All roads lead back to Clintonworld.
The Hill had recently covered how some of the Trump accusations were generated by the same lawyer whom Harvey Weinstein had used to suppress accusations.
A well-known women’s rights lawyer sought to arrange compensation from donors and tabloid media outlets for women who made or considered making sexual misconduct allegations against Donald Trump during the final months of the 2016 presidential race, according to documents and interviews.
California lawyer Lisa Bloom’s efforts included offering to sell alleged victims’ stories to TV outlets in return for a commission for herself, arranging a donor to pay off one Trump accuser’s mortgage and attempting to secure a six-figure payment for another woman who ultimately declined to come forward after being offered as much as $750,000, the clients told The Hill.
Now we know where at least some of the money was coming from.
One of Hillary Clinton’s wealthy pals paid $500,000 in an unsuccessful effort to fund women willing to accuse President Trump of sexual misconduct before the 2016 election, The New York Times reported Sunday.
Susie Tompkins Buell, the founder of Esprit Clothing and a major Clinton campaign donor for many years, gave the money to celebrity lawyer Lisa Bloom who was working with a number of Trump accusers at the time, according to the paper’s bombshell report.
Bloom solicited donors by saying she was working with women who might “find the courage to speak out” against Trump if the donors would provide funds for security, relocation and possibly a “safe house,” the paper reported.
Former Clinton nemesis turned Clinton operative David Brock also donated $200,000 to the effort through a nonprofit group he founded, the paper reported in an article entitled, “Partisans, Wielding Money, Begin Seeking to Exploit Harassment Claims.”
I don't think anyone needs more background on Brock. But it's all too fitting that he would be involved in something like this.
Buell is a little less well known.
“Just six months earlier, in a bust of eight Bay Area garment contractors, three of those cited were working for Esprit... Although the minimum wage is barely livable at $4.25 an hour, the shop contracted by Esprit paid only $3.75 with no overtime.”
"In 1972, Esprit opened its own garment factory in San Francisco's Chinatown, the Great Chinese American Sewing Company, which employed about 100 people. When the workers tried to organize soon afterward, Esprit busted the union. According to the National Labor Relations Board, Esprit threatened, harassed and intimidated the workers and then shut down the would-be union plant."
Thugs for Hillary. That's the takeaway. Buell was quite close to Hillary Clinton.
Her presidential campaign put out a list Wednesday of more than 120 “Hillblazers,” supporters from Wall Street to Hollywood who have raised at least $100,000 for her campaign by hosting events.
They include close friends of Mrs. Clinton like Susie Tompkins Buell, a San Francisco executive; former aides like Lisa Caputo, now at Citigroup, and Steven Elmendorf, a Washington lobbyist
And so the accusations were generated by Clintonworld.