The Democrats' double standard on sex pests

 Power Line:

How do Democrats view sexual harassment allegations? If we’re talking about party politicians and operatives, I think they view such claims as weapons to be used to derail their enemies — Supreme Court nominees they disapprove of, for example.

When the allegations are against enemies, Democratic pols and operatives say, as Joe Biden has, that we should believe the women who make them. But when the allegations are against important allies (as opposed to easily replaceable ones), this rule is discarded, as it was when Tara Reade “credibly” alleged that Biden sexually harassed her.

To make this double standard stick, it’s useful to have Democratic operatives at the top of organizations claiming authority in matters of sexual harassment. “Time’s Up” is such an organization, perhaps the leading one.

Tina Tchen is a cofounder of Time’s Up and its CEO. Tchen is a Democratic operative par excellence.

She was one of Barack Obama’s leading fundraisers. During the first two years of the Obama presidency, Tchen was the director of the White House Office of Public Engagement. After that, she served as assistant to Barack Obama and chief of staff to Michelle Obama.

Roberta Kaplan a co-founder of Time’s Up. She too is a Dem operative.

No less of an authority than Andrew Cuomo described her as “indispensable in the fight against the cancer of hate and division that [Donald] Trump spent four years exacerbating.” Kaplan represents E. Jean Carroll, who has accused Donald Trump of sexual assault. She also represents Donald’s niece, Mary Trump, an enemy of her uncle.

The Washington Free Beacon reports that Tchen and Kaplan helped Andrew Cuomo’s effort to smear Lindsey Boylan, one of his accusers. Boylan had publicly called Cuomo “one of the biggest abusers of all time,” which seems like only a mild exaggeration in light of the New York attorney general’s report

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I am also reminded of all the Democrat women who came to Bill Clinton's defense during one of his scandals.  As I recall one feminist actually offered him oral sex.  Politics is a dirty game that Democrats play especially against their enemies, but Biden copping a feel is apparently forgivable even if he lied about it.