Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Kimberly Guilfoyle was a FOX News host for The Five when her assistant filed a 42-page draft complaint documenting how Guilfoyle sexually harassed staff, including showing them dick pics. She was fired from FOX News in 2018 and became Trump’s campaign finance chair and Donald Trump, Jr.’s girlfriend. The assistant was paid upwards of $4 million.
Eric Bolling was a popular FOX News host of the weekday show The Specialists when he was suspended pending an investigation of a sexual harassment complaint. He was ultimately fired. He was accused of sending dick pics to two women at FOX Business Network and to another woman at FOX News. At least four people in addition to the recipients have seen the alleged photo.
Francisco Cortes was a vice-president at FOX News Latino and had worked at FOX since 2003. Tamara Holder filed a sexual harassment claim against him alleging he exposed himself and attempted to force her into performing oral sex in 2015. FOX settled with her along with other women who had made complaints about other FOX employees. Cortes was terminated after an internal investigation.
Ernie Konnyu was a Republican Representative from Silicon Valley when he was accused of sexual harassment. He served one term in Congress and three in the California House of Representatives. There he pushed the workfare bill, requiring people on welfare to work for their benefits. He went to Congress and was one of authors of the welfare reform bill that forced people on welfare to work.
In his first year in Congress, he was accused of sexual harassment by three women.
John Schmitz was a California congressman who when he taught political science in college got Carla Stuckle, one of his students pregnant. He continued to see her for many years and fathered a second child. It all came out when the woman was arrested for child abuse and he came forward to serve as her…
Scott DesJarlais is a Tennessee Republican U.S. representative who has been exposed as a hypocrite on abortion, supporting his ex-wife’s two abortions. But that’s not why he is on the list of Republican Sexual Predators. He had sex with his two of his patients. Also with three co-workers and a pharmaceutical rep. But let’s focus on the patients. He prescribed medication to one of them. They are dependent on him and he has a position of trust and power that he violated. So far with impunity.
Herman Cain, 2012 Republican presidential primary candidate, and avid Trump supporter admitted he agreed to settlements for sexual harassment claims. During his run for the Republican nomination, it came out that two women had complained of sexual harassment and signed non-disclosure agreements in exchange for a settlement. The first allegations were over things he said that made women he worked with uncomfortable. They were anonymous and leaked to the press. However, more allegations surfaced, including one from Sharon Bialek who faced the press in a news conference and described how Cain physically groped her and tried to force her into a sex act.
Arizona Rep. Trent Franks harassed his office staff asking them to be a surrogate to bear his child. He and his wife already had twins from surrogacy eight years earlier. I would feel more sympathetic if it weren’t that he retaliated when one woman rebuffed him and that another said he claimed to be in love with her. Also, having gone through surrogacy before, I would presume he knows it isn’t about asking your staff to let you get them pregnant.
In 1991, when Clarence Thomas was nominated for the Supreme Court, Anita Hill was interviewed by the FBI during their investigation of him. She was a former colleague and so was expected to confirm his good character. Instead, she told the FBI that he had sexually harassed her. Her interview was leaked and there was a media firestorm during the Clarence Thomas hearings with Republican senators calling her a liar and Democrats doing their best to see nothing. Hill had corroborating witnesses who were never called.
Sen. Bob Packwood was an Oregon senator who presented himself as a Republican feminist supporting abortion access and being on the correct side of the cultural issues, favoring ENDA and opposing anti-gay ballot measures. Meanwhile he repeatedly sexually harassed and sometimes groped and assaulted women.