Kirsten Gillibrands Moment Has Arrived

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29. But she failed to realize that not every complaint will be a valid complaint.

She should have realized that Roger Stone, the heir to Lee Atwater's dirty tricks throne, would be totally capable of pulling a political hit on Al Franken. She, and the rest of the Dems, should have granted Al Franken due process, the ethics investigation and a chance to clear his name. They denied him that right and aided and abetted Roger Stone's political assassination. She was a total fool.

To automatically assume that every complaint of sexual misconduct is always valid is foolish. Just like not everyone that ends up on death row deserves to be there, you can expect that not all allegations will be truthful. There are times that is could be about vindictiveness and a desire to harm the person who you level the charges at.

Failure to conduct proper investigations of complaints results in the true victims not getting valid recognition nor victims of erroneous charges a chance to clear their names. As a result the Me To movement runs the risk of running themselves in the ground, particularly if it can be proven that not all claims are valid. The movement runs the risk of turning into a fake news endeavor.

Think about it, the most effective Senator is finished off by his own party without due process while a sexual predator sits in the WH and a serial child molester might get elected the next Senator from Alabama. I seriously doubt that Gillibrand's and the other Dems' tactics to clear out the sexual abusers will have any impact on their Republican colleagues. The Repubs just cry out that they are victims of fake news and Democratic dirty tricks (projection in psychology).