Elizabeth Warren is standing with women, by claiming a senior faculty member attempted to assault her as a young law professor sexually.
The problem? According to Jeffrey T. Kuhner, the host of The Kuhner Report on WRKO in Boston, Warren’s story doesn’t add up.
Warren made the claims on Meet the Press, arguing that she had a “Me Too” story of her own – a reference to the hashtag that went viral after the sexual assault allegations against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein blanketed the airwaves.
“I was a baby law professor and so excited to have my first real teaching job, and there was a senior faculty member who would tell dirty jokes and make comments about my appearance,” Warren told Chuck Todd on Meet the Press. “And one day he asked me if I would stop by his office, which I didn’t think much about, and I did, and he slammed the door and lunged for me. It was like a bad cartoon. He’s chasing me around the desk trying to get his hands on me, and I kept saying ‘You don’t want to do this. You don’t want to do this. I have little children at home. Please don’t do this.’”
Warren added: “And trying to talk calmly, and at the same time what was flickering through my brain is, if he gets hold of me, I’m gonna punch him right in the face.”
Warren said she eventually escape the office, but was deeply shaken by the attempted assault.
Though she didn’t mention him by name, Kuhner explains that the professor who allegedly assaulted her was Eugene Smith, a mentor and close friend of Warren’s. Kuhner came to this conclusion because Warren told the story of the “assault” once before – at Smith’s funeral, during a eulogy, in 1997.
Warren’s account of the incident in 1997 portrayed the entire episode as harmless fun: that Warren and Smith were joking around the office and that Warren was laughing throughout the whole ordeal. She would also praise Smith’s “character” and “moral integrity” in his eulogy, which she delivered years after the alleged assault took place.
Interestingly, Warren left out one critical fact on Meet the Press: Smith was severely disabled, as a result of polio.
Smith was unable to run or walk without the assistance of crutches or a wheelchair. Based on the story Warren told at his eulogy, he couldn’t even cut a steak.
It’s harder to imagine a man in such feeble condition menacingly chasing someone around his office. What is clear is that there are two distinct sides to this story and having a complete picture creates a strikingly different image of the incident in one’s mind.
For Kuhner, there is no doubt. “Warren is an incorrigible liar,” he says. “She’s lying. Pure and simple. And everyone in Massachusetts – including her fellow feminists – need to know it.”
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