about acknowledging realities within American politics today. If you\u2019re puzzled why someone like Donald Trump remains politically viable despite perceived moral failings\u2014it may stem from public awareness regarding similar or worse behaviors exhibited among prominent figures within the Democratic Party itself.<\/p>\n<p>Eight years later people still seem unwilling or unable to confront these truths; perhaps they shouldn\u2019t feign shock over crass commentary when they remain silent about issues surrounding Kamala Harris\u2019 past or ongoing influences from figures like Bill Clinton\u2014all while accepting financial support from individuals like Reid Hoffman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274,"featured_media":2334138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Kamala_Harris_48626163648.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[32319,32438,37124,5894,39734],"class_list":["post-2334137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-donald-trump","tag-kamala-harris","tag-media-scrutiny","tag-politics","tag-public-figures"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Kamala_Harris_48626163648.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2334137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2334138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2334137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2334137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2334137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}