Betsy DeVos Agrees Trump Tape Suggests Sexual Assault
- 7 years ago
At her Tuesday hearing, Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of education, agreed that the leaked Trump tape from 2005 where the president-elect can be heard making sexually inappropriate comments about women amounts to sexual assault.
At her Tuesday hearing, Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of education, agreed that the leaked Trump tape from 2005 where the president-elect can be heard making sexually inappropriate comments about women amounts to sexual assault.
The acknowledgment came in response to a question asked by Sen. Patty Murray, reports The Independent.
Murray said, in part, “I was and I remain very outraged by those comments...If this behavior, kissing and touching women and girls without their consent, happened in a school would you consider it a sexual assault?”
DeVos limited her response to a single word, but it was, “Yes.”
The nominee was far less definitive when asked by Sen. Bob Casey if she would continue to act under Obama administration's guidance that a school’s failure to investigate campus sexual assault allegations amounted to a violation of Title IX, a federal protection against sexual discrimination, notes The Guardian.
DeVos indicated she did not feel a confirmation hearing was the time or place to take a position on the matter, reports CNN.
She did comment, “If confirmed, I look forward to understanding the past actions and current situation better, and to ensuring that the intent of the law is actually carried out in a way that recognizes both the victim...as well as those who are accused.”
At her Tuesday hearing, Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of education, agreed that the leaked Trump tape from 2005 where the president-elect can be heard making sexually inappropriate comments about women amounts to sexual assault.
The acknowledgment came in response to a question asked by Sen. Patty Murray, reports The Independent.
Murray said, in part, “I was and I remain very outraged by those comments...If this behavior, kissing and touching women and girls without their consent, happened in a school would you consider it a sexual assault?”
DeVos limited her response to a single word, but it was, “Yes.”
The nominee was far less definitive when asked by Sen. Bob Casey if she would continue to act under Obama administration's guidance that a school’s failure to investigate campus sexual assault allegations amounted to a violation of Title IX, a federal protection against sexual discrimination, notes The Guardian.
DeVos indicated she did not feel a confirmation hearing was the time or place to take a position on the matter, reports CNN.
She did comment, “If confirmed, I look forward to understanding the past actions and current situation better, and to ensuring that the intent of the law is actually carried out in a way that recognizes both the victim...as well as those who are accused.”