The Democratic Women’s Working Group, an association comprised of the women Democrats serving in the House of Representatives, sent a letter to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Monday demanding that it launch an investigation into sexual assault allegations made against President Trump. Fifty-six women lawmakers signed the request. The group asked that a decision be made within 10 days so that it could then “proceed accordingly.”
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The letter argues that the U.S. public deserves “a full inquiry into the truth of these allegations” and goes on to recount the president’s track record of being accused of sexual misconduct.
At least 17 women have publicly accused the President of sexual misconduct. Natasha Stoynoff recounted how the President pushed her against a wall and forced his tongue down her throat. Jill Harth described how the President attempted to get up her dress. Kristin Anderson detailed how the President touched her genitals through her underwear. Mariah Billado, Rachel Crooks, Tasha Dixon, Jessica Drake, Cathy Heller, Samantha Holvey, Ninni Laaksonen, Jessica Leeds, Temple Taggart McDowell, Mindy McGillivray, Cassandra Searles, Bridget Sullivan, Karena Virginia, and Summer Zervos also offered alarming accounts.
The letter further points out that Trump’s own behavior — bragging about sexually harassing and inappropriately touching women in the leaked Access Hollywood tape, as well as insisting his accusers are liars — only reinforces the need for a thorough review of the allegations.
My colleagues and I are demanding that we not ignore all the women who have come forward to hold President Trump accountable. pic.twitter.com/z0AG47nFBr
— Dina Titus (@repdinatitus) December 12, 2017
With numerous men in Congress — including Minnesota Sen. Al Franken, Michigan Rep. John Conyers Jr., and Arizona Rep. Trent Franks — resigning in recent weeks after being accused of sexual misconduct, scrutiny on Trump’s own accusations has been revived with new intensity, with many pointing out the ridiculousness of men in much lower positions being held to a higher standard than the president.
In his resignation, Franken couldn’t help but point out that a man in a much higher office than that of a senator wasn’t facing consequences for the same behavior lawmakers in positions much lower than his were facing.
“I, of all people, am aware that there is some irony in the fact that I am leaving while a man who has bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault sits in the Oval Office and a man who has repeatedly preyed on young girls campaigns for the Senate with the full support of his party,” he said.
Along with the Democratic Women’s Working Group’s letter, three other Democratic senators — New York’s Kirsten Gillibrand, New Jersey’s Cory Booker, and Oregon’s Jeff Merkley — have called on Trump to resign as a response to the allegations against him in the past two days.
The increasing talk of his need to step down clearly has Trump on edge. On Tuesday, he accused Democrats of failing to find evidence he colluded with the Russia in the 2016 election and of reviving the “false accusations and fabricated stories of women who I don’t know and/or have never met” as a new strategy to boot him from office. Shortly after, he proceeded to publish a bizarre tweet with sexual undertones attacking Sen. Gillibrand for saying he should resign.
