Scottie Nell Hughes– the woman who carried out an affair with Fox Business host Charles Payne and attempted to accuse him of rape– just backed herself into a corner BIG time. If you recall, she also filed a lawsuit against Fox News. She says she was “blacklisted” after she came forward with the allegations against Payne. Fox News dismissed her lawsuit as a “publicity stunt.”
2. Fox News has responded with a very strongly worded statement re Scottie Nell Hughes' lawsuit. pic.twitter.com/snQC1lVpGD
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) September 19, 2017
Evidence suggests their relationship was mutual. Word even has it she pushed the relationship forward in hopes that it would land her a more permanent, paid spot on the network. The emails Scottie sent speak volumes:
She’s basically given us every reason to doubt her claims.
It only gets worse. According to this, Scottie Nell Hughes “railed” against women who claimed to be victims of sexual assault and admitted that she was attracted to men in power.
Former Fox News panelist Scottie Nell Hughes lectured women about avoiding sexual assault and sex discrimination in the workplace a year after host Charles Payne allegedly raped her, new bombshell court papers claim.
Legal documents obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com show the 37-year-old conservative commentator ‘excoriated a gender discrimination plaintiff’ on air and chastised women for having affairs in the workplace.
Uh-huh.
Hughes blasted Silicon Valley investment partner Ellen Pao during a 2015 on-air panel discussion on Pao’s sexual discrimination suit against a capital firm.
Pao was also having an affair with a colleague before she was fired.
Hughes went on the air to say: ‘So, if she’s having the affair with him, of course they’re going to talk about sex; of course they might talk about pornography; of course they might go other places. She was having the affair. You make your bed, you have to lie on it, and it’s not a $60 million bed.
She added: ‘If she really has these great qualifications and felt so pressured to have an affair and go to that extent: go get another job; there’s other opportunities.
Here’s the clip.
Wow. “You make your bed, you have to lie on it.” Perhaps she should take her own advice.
In her 2014 book, Roar: The New Conservative Woman Speaks Out, Hughes also admitted she was attracted to ‘men who hold power’ and said men are ‘pretty easy to persuade if you’re wickedly smart and not afraid to actually be a woman.’
She also claimed she was raised to ‘avoid situations’ that could lead to sexual assault and explained how women could avoid ‘nonconsensual sexual relations’ a year after she says she was raped in her hotel room.
‘In light of her allegations in this case, it is also remarkable that in that same book, she thanked Payne for his “kindness” as one of her many “mentors” in the “broadcast business,’ the lawsuit read.
Interesting indeed. This certainly doesn’t help her case. Not in the least.
h/t Daily Mail