Prominent feminist attorney Lisa Bloom, who is also the daughter of Gloria Allred, took to Twitter on Friday to insist that she believes former Vice President Joe Biden sexually assaulted Tara Reade but that she would vote for him anyway.
Reade came forward on March 25 to claim that while she worked as a staffer for Biden’s senate office in 1993, he pinned her against the wall, groped her, and put his hands under her skirt to penetrate her with his fingers. Unlike the dubious allegations against now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, left-leaning media outlets refused to cover Reade’s allegations for weeks, and even then the coverage was minimal and more from the angle that Democrats are “grappling” with the allegations.
Bloom was responding to an article in Buzzfeed featuring an interview with Reade where she said she felt betrayed by Democrats who “discounted” and “marginalized” her.
“I believe you, Tara Reade,” Bloom said. “You have people who remember you told them about this decades ago. We know he is ‘handsy.’ You&#8217;re not asking for $. You&#8217;ve obviously struggled mightily with this. I still have to fight Trump, so I will still support Joe. But I believe you. And I&#8217;m sorry.”
Bloom continued her Twitter thread on Sunday, saying the “only alternative is Trump, credibly accused of sexual misconduct by over 20 women and who openly bragged about sexual assault. I represented 4 of them.”
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The only alternative is Trump, credibly accused of sexual misconduct by over 20 women and who openly bragged about sexual assault. I represented 4 of them.
We’ve only 2 choices.
Trump’s ignorance and arrogance has resulted in COVID deaths of tens of thousands.
Far worse.
— Lisa Bloom (@LisaBloom) <a href="https://twitter.com/LisaBloom/status/1257023427682041856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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As with most allegations against Republicans, the word “credibly” is used no matter what. As The Hill’s John Solomon <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/365068-exclusive-prominent-lawyer-sought-donor-cash-for-two-trump-accusers">reported</a> in December 2017, Bloom sought hefty payments for the women who either came forward against then-candidate Donald Trump in 2016 or threatened to come forward. Bloom also tried to enrich herself off of those women.
“California lawyer Lisa Bloom’s efforts included offering to sell alleged victims’ stories to TV outlets in return for a commission for herself, arranging a donor to pay off one Trump accuser’s mortgage and attempting to secure a six-figure payment for another woman who ultimately declined to come forward after being offered as much as $750,000, the clients told The Hill,” Solomon reported. “The women’s accounts were chronicled in contemporaneous contractual documents, emails and text messages reviewed by The Hill, including an exchange of texts between one woman and Bloom that suggested political action committees supporting <a href="https://thehill.com/people/hillary-clinton">Hillary Clinton</a> were contacted during the effort.”
Bloom told Solomon she sought the money to help her clients relocate or added security in the event they were made unsafe by their allegations.
Bloom went on to say voting for Biden is okay because he “will appoint a progressive female VP, and has a long history of fighting for women’s rights,” while Trump opposes everything she cares about, including issues like climate change and immigration.
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Biden will appoint a progressive female VP, and has a long history of fighting for women’s rights. Trump opposes everything I care about: climate change, human rights, treating immigrants with respect.
I understand Ms. Reade has this same struggle as she opposes Trump too.
— Lisa Bloom (@LisaBloom) <a href="https://twitter.com/LisaBloom/status/1257024515957067776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Bloom completely ignores the fact that Biden’s “fighting for women’s rights” has completely gone out the window with the way he’s treated Reade’s allegation. He used to say, unequivocally, that we must believe women who come forward and accuse men of sexual assault. Now he claims he has always said those claims should be investigated – but he never has, and the policies he has supported do not include due process, especially for male college students accused of sexual assault.
Biden wants one set of rules for himself, and another for everyone else.
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Lisa Bloom

Lisa Bloom on Tara Reade’s Biden Allegations: ‘I believe you,’ But Still Voting For Biden

Donald Trump

Joe Biden

Sexual Assault

Tara Reade

Self-styled feminist victims&#8217; rights attorney Lisa Bloom sent a <a href="https://pagesix.com/2019/09/08/lisa-bloom-offered-to-plant-stories-about-rose-mcgowan-for-harvey-weinstein-book/">leaked memo</a> to alleged serial sexual predator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/tags/harvey-weinstein">Harvey Weinstein</a> promising to plant dirt on his female accusers and frame him as a &#8220;hero,&#8221; a new book from New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey claims.
&#8220;I feel equipped to help you against the Roses of the world because I have represented so many of them,&#8221; Bloom reportedly wrote in the memo, referring to actress and rape accuser Rose McGowan. &#8220;They start out as impressive, bold women, but the more one presses for evidence, the weaknesses and lies are revealed.&#8221;
The attorney promised online &#8220;&#8216;counter-ops&#8217; to &#8216;push back and call her out as a pathological liar,&#8217; suppressing Weinstein’s negative news stories on Google through ranking manipulation, discrediting and intimidating McGowan, and inventing equality initiatives meant to paint him as a newly reformed supporter of women,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-can-future-sexual-assault-victims-trust-the-system-20190911-u2mvojbvtnc7bpk3uejxwdpubu-story.html">The New York Daily News</a>.
&#8220;We can place an article re [McGowan] becoming increasingly unglued,&#8221; Bloom offered. &#8220;So that when someone Googles her this is what pops up and she&#8217;s discredited.&#8221;
&#8220;You should be the hero of your story, not the villain,&#8221; the feminist told the Democrat mega-donor. &#8220;This is very doable.&#8221;
According to the book &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/She-Said-Breaking-Harassment-Movement/dp/0593152328">She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement</a>,&#8221; the damning memo was sent from Bloom in December 2016. Kantor and Twohey report Bloom scored $895 an hour secretly working for Weinstein, reportedly attempting to squash investigations into the assault claims.
&#8220;The day before their bombshell October 2017 Times exposé on Weinstein was published, Bloom and the movie mogul went to the paper’s offices to slam several of his accusers, including actress Ashley Judd, as mentally unstable and unreliable, Kantor and Twohey claim,&#8221; <a href="https://pagesix.com/2019/09/08/lisa-bloom-offered-to-plant-stories-about-rose-mcgowan-for-harvey-weinstein-book/">Page Six</a> noted. &#8220;Bloom also called up New Yorker reporter Ronan Farrow to offer opposition research info on McGowan, the Daily Beast has reported.&#8221;
McGowan reacted to the reporting from Kantor and Twohey in the new book by calling for Bloom to be disbarred.
&#8220;The evil that was perpetrated on me and others was mind bending and illegal. Lisa Bloom should be disbarred,&#8221; the &#8220;Charmed&#8221; actress posted in a tweet on Sunday.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">The evil that was perpetrated on me and others was mind bending and illegal. Lisa Bloom should be disbarred <a href="https://twitter.com/yashar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@yashar</a> <a href="https://t.co/kpqkM2JKhS">https://t.co/kpqkM2JKhS</a>
— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) <a href="https://twitter.com/rosemcgowan/status/1170764168741490688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;While painful, I learn so much more from my mistakes than my successes,&#8221; Bloom posted in a tweet on Sunday regarding the controversy. &#8220;To those who missed my 2017 apology, and especially to the women: I am sorry.&#8221;
&#8220;I thank Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey and Ronan Farrow for forcing me to confront the colossal mistake I made in working for Weinstein two years ago,&#8221; she said in an attached statement, adding, &#8220;When the first woman went on record accusing [Weinstein] of sexual assault, I immediately resigned and apologized, but that was not enough.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">While painful, I learn so much more from my mistakes than my successes.
To those who missed my 2017 apology, and especially to the women: I am sorry.
Here are the changes I&#8217;ve made to ensure that I will not make that mistake again. <a href="https://t.co/FSSl3qrFjQ">pic.twitter.com/FSSl3qrFjQ</a>
— Lisa Bloom (@LisaBloom) <a href="https://twitter.com/LisaBloom/status/1170742929121394690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Bloom has been outspoken on high-profile sexual misconduct cases. In September 2018, she said on Twitter that then-nominated Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh did indeed sexually assault accuser Christine Blasey Ford, though the dubious claim was uncorroborated, the alleged witnesses she named denying any knowledge of the party or outright refuting the accusation, and the Senate Judiciary Committee ultimately found that there was &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51524/watch-christine-blasey-ford-attorney-admits-video-amanda-prestigiacomo">no evidence to substantiate any of the claims</a>.&#8221;
&#8220;Likely that both Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh believe they are telling the truth. Ford because she is, and could never forget that awful night. Kavanaugh as it was no big deal to him at the time, easily forgettable. This is how assaulters think. I&#8217;ve seen it in many of my cases,&#8221; Bloom wrote via Twitter.

Attorney Lisa Bloom

Memo From Feminist Attorney Lisa Bloom Promised Weinstein She’d Plant Dirt On Alleged Victims, New Book Claims

Harvey Weinstein

Rose McGowan

Two close Clinton allies dumped at least $700,000 to prominent sexual harassment lawyer Lisa Bloom to fund women willing to accuse then-candidate Donald Trump of sexual misconduct the week before the presidential election, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/31/us/politics/sexual-harassment-politics-partisanship.html?_r=0">reports</a> The New York Times.
David Brock — a Democratic operative and the founder of left-wing Media Matters, described by the Times as &#8220;Hillary Clinton’s fiercest loyalists during her campaign against Mr. Trump&#8221; — partly funded the effort with $200,000. The other major donor uncovered in the report is longtime Hillary friend and fashion entrepreneur Susie Tompkins Buell, who paid a whopping $500,000 to fund potential accusers procured by Ms. Bloom.
Bloom &#8220;seized on the political potency of sexual harassment charges against Mr. Trump not long after he clinched the Republican presidential nomination,&#8221; reports the Times. The attorney admits to reaching out to Clinton super PACs &#8220;for money to help her vet a sexual misconduct claim against Mr. Trump.&#8221;
A group founded by Brock, American Bridge 21st Century Foundation, &#8220;secretly spent $200,000 on an unsuccessful effort to bring forward accusations of sexual misconduct against Mr. Trump before Election Day,&#8221; individuals &#8220;familiar with the arrangements&#8221; told the Times.
Brock &#8220;is considering creating a fund to encourage victims to bring forward similar claims against Republican politicians,&#8221; says the report.
Buell refused to comment on the contribution to the Times, &#8220;But she expressed frustration that Mr. Trump has escaped the repercussions that have befallen other powerful men accused of similar misconduct.&#8221;
According to Bloom, the operation was unproductive. &#8220;One woman requested $2 million, Ms. Bloom said, then decided not to come forward. Nor did any other women,&#8221; says the report.
The attorney claims she &#8220;did not communicate with Mrs. Clinton or her campaign &#8216;on any of this'&#8221; and insists she didn&#8217;t offer her clients money to come forward and only pursued clients with corroborated claims. Bloom admitted to keeping &#8220;some funds to pay for our out-of-pocket expenses&#8221; she claims to have accrued while pursuing the cases.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/24732/report-attorney-lisa-bloom-sought-cash-women-amanda-prestigiacomo">REPORT: Attorney Lisa Bloom Sought Cash For Women Accusing Trump Of Sexual Misconduct</a>

Clinton Allies Paid Firm $700K For Women Who’d Accuse Trump Of Sexual Misconduct Week Before Election

David Brock

Sexual Misconduct

Just a few months before reports of her sexual assault lawsuit against Donald Trump rocked the campaign, cosmetics executive Jill Harth lobbied to be the then-candidate&#8217;s make-up artist.
On Monday, <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/365533-trump-accuser-lobbied-to-be-his-makeup-artist-months-before-her-sex">The Hill</a> detailed the story of Harth&#8217;s repeated efforts to become Trump&#8217;s campaign makeup artist and to pitch her new male cosmetics product line, &#8220;Made Man.&#8221; Her solicitations, in both emails and in person, came a few months before her 1997 lawsuit was brought to light, along with several other sexual misconduct allegations against the candidate. The Hill learned of her appeals to Trump in an interview with Harth in December about her friendship with celebrity attorney Lisa Bloom; Trump&#8217;s lawyers then provided the emails. The Hill followed up with Harth, who defended both her attempts to work with the man she accused of sexual assault and her current call for him to be impeached.
In 1997, Harth sued Trump for allegedly pushing her up against a wall and trying to get his hands up her dress during a meeting at Mar-a-Lago in 1993. She eventually withdrew the lawsuit as part of a settlement over Trump allegedly pulling out of a business deal. But as The Hill notes, the tone of her emails to Trump in 2015 was &#8220;starkly different&#8221; than the tone of her 1997 lawsuit and the interviews she gave about it in 2016.
The Hill provides some examples of the emails Harth personally sent to Trump between the summer of 2015 and early 2016:
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&#8220;Hi Donald, you are doing a tremendous job of shaking things up in the United States. I am definitely on Team Trump as so many others are,&#8221; Jill Harth wrote the future president in an Oct. 1, 2015, email sent to him through his New York company&#8217;s headquarters.
&#8220;I can&#8217;t watch television without seeing you or hearing your name everywhere! It&#8217;s a good thing for sure but PLEASE let me do your makeup for a television interview, a debate, a photo session, anything!&#8221; Harth wrote.
&#8220;It kills me to see you looking too orange and with white circles under the eyes. I will get your skin looking smoother and even toned,&#8221; she added, boasting she would &#8220;sculpt your face&#8221; to look good on high-definition television sets.
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At her request, Harth got a chance to meet with Trump in person after a rally in South Carolina in January 2016. &#8220;I went to a rally for Trump in January 2016 in South Carolina. We met and we had an understanding that we would let &#8216;sleeping dogs lie&#8217; in regards to that old complaint,&#8221; she told the The Hill in an email.
She also said in a January 2016 email that she would be &#8220;willing to say at a rally or somewhere how [Trump] helped me with my self-confidence and all positive things about how he is with women to counter any potential negativity that may come out at some point in the campaign.&#8221;
In an exchange with The Hill, Harth acknowledged the solicitations, but defended both the &#8220;flattering&#8221; tone of her private emails and her harsh public criticism in the later stages of the campaign.
Her complimentary tone, she said, was &#8220;&#8203;necessary to satisfy Trump&#8217;s &#8216;huge&#8217; ego.&#8221; Though she said she &#8220;had not forgotten the pain he brought into my life,&#8221; she had &#8220;moved on&#8221; from what he allegedly did to her.
Harth blames Trump&#8217;s public denials of her allegations for her criticism of him in 2016 and her current calls for him to be impeached. &#8220;Once the media rediscovered the complaint, Donald responded to it by repeatedly denigrating and disparaging me and releasing an old National Enquirer article from the &#8217;90s that he planted,&#8221; said Harth.&#8203;
Harth said her attempt to work with Trump in 2015 and 2016 should not be used as an excuse to dismiss her allegations and stressed that she believes that Trump should be removed from office.&#8203; &#8220;I firmly believe Trump should resign or be investigated and impeached. Leopards don&#8217;t change their spots,&#8221; Harth told The Hill.
The Hill also notes that Harth is one of the accusers who financially benefited from her work with Bloom on the allegations: the attorney set up a GoFundMe page for Harth that paid off her mortgage and an email revealed that Harth&#8217;s sales soared after Bloom appeared on TV to discuss her allegations.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/24732/report-attorney-lisa-bloom-sought-cash-women-amanda-prestigiacomo">REPORT: Attorney Lisa Bloom Sought Cash For Women Accusing Trump Of Sexual Misconduct</a>

Trump Accuser Lobbied To Be His Makeup Artist Months Before Her Allegations Hit Campaign

According to an extensive <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/365068-exclusive-prominent-lawyer-sought-donor-cash-for-two-trump-accusers">report</a> from The Hill, during the closing months of the 2016 presidential election, prominent women&#8217;s rights attorney Lisa Bloom (the daughter of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/23697/watch-allred-admits-she-does-not-know-if-moore-ryan-saavedra">Gloria Allred</a>) sought cash for women who had accused or were considering accusing Donald Trump of sexual misconduct.
Interviews and documents obtained by The Hill reveal that Bloom sought cash from donors and tabloid outlets for potential accusers and for herself. It was also suggested that pro-Hillary political action committees were in on the effort, too, according to text messages sent by Bloom to one alleged victim:
<blockquote>Bloom’s efforts included offering to sell alleged victims’ stories to TV outlets in return for a commission for herself, arranging a donor to pay off one Trump accuser’s mortgage and attempting to secure a six-figure payment for another woman who ultimately declined to come forward after being offered as much as $750,000, the clients told The Hill.
The women’s accounts were chronicled in contemporaneous contractual documents, emails and text messages reviewed by The Hill, including an exchange of texts between one woman and Bloom that suggested political action committees supporting Hillary Clinton were contacted during the effort.</blockquote>
Bloom has represented two women who have publicly accused President Trump of sexual misconduct, and two others who&#8217;ve declined to come forward, for now. She&#8217;s also represented clients who have accused former Fox News host Bill O&#8217;Reilly and comedian Bill Cosby of sexual misconduct. The famous lawyer, who purports to stand for women, made headlines earlier this year by defending alleged serial sexual harasser and assaulter (including alleged rape) Harvey Weinstein.
Bloom has &#8220;acknowledged she engaged in discussions to secure donations for women who made or considered making accusations against Trump before last year’s election,&#8221; said The Hill, according to a statement from the attorney.
&#8220;Donors reached out to my firm directly to help some of the women I represented,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;Bloom said her goal in securing money was not to pressure the women to come forward, but rather to help them relocate or arrange security if they felt unsafe during the waning days of a vitriolic election. She declined to identify any of the donors,&#8221; said the report.
Contracts between alleged victims and Bloom generally require women to pay her commissions, as much as 33%, if she successfully sold their accounts of events to media outlets.
Bloom denied any coordination with the Hillary Clinton campaign during the 2016 election but refused to address alleged coordination with pro-Hillary super PACs:
<blockquote>Bloom told The Hill she had no contact with Clinton or her campaign, but declined to address any contacts with super PACs that supported the Democratic presidential nominee.</blockquote>
One such accuser, makeup artist Jill Harth, spoke to The Hill about her interactions with Bloom.
&#8220;I consider myself lucky to have had Lisa Bloom by my side after my old lawsuit resurfaced. She advised me with great competence and compassion,&#8221; said Harth.
Bloom set up a payment for Harth after licensing photos to media outlets; she also set up a GoFundMe account.
&#8220;Jill put herself out there, facing off with Donald Trump,&#8221; wrote Bloom&#8217;s husband on the GoFundMe, which raised over $2,300. &#8220;Let’s show her some love.&#8221;
As <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/15/attorney-lisa-bloom-sought-to-line-up-paydays-for-women-accusing-trump-sexual-misconduct-report.html">noted</a> by Fox News, &#8220;Bloom also reportedly arranged for a Clinton donor to help Harth pay off the mortgage on her Queens apartment. The amount was under $30,000, according to a source directly familiar with Harth’s situation. Public records show Harth’s mortgage was recorded as extinguished on Dec. 19, 2016, public records show.&#8221;
Trump has denied all accusations of sexual harassment and assault.

REPORT: Attorney Lisa Bloom Sought Cash For Women Accusing Trump Of Sexual Misconduct

According to The Daily Beast, which published an <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/lisa-bloom-has-files-on-rose-mcgowans-history-inside-her-scorched-earth-crusade-for-harvey-weinstein">extensive story</a> dealing with former Harvey Weinstein attorney Lisa Bloom&#8217;s machinations, Bloom contacted NBC&#8217;s Ronan Farrow with information that she thought would discredit Rose McGowan, one of Weinstein&#8217;s chief accusers.
As The Daily Beast reports, Farrow was in the midst of his investigation of Weinstein when Bloom contacted him, allegedly saying, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;ve talked to <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/when-powerful-men-enable-powerful-predators">Rose McGowan</a>, but we have files on her and her &#8230; history.&#8221;
Farrow had already interviewed McGowan, an interview that was not published as McGowan feared violating a non-disclosure agreement from a $100,000 settlement from Weinstein.
Asked by The Daily Beast about the interaction, Bloom responded, &#8220;I don&#8217;t have any comment on anything related to Harvey Weinstein. I am not authorized to answer any further questions to any reporter about Harvey Weinstein.&#8221;
The Beast also notes, &#8220;Especially damaging was a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/07/business/lisa-bloom-weinstein-attorney.html?_r=0">New York Times report</a> that after the newspaper published <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/us/harvey-weinstein-harassment-allegations.html?_r=0">its Oct. 5 blockbuster</a> about the now-fired studio chief, Bloom had contacted the board of TWC, according to leaked emails, to suggest releasing &#8216;photos of several of the accusers in very friendly poses with Harvey after his alleged misconduct.&#8217;&#8221;
After Bloom very publicly disassociated from Weinstein, McGowan expressed her contempt, writing on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/rosemc.bugfester/posts/10156599614839688">Facebook</a>:
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Your very name makes my stomach clench with a stressed tightness that takes my breath away. As does your mercenary act of depravity. Did you think of how it would affect victims to see you champion a rapist? How it felt to those you once &#8220;fought for,&#8221; for them to know that you used them. You remember them right? They were the victims of assaults, women you&#8217;d previously helped. You lied to those hurt women and hid your true character. You wanted a shortcut to fame.
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The Beast illuminates the circuitous method Bloom used to ferret out whether Farrow was indeed investigating Weinstein:
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The calls started when Bloom phoned him out of the blue early this year, ostensibly to offer leads for an investigation she heard he was pursuing for NBC News. &#8220;I&#8217;ve heard you&#8217;re working on a story involving NDAs in Hollywood,&#8221; Bloom said, according to the sources. &#8220;I know a lot about that,&#8221; she added, mentioning that she could put Farrow in touch with several of her actress-clients including Angela White, aka the model and reality-television star <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/blac-chyna-opens-up-about-rob-kardashians-revenge-porn-i-was-devastated">Blac Chyna</a>, who was preparing a tabloid-ready lawsuit against ex-fiancé Rob Kardashian and his notorious TV family.
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Farrow was reportedly initially reluctant to confess anything to Bloom. He was unaware that she was involved with Weinstein, but ultimately acknowledged to Bloom that he was investigating Weinstein and swore her to secrecy.
The Beast reports what happened next:
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Yet no sooner had Farrow divulged to Bloom his interest in Weinstein than executives at NBC and Hollywood&#8217;s Creative Artists Agency, Farrow&#8217;s professional representatives, began to receive a barrage of calls and letters, as the movie mogul (a longtime pal of NBC Universal Vice Chairman Ron Meyer and others at the company he&#8217;d done business with) sought to wield every ounce of leverage to stop Farrow&#8217;s investigation.
Weinstein attorney Charles Harder, Hulk Hogan&#8217;s former lawyer who famously helped bankrupt Gawker Media, was especially aggressive, threatening to sue Farrow personally, in what one recipient of Harder&#8217;s letters (which listed Bloom as his co-counsel) described as a campaign to discredit the messenger.
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Former Weinstein Attorney Allegedly Contacted NBC’s Farrow About Discrediting Weinstein Accuser Rose McGowan

NBC News

Comedian Kathy Griffin lashed out at CNN anchor Anderson Cooper for failing to defend her to the network, after she posed for a photo with a fake Donald Trump severed head.
In an interview with the Daily Beast, where Griffin also outlined her feud with celebrity lawyer Lisa Bloom, Griffin called Cooper a &#8220;spineless heiress,&#8221; a quip she says she got &#8220;from my gays.&#8221;
Cooper is a member of the Vanderbilt family, the son of fashion designer Gloria Vanderbilt, hence the &#8220;heiress&#8221; part. The &#8220;spineless&#8221; part probably refers to Cooper&#8217;s comments about Griffin&#8217;s &#8220;joke&#8221; video, which ultimately cost her her New Year&#8217;s Eve co-hosting gig &#8212; a job she and Cooper had shared since the mid-2000s.
Cooper slammed Griffin for her beheading gag. &#8220;For the record, I am appalled by the photo shoot Kathy Griffin took part in. It is clearly disgusting and completely inappropriate,&#8221; the anchor wrote on Twitter.
CNN fired Griffin almost immediately after.
Griffin has been on a tear as of late, following a few months of silence, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/i-got-bloomed-kathy-griffin-dishes-on-her-feud-with-fame-whore-lawyer-lisa-bloomand-bloom-returns-fire">attacking Bloom over her &#8220;astronomical&#8221; legal fees</a> and Bloom&#8217;s &#8220;attention-whoring.&#8221; In an extended interview, Griffin claims Bloom essentially bilked her out of thousands of dollars and &#8220;exacerbated&#8221; her situation with Donald Trump.
Bloom fired back Tuesday, saying her version of events differs dramatically from Griffin&#8217;s.

Kathy Griffin Rips Into Anderson Cooper, Calls Anchor A ‘Spineless Heiress’

Anderson Cooper

Kathy Griffin

Actress Rose McGowan, who has led the charge against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein after alleging that he raped her, has now come forth on her Facebook page with a further charge: that attorney Lisa Bloom, who represented Weinstein before resigning on October 7, offered her $6 million to silence McGowan from speaking out against Weinstein. Bloom vehemently denied McGowan&#8217;s claims.
According to <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4982694/Rose-McGowan-says-Lisa-Bloom-offered-money.html">The Daily Mail</a>, McGowan wrote:
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You know what is truth, Lisa? I feel like people should know that you&#8217;ve been calling my literary agent and saying there&#8217;d be money for me if I got on the &#8220;Harvey&#8217;s Changed&#8221; bandwagon? You told her that I should care about HIS reputation. How HE has a family now and how HE has changed. Well, guess what? I&#8217;ve always had a family and that didn&#8217;t stop him from assaulting me.
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McGowan wrote that Charles Harder, another former Weinstein lawyer and Bloom co-counsel, met with McGowan&#8217;s lawyer to &#8220;find out what you two pigs were going to do to me IF I TELL THE TRUTH.&#8221;
She continued:
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I have to pay for two men to have coffee and croissants at a fancy restaurant to discuss MY ASSAULT and what would happen to me if I DIDN&#8217;T SHUT UP FOREVER &#8230; When I was hurt by the Monster, my then lawyer was someone named David Feldman and he is the one who came at me with the $100,000 offer. He was just trying to curry favor from the swine, Lisa, just like you. It would never have occurred to me to ask for money. Truly. The &#8220;payout&#8221; came after I asked my then powerful managers for help getting justice&#8230;A meeting took place between me and a bull framed criminal attorney, a women (sic), who seemed to delight that since I had done a sex scene in a movie, I would never win &#8230;
So I took the 100k. Two reasons. 1) it was my only way of telling the SWINE I was not willing to play along. He went ballistic&#8230; 2) Disgusting Hollywood people gave me hardcore PTSD and I needed out.
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McGowan also claimed she never signed a non-disclosure agreement (NDA), writing:
<blockquote>
I never signed an NDA. Back then I refused. I&#8217;ve told scores of people the truth. And the open secret in Hollywood and mainstream media laid shame at my door. Lisa Bloom, I had to play the trickiest game of my life because your threats were all about trying to silence me NOW. The scarlet letter is yours, and it&#8217;s S for SHAME &#8230; Did you think of how it would affect victims to see you champion a rapist? How it felt to those you once &#8220;fought for,&#8221; for them to know that you used them? You remember them right? They were the victims of assaults, women you&#8217;d previously helped. You lied to those hurt women and hid your true character. You wanted a shortcut to fame.
</blockquote>
Bloom furiously denied McGowan&#8217;s charges in <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/nidhiprakash/rose-mcgowan-alleges-that-lisa-bloom-tried-to-get-her-on?utm_term=.qgryrlNzG#.yikWv82O5">Buzzfeed News</a>:
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I never called Rose McGowan&#8217;s literary agent. I don&#8217;t even know who her agent is. I never threatened Rose McGowan, nor offered her money, nor reached out to her. This is completely false. I have withdrawn from my representation of Harvey Weinstein and apologized for being involved in this. I am sorry for the pain Rose McGowan is in. But this is completely false.
</blockquote>

Rose McGowan Alleges That Former Harvey Weinstein Attorney Lisa Bloom Offered Her $6 Million To Shut Up About Weinstein

Feminist attorney Lisa Bloom, who dropped off Harvey Weinstein&#8217;s legal team earlier this week, says she&#8217;s hurt and &#8220;in pain&#8221; after being attacked for seeking justice against Weinstein&#8217;s accusers.
Bloom says she blames &#8220;the left&#8221; and their &#8220;hate&#8221; for causing her so much &#8220;pain,&#8221; because of course they were supposed to side with Bloom, when she sought to defend the Hollywood mogul, now accused of sexual harassment, sexual assault, and even rape, even though allegations have mounted, and actresses like Asia Argento are on the record.
In a series of Tweets, she expressed her displeasure at being betrayed by her own ilk.
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So over the hate. I have won $15 million for victims of sexual harassment, rape and race discrimination this year. From a client this week: <a href="https://t.co/YMsM4t36hT">pic.twitter.com/YMsM4t36hT</a>
&#8212; Lisa Bloom (@LisaBloom) <a href="https://twitter.com/LisaBloom/status/917576865593913344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2017</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
Powerful learning experience last week. I always tell my clients to ignore the hate, but now I truly get their pain.
&#8212; Lisa Bloom (@LisaBloom) <a href="https://twitter.com/LisaBloom/status/917577771295047680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2017</a></blockquote>
Huh.
Most of the time her clients are, as she claims, the &#8220;downtrodden&#8221; and &#8220;oppressed&#8221; (like poor Kathy Griffin, who didn&#8217;t realize that when you pose for photos with Donald Trump&#8217;s bloody severed head, you often attract the attention of the Secret Service). But this time it&#8217;s not clear what Bloom was thinking, taking on a serial abuser &#8212; who is, apparently, the kind of man Bloom often blames for her clients&#8217; troubles &#8212; as a client in the name of &#8220;seeking the truth.&#8221;
Perhaps Bloom thought she could strike a blow for the Left, or make a name for herself defending an apologetic, wronged entertainment industry bigwig from the &#8220;vast right-wing conspiracy&#8221; she, according to reports, coached Weinstein to blame for his troubles, but either way, it&#8217;s pretty clear she took on a client who wasn&#8217;t going to win, at least in the court of public opinion.
Heck, Lisa&#8217;s detractors include her own mother &#8212; famed civil rights attorney Gloria Allred &#8212; who said she couldn&#8217;t think of any good reason her daughter would have sided with Weinstein after The New York Times revelations.
It&#8217;s also not super clear what Lisa means by her &#8220;clients'&#8221; pain. Weinstein has been, for the most part, unapologetic; instead of begging for forgiveness from the women he wronged, or apologizing profusely for his behavior, he began his public relations war by begging Hollywood bigwigs to offer their public support. Bloom reportedly even structured a response for Weinstein that included smearing his alleged victims in the press, calling them liars and dragging out their sexual history, as though that somehow excused the mogul&#8217;s horrific behavior.
But Bloom didn&#8217;t stop there.
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31 years advocating for women, POC, LGBT and others, and hopefully many more ahead. Going to Houston for a DV victim tomorrow. Goodnight.
&#8212; Lisa Bloom (@LisaBloom) <a href="https://twitter.com/LisaBloom/status/917578862158020609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2017</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
It&#8217;s cool if you think my trying something different to change the usual trajectory was wrongheaded. 
I&#8217;ve heard you. Still pondering it.
&#8212; Lisa Bloom (@LisaBloom) <a href="https://twitter.com/LisaBloom/status/917583485933678592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2017</a></blockquote>
Uh huh. If she thinks that all that goodwill can&#8217;t be undone with a single action, she clearly hasn&#8217;t met the internet.
Fortunately for all of us, Bloom ended her Twitter rant on a high note, personally calling on each and every American to let go of all this partisan rancor we&#8217;ve all been embracing of late, and join in one, single group hug for the good of humanity, and the good of Lisa Bloom who, you see, has suffered because everyone hates everyone and it&#8217;s just impacting her on such a personal level, you guys.
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It&#8217;s cool if you think my trying something different to change the usual trajectory was wrongheaded. 
I&#8217;ve heard you. Still pondering it.
&#8212; Lisa Bloom (@LisaBloom) <a href="https://twitter.com/LisaBloom/status/917583485933678592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2017</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
We are too angry with each other as a nation. The most I&#8217;ve seen in my 56 years. I hope I will always remember this experience and be kind.
&#8212; Lisa Bloom (@LisaBloom) <a href="https://twitter.com/LisaBloom/status/917584932079394816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2017</a></blockquote>
I&#8217;ll take that offer &#8212; as long as she&#8217;s the first to volunteer to stand next to Harvey Weinstein.

Attorney Lisa Bloom Lashes Out At ‘The Left’ After They Condemn Her Defense of Harvey Weinstein

Feminist attorney, Lisa Bloom, has resigned from her position advising alleged serial sexual harasser, Harvey Weinstein, after facing criticism from inside and outside Weinstein&#8217;s camp.
The lawyer, whose mother is also a feminist attorney &#8212; the famous Gloria Allred &#8212; posted her resignation to Twitter, claiming that Weinstein and his board were moving ahead on an &#8220;agreement,&#8221; and her services, apparently, were no longer necessary.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
I have resigned as an advisor to Harvey Weinstein. 
My understanding is that Mr. Weinstein and his board are moving toward an agreement.
&#8212; Lisa Bloom (@LisaBloom) <a href="https://twitter.com/LisaBloom/status/916710877809737728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 7, 2017</a></blockquote>
But Bloom had received criticism from all corners; the lawyer who often claims to be the voice of voiceless women facing harassment and intimidation from powerful men was throwing her support behind a Hollywood producer who reportedly tried to intimidate women into sexual affairs, confront starlets naked, and ask that they give him massages or watch him shower in order to get roles.
It was too much, even for Bloom&#8217;s mother to take. Allred told media that, &#8220;had I been asked by Mr. Weinstein to represent him, I would have declined, because I do not represent individuals accused of sex harassment.&#8221; Hollywood starlet Rose McGowan<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4957812/Rose-McGowan-lashes-amid-Weinstein-sex-abuse-scandal.html"> lashed out at those who claim to be advocates for women</a>, but who couldn&#8217;t bring themselves to speak out as stories of Weinstein&#8217;s alleged behavior saturated media.
Mika Brzezinski <a href="https://twitter.com/morningmika/status/916650174663024640">pulled out of a three-book deal with Weinstein&#8217;s company</a> on Saturday.
And as Bloom continued to defend Weinstein &#8212; saying that he was an &#8220;old dinosaur learning new ways&#8221; and reforming his creepy habits with the help of a therapist &#8212; more, stranger allegations emerged. A female newscaster from New York claimed Weinstein cornered her at a party and masturbated in front of her, keeping her prisoner until he was finished.
The high-profile public response should have taken its toll on Bloom&#8217;s business and reputation &#8212; after all, she seems to want to make her name as a feminist icon, not as a lawyer for scummy Hollywood harassers &#8212; but allegations surfaced Sunday morning that it may have been Weinstein&#8217;s camp that parted ways with Bloom, and not the other way around.
It seems Bloom, who has regularly spoken out about the intimidation women face when seeking to confront their harassers, abusers, and rapists may have wanted to intimidate Weinstein&#8217;s victims into silence with an aggressive public relations campaign that included photos of those same women looking chummy with Weinstein at parties and on red carpets.
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/07/business/lisa-bloom-weinstein-attorney.html?emc=edit_na_20171007&amp;nl=breaking-news&amp;nlid=9583097&amp;ref=headline">According to The </a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/07/business/lisa-bloom-weinstein-attorney.html?emc=edit_na_20171007&amp;nl=breaking-news&amp;nlid=9583097&amp;ref=headline">New York Times</a>:
<blockquote>
As the board convened an emergency phone meeting on Thursday evening to address the allegations, published in an investigation by The Times, Ms. Bloom sent an email to board members attacking the article. She outlined a plan that involved &#8220;more and different reporting,&#8221; including &#8220;photos of several of the accusers in very friendly poses with Harvey after his alleged misconduct.&#8221;
</blockquote>
That&#8217;s just, frankly, horrifying &#8212; but it seems it was all that was left after the team tried to pin Weinstein&#8217;s behavior on a &#8220;vast right-wing conspiracy&#8221; and deflect attention from Weinstein&#8217;s alleged sexual misconduct by telling his leftist Hollywood friends that a freed-up Weinstein company would happily bankroll their anti-Trump projects.

Feminist Lawyer Lisa Bloom Resigns As Harvey Weinstein’s Advisor

Gloria Allred

[UPDATE] Lisa Bloom tweeted the following on Saturday:
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I have resigned as an advisor to Harvey Weinstein. 
My understanding is that Mr. Weinstein and his board are moving toward an agreement.
&#8212; Lisa Bloom (@LisaBloom) <a href="https://twitter.com/LisaBloom/status/916710877809737728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 7, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Lisa Bloom, who, until Saturday, was acting as an advisor to Harvey Weinstein in the wake of the allegations of sexual harassment against the mega-producer, appeared on Good Morning America on Friday.
In a truly unusual exchange with George Stephanopoulos, Bloom appeared to admit that Weinstein had done wrong, but claimed he was remorseful, and trying to better himself.
Strap in because this is a fascinating read (the video is at the bottom of the page):
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STEPHANOPOULOS: I have to say I&#8217;m surprised you&#8217;re here this morning. You&#8217;ve been here in the past; you&#8217;ve represented women who have taken on Bill Cosby, Bill O&#8217;Reilly, Donald Trump &#8211; sexual harassment cases. Why did you switch sides in this case?
BLOOM: Well, I&#8217;ve known Harvey for about a year, and these rumors have swirled around him for a long time. And I said to him: &#8220;What&#8217;s going on? This is not okay.&#8221; And Harvey and I had a lot of frank conversations about this, and when this New York Times story was about to break, and Harvey expressed to me the same remorse that you see now, I said: &#8220;We have to throw out the old playbook, okay? You&#8217;re not going to be attacking women, you are not going to be disrespecting women, you are not going to be digging up dirt on them and embarrassing them, you know? That&#8217;s the tired old way to go. If you are genuinely remorseful, say so, admit what you&#8217;ve done wrong, apologize, and let&#8217;s have your actions, you know, speak for yourself.&#8221;
STEPHANOPOULOS: Let&#8217;s get to that. Did he sexually harass women?
BLOOM: I think Harvey has acknowledged that, yes, there was misconduct over a period of years. He has certainly a very bad temper, and that&#8217;s a big part of the problem &#8211; he&#8217;s certainly well known for that. He&#8217;s a big, loud guy; people are intimidated by him. I&#8217;m not&#8230;I&#8217;ll stand up to him, but if I&#8217;m a 23-year-old in his workplace, of course they&#8217;re intimidated.
STEPHANOPOULOS: It&#8217;s not just bad behavior. The question is: Is [this] sexual harassment?&#8230;His lawyer says the New York Times story is &#8220;saturated with false and defamatory statements.&#8221; Ashley Judd says she went for a business meeting, and he proposed a massage, asked if she would watch him shower. Is she lying?
BLOOM: No, no. I have great respect for Ashley Judd, and so does Harvey. And, you know, while they have a little different perspective on what happened &#8211; what happened 20 years ago, okay &#8211; this is not about attacking any of the women. I am glad they&#8217;ve come forward, I encourage them to come forward. Harvey has authorized me to say that. I mean, this is a very different day. What do you do if you have behaved badly for 30 years? Are you going to continue, or are you going to start, you know, a different approach? And that&#8217;s what he&#8217;s doing.
&#8230;
STEPHANOPOULOS: Here&#8217;s the problem. The New York Times says that in interviews, &#8220;eight women describe the varying behavior by Mr. Weinstein, appearing nearly or fully naked in front of them; requiring them to be present while he bathed, or repeatedly asking for massage, or initiating one himself.&#8221; This is a real pattern.
BLOOM: Yeah.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Over thirty years. This is textbook sexual harassment.
BLOOM: It&#8217;s gross.
STEPHANOPOULOS: It&#8217;s illegal.
BLOOM: Yes. You know, I agree. So, but you have to understand that yes, I am here as his adviser. I am not defending him in any sexual harassment cases; there aren&#8217;t any sexual harassment cases. I&#8217;m working with a guy who has behaved badly over the years, who is genuinely remorseful, who says: &#8220;I have caused a lot of pain.&#8221;
STEPHANOPOULOS: Then why is he suing the Times?
BLOOM: Well, he has a different lawyer handling that because a lot of the allegations &#8211; there are witnesses who say those things actually did not happen. And the Times did not take that into account; they did not report what some of the witnesses said. For example, some people said: &#8220;I think he was having an affair with this other woman.&#8221; When the other woman was contacted, she said &#8220;absolutely not.&#8221;
STEPHANOPOULOS: Yeah, but you just acknowledged the stories where people come forward publicly &#8211; Ashley Judd&#8217;s story. You don&#8217;t think she&#8217;s lying.
BLOOM: I am not accusing Ashley Judd of lying at all. I&#8217;m glad she&#8217;s come forward and spoken out her truth. I think that&#8217;s important.
STEPHANOPOULOS: You don&#8217;t think the other women, Emily Nestor, another employee came forward&#8230;
BLOOM: I&#8217;m not accusing anyone of lying. We are not going to do that. What Harvey Weinstein has done is wrong, he has caused pain, he said that. I have said in my statement, listen, you know, I have done a lot of cases on behalf of women. I&#8217;ve often thought: &#8220;Gee, I wish I could get on the other side and smack that guy around a little bit verbally.&#8221; Here was an opportunity of a guy saying: &#8220;Lisa, what should I do? I have behaved badly.&#8221; I&#8217;m like: &#8220;Good, I&#8217;m gonna tell you what to do. Be honest. Be real.&#8221;
STEPHANOPOULOS: Ok, he&#8217;s admitted to you he&#8217;s sexually harassed women?
BLOOM: Well, you&#8217;re using the term &#8220;sexual harassment,&#8221; which is a legal term. So, I&#8217;m using the term &#8220;workplace misconduct.&#8221; I don&#8217;t know if there&#8217;s a real significant difference to most people, but sexual harassment is severe and pervasive, and so, telling somebody they look nice in a dress, for example, is not sexual harassment, and that is one of the allegations against him.
STEPHANOPOULOS: [Well], but suggesting to someone, if you have sex with me, you&#8217;re going to do better in your career, that&#8217;s sexual harassment.
BLOOM: That is absolutely sexual harassment.
STEPHANOPOULOS: And that&#8217;s what&#8217;s alleged in the article.
BLOOM: And that is one of the allegations, that is true. Yes, that is true.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, you are being very forthright here, but I can&#8217;t &#8211;
BLOOM: And I&#8217;m telling you that Harvey has authorized me to be very forthright because he is ashamed of his behavior.
STEPHANOPOULOS: And I appreciate that, [and] I take your word for it. On the other hand, he&#8217;s got another lawyer who is suing The New York Times, saying The New York Times is basically lying.
BLOOM: Yes, because some of the allegations, he contends, are &#8211;
STEPHANOPOULOS: You see the inconsistency there?
BLOOM: I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s inconsistent. This was a very long article with a lot of allegations where they refused to take into account witnesses who said some of the stuff was untrue. But that doesn&#8217;t really matter to me. What matters to me, and what I say to Harvey behind the scenes is: &#8220;You&#8217;ve got a long history here; you&#8217;ve got a pattern. You say you are very sorry, and you say you want to respect women and do better. That starts right now.&#8221;
STEPHANOPOULOS: You say you are tutoring him. What does that mean exactly?
BLOOM: It means I explain to him things like, the way you talk to your guy friends, you know, when you&#8217;re going out for a beer, is not appropriate in the workplace. You can&#8217;t have a lot of cursing, you can&#8217;t tell sexual stories, you can&#8217;t hit on women in the workplace. Not only is it illegal, it&#8217;s wrong because it causes pain to women, and it needs to stop right now.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Shouldn&#8217;t a 65-year-old man know that?
BLOOM: Of course he should.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But you believe he&#8217;s going to change now?
BLOOM: I hope so. It&#8217;s an effort. I think he has changed in the year that I&#8217;ve known him, and been talking to him in this very hard-hitting way behind the scenes &#8211; there haven&#8217;t been any allegations then. You know, it&#8217;s hard for human beings to change. His biggest problem is anger, which he says he&#8217;s been in therapy and working on for ten years &#8211; and he still has a long way to go on that. He gets very angry; he&#8217;s a big guy with a loud voice, and I think that&#8217;s a big part of the problem.
</blockquote>
Imagine if someone came out and said the same things about Bill O&#8217;Reilly, Donald Trump, or Eric Bolling?
Here&#8217;s the full interview:
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WATCH: Lisa Bloom On ‘Tutoring’ Harvey Weinstein: The Way You Talk To Guy Friends ‘Not Appropriate In The Workplace,’ ‘You Can’t Hit On Women’

According t<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4953450/amp/Harvey-Weinstein-right-wing-conspiracy-sex-shame.html">o a report in the Daily Mail</a>, Harvey Weinstein believes a vast &#8220;right-wing conspiracy&#8221; is behind the New York Times expose from Thursday, revealing the Hollywood producer&#8217;s sordid past as a serial sexual harasser.
Weinstein, the Daily Mail reports, has been telling friends that a secret cabal of &#8220;conservative lawyers&#8221; have been quietly amassing evidence against him because of his record as a Democratic mega-donor, and that his current troubles are all to blame on Republican hatred &#8211; even though he&#8217;s been sued no less than eight times for allegedly asking women to do sexual favors for him, and &#8220;inappropriately touching&#8221; his female employees.
His list of victims reportedly includes mega-progressive Ashley Judd, who probably wasn&#8217;t motivated to sue Weinstein because of pressure from Republicans. But hey, anything&#8217;s possible in Hollywood.
Anyway, a source told the Mail that, &#8220;Harvey feels he is being set up by a team of people who are out to get him, and that there are are conservative organizations who know he is long-time foe of the NRA, of Donald Trump, and a longtime supporter of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and the Democrats.&#8221;
&#8220;He believes they are financing a team of lawyers who are digging up these stories,&#8221; the source continued. &#8220;&#8216;There&#8217;s a political agenda behind this. Harvey feels it&#8217;s a conspiracy and that&#8217;s the most interesting part of this, where it originated from, not the erroneous reporting that&#8217;s going on.&#8221;
That, of course, might be the first time in history &#8212; aside from that one incident with Hillary Clinton &#8212; that the New York Times has been accused of having a right-wing, &#8220;fake news&#8221; agenda &#8211; and the claims are especially weird considering that Weinstein, who has enlisted the services of feminist attorney Lisa Bloom (daughter of the queen of feminist attorneys, Gloria Allred), issued a statement saying he &#8220;apologized&#8221; for his untoward behavior.
But it&#8217;s definitely Republicans, guys.
The virtue signaling is likely part of Weinstein&#8217;s crisis public relations strategy. In his statement yesterday, Weinstein <a href="http://freebeacon.com/blog/shorter-harvey-weinstein-im-liberal-maybe-gimme-pass/">tried to rally his leftist allies to his side</a>, filling the final paragraph of his mea culpa with out-of-place progressive talking points about Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and the NRA, clearly begging, as Sonny Bunch notes, for liberals to give him a free pass on his disgusting, sexist behavior.
[[{&#8220;fid&#8221;:&#8221;25627&#8243;,&#8221;view_mode&#8221;:&#8221;default&#8221;,&#8221;fields&#8221;:{&#8220;format&#8221;:&#8221;default&#8221;,&#8221;field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]&#8221;:false,&#8221;field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]&#8221;:false},&#8221;type&#8221;:&#8221;media&#8221;,&#8221;field_deltas&#8221;:{&#8220;1&#8221;:{&#8220;format&#8221;:&#8221;default&#8221;,&#8221;field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]&#8221;:false,&#8221;field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]&#8221;:false}},&#8221;attributes&#8221;:{&#8220;class&#8221;:&#8221;media-element file-default&#8221;,&#8221;data-delta&#8221;:&#8221;1&#8243;}}]]He needs a place to channel his anger, everyone. And he&#8217;s going to channel it at those dastardly conservatives who, starting in the mid-1990s, forced him to &#8212; allegedly &#8212; disrobe in hotel rooms in front of female employees and demand they watch him shower and give him naked back rubs.
Maybe if Hollywood Democrats would be willing to forgive and forget, he&#8217;ll bankroll a couple of terrible anti-Trump movies while he&#8217;s at it.
Weinstein said Thursday that he intends to explore his legal options, and challenge the New York Times&#8216;s reporting, and he&#8217;s lawyered up with Lisa Bloom, who often represents the victims &#8212; not the aggressors &#8212; of sexual harassment, particularly in situations where young female employees are bullied around by their bosses. This time, though, Bloom says it&#8217;s different &#8212; Harvey, who was born in a more innocent time &#8212; just didn&#8217;t know what he was doing, and he&#8217;s taking steps to correct his behavior because, at heart, he&#8217;s just a misguided feminist.
Or something.

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