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Another woman comes forward claiming George H.W. Bush sexually assaulted her
Washington Examiner ^ | 10/26/17 | Diana Stancy Correll

Posted on 10/26/2017 6:19:26 PM PDT by markomalley

Author Christina Baker Kline has come forward saying she was groped by former President George H.W. Bush in 2014 during a Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy fundraiser during a photo opportunity.

"'You wanna know my favorite book?' he whispered. I had to lean close to hear him," Kline wrote in an op-ed for Slate.

"President Bush put his arm around me, low on my back. His comic timing was impeccable. 'David Cop-a-feel,' he said, and squeezed my butt, hard, just as the photographer snapped the photo. Instinctively, I swiped his hand away," Kline wrote.

Kline is the third woman to accuse Bush of sexually assaulting her.

Actress Heather Lind initially came forward Tuesday claiming Bush sexually assaulted her and described the interaction four years ago in a now-deleted Instagram post. The incident happened during a photo opportunity to promote a TV show.

Late Wednesday, a second woman, New York actress Jordana Grolnick, also accused Bush of groping her, according to Deadspin.

The latest statement from the office of Bush was released Wednesday and offered a detailed defense of the 93-year-old after Lind claimed that he sexually assaulted her.

The statement said that Bush has been in a wheelchair for five years and explains that he cannot reach people around the waist.

"His arm falls on the lower waist of people with whom he takes pictures," the statement read. "To try to put people at ease, the president routinely tells the same joke — and on occasion, he has patted women's rears in what he intended to be a good-natured manner. Some have seen it as innocent; others clearly view it as inappropriate."

"To anyone he has offended, President Bush apologizes most sincerely," the statement added.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: barbarabush; bush; bush41; bushsexscandal; franklinscandal; georgehwbush; ghwbush; metoo
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To: af_vet_1981
The rich and powerful usually got away with it.

Pretty much the same thing Trump was trying to explain to Billy Bush. About what a sewer they were both in at the time.

121 posted on 10/27/2017 5:01:04 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

Blow back from incessant whining.

If you wait years to say something, it makes it look like revenge rather than seeking justice.


122 posted on 10/27/2017 5:12:34 AM PDT by windowdude
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To: markomalley

Where are all the women coming out against Joe Biden?


123 posted on 10/27/2017 5:13:24 AM PDT by Lockbox
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To: ontap

Looking back on it, was that appropriate for the workplace? How would it make you feel today? (Other than flattered) And what would you tell your wife if that woman were your boss, or influential regarding your career.


124 posted on 10/27/2017 5:14:34 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Burn. It. Down.)
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To: All

Why are the kids and Babs still wheeling this guy around like a museum piece? It’s macabre, even by Bush standards.


125 posted on 10/27/2017 5:18:32 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: FreedomStar3028
More egregious condemnation? I thought God counted sin as sin. That murder is sin, and a lie is a sin. To him they are both sin. Neither more egregious than the other.

No?


Make the scriptures more important than breakfast, lunch, and dinner until the word is very near thee, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.

And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

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Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.

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But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!

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Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

...

My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.


Luke, Catholic chapter twelve, Protestant verses forty seven to forty eight,
Matthew, Catholic chapter five, Protestant verses twenty five to twenty six,
Matthew, Catholic chapter eighteen, Protestant verses six to seven,
Matthew, Catholic chapter twenty three, Protestant verse fourteen,
James, Catholic chapter three, Protestant verse one,
as authorized, but not authored, by King James

126 posted on 10/27/2017 5:29:30 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: colorado tanker

“Come on. Copping a feel is not “sexual assault.” It is inappropriate and possibly illegal (misdemeanor) but it’s not the same thing as Harvey was doing.”

How is it different?

Harv copped feels, too.


127 posted on 10/27/2017 5:32:32 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: JonPreston

YES! he looks terrible! Scary even. and behaves worse! Stay home, George.


128 posted on 10/27/2017 5:42:58 AM PDT by ronniesgal (still winning !!)
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To: colorado tanker

it’s NOT the same as HW, but it is still pretty bad.
You can’t just grab random asses! Even if you are old, or an ex president.


129 posted on 10/27/2017 5:46:28 AM PDT by ronniesgal (still winning !!)
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To: markomalley

“”His arm falls on the lower waist of people with whom he takes pictures,” the statement read. “To try to put people at ease, the president routinely tells the same joke — and on occasion, he has patted women’s rears in what he intended to be a good-natured manner. Some have seen it as innocent; others clearly view it as inappropriate.””

OMG, they are admitting it?

I would’ve said his hand likely just brushed her, no big deal. BUT the ‘joke’ indicating it is intentional makes it pretty sick.

I wonder if some old-age thing makes people less inhibited?


130 posted on 10/27/2017 6:02:27 AM PDT by CottonBall (Thank you, Julian!)
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To: x1stcav

Well you know the left and their agenda of victimhood. They take an actual crime and then try to equate it more and more to things that eventually have zero relation to it at all. Pretty soon a male just being in general vicinity of a woman will be considered sexual harassment, and then eventually they will make it a race issue, sexual assault exists because of white supremacy and white privilege.


131 posted on 10/27/2017 6:06:38 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Trump: Greatest POTUS of all time solely for preventing Satan taking office.)
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To: markomalley

Seems like everyone is going to be accused now.


132 posted on 10/27/2017 6:14:21 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: CottonBall

“I wonder if some old-age thing makes people less inhibited?”

Yeah, I think the older one gets the less one gives a rat’s ass about all this bullshit.


133 posted on 10/27/2017 6:15:34 AM PDT by x1stcav (We have the guns. Do we have the will?)
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To: markomalley

Calling what Bush did sexual assault demeans the term sexual assault.


134 posted on 10/27/2017 6:24:20 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (We need a separation of press and state!)
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To: markomalley

George Bush should not be grabbing women’s backsides. If he did that, he is wrong and should apologize. If he’s too senile to stop doing it, his family needs to keep him from making public appearances. Having said that, an old man in a wheelchair pinching a woman’s backside is not Harvey Weinstein masturbating in front of a woman, or raping her. Its very convenient that these Bush stories are all coming out now. Its as if its part of a strategy to tar everyone with harassment stories to hide the really bad stories like Weinstein.


135 posted on 10/27/2017 6:32:58 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: markomalley

The world’s pre-eminent globalist assassin reduced to dirty jokes and playing grab ass. Glad it’s all now coming out.

Was at a senior living facility and heard this one (told by old man to old lady) “do you know the difference between lunch and a BJ? Good - meet you at McDonald’s”.


136 posted on 10/27/2017 6:33:41 AM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: entropy12

Biden is the worst.


137 posted on 10/27/2017 6:44:12 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: markomalley

My Lord, these “accusers” are such fooking snowflakes! Either that, or they are trying to “establish their brand”, to use the current lingo, by standing up to “abuse”.

A few assorted relatives (male AND female) loved telling double-entendre “jokes” when they got into their 80s and beyond. They were completely harmless eye-rollers like those quoted. And if they happened to put their hands where they shouldn’t, either the person affected or someone nearby would give a disapproving look or word, and that was that.


138 posted on 10/27/2017 6:46:33 AM PDT by ssaftler (What's an NFL?)
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To: markomalley

The benchmark for sexual assault is absurd


139 posted on 10/27/2017 6:52:37 AM PDT by wardaddy (Virtue signalers should be shot on sight...conservative ones racked and hanged then fed to dogs)
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To: neverevergiveup

I’ll dispute it for you

Women in general in the real world outside convenience land we call western civilization

A land built mostly on the sweat blood and deaths of white Christian men

....are not even remotely as capable as men to survive

It’s a damned joke

Which is why we historically died to protect them with little hesitation because they were the fruitbearers and loved and cherished and honored them

It’ was Gods plan

Now they are whiney shrill victims ever clamoring for protection via litigation meanwhile boasting of their daring doo from a fake reality instilled by homosexual social engineers ensconced in the confines of West Hollywood and Madison Ave

It’s lunacy

And destructive


140 posted on 10/27/2017 6:59:46 AM PDT by wardaddy (Virtue signalers should be shot on sight...conservative ones racked and hanged then fed to dogs)
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