Conway accuses Hillary Clinton of 'hypocrisy' in Weinstein denunciation

The White House counselor says Bill Clinton committed 'sexual harassment in the workplace.'

By CRISTIANO LIMA 10/13/2017 12:08 AM EDT

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway on Thursday accused Hillary Clinton of “hypocrisy” for distancing herself from disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein even though her husband, former President Bill Clinton, had faced several allegations of committing “sexual harassment in the workplace.”

Conway, during an interview on Fox News, said the former secretary of state’s recent disavowal of Weinstein, who is facing a barrage of sexual misconduct allegations, was “clearly a continuation of the hypocrisy by Hillary Clinton and other so-called feminists like her.”

After a New York Times report revealed that Weinstein had paid several women to settle allegations of sexual misconduct spanning decades, Clinton and other prominent Democratic politicians have come under fire for having accepted donations from him during past campaigns. Since the initial report, and an investigation by The New Yorker, several more women have come forward with allegations against Weinstein of sexual impropriety and assault.

Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Thursday asked Conway about “Bill Clinton’s atrocious examples of abusing women” and whether that, coupled with the Clinton Foundation’s acceptance of donations from countries with regressive gender policies like Saudi Arabia, amounted to “liberal hypocrisy.”

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