Why Aren't Democrats Blasting the Sh*t Out of Bill Shine?
We should know whether someone in an important and sensitive job spent 15 or 20 years covering up for a sexual predator and helping to destroy women’s lives.
MICHAEL TOMASKY
07.30.18 4:47 AM ET
It’s been a maddening truism of these last 18 months that a Mount Everest of events that would have been consuming scandals under previous administrations pass barely noticed under President Trump, so thick and relentless and foul-smelling is the offal through which we’re all being forced to wade.
But if there’s one story that deserves to be rescued from the slush pile and given the wide and damning attention it deserves, it’s the case of Bill Shine.
The former Fox News honcho is, of course, the recently installed White House communications director and according to some reports is on his way to becoming White House chief of staff. In his short time on the job, he’s already distinguished himself by his role in banning a reporter, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, for asking the president a question he didn’t like (“Did Michael Cohen betray you?”).
But that’s not why Shine should be controversial. While he was at Fox, he spent what appears to be a lot of time allegedly facilitating and covering up Roger Ailes’ sex crimes. Those crimes, if you’ll recall, were disgusting and legion. Numerous women, forced sexual acts, videotapes, and demotions for some women who spurned his advances. Over the course of years.
Shine allegedly covered for Ailes. Particularly appalling was the the case of Laurie Luhn, a former Fox employee whom Ailes subjected to 20 years of abuse that was so severe she once tried to kill herself. Luhn says Shine played a role in her abuse—in what was in essence her captivity—and that he sent her to a psychiatrist who prescribed her a “very serious, dangerous med” that made her hallucinate for a year.
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