New Accuser: Serial Harasser And Trump Pal And Confidante Mark Halperin Targeted College Girls, Too

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Mark Halperin, the well-known pundit accused of sexually harassing fellow ABC News staffers, also allegedly made unwanted advances on potential new recruits, including a college student and a journalist hoping to work with him.
In a series of reports this week, Halperin has been accused by former co-workers and subordinates of sexual misconduct, ranging from “lecherous” grins and innuendos to unwanted touching—groping, lunging at, and kissing women—to pressing his erection against women while clothed to masturbating in front of a woman in his office.



Halperin’s apparently fake interest in young women’s careers and very real interest in getting in their pants also extended to undergraduate students he was supposed to be enlightening.
While the star pundit issued a contrite statement Friday evening claiming the misconduct ended after he left ABC News, one woman recounted to The Daily Beast a particularly uncomfortable run-in with Halperin at her alma mater in February 2011—years after Halperin left ABC.
Katharine Glenn was then a student at Tulane University when she was a 20-year-old junior preparing to take the LSAT. Now working as a First Amendment lawyer, she said that she wanted her story told in the hopes that it helps ensure that Halperin “never gets near [female] college students ever again.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-accuser-serial-harasser-mark-halperin-targeted-college-girls-too

[mercuryblues]

1. I said last night

that his apology is false. He employed a tried and true defense tactic. Admit the small stuff and claim the rest were lies. It reeked of desperation to save his employability.

[Not Ruth]

2. Everybody knew [about Mark], one prominent cable-news host told The Daily Beast.

Amazing how that happens

[Blue_Adept]

4. Mostly because speaking out ends one's own career

It's taking a long time to change the culture but this is going to hasten it a fair bit as more women come forward on it across a range of professions. It's cascading heavily.

[bullwinkle428]

3. I KNEW that when he claimed his bad behavior ended once he left ABC, there would

be more women stepping up to challenge that idea! Another toxic mixture of arrogance and stupidity.

[Tatiana]

5. His apology was designed to save his job and his HBO deal.

I hope he loses everything. He's nothing but another lecherous Republican pig.

[milestogo]

6. I hope they never have him back on MSNBC.

[PearliePoo2]

7. That leering grin of the creep in the red hat has SEXUAL PREDATOR written all over it...

The expression "bile rises in throat" immediately comes to mind.

Hey Halperin...the flood gates are open. I hope you're sued into oblivion. So long asshole.

[Comatose Sphagetti]

8. The whole guilt by association thing... Never cared for it.

"Trump Pal And Confidante"

Be it left, right or whatever, trying to make someone look bad by associating them with anothers bad behavior never felt right to me.

I DESPISE DJT, by the way.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

10. Well, there's this:

Mark Halperin, accused of sexual harassment, once said there was ‘nothing illegal’ about Trump’s alleged groping

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/10/26/mark-halperin-accused-of-sexual-harassment-once-said-there-was-nothing-illegal-about-trumps-alleged-groping/?utm_term=.bca1f09a14d0

[OregonBlue]

9. He's always been a smug, arrogant, Trump type. Makes sense he'd also treat women

the way Trump and his type do.