Tag: Trump sexual harassment allegations

Gowdy Will Not Initiate Oversight Investigation Into Trump Allegations

The following article by Griffin Connolly was posted on the Roll Call website December 13, 2017:

Chairman kicks Dems’ letter requesting investigation to Justice Department

House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., indicated in a letter Tuesday he will not open an investigation in his committee into allegations against President Donald Trump of sexual misconduct. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, will not initiate an investigation into allegations of sexual assault against President Donald Trump, he signaled in a letter Tuesday.

Responding to a Monday letter signed by more than 100 House Democrats asking him to launch an investigation, the South Carolina Republican said he would forward the letter to the Department of Justice.

The allegations in the Democrats’ letter “constitute crimes” that violate state and possibly federal law, Gowdy wrote in the letter. Continue reading “Gowdy Will Not Initiate Oversight Investigation Into Trump Allegations”

Trump’s Combative Denials Again Draw Him Into the Sexual Harassment Debate

The following article by Michael Tackett was posted on the New York Times website December 12, 2017:

President Trump listened to Vice President Mike Pence’s remarks in a signing ceremony for the Space Policy Directive 1, a return to the moon for American astronauts, at the White House on Monday. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times

WASHINGTON — President Trump put himself once more at the center of the sexual harassment debate on Tuesday, repeating his contention that the women who have accused him of misconduct fabricated the allegations and describing Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, one of his leading critics, as a “lightweight” who “would do anything” for campaign contributions.

In derisive morning Twitter posts, the president responded to three of the women who had come forward on Monday to renew their charges from last year that Mr. Trump had sexually assaulted them before he entered politics, and to Ms. Gillibrand after she called on him to resign on Monday. Continue reading “Trump’s Combative Denials Again Draw Him Into the Sexual Harassment Debate”