Longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin describes sexual assault by US senator

[Zorro]

Huma Abedin, a longtime close aide to Hillary Clinton, has written in a new book that she was sexually assaulted by a US senator, an incident she “buried” until allegations against the supreme court justice Brett Kavanaugh triggered her memory years later.

Abedin makes the shocking claim in a memoir, Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds, which will be published next week. The Guardian obtained a copy. Abedin does not name the senator or his party or give any other clues as to his identity.

Abedin details her alleged assault while describing her work for Clinton when the former first lady and future secretary of state and presidential candidate was a US senator from New York, between 2001 and 2009.

The passage comes shortly after a description of how Abedin and the Clintons came to attend Donald Trump’s wedding to his third wife, Melania Knauss, in Palm Beach, Florida, in January 2005.

https://news.yahoo.com/longtime-hillary-clinton-aide-huma-195346337.html

[walkingman]

1. Not sure why this seems to be so common. IMO, some things are just too egregious to

look the other way, no matter the cost. Not being a woman I admit it I might not understand but making accusations years later doesn't really have any effect.

[eShirl]

2. I'm not sure why sexual assault is so common, either.

[Budi]

4. Thank you

Me either! Still common as ever. 😕

[badhair77]

3. Many women bury the memory of the trauma or they feel helpless to speak out.

I was in my 40s before I could speak to a psychologist about childhood abuse. It’s not that I didn’t remember it, I did. My abuser was a neighbor and by the time I spoke up he was deceased and I was living 90 minutes away. Only then did I feel safe in speaking. It was a healthy act to get it off my mind. Everyone is different but many just live with the trauma.

[Irish_Dem]

5. Who is the senator?