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192. Oh, so he is "too busy" because he's "priortizing assault victims" now.

That's an interesting spin. As if these very staffers who endured the ongoing harassment from his senior staffers (now moving on up the political ladder unlike the whistleblowers who have been shunned) even after repeated reports, who STILL worked their fingers to the bone to make him POTUS would never have tolerated or understood him leaving for a few minutes to vote on national security, even if it "really didn't make a difference," especially when it was a rebuke to a hostile power that was shown by Mueller to have interfered in the election supported him? They would not have understood the moral imperative and optics of him doing that? That doesn't show much regard for those victims of assualt's political accumen, does it?

Perhaps this might clarify things about how one of those "assault victims" who tolerated ongoing, systemic harassment from his campaign staffers even after reporting them, experienced concerning this meeting they had requested back in December after seeing one of the worst offenders taking selfies with Jane Sanders at the Gathering:

Thirteen hours ago, I got an email from a former scheduler on the 2016 campaign asking for my information to arrange travel for a meeting in two days that many of us have known about for awhile. A lot of people like me who reported to the press after being ignored for years had been excluded from the initial planning of this meeting but after some demands from others, I guess we got added to a list.

Myself and another reporter of harassment and wage disparity got no information about our flights or follow up information by late this evening. There was no agenda or participant information about the meeting made available to me. I wrote to the senior staff who had ostensibly asked that I be contacted and said the following:

“As a followup, 11 hours ago I responded to [scheduler’s] morning email asking for my phone number to arrange travel for a meeting. Since then, I have received no information or calls and I know other people are experiencing the same. The attempt to bully and exclude here is as insulting and transparent as the Senator’s original response to Anderson Cooper. I know that the Senator’s office has given confirmation about the meeting to Buzzfeed but no actual confirmation if he will attend and what role he would play. I said my piece to the NYT about my awful and degrading experience with Our Revolution and wanted to [be] done but I’ll have to publicly detail how disorganized, unprofessional and purposefully awful this process has been.

To be clear, I got an email from [scheduler] requesting my phone number this morning to attend a meeting with no other information (like who would attend, the purpose, etc.). I never asked to attend a meeting because I expected this kind of treatment.

https://medium.com/sarahslamen/a-future-to-believe-in-95208e8ce792

Now they are being presented as the reason why he was "too busy" to vote, after he stated he was so "busy" that he couldn't have been expected know about the ongoing harassment by his senior field and outreach staff. Priceless.

That's weird. It's almost as if you're saying that simply accepting a request from harrassed women and others from his own staff to meet with him about for the first time it to even acknowledge them, just two years after being informed of it is heroic advocacy of women, and therefore missing this vote was necessary due to utterly noble attributes.


And no, HRC was excoriated here for not putting in a protest vote against the Iraq War Resolution even when it woud not have made a difference, so yeah, there's that double standard. Wierd, huh?