{"id":399129,"date":"2021-04-08T07:28:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T11:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=399129"},"modified":"2021-04-08T07:28:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T11:28:27","slug":"trump-hater-aaron-sorkin-silent-on-frequent-collaborator-scott-rudins-abuse-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-hater-aaron-sorkin-silent-on-frequent-collaborator-scott-rudins-abuse-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Hater Aaron Sorkin Silent On Frequent Collaborator Scott Rudin\u2019s Abuse Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Ftrump-hater-aaron-sorkin-silent-on-frequent-collaborator-scott-rudins-abuse-allegations%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=399129&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-867.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>As irony would have it, Oscar-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/aaron-sorkin-tolerating-trump-supporters-like-tolerating-racists\">referred to millions<\/a> of Trump supporters as racists, unworthy of tolerance, grace, or understanding in the same week that The Hollywood Reporter (THR) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/famed-producer-scott-rudin-accused-of-bullying-abuse-every-day-was-exhausting-and-horrific\">dropped a bombshell report<\/a> alleging that big-time producer Scott Rudin, a frequent collaborator of Sorkin\u2019s, regularly and repeatedly abused people under his employment.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Scott Rudin\u2019s alleged behavior has been an open secret in Hollywood for several decades rivaling that of convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor some four decades, Rudin\u2019s abusive behavior has been chronicled \u2014 even celebrated \u2014 by the press,\u201d reported THR. \u201cIn a 2010 profile, this publication dubbed him \u2018The Most Feared Man in Town\u2019 and called him \u2018dazzlingly charming\u2019 one paragraph after describing acts of cruelty and intimidation. In a 2005 Wall Street Journal profile with the headline \u2018Boss-zilla!,\u2019 Rudin himself pegged the number of assistants he burned through in the previous five years at 119.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of the litany of charges brought against Rudin, the most chilling one involved him reportedly smashing an Apple computer over an assistant\u2019s hand, sending them to the emergency room one Halloween afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt about 4:15 p.m. \u2014 more than 10 hours into a typical Rudin day that began at 6 and never wrapped before 8 \u2014 the Oscar-winning producer was enraged that one of his assistants failed to get him a seat on a sold-out flight,\u201d reported THR. \u201cIn a fit of fury, he allegedly smashed an Apple computer monitor on the assistant\u2019s hand. The screen shattered, leaving the young man bleeding and in need of immediate medical attention. One person in the office at the time described the incident as sounding like a car crash: a cacophonous collision of metal, glass and limb. The wounded assistant headed to the emergency room, and Rudin called his lawyer, according to another staffer there that Halloween afternoon. Everyone else huddled in the conference room, shaken. No one stayed until 8 p.m., with most of the staff heading over to a Times Square bar for a therapeutic drink.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The alleged victim declined to comment on the story, but several former staffers claimed to have witnessed the horrific event.<\/p>\n<p>Rudin worked with some of the best talents in the business, including Wes Anderson, the Cohen Brothers, and, finally, Aaron Sorkin. Since 2010\u2019s \u201cThe Social Network,\u201d Rudin has been a producer on several of Sorkin\u2019s projects, including \u201cThe Newsroom,\u201d \u201cSteve Jobs,\u201d and the 2018 stage play adaptation of&nbsp; \u201cTo Kill A Mockingbird.\u201d In fact, it was during the adaption Harper Lee\u2019s classic novel Aaron Sorkin came to a realization about Trump\u2019s millions of supporters: they were all racists, deserving of no tolerance or understanding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpon reading the novel again, it struck that throughout the novel, Atticus is an apologist for racists. Throughout,\u201d he said. \u201cHis whole thing about you have to walk a mile in someone\u2019s else\u2019s shoes. You really have to get inside someone\u2019s skin and crawl around before you can really understand them. That was a way of excusing Bob Ewell. \u2018Well, you got to understand, he lost his WPA job, and that really brings a man down.\u2019 He excuses his neighbor, Mrs. Henry Dubose. A terrible racist. \u2018Well you got to understand, she stopped taking her pain medication, her morphine, that makes people a little crazy.\u2019 He excuses the whole South.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sorkin said that this reflection helped him to realize that liberals were being apologists about the tens of millions of people supporting Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll you had to do, Mike, was look around. We were all saying the same thing about the tens of millions of people supporting Donald Trump,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t get it. Yeah, we\u2019ve always disagreed, all of us here in America. But we all have eyes and ears, right? We\u2019re looking at the same person. What are you talking about?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As of this writing, Sorkin has not yet commented on Scott Rudin\u2019s alleged horrific (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2021\/04\/megan-ellison-scott-rudin-abusive-racist-sexist-1234628763\/\">sometimes racist<\/a>) treatment of his employees.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/aaron-sorkin-tolerating-trump-supporters-like-tolerating-racists\">Aaron Sorkin: Tolerating Trump Supporters Like Tolerating&nbsp;Racists<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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