“On the Holmes Front,” with Frank Holmes
Movie producer and convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein donated millions over the years to put liberal Democratic politicians in the spotlight. Now, his top recipient is making a splash in politics and on the screen.
One political figure alone raked in $1.4 million – more than half of the $2.3 million Weinstein doled out to politicians over the years.
That enormous sum — and the expectations and favor-trading that went with it — all went to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Records from the Federal Election Commission show the former first lady, senator, and two-time failed presidential candidate received more money from the convicted sexual abuser than anyone else in politics.
That doesn’t count up to $250,000 he gave to the Clinton Foundation, or the $10,000 Weinstein donated to Bill Clinton’s legal defense when he was impeached over his relationship with Monica Lewinsky — which Lewinsky now describes as sexual harassment.
Their relationship goes back decades.
When Bill Clinton first rode into the White House almost 30 years ago, he surrounded himself with Hollywood glitz and glamour. A close relationship with Tinsel Town royalty, like Harvey Weinstein, sealed the deal.
Weinstein and the Clintons met regularly in the White House, at Camp David, and at countless fundraisers.
He and Bill Clinton have both been accused of rape. At least 87 women accuse Weinstein of sexual abuse over the decades.
His victims say that Weinstein used his relationship with the Clintons to intimidate his victims.
The lawyer who prosecuted Weinstein, Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi, said the portly producer “often referred to his close relationships with Presidents and former Presidents” and even “took phone calls from Bill Clinton while he was with” one of his accusers.
She wondered how any rape victim believed she could get a fair trail when Weinstein “was on the phone with Bill Clinton every other day.”
Shortly after Hillary flamed out of the 2016 presidential campaign, she called Weinstein for comfort. They were seen having dinner together in a posh New York restaurant, where they discussed having Weinstein produce a documentary about Hillary Clinton’s life.
Now that Weinstein faces up to 29 years in prison, the Clintons want to downplay their relationship.
“How could we have known?” Hillary Clinton asked about years of rape accusations, which were the worst-kept secret in Hollywood.
But Clinton said that she shouldn’t be singled out, because the entire Democratic Party cashed Weinstein’s hefty checks.
“He raised money for me, for the Obamas, for Democrats in general,” Clinton told The Hollywood Reporter in January.
She doubled-down on indicting the entire Democratic Party this Tuesday.
“He contributed to every Democrat’s campaign,” she said. “He contributed to Barack Obama’s campaign, and John Kerry’s campaign and Al Gore’s campaign and everybody’s campaign.”
Well, not everybody’s campaign: He made exactly one donation to a Republican—and then demanded the money back.
The rest of his millions went to Democrats.
Weinstein also had a buddy-buddy relationship with the Obamas. Weinstein bundled $679,000 for Barack Obama in 2012 alone.
He visited the Obamas in the White House 13 times. The Obamas’ daughter, Malia, did an internship at the Weinstein Company, and Michelle Obama has called Weinstein a “wonderful human being” and “a good friend.”
“Michelle Obama loved him,” President Donald Trump said in India on Tuesday. “Hillary Clinton loved him.”
But it wasn’t just presidents. Other liberal lawmakers with close financial ties to the convicted rapist include presidential hopefuls Elizabeth Warren ($2,500), Kirsten Gillibrand ($11,000), and Cory Booker ($17,800), as well as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer ($14,200).
The Miramax mogul donated $305,149 to the Democratic Party itself.
Several of the people who received Weinstein’s donations were also accused of sexual abuse and molestation: Bill Clinton, Al Franken, Ted Kennedy, John Edwards, and Robert Torricelli.
“What can be said about Harvey Weinstein that hasn’t already been said about Bill Clinton?” asked Rush Limbaugh. “The only difference is that Harvey’s been convicted of sexual assault. That’s the only difference.”
There’s at least one more difference. While Harvey Weinstein got fired from his own company before his conviction, Hillary Clinton is still on the air.
The defeated 2016 presidential candidate is making her own splash in Hollywood, debuting a new documentary called “Hillary” and launching a podcast with iHeartRadio.
Even when she wanted to talk about her well-paid biopic, she couldn’t dodge questions about Weinstein—who has yet to serve a day in prison. He’s been in the hospital ever since he said he had “chest pains,” the minute he was convicted.
Hillary threw her old fried under the bus. “It was time for an accounting,” Clinton said.
How long until there’s an accounting for all the perpetrators who haven’t done the time for their crimes, personal and political?
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”