Ailes Accused of Sexually Harassing Iranian American Journalist Rudi Bakhtiar
Former CNN anchor and Fox News correspondent Rudi Bakhtiar recently joined at least 20 other female journalists such as Megyn Kelly and Gretchen Carlson who claim they were sexually harassed by Roger Ailes, former Fox News Chief and now an advisor to Donald Trump. The Iranian American Bakhtiar says her contract terminated at Fox in 2007 after she complained about sexual harassment, and later she received a call from Aile's attorney telling her that if she speaks out she will be violating her non-disparagement agreement. Former Fox News host Andrea Tantaros has also alleged that she was among a number of women sexually harassed by both Fox News CEO Roger Ailes and Fox News Anchor Bill O’Reilly.
But Ailes is not the only Trump advisor accused of sexual perversion or misconduct. Rudi Guiliani, Trump's main henchman who has advised Trump to attack the Clintons for their marriage problems, has himself been married three times and found cheating on his wives multiple times. Giuliani was reportedly estranged from both his son Andrew and his daughter Caroline from his second wife Donna Hanover.
Stephen Bannon, the Breitbart News executive and new Donald Trump campaign CEO, was charged with misdemeanor domestic violence, battery and dissuading a witness following an incident with his then-wife in 1996. Mary Louise Piccard would ultimately divorce Bannon, and say in 2007 court papers that her husband did not want their daughters to go to an elite Los Angeles school because it had many Jewish students. Bannon has also been named in a suit in 1994 accused of sexual harassment towards a coworker at an Arizona research company Biosphere 2.
Another staunch surrogate of Trump, Former Speaker of the US House of Representatives Newt Gingrich has been married three times and admitted to cheating on his first and second wives, and that he was engaged in an affair while leading impeachment proceedings against then-President Bill Clinton. Gingrich met his current wife - 23 years his junior - through an extramarital affair when she was a House staffer.
Trump who has doggedly attempted to use Bill Clinton's sex scandals to cast a shadow on Hillary Clinton, is himself twice-divorced and carried on a long affair that disintegrated his first marriage in a howling tabloid spectacle. A Huffington Post Article titled "The Undeniable Rape Culture Of Donald Trump," has aggregated data and legal documents alleging Trump has been accused of at least three rape cases, including raping a 13-year-old child, raping his ex-wife, and attempting to rape a former business associate.
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