{"id":95414,"date":"2017-10-11T18:49:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T18:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/conway-rips-clinton-on-weinstein-response-she-needs-to-not-be-a-hypocrite.html"},"modified":"2017-10-11T18:49:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T18:49:58","slug":"conway-rips-clinton-on-weinstein-response-she-needs-to-not-be-a-hypocrite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/conway-rips-clinton-on-weinstein-response-she-needs-to-not-be-a-hypocrite.html","title":{"rendered":"Conway rips Clinton on Weinstein response: \u2018She needs to not be a hypocrite\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kellyanne Conway addresses criticism of Trump’s tax plan<\/a><\/h4>\n

On ‘America’s Newsroom,’ the counselor to the president speaks out on tax cuts, health care and blasts ‘hypocrite’ Hillary Clinton amid the Harvey Weinstein scandal.<\/p>\n

White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway slammed Hillary Clinton on Wednesday for her delay in speaking out against Hollywood mogul and longtime Democratic donor Harvey Weinstein amid allegations that he raped and sexually harassed multiple women.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe needs to not be a hypocrite about women\u2019s empowerment and what it means to be pro-woman,\u201d Conway told Fox News\u2019 \u201cAmerica\u2019s Newsroom.\u201d \u201cShe is on a book tour talking about herself and a campaign she lost\u2014not talking about women\u2019s empowerment, she\u2019s not trying to help victims of sexual assault.\u201d<\/p>\n

Five days after the story broke about Weinstein, Clinton released a statement Tuesday saying she was \u201cshocked and appalled by the revelations\u201d and \u201cthe behavior described by women coming forward cannot be tolerated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Conway took to Twitter late Tuesday, blasting the former secretary of state for taking \u201c5 days to sorta-kinda blame\u201d Weinstein.<\/p>\n

WEINSTEIN TIES TO CLINTON, OBAMA RUN DEEP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

She elaborated on her remarks on \u201cAmerica\u2019s Newsroom,\u201d while also complaining about Clinton\u2019s previous focus on the infamous \u201cAccess Hollywood\u201d tape in which now-President Trump was heard boasting about making advances on women.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt like a woman who ran to be commander-in-chief and president of the United States, who talks about women\u2019s empowerment, took an awfully long time to give support to these women who were coming forward and has still, as far as we know, kept the money\u2014kept the dirty money that dirty Harvey has given her in her campaign,\u201d Conway said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Weinstein gave or helped raise more than $100,000 for Barack Obama and the Clintons since at least 1995, according to OpenSecrets.org. Roughly half of that went to Hillary Clinton\u2019s presidential and Senate campaigns, including a political committee she used to support other Democrats and a joint fund with the DNC in 2016.<\/p>\n

In total, Weinstein gave or helped raise\u2014or \u201cbundle\u201d–$1.5 million for Democratic candidates over that time, according to Open Secrets, the nonprofit Center for Responsive Politics\u2019 website that tracks campaign finance. Some candidates have announced they\u2019ll return the money or donate it to charity.<\/p>\n

Conway on Wednesday also issued a challenge to Clinton: \u201cShe can call me in the White House today. She knows the number. She was the first lady for eight years, and work in a bipartisan fashion on sexual assault. I welcome that. We don\u2019t hear that from her.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The most recent bombshell on Weinstein was a New Yorker report detailing allegatons of rape. In response to the report, a Weinstein representative\u00a0told the magazine: “Any allegations of non-consensual sex are\u00a0unequivocally denied by Mr. Weinstein.”<\/p>\n

Fox News\u2019 Brooke Singman and Joseph Weber contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kellyanne Conway addresses criticism of Trump’s tax plan On ‘America’s Newsroom,’ the counselor to the president speaks out on tax cuts, health care and blasts ‘hypocrite’ Hillary Clinton amid the Harvey Weinstein scandal. White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway slammed Hillary Clinton on Wednesday for her delay in speaking out against Hollywood mogul and longtime Democratic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-95414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}