A bizarre question by a Senate Democrat trying to smear Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett could backfire spectacularly as some are now digging into her own sickening past.
Hawaii Senator Maize Hirono, who already had a well-earned reputation as “Crazy Maize,” took Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearing down a disgusting road when she appeared to have tried to set her up on sexual harassment claims.
“Judge Barrett, Chief Justice John Roberts has recognized that, and I quote him, ‘The judicial branch is not immune from the widespread problem of sexual harassment and assault’ and has taken steps to address this issue within the judiciary,” Hirono started.
After some rambling, she asked Coney Barrett directly: “Since you became a legal adult, have you ever made unwanted requests for sexual favors or committed any verbal or physical harassment or assault of a sexual nature?”
Coney Barrett, obviously, easily, and directly answered “no.”
“Have you ever faced discipline or entered into a settlement related to this kind of conduct?,” Hirono pressed again.
Again, Coney Barrett easily and directly answered “no.”
Hirono was among the most unhinged and unstable of the Democrats who falsely accused then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of rape.
But the question was so outrageous and bizarre even many Democrats were embarrassed.
While many joked Democrats would accuse Coney Barrett of rape in a last-ditch effort to sabotage the nomination, some saw it coming.
“You can promise that Mazie will say something crazy,” Nebraska Republican Senator Ben Sasse predicted to NBC before the hearing started.
But Hirono’s question isn’t just insane, it’s also deeply hypocritical.
The Maize Hirono who tried to make sexual assault and harassment an issue has her own history of looking the other way when her own party commits sexual assault and harassment.
As National Review reported in 2018:
In Senator Hirono’s case, she had the opportunity to choose sides in the 1990s when credible allegations were made that Daniel Inouye, then a Democratic senator representing Hawaii, had engaged in a pattern of sexual assault.
Lenore Kwock, the senator’s hairdresser for 20 years, said she had been forced into nonconsensual sex back in 1975 and had suffered persistent gropings since then.
Kwock’s story became public after she was tricked by a campaign worker for Inouye’s 1992 Republican opponent into telling her story into a tape recorder. The tape was briefly used in a political ad until Kwock demanded it be withdrawn. Kwock told reporters she had “forgiven” Inouye, even as she stood by her story. But she nonetheless spoke cautiously: “It could cost me my business, and so I speak with tact and diplomacy.”
Nonetheless, Kwock was surprised at the silence of Hawaii’s female political leaders about her account, given that the Anita Hill hearings had riveted the nation just one year earlier. Mazie Hirono, then considered a protégé of Inouye’s as a member of the State House, maintained a studied and consistent silence. There is no evidence she believed Kwock.
At the time Hirono was one of Hawaii’s members of Congress and desperately wanted a promotion. She apparently realized that protecting Inouye and allowing him to continue assaulting women would greatly benefit her.
Within two years, Inouye’s political machine helped her win Hawaii’s lieutenant governorship, giving her the ability to build statewide campaigns she could use to promote herself to the Senate.
One reason for the strange silence was Inouye’s incredible power to direct political patronage and funding in Hawaii. In 1992, the New York Times quoted Neil Milner, a professor of political science at the University of Hawaii, as saying that “cowardice” explained much of the silence about Inouye. In a one-party government, “everything depends on behaving yourself,” and challenging Inouye at the time was highly risky.
By “behaving herself” and helping silence alleged sexual assault victims, Hirono eventually succeeded Hawaii’s other U.S. Senator in Washington.
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Michael Brigham
Michael Brigham has written for American Action News since the summer of 2019. His areas of expertise include foreign affairs, government, and politics, but regardless of the subject matter, he has a nose and an insatiable appetite for news. In his free time, he enjoys reading nonfiction, watching a mix of comedies and true crime documentaries, and spending time away from the swamp hiking in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.
Just another hypocrite from the left. Maize is a disgrace and should be recalled. Are there no morals in that party?
I hope that is a rhetorical question! Morals – NO! Morays (eels, that is) – Yes!
Hippo Crite is right! And coyote ugly too!
An insult to coyotes.
That’s an insult to coyotes. There is NOTHING as ugly as that “woman”. To be ugly on the outside is bad enough, but to have a black heart makes the ugliness complete.
Unfortunately, there is no such thing as recall at the Federal level. I wish there were.
It would take federal action at the very least and a constitutional amendment at the very most. Years ago when Arizona voters passed their term limit laws they tried to include federal as well as state offices. The courts threw out the federal part, ruling that since these were federal offices only federal action could apply term limits.
The other problem is how the DC political machine has been assembled it takes a some seniority to become a committee member and a LOT of seniority to become the chair or even ranking member which is where the power is for these committees. Term limits for one state while not another would virtually eliminate the chance for that state’s members to bring the wishes of that state’s constituency to DC or influence Federal policy that favors that state.
Are there no morals amongst the voters of Hawaii?
Are there any morals among any Democraps?
I AGREE!!!
TERM LIMITS! Every so often it is necessary to take out the trash.
What is it about Democrats and sexual assault? Committing it, that is. Or ignoring it altogether and even going so far as attack the victim when a fellow Democrat sexually assaults somebody.
It is in their “psyche”…almost like an inbred thing…the need to lie and slander…together with the corrupt Main sewer Stream fake Media and the censorship scumbags in social media they are indeed a formidable force…as the MSM’s audience is NEVER treated to the whole story, if it is ever told, but only half…half a truth unfortunately IS a whole lie…
Rules for thee, not for me…
Maize corn food for pigs Hirono all seem to go together
It absolutely disgusting what is going on with the wimpy democratics they all act like 5 year olds my Own grandchildren act older then the democratic …please get rid of all off them they are NOT for the American people….
I’m Sure Crazy Maizie would never have any problems concerning “Sexual Assault” unless She Initiated it !
Maize Hypocrite Hirono! Need we say more??
Nothing but lying, hypocrites! A democrat only get outraged when they want to make republicans look guilty of something. They can do no wrong according to them!
Hawaii’s “Macadamia Mama” Hirono dirties every confirmation by sticking her nose into every witness on her favorite Sexual Query
Stunt.
hmmmmm. . .hawaiian hillary.
May her 5 hour flight from CA to HA have 4 hrs fuel load. Food for the fishes.
Do read up on this female. It’s a very interesting read. Amazing how she won so many races and annihilated her competition even one time getting 96% of the vote!!!
There seems to be a pattern in the dem party, but I never understand why republicans are always so silent?
Funny that this self-righteous hypocrite, who was lucky to immigrate to America after her Japanese father abandoned her and her family in Japan would become such a holier-than-thou prima donna with such disdain for the country she should be praising.
I have never met a Japanese person who was more angry, more condescending or more holier-than-thou than this person.
And I lived in Japan for 4 years.
that picture of cry baby chuckie should be all post offices, dead or alive , get him out of congress , TERM LIMITS
It’s quite obvious that “Crazy Maize” has NOT gotten laid for quite some time (most likely cause she is rather ugly) because when Crazy Maize asks another woman if “she has ever made any unwanted acts for sexual favors or any verbal or physical harassment of anyone”, all she really wants to know in her “feces filled brain” is basically, “how did you do it because I’m so desperate to get laid and I’ll never be as pretty as you are, so tell me how I can get it too, tell me your secret, I’m so ugly even trained killer dogs run away from me!”.
Although I have seen this Senator only a few times, she clearly is not a stable person. I am not surprised at seeing her pedigree unravel.
The assault was confined to a grown woman this time and not a young boy or girl like most democrat sex pervs are famous for.The assault could have been against a two year old and Maize the crazy would have still stood down and towed the party line!
Hirono is another sick,unhinged,dumbocrap loonytune, with TDS that needs to be removed from office for stupidity.
Hirono’s line oe questioning judge Barret made me think at the time that Hirono was was projecting her own means of getrting ahead onto judge Barret and trying to go somewhere with her questions. Too many women in politics know advancement through sexual favors is a route they chose that provided them with power for extortion and blackmail to get what thy wanted. Hirono comes across as one such feminist. Even Golda Meir of Israal used sex to her advantage
(hard to believe but true)
Kamala Harris is a prime example
Mazie is a bigger Democrap Nitwit than AOC!
What do you expect from an ugly POS f ing moron???
too many pineapples hit her in the head!
Crazy Maize had no basis for asking those questions. She was rasping at straws. How would she have answered if the same questions had been put to her?
Mazie’s grandfather ran a bath house in Hawaii
so with all the sailors around, I’M sure there are some interesting tales
Her attack on Judge Kavanaugh was horrible. Besides which she came across unhinged. Are she and Maxine related somehow?
I say lets deport Hirono and send her back to Japan and just see how she is accepted there. I think you will find out she would be a nobody.
Well that explains how Hirono kept winning elections by huge margins. SHE may be the one to answer to her own questions. Check her history and background…It’s all there.
Socialist democrats, hypocrites, prevaricators, traitors all!
Hawaii must so real good smoke because I can’t see any other reason for voting for her other they must have been smoking it
As usual what the dems accuse you if they already have done. Maize is a disgrace, doesn’t Hawaii have any intelligent people to run for office. She makes a mockery of that beautiful state.
Democrats have to be HYPOCRITES or they have to attack their own associates. So many sexual criminals in their party. Bill Clinton, Weiner, JFK, and a lot more. So she must be a hypocrite or she loses power.
Democrats hate anyone who has morals as they have none!!!
The only way to pass term limits is to put it on the ballot for the people to vote on it, because nobody in D.C. will go for it.
Why do thes people keep electing the fools.
Big surprise, given they’re all Democrat scum bags