Senator Gilibrand was giving herself a few pats on the back on The View today:
.@SenGillibrand on calling for Al Franken’s resignation: “I can’t be a good mother, and I can’t be a good senator, if I am silenced just because it’s my friend.” https://t.co/CFdzczE0fE pic.twitter.com/904gsHqml4
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) January 29, 2018
.@SenGillibrand on calling for Al Franken’s resignation: “I can’t be a good mother, and I can’t be a good senator, if I am silenced just because it’s my friend.” https://t.co/CFdzczE0fE pic.twitter.com/904gsHqml4
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) January 29, 2018
WOW WOW WOW WOW. It was soooo brave of her to do exactly what everyone else was doing in an effort to morally grandstand against Republicans.
What does she want? A cookie?
PS
it took seven women to accuse franken of sexual misconduct before gillibrand said anything https://t.co/mTrDrENCyT
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) January 29, 2018
Gillibrand blabbed on about the importance of believing all women, and bringing all sexual predators to justice, and so on and so forth, when THIS happened:
🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 pic.twitter.com/YAoyeI8Ho9
— Rae (@RaeLynnZiegler) January 29, 2018
HO. LY. CRAP.
YAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think this is .@MeghanMcCain’s version of Tucker-face. pic.twitter.com/s2J778drEO
— cdrsalamander (@cdrsalamander) January 29, 2018
Her stutter is my favorite part. She obviously wasn’t expecting tough questions at the liberal hagfest that is The View.
David Wright breaks it all down:
.@SenGillibrand on @TheView says GOP should return Steve Wynn $$$ — “There are multiple allegations of assault and harassment against him, and the near silence is deafening coming from Republicans.”
— David Wright (@DavidWright_CNN) January 29, 2018
.@SenGillibrand: “I think the Republicans should show far more leadership than they are today, and they need to speak out and send the money back and hold their own accountable.”
— David Wright (@DavidWright_CNN) January 29, 2018
Uh huh.
.@SenGillibrand also talked Al Franken ouster — pressed by Joy Behar — says, “for me, Al Franken is a friend of mine, he did great work in the Judiciary Committee, so it was really hard and really heartbreaking.”
— David Wright (@DavidWright_CNN) January 29, 2018
Behar: “How about a hearing first?”@SenGillibrand: “[Franken is] entitled to a hearing, he is, but he’s not entitled to my silence, Joy.”
— David Wright (@DavidWright_CNN) January 29, 2018
Behar: “How about a hearing first?”@SenGillibrand: “[Franken is] entitled to a hearing, he is, but he’s not entitled to my silence, Joy.”
— David Wright (@DavidWright_CNN) January 29, 2018
BUT REMEMBER …. Trump is worse.
.@SenGillibrand: “Obviously what was alleged against Al Franken was very different from what was alleged about Steve Wynn, than what’s alleged about President Trump. Very different. I understand that. What’s alleged against Roy Moore. All different. Different gradations.”
— David Wright (@DavidWright_CNN) January 29, 2018
But then it gets FUN…
.@SenGillibrand asked about Hillary Clinton response to NYT story about sexual harassment by aide on 2007 campaign: “No one is above criticism. But in that case I don’t know all the details. I don’t know if the punishment she chose was the right punishment.”
— David Wright (@DavidWright_CNN) January 29, 2018
So…. in the case of Franken she needed to act IMMEDIATELY.
When it comes to Hilary? Well… she doesn’t know all the details.
.@MeghanMcCain: “A lot of people were really surprised that it took you 20 years to say that Bill Clinton should have resigned over the Lewinsky scandal. So what do you say to that?”@SenGillibrand: “I think this moment of time we’re in is very different.”
— David Wright (@DavidWright_CNN) January 29, 2018
.@SenGillibrand: “I don’t think we had the same conversations back then, the same lens. We didn’t hold people accountable in the same way this moment is demanding today.”
— David Wright (@DavidWright_CNN) January 29, 2018
.@SenGillibrand: “I think all of us – or many of us – did not have that same lens. Myself included. But today we are having a very different conversation. And there is a moment in time where we can actually do the right thing, or fixate on one president.”
— David Wright (@DavidWright_CNN) January 29, 2018
.@MeghanMcCain: “Can I ask you, do you regret campaigning with [Bill Clinton], though?”@SenGillibrand: “It’s not about any one president. And it’s not about any one industry. And if we reduce it to that, we are missing the opportunity to allow women to be heard.”
— David Wright (@DavidWright_CNN) January 29, 2018
Translation: Of COURSE not.