Tomi Lahren proved this week that she’s anything but an ally towards women when she attempted to slut shame newly-announced 2020 presidential candidate Kamala Harris over an alleged affair she had with her boss, former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, in the early ’90s. Harris was just a few years out of law school when Brown — who was at the time Speaker of the California State Assembly — appointed her to two well paying jobs on the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and the California Medical Assistance Commission.
Brown had long since been separated from his wife at the time of the alleged affair, and he and Harris ended things in 1995 shortly before he was elected mayor.
“Hey Kamala Harris given that you’re so vocal about the #MeToo movement, what are your thoughts on sleeping your way to the top of your political career?” Lahren tweeted, linking to a Fox News article about the so-called scandal on Monday afternoon. “I’ll wait.”
Hey @KamalaHarris given that you’re so vocal about the #MeToo movement, what are your thoughts on sleeping your way to the top of your political career? I’ll wait. https://t.co/jSmM0xg39C
— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) January 28, 2019
Lahren’s tweet came in response to a San Francisco Chronicle column that Brown had penned over the weekend, in which he plainly admitted to the affair after having been “peppered with calls from the national media” over the former relationship.
“Yes, we dated. It was more than 20 years ago,” he wrote. “Yes, I may have influenced her career by appointing her to two state commissions when I was Assembly speaker.”
And I certainly helped with her first race for district attorney in San Francisco. I have also helped the careers of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Gov. Gavin Newsom, Sen. Dianne Feinstein and a host of other politicians.
The difference is that Harris is the only one who, after I helped her, sent word that I would be indicted if I “so much as jaywalked” while she was D.A.
It would appear that some conservatives are clutching their pearls and trying to make a mountain of a molehill — especially when you, uh, consider the current resident of the White House — and others responded to Lahren thusly.
It's because conservatives don't understand the concept of consent so they think we're just complaining about sex
— Sklonteroni (@halibutharry) January 29, 2019
You’re a pro-choice woman cosplaying for conservative men to make a buck.
Harris didn’t sleep her way to the top but you’re happily selling out your own uterus to impress men at the bottom.https://t.co/UJsUvDIiM8
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) January 29, 2019
https://twitter.com/SonOfGodAndMan/status/1090069389397889028
This is nauseating. Is this really how low the right has stooped? https://t.co/obBauklq7A
— Peter Daou (@peterdaou) January 29, 2019
Says a blonde who works at Fox News, Ever hear of Roger Ailes?
— John Melendez (@stutteringjohnm) January 28, 2019
https://twitter.com/jttravis2/status/1090058734087237637
You sure you wanna go down this road? https://t.co/V64WYTYCML
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) January 29, 2019
You are a disgusting cow for this. #MeToo has absolutely nothing to do with what you are referencing, and the fact that you would try to draw the correlation just shows what a dimwitted bitch you are.
Your mom should have chosen anal. Then we wouldn't be having this conversation https://t.co/ZZas6C2UgB
— first of all, bitch, … (Yeah Mo!) (@thejournalista) January 29, 2019
OH HELL NO YOU DAMN TWIT! You have an incredibly orange, sexual predator that you praise, who has 5 children w/3 different women, who has screwed porn stars to playmates from here to Russia & back & you want to point your fucking finger at Kamala? Sit down, shut up you hypocrite!
— lauren girard (@laureniscooking) January 29, 2019
That is false and thoroughly debunked, Tomi. You should be ashamed of yourself for perpetuating such an ugly, regressive rumor… but I guess you don't really have any real talent to carry you I've seen your stuff lol
— Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie) January 29, 2019
https://twitter.com/Geeshouse/status/1090047769606275078
In other words, sit down, Toyota Lasagna.