Why is it in the year 2020 every major politician is implicated in the #MeToo movement? If you want to go back to the Kavanaugh hearings where #MeToo was essentially used as an excuse to believe all women and stop a conservative nominee for the Supreme Court, you'll see the movement has been abused to destroy people's careers without any sort of credible evidence.
Because for most of history it was fine for men to physically and mentally abuse women, and when it wasn't openly accepted it still happened, but in general women did not feel comfortable speaking up, so men usually got away with it.
It's much easier for women to speak up now, so more of them do and are.
Of course there are dishonest women who will take advantage of that by making stuff up to get rich, famous or revenge.
So now, there are innocent men having their lives/careers ruined by false accusations. On the other hand, the guilty ones are being made an example of so that, hopefully, women are treated better in the future.
It sucks how easy it is for a woman to ruin someones life by telling a lie. The ones who are caught should have a fate similar to what the man they lied about would have suffered if they got away with it.
I'm glad that every young man in the country is witnessing this though, I feel like women will be treated much better as a result.
I don't think this derails Biden's campaign enough to make him lose out on the nomination (because there isn't a chance in hell Sanders attacks him on it) but I think people on Trump's campaign are going to have a field day with Biden's touchiness around women. No doubt some super pacs are gonna air the compilations of him grabbing women on camera or bring up this recent accusation against him. As if Biden did not have enough to deal with in regards to attacks against his cognition. I don't think Biden has a clear path to victory if all of this keeps up. He's a risky candidate to choose and I think we're going down the same road in 2016 where Trump will win due to an unpopular candidate with people staying home.
I generally agree. It will be interesting if Trump himself brings it up directly, or just retweets a bunch of other people discussing it.
There's a chance the whole thing will be forgotten though, the woman definitely didn't pick the best time to try and fit into the news cycle. It would have to become a pretty huge story for CNN or NBC to even consider acknowledging it.
I haven't looked into it too much, but it looks like she accused him a while ago but didn't mention the ramming his fingers into her vagina then. She does have proof that she was on his staff when she says she was though, so that's something.