Trump this morning tweeted that Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand “would do anything” for donations.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday morning refuted the renewed claims of sexual misconduct against him and took aim at one of the women lawmakers leading the charge on sexual harassment on Capitol Hill, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), in a pair of tweets with a sexist tinge.
Trump Tweeted that Democrats, after failing to show collusion with Russia (the investigation is still underway), are now “moving on to the false accusations and fabricated stories of women who I don’t know and/or have never met.”
In a separate tweet, Trump took aim at Gillibrand, who called on Trump to resign over his sexual misconduct allegations, calling her a “total flunky” for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) who came into his office “’begging’ for campaign contributions not so long ago” and “would do anything for them.”
“President Trump has committed assault, according to these women, and those are very credible allegations of misconduct and criminal activity, and he should be fully investigated and he should resign,” Gillibrand told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Monday.
The president also referred himself in the third person and accused her of disloyalty to the Clintons.
Despite thousands of hours wasted and many millions of dollars spent, the Democrats have been unable to show any collusion with Russia - so now they are moving on to the false accusations and fabricated stories of women who I don’t know and/or have never met. FAKE NEWS!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 12, 2017
Lightweight Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a total flunky for Chuck Schumer and someone who would come to my office “begging” for campaign contributions not so long ago (and would do anything for them), is now in the ring fighting against Trump. Very disloyal to Bill & Crooked-USED!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 12, 2017
Gillibrand responded to Trump on Twitter soon after. “You cannot silence me or the millions of women who have gotten off the sidelines to speak out about the unfitness and shame you have brought to the Oval Office,” she wrote.
You cannot silence me or the millions of women who have gotten off the sidelines to speak out about the unfitness and shame you have brought to the Oval Office. https://t.co/UbQZqubXZv
— Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) December 12, 2017
While in Congress, Gillibrand has made efforts to address sexual assault in the military and on college campuses, and has emerged as a leading voice on sexual harassment on Capitol Hill and in Washington.
Gillibrand was among the first in the group of Democratic women senators to call on Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) to resign after eight women accused the Minnesota Democrat of sexual misconduct.
Gillibrand made headlines in November when she said in an interview with the New York Times that former President Bill Clinton should have resigned in light of the Monica Lewinsky scandal in the 1990s. “Yes, I think that is the appropriate response,” she said when asked whether Clinton should have stepped down at the time.
The remarks appear to be what Trump was referring to in his tweet that she was “disloyal to Bill & Crooked.” Gillibrand holds Clinton’s former Senate seat.
In her November interview with the Times, Gillibrand said that had the Clinton scandal taken place today, there “should be a very different reaction” and turned her attention to President Trump, who has been accused of sexual misconduct by more than a dozen women and was caught on an Access Hollywood tape bragging about sexually assaulting women. “I think in light of this conversation, we should have a very different conversation about President Trump, and a very different conversation about allegations against him,” she said.
Since Gillibrand called on Trump to resign, Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), and Bernie Sanders have also echoed the call. Also on Monday, more than 50 female Democratic lawmakers asked the House Oversight Committee to investigate the allegations against Trump in a letter to committee Chair Rep. Trey Gowdy (D-SC) and ranking member Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD).
Gillibrand is not the first person Trump has said “begged” him for something in the past. He has said on Twitter that Republican Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Bob Corker (R-TN) begged him for his support, and in 2012, he said lawyer television personality Star Jones “begged” him to be on The Apprentice.
Trump has, indeed, donated to a number of Democrats in the past, including Schumer, former Rep. Anthony Weiner, Hillary Clinton, and Gillibrand, to whom he gave $4,800 as recently as 2010.
There is a sexist tinge to Trump’s Tuesday-morning attack on Gillibrand, specifically in the suggestion that she would “do anything” for a donation. If Trump doesn’t want people to believe he has a problem with women, maybe he should stop acting like it.
What does “and would do anything for them” mean? https://t.co/edvdtzDUIz
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) December 12, 2017
This reads like sexual harassment. @SenGillibrand calls for him to be disciplined, and he implies, well, exactly what “and would do anything for them” implies. https://t.co/1jVsExFJHI
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) December 12, 2017
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