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Posted by -7859.80pc on October 23, 2016 · Flag

Yet another woman has come forward to accuse Donald Trump of sexual misconduct. But because she’s an adult film actress, Fox News host Brit Hume suggested it was no biggie. The internet did not take it well.

Variety explains the latest accusation against Trump:

Jessica Drake, an adult film performer for Wicked Pictures, appeared on Saturday with attorney Gloria Allred. She said that she met Trump ten years ago at a golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, Calif.

She said Trump invited her to his suite after the tournament, and she went with some women friends. When they arrived, she said, he grabbed each of them tightly and kissed them. After they left him, one of his representatives called to invite her to his room alone, but she said she declined.

Then Trump himself called and asked, “What do you want? How much?” After she declined his invite, he eventually offered her $10,000, she said.

On Saturday evening, Hume tweeted:

Woman who has sex on camera for $ says Trump propositioned her. "This is not acceptable behavior." Please. https://t.co/EpQ04PcuTO
— Brit Hume (@brithume) October 23, 2016

Quite a Twitter storm ensued. It included an extended back and forth between Hume and The Daily Beast editor, Jason Miller. Hume tried to defend himself by tweeting:

2 be clear, don't think Jessica Drake's line of work makes it ok to kiss her w/o consent. But don't buy her claim of offense at proposition.
— Brit Hume (@brithume) October 23, 2016

Hume is suggesting that while it was not “OK” for Trump to kiss Drake without her consent, his proposition to pay her for sex, after she had already declined, was somehow insignificant or at least less disturbing because, in Hume’s words, she “has sex on camera for $.”

But really, it’s not about Drake’s reaction but Trump’s bad behavior. He's the one running for president. Funny how Hume homed in on his skepticism over Drake taking offense and not Trump’s sexual misconduct. Nor, as Think Progress’ Judd Legum noted in his tweeted response, the fact that Trump was married when he behaved this way.

I’m not in the habit of citing The Right Scoop. But Soopermexican made a good point when he or she wrote:

No wonder no one at Fox News noticed that Roger Ailes was harassing everyone in sight. They seem to have a “Mad Men” mentality towards women. I understand that it’s ironic to see a porn star moralizing about Trump, but if her account is true, then it’s a problem for Trump, who keeps claiming he never harassed anyone.

Bingo.

It should not be a big surprise that Hume would react this way. He also attacked former Fox host Gretchen Carlson after she accused Ailes of sexual harassment.

Here's another suggestion. Why didn't she quit & sue instead of suing only after she got fired? https://t.co/8GPKprxxsT
— Brit Hume (@brithume) July 7, 2016

After Ailes resigned in disgrace from Fox News, Hume said, “I’m absolutely heartbroken that all this happened. I love the guy, and I love working for him.”

Media Matters notes that Hume has “a long history of using his national platform to downplay sexual assault.”

Will Hume address this on his On The Record show Monday night? Stay tuned.

(Hume image via screengrab)

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commented 2016-10-24 02:01:47 -0400 · Flag

Villainous Chris,
I’m not judging the veracity of Drake’s account but I don’t see how coming forward about Trump helps her with Proposition 60.

Also, even if she’s lying, it doesn’t make Hume’s tweet any better, IMO. He didn’t accuse her of lying about what happened, just about being offended at Trump’s behavior. Which is really beside the point.

commented 2016-10-24 01:55:42 -0400 · Flag

Eyes on Fox,

Thank you for the tip. I’ll check it Monday. I just didn’t have the time today.

commented 2016-10-24 01:55:09 -0400 · Flag

Thank you, Edward Rosenberg. You are right, it should have been “homed,” not “honed” and I made the correction.

commented 2016-10-23 23:14:59 -0400 · Flag

After googling prop 60, it sounds like it won’t pass. Sounds like the more people learn about it the less they like it.

commented 2016-10-23 22:34:31 -0400 · Flag

Even if Ms. Drake is only doing this for publicity with no merit, it’s not like there’s a short list of women accusing Trump. Numbers up there with Bill Cosby. But what Cosby did was much worse.

commented 2016-10-23 17:21:49 -0400 · Flag

Jessica Drake is active in the No on Prop 60 init here is CA, which would essentially put porn people out of business in this state. They’ve been growing more desperate as the vote nears, so it actually wouldn’t surprise me if she/porn people cooked this up in an attempt to be some hail-Mary savior to the industry.

Trump sucks and undoubtedly has harassed/assaulted women, but Drake is the one riding on Nov. 7 here. I am skeptical of this one.

commented 2016-10-23 14:44:12 -0400 · Flag

How can they all be porn ‘stars’? There are no porn supporting players? No porn extras?

commented 2016-10-23 13:26:19 -0400 · Flag

Britt has no problem with the “legs and short skirts” he enjoys daily on Faux Spews.

commented 2016-10-23 12:25:10 -0400 · Flag

So, why was Trump hanging around porn queens in the first place?

commented 2016-10-23 10:15:18 -0400 · Flag

Personally, a woman should be free to do whatever she wants with her own body — including sell it out for sex, because to me that’s true freedom of choice. It should not be up to me to say whether or not a woman makes a “moral” decision with her own body.

That having been said — how many Faux Nooz women have sold their bodies for a shot at fame? How many women have sold their bodies to tRump for a better job or access to something “yuuuge?”

My point is — this is a slippery slope that Hume is approaching … unless he can PROVE his own wife is in it really for the love.

That having been said, even if a woman is a street corner prostitute — if she says “no” then that means “no.”

commented 2016-10-23 09:53:59 -0400 · Flag

This woman has given very specific details and her account includes witnesses—and other victims—about an assault that happened in 2006. We’re now hearing from one to two women a day. At this pace, we should expect about 34-36 more women to speak out before the election. If we add the previous victims, he’ll surpass the Cosby limit.

commented 2016-10-23 09:34:55 -0400 · Flag

My how the mighty has fallen and keep falling. R.I.P. FAUX FAKE NEWS. KARMA is a bi$#h!!!!!!!

commented 2016-10-23 09:25:16 -0400 · Flag

Totally off topic – except it’s a MUST SEE MOMENT in Fox News bias – but NewsHounds JUST HAS TO COVER today’s “Fox & Friends” where a rare Democrat, Martin O’Malley, showed up. The bobbleheads apparently thought he’d be a useful tool in their Trump inspired “rigged system” meme. Au contraire mon frere, O’Malley went full lib eventually calling Trump both a racist and a fascist. No surprise utter chaos ensued with the bobbleheads doing their best to interrupt and rattle O’Malley only to have him articulate and unfazed make point after point fearlessly.

commented 2016-10-23 09:01:16 -0400 · Flag

I don’t know what I find more offensive.

Curse this non-editor.

commented 2016-10-23 08:59:15 -0400 · Flag

I don’t what I find more offensive. That Trump propositioned a porn star or the amount offered. $10,000??!!! My old Scottish ancestors would be turning in their graves.

commented 2016-10-23 08:40:02 -0400 · Flag

It’s HOMED in, not HONED.

commented 2016-10-23 07:56:44 -0400 · Flag

Melania is probably heartbroken to learn that her potential successor: a) Was offered less cash to audition than she herself was, and b) Turned down the offer.

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