claim to be Democrats may have made such threats, characterizing this as the DEMOCRATIC PARTY doing that is either The Hill deliberately misrepresenting what Monahan said, or Monahan is doing the misrepresenting

iffy. You are being too kind

I have the same objection that you do. I blame the writer at The Hill, not the accuser.

her allegations. This needs to investigated further.

There is a lot more information in the article

Born in Iran, Ms. Monahan said she was adopted by a working-class family in Texas. As a child, she said, she experienced sexual abuse. She gave birth to a son when she was a teenager. Ms. Monahan said her experience with adversity inspired her to become an activist.

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In 2010, Mr. Ellison and his wife, Kim Ellison, separated and eventually divorced. Ms. Ellison said in an interview that they remain close and that she has never seen him behave abusively. In 2015, Ms. Monahan moved in with Mr. Ellison and his teenage daughter, Amirah.

Amirah said in a public Facebook post that Ms. Monahan “quickly became actively territorial and threatening towards me.” Once, when she came home from college, Amirah said, she found that her bedroom had been turned into a storage closet for Ms. Monahan’s things and that Ms. Monahan falsely accused her of destroying her possessions.

“Many people — including, probably, many people reading these words — believe Karen,” Amirah wrote. “That reality both gives me hope for the beautiful momentum that the #metoo movement has built, and a profound anger at the injustice of these false accusations. But Karen Monahan is exploiting a movement.”


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/us/keith-elllison-karen-monahan.html

on edit: I feel for Ms. Monahan but I think her issues are rooted in her early childhood trauma. It doesn't sound like they have the healthiest relationship either but I find it difficult to put blame on either of them. It seems like they just weren't good for each other.

Either we believe women or we don't.

"Either we believe women or we don't."

Hence, you believe all allegations should be allowed precisely the same weight, regardless of detail, context, nuance, evidence, history, etc. That in fact, all the aforementioned are rendered irrelevant to you due to the presence of an allegation?

Links?

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WE really do not live in a black and white world. There are gradations to consider.

....if The Hill finds anything to "smear" the Democratic Party they'll do it, and invariably it'll find it's way onto Democratic Underground.

Just because its news we may not like doesnt mean it shouldn't be heard