Posted on 02/15/2017 10:57:11 AM PST by SeekAndFind
President Trump’s Labor Department nominee, Andy Puzder, is facing old accusations of domestic abuse against his ex-wife Lisa Fierstein. As Ed pointed out yesterday, those accusations have been denied by Fierstein since the early 1990s. She claims she was encouraged to make the accusations by her attorney at the time. Today, Fox News reports Fierstein is lashing out at efforts to dredge up the old accusations:
Fierstein, though, is now speaking out against efforts by an activist group to get her divorce documents released, calling it an “unfair invasion” of her personal life and saying, “None of the events from so far in the past have anything to do with Andy’s kindness and generosity and his ability to serve his country.”
While her abuse allegations have returned to the headlines, Fierstein retracted those claims decades ago. “My privacy has been invaded, my family has been hurt, my children are suffering and I have become the victim of the media’s malice and determination to find ugliness where only kindness and love exists,” Fierstein said in a statement provided to Fox News.
Politico has received a copy of Fierstein’s appearance on the Oprah show from the mid-80s and says it does not include specific allegations of abuse:
“I wound up losing everything, everything,” Fierstein said on “Oprah.” “I have nothing. He has a Porsche and a Mercedes-Benz. He has the home. He has everything. He was an attorney, and he knew how to play the system.”
Fierstein spoke mostly in broad terms on “Oprah” about the effect the abuse had, she said, on herself, and the effect such abuse has on women in general.
Fox News reports that sources on the HELP committee don’t believe the Oprah video was a “watershed” moment for Puzder’s confirmation. Meanwhile, the left-wing Campaign for Accountability was in court Tuesday arguing Puzder’s divorce records should be unsealed. The goal is clearly to publicize the allegations before his confirmation.
A spokesman for Puzder tells Fox News that Fierstein and Puzder are now “good friends” who had dinner with Puzder’s current wife Dee last week. The spokesman adds, “They spend a lot of time together and this was a chance to just be family. But the calls from reporters and the attempts to unseal her divorce documents, have been very difficult for Lisa.”
Democrat war on women: We don’t care if you value your privacy or state that there was no violence. DNC victories are far more important than that!
“...Fierstein and Puzder are now “good friends” who had dinner with Puzder’s current wife Dee last week. The spokesman adds, “They spend a lot of time together and this was a chance to just be family.”
The media has no problem digging into personal matters and here they are attempting to destroy Andy, Lisa and Dee’s family.
And yet anything pertaining to Zero’s past is off-limits or ignored altogether.
College transcripts and writings, passport info, whether he ever received student aid or any other benefits afforded to foreign students, why his SS# is from a state he never lived in, etc.
Hypocritical leftist media cowards!
Since the 1970s, divorce attorneys have often told their female clients to publicly claim abuse even if none actually occurred.
Trump can do better. These are not loyal, patriotic Americans.
Democrats are so sleazy. This is how Obama gained his US Senate seat. He got a Leftist judge to unseal Jack Ryan’s divorce records. His ex-wife, the actress Jeri Ryan, had claimed that he wanted her to accompany him to a sex club to watch other couples engage. When asked about the claim, she said ‘you say a lot of things when you are trying to get custody of your children’. The Illinois Republicans dropped Jack Ryan (who was ahead at the time) like a hot potato. And Obama went on to win the seat. How is it that a judge can unseal sealed records? I don’t know, but the Democrats use this tactic frequently.
Republicans are blocking him...He’ll withdraw his name...
This attack on Fierstein and the Puzders is malicious BS!
We should build, in depth, yet correct dossiers on every Member of Congress, past, present and future, then use that material well!
There is no privacy or individualism allowed in Marxism. It is all communalism-—everyone can invade your space when there are only “group” identity politics. It is what Marxism is for-—to create hate and division.
It is why Christianity was banned from the public square in the 60s. Only Christianity is about individualism, unity and love and that has to be wiped out of the minds of children (by the perverts in Hollywood) so that the NWO will only have socialized, collective mindsets.
Even if this is not the guy I would want to be there, he needs to be confirmed! The left wins if these people don’t get in and we cannot allow that to happen. Republicans are so dumb
Oh, yes it was one B. 0bama.
ahh.....opening up sealed divorce files.....an Oldie But Goodie from the Obama Playbook.
“She claims she was encouraged to make the accusations by her attorney at the time.”
She made a false allegation because she had the weaker position in dividing the assets. Then went on Oprah to whine about it more.
No sympathy for her or women like her. He’s just lucky she didn’t claim he molested the kids.
She’s an EX_wife, so boo hoo hoo, who cares.
Name the Attorney, Lisa!! OUT HIM or HER!!!
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