When asked what he would tell his eldest daughter, Ivanka, if she was being sexually harassed in the workplace, Donald Trump gave a stupefying response.
"I would like to think she would find another career or find another company if that was the case," the Republican nominee told interviewer Kirsten Powers, a paid political contributor to Fox News. Powers wrote about their discussion in an opinion piece for USA Today, which takes a closer look at the allegations of sexual harassment leveled against former Fox News CEO Rogers Ailes by former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson and others.
"One should be able to accept that a woman could both have been promoted by a boss and harassed by him," Powers wrote. "Women are often forced to maintain good relations with men who abuse them precisely because those men have power." When she mentioned this to Trump, Powers continued, he said Carlson had "quite a bit of fabulous things" to say about Ailes and "it would be easier for me and more politically correct for me to say you are right. But you would think she wouldn't say those things." Can't wait to see what President Trump will do to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission!
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