Huma Abedin, a former assistant to Hilary Clinton, revealed that she was sexually harassed by a senator in Washington.
The harassment, which dates back nearly twenty years, is recounted in his autobiography "Both / And: A Life in Many Worlds" which will be published next week and of which the Guardian has obtained a copy.
Adedin, whom Clinton once called "a second daughter," does not reveal the senator's name or party. She says he invited her home for a coffee after a dinner with other people and, once in the apartment, "threw her on the sofa, put her arm around and stuck her tongue in my mouth."
"I was so shocked that I pushed it away. I wanted to erase those last 10 seconds. Then I said a phrase that only the 20-year-old 'me' could conceive: 'I'm sorry'. And I left," Abedin says in the book. .
A few days after that night, the story of Abedin continues, the meeting with the senator on Capitol Hill and the question of him if after what happened they were "still friends". A phrase intercepted by Clinton, which arrived just at that moment next to her assistant, "as if she understood that I needed help even if I hadn't told her anything".
Abedin explains that she "removed" the episode for years until, in 2018, Christine Blasey Ford accused Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of long-ago harassment.
In the autobiography, Clinton's former right-hand man also talks about her anger at her ex-husband, Anthony Weiner, whose congressional career has been shattered by a series of sex scandals.
(Unioneonline / vl)
