The cast of Empire, a series headlined by a serial domestic abuser, made a video endorsing Hillary and asking viewers what they would tell their son or daughter and namechecking BLM martyrs like drug dealer Freddie Gray, whose death was accidental. They seem much less concerned about the women Terrence Howard has assaulted or will assault.
The Empire video carefully leaves Terrence Howard out because even the Hillary people know that the last thing she needs is another superpredator of women campaigning for her. At least one she isn't married to. The same can't be said for the women in Howard's life.
According to a Whitemarsh Police Department report obtained by The Smoking Gun, Howard went to his estranged wife’s house, “broke the front door down and ran through the screen door in the kitchen. Howard then grabbed the victim’s left arm and punched her twice with a closed fist in the left side of the face.”
Howard married Michelle Ghent in 2010. Just one year later, she obtained a restraining order against him after accusing Howard of attacking her. She also filed for divorce, alleging that he began abusing her just one week after their wedding. Ghent claimed Howard once told her, “I’ll hit a woman quicker than I’d hit a man.”
Ghent filed for divorce in January 2011, and the divorce papers detail a gruesome year: a slug in the face a week into the marriage, a beating and near-toss off a balcony in South Africa in July, and threats with a butcher knife in the week prior to her filing for divorce.
On May 6, 2012, Howard allegedly assaulted his ex-girlfriend, May Seng Yang of Plymouth Meeting, at his Lafayette Hill home. The allegation, contained in a civil suit filed last year by Yang’s former lawyer, reads: “Defendant Howard choked [Yang], threw her to the ground and hit her in the left eye with his fist.”
This is what the Empire cast is comfortable with. Just not with Trump.