HILLARY CLINTON/LEGAL: “Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2016, said on Tuesday [1-30-18]that she regretted protecting a former campaign adviser accused of sexual harassment on her 2008 campaign.
‘The short answer is this: If I had to do it again, I wouldn’t,’ she wrote on Facebook. The message was posted just moments before President Donald Trump began his first State of the Union speech, and four days after the New York Times first reported on the campaign worker’s behavior.
In a lengthy post, Mrs. Clinton didn’t name the strategist, who was identified by the Times as Burns Strider, the candidate’s faith adviser. Mrs. Clinton said in her post that her campaign manager recommended that the adviser be fired. Mrs. Clinton declined, she wrote, and instead docked several weeks of his pay and ordered him to undergo counseling. The woman who accused him of repeated sexual harassment was moved to a new job…
Mrs. Clinton said there were no other complaints about the adviser for the remainder of that campaign. But she said she was troubled that he was terminated from another job later for inappropriate behavior.
Mrs. Clinton noted that the New York Times recently suspended and reassigned one of its own political reporters after a Vox report on allegedly inappropriate sexual behavior.”
-Michael C. Bender, “Hillary Clinton Says She Regrets Not Firing Former Aide Accused of Sexual Harassment,” The Wall Street Journal online, Jan. 31, 2018 12:25am