'You cannot silence me': Kirsten Gillibrand hits back at Trump for harassing her on Twitter

[highplainsdem]

Source: RawStory

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) fired back at President Donald Trump’s Tuesday morning tweet in which the president suggestively said that she used to be willing to “do anything” to receive his campaign donations.

“You cannot silence me or the millions of women who have gotten off the sidelines to speak out about the unfitness and shame you have brought to the Oval Office,” Gillibrand wrote.

Trump’s original tweet, which was in response to Gillibrand calling on Trump to step down in the wake of multiple sexual misconduct allegations made against him, accused the senator of regularly coming to his office and “begging” him for campaign donations.

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The combination of Trump saying Gillibrand would come “begging” for money and would “do anything for them” has led some commenters to question whether Trump was making some kind of sexual innuendo in his attacks on the New York senator.

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Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/you-cannot-silence-me-kirsten-gillibrand-hits-back-at-trump-for-harassing-her-on-twitter/

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Gillibrand's tweet

Link to tweet

already has more than 7,000 retweets and 14,000 likes.

[RKP5637]

1. I hope this will be another major step in the downfall of this creature inhabiting the White House.

[mountain grammy]

3. This is horrendous..

I’m mad about what this senator did to Franken, but this is viscous.

[Old Vet]

6. No mountain grammy, It was disgusting on all levels. All women should be beyond pissed..........

[mountain grammy]

11. I agree

That’s what I was trying to say. You are so right.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Boasts of prowess and power

'begging' to 'do anything' indeed .... this is an aging, demented playboy trying to maintain his virility in his own mind

[SammyWinstonJack]

21. That's exactly rght. #LittleDonnieDemented.

[Steerpike]

5. This is just the

sturm und drang of politics....might as well fart in an empty room...

[BadgerKid]

26. Disagree; it's exactly why women are coming forward

Verbal sexual abuse is out in the open for all to see, being perpetrated by a sitting US president. Sad!

[chelsea0011]

7. What a disgrace. I wonder what Mitch McConnell will do to him for

calling a sitting Senator a #h&^#? Remember how he treated Senator Warren for "being out of order" for "attacking" a colleague?

[riversedge]

9. I had completely forgotten. Good point. Thanks for reminder.

[olegramps]

20. Well, he will probably award him with a hand-job.

[riversedge]

8. This is trumps tweet if you have not seen it............Trump writing in 3rd person.

Sigh. No words.



Donald J. Trump?Verified account @realDonaldTrump

Lightweight Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a total flunky for Chuck Schumer and someone who would come to my office “begging” for campaign contributions not so long ago (and would do anything for them), is now in the ring fighting against Trump. Very disloyal to Bill & Crooked-USED!
7:03 AM - 12 Dec 2017

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IR.net? @IRdotnet
2h2 hours ago
Replying to @realDonaldTrump

No, she's fighting FOR women!
226 replies 171 retweets 3,653 likes




Ed Krassenstein? @EdKrassen
2h2 hours ago

Gillibrand is fighting for the women whom you took their rights away from when you forcefully threw yourself upon them, when they wanted nothing to do you you, you creep!

[SWBTATTReg]

22. Love Ed Krassenstein's response!

[irisblue]

10. The Senator can't back down from this. Her political skills are needing to be out.

And oh yeah.....Heck with that guy.

[jalan48]

12. She should sue him for slander. Make him prove what he alleges.

[DinahMoeHum]

13. Trump basically called her the W word. . .

Disgusting pig.

[disillusioned73]

14. The underlying issue here..

aside from Trumps disgustingness.. is that politicians (our whole political process really) have become dependent on the "begging" for campaign cash.. that is a real problem no one wants to address..

[Steerpike]

15. Is there something constructive she could be doing?

Politics has devolved down to a continuous theater of the absurd...nothing will come of this, just a show for the crowds. A way to appear they are doing something when in reality all that is happening is shadows and noise.

[Cosmocat]

17. Its me, me, me with her

There is such a BIG difference in this and say, what Warren has done taking the jackass on.

Warren gets some really sweet shots to his ribs, mostly takes his infantile pokes at her and just waits for him to expose his ribs again to give him another shot ...

Gillibrand forced this after the hair brained jihad on Franken, and vulnerable to him having taken 2 x 2,400 in donations from him, leads of her reply to his expected attack with "you can't silence me ..."

[Thor_MN]

18. What was it that silenced her for the last year?

She didn't bother to say boo about Trump until after she started getting flack for her hit-job on Franken.

[Cosmocat]

19. Right?

Her priority list is bass akwards ...

[Blackjackdavey]

24. Seriously?

Kirsten has been one of the most outspoken critics of Trump and his boorish behavior since the beginning. She has made a career of fighting back against sexual assault and gender discrimination. I think the problem is you have chosen to ignore her until she turned her attention to Sen. Franken which says much more about you than it does her. Just saying...

[Thor_MN]

25. OK, I'll call your bluff. You have any links on her calling for his resignation over sexual assault

prior to attacking Franken? Educate me.

[Blackjackdavey]

29. Moving Goal posts? Blair Walsh, Gary Anderson?

I don't have any obligation to play the goal post game given that you and I both know calling for his resignation is simply the newest development, made possible of course by the Franken episode. I am also confident that you have the dexterity to utilize google in order to learn of Kirsten Gillibrand and what she's been up to all on your own. In order to get you started, five of the first hits after today's news:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sen-kirsten-gillibrand-says-training-not-enough-for-preventing-sexual-assault-on-capitol-hill/

https://www.newsday.com/news/nation/military-sexual-assault-gillibrand-1.15004968

http://thehill.com/policy/defense/349672-dem-senator-military-sexual-assault-as-pervasive-as-ever

http://www.refinery29.com/2017/04/147891/kirsten-gillibrand-womens-rights-exclusive-interview

http://www.recordonline.com/news/20170826/gillibrand-condemns-trump-at-town-hall

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/sen-kirsten-gillibrand-drops-twin-f-bombs-anti-trump-tirade-article-1.3234442

http://www.syracuse.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/08/sen_kirsten_gillibrand_trump_lacks_vision_for_success_in_afghanistan.html

10/10/16: "This sort of sickening dialogue from @realDonaldTrump has no place in our society and certainly no place in the presidential race," New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat, wrote on Twitter.

[Thor_MN]

30. Where did the goalposts move? I claimed that she has not called on Trump to resign due to

sexual misconduct prior to getting blowback for calling for Franken's resignation. You blathered. I said prove it. You post a bunch of articles that have nothing to do with Gillibrand calling for Trump's resignation due to sexual misconduct prior to attacking Trump.

Goalpost is still in the same place, you've kicked and missed twice.

[Blackjackdavey]

31. Sorry bro

"She didn't bother to say boo about Trump until after she started getting flack for her hit-job on Franken."



You've chosen to ignore the woman until the Franken Brouhaha, that's on you.

[Thor_MN]

33. I see that she has remained silent on Trump's sexual misconduct until blowback on Franken.

Yes, I know how to use Google and see her hypocrisy. My opinion on her as a senator has little meaning, I can't vote for or against her. I think she is doing a fine job, except for the huge fail of calling for Franken's resignation, and only then going after Trump when it backfired on her.

Note that I do not call for her resignation due to harming the Democratic Party and think that she should remain a Senator for as many terms as the people of her state elect her to.

[Blackjackdavey]

34. Tactics are not strategy

Okay, fair enough, thank you for clarifying your point of view. Allow me to clarify mine and say that I was/am a huge fan of Al Franken's work as a Senator.

Full disclosure: Kirsten Gillibrand is my Senator.

Now here is the thing:

"except for the huge fail of calling for Franken's resignation, and only then going after Trump when it backfired on her."

At first glance this was a major WTF moment for me as well, however, it is entirely and completely consistent with her stated views throughout her career AND imagine her calling for Trump's resignation without or before doing so with Franken. Whoever said above that this is theater is right, it is. Gillibrand, and quite likely with the full, knowing cooperation of Al Franken, has maneuvered the national discourse within range of the target: Donald Trump. I am sorry we had to lose Al but as far as I'm concerned, we are in desperate times and a piece on the board had to be sacrificed. It may have been a fail, it may yet have been a brilliant maneuver, the target is Trump, not Franken.

[Thor_MN]

35. She is a lawyer, she knows what due process is.

She circumvented it, and if you are trying to claim this is some sort of chess move, it was a monumentally stupid blunder.

Franken's removal means nothing to the Moore supporters in Alabama. We will see tonight if Moore makes it or not, but the attack on Franken will not alter the outcome.

If Trump is to be removed from office, it will not be for sexual misconduct. It will be due to money laundering, collusion with Russia and/or Constitutional violations. There is no valid move to remove a sitting President for Sexual misconduct, so sacrificing Franken gains nothing. If you think that Gillibrand planned on attacking Trump for sexual misconduct after first trying the idea out within her own party, you are deluded. She only attacked Trump on sexual misconduct after getting negative press with what she did to Franken. If Trump resigns due to sexual misconduct, I will be in the front rows calling it a brilliant move, but for the meantime, I'm calling it a total fucking disaster gambling MY senator on a 100 million to one shot that Trump resigns due to sexual misconduct.

She has had a year to call for Trump's resignation with far more concrete evidence, yet remained silent until blowback for calling for Franken's resignation on flimsy, at best, charges of nothing approaching criminal behavior. That's strategy?

[Blackjackdavey]

23. Wrong

Kirsten has consistently been speaking out about sexual assault and has been quite consistent since the beginning of her term. Sexual assault in the military has been her signature issue and she has introduced legislation to address it. She is in fact and has been one of the most conducive senators over the past year.

[Steerpike]

28. Conducive to what

reacting to tweets...my life is not effected by her theatre

[Thor_MN]

32. "conducive senator"? What does that mean?

I think your dictionary failed you - that phrase has no meaning in English...

[NastyRiffraff]

16. "Some commentators question..

...whether Trump was making some kind of sexual innuendo"

There is NO question about it; his ugly tweet was filled with sexual innuendo. I wish the media would stop being so overly careful; he'll trash them whatever they say or do. He's trying his best to destroy the free press.

[MFM008]

27. Twitter

Should suspend his account.

[suegeo]

36. I am a female Minnesotan.

The junior senator from NY sure shut me up tho.