Sunday’s PBS News Weekend program, guest hosted by White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez, resurfaced the feminist, sexual-abuse awareness #MeToo slogan to smear Donald Trump’s emerging picks to serve in his presidential Cabinet.
Laura Barron-Lopez: Tonight on PBS News Weekend, with multiple nominees to Trump`s Cabinet accused of sexual misconduct, we look at the future of the MeToo movement….President-elect Donald Trump has finished naming his top cabinet nominees, and there`s a noticeable pattern across some of them, allegations of sexual misconduct or assault. First, there`s Trump`s failed pick for attorney general, Matt Gaetz. A woman testified to House investigators that when she was a 17-year-old minor, she had sex with Gaetz at a party. Two other women testified that Gaetz paid them for sex multiple times. Gaetz has denied the allegations. He withdrew his nomination last week, unable to secure enough support as more details surface. But he`s not alone. Trump`s picked to lead the Defense Department, Pete Hegseth, is accused of sexually assaulting a woman in 2017 in a California hotel room.