Hillary Clinton was WARNED about Harvey Weinstein by both Lena Dunham and journalist Tina Brown – but she still took his cash and was planning a documentary with him before he was exposed
Bill and Hillary Clinton knew about the allegations against Harvey Weinstein as far back as 2008, A New York Times investigation has revealed
The damning article claims Hillary’s team received at least three warnings alleging Weinstein was dangerous, but she and Bill did not sever ties with him
An email to Hillary’s campaign’s deputy comm director Kristina Schake, Lena Dunham said: ‘I just want you to let you know that Harvey’s a rapist and this is going to come out at some point’
Dunham continued to say it was ‘a really bad idea for him to host fund-raisers and be involved’ because Weinstein’s predatory ways were common knowledge
Weinstein personally donated $1.4 million to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and donated $10,000 to Bill’s legal defense fund in 1998
Clinton spokesperson Adrienne Elrod and Kristina Schake denied that Dunham mentioned rape to them
By DANIEL BATES
DAILYMAIL.COM
6 December 2017
Bill and Hillary Clinton’s team ignored repeated warnings about Harvey Weinstein from Lena Dunham and Tina Brown, and were planning a lucrative documentary with him in the days before he was exposed.
The former President and First Lady were effectively complicit in stopping the movie producer’s history of sexual abuse from coming out, a damning New York Times investigation claims.
Dunham, a writer and actress, and Brown, a magazine editor, both warned Hillary’s advisers about Weinstein as far back as 2008, but she and Bill remained friends with him.
It is not clear if the warnings ever made it to the Clintons themselves but regardless the couple served as Weinstein’s most effective ‘celebrity shield’.
Their relationship was so close that on September 29, less than a week before the first story about Weinstein’s predatory behavior was published, Hillary Clinton’s lawyer emailed Weinstein to talk about European buyers for the documentary about her Presidential campaign.
The New York Times article says that Weinstein was able to carry on abusing women for decades because he built a ‘wall of invulnerability’ that was covered by a ‘sheen of celebrity’ like the Clintons.
Financed with millions of dollars, he operated a machinery of PR people, journalists, private investigators, and powerful lawyers to keep people quiet.
That also included many famous friends and ‘chief among them were Bill and Hillary Clinton’, the New York Times said.
By aligning himself with liberal causes it allowed Weinstein to portray himself as a champion of women and LGBT people, an effective foil to the reality of him being a sexual predator.
The claims in the article come as the Democrats are reexamining Bill Clinton’s sexual misconduct whilst in office through the post-Weinstein prism.
Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand shocked the party when she said last month that he should have stepped down for having an affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
Weinstein, who was fired from his company The Weinstein Co and is being investigated by police in the US, the UK, and France, has been a supporter of the Clintons and Barack Obama for years.
He has personally donated and bundled $1.4 million to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and when Bill Clinton was facing impeachment Weinstein donated $10,000 to his legal defense fund.
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