The Impeach-O-Meter is a wildly subjective and speculative daily estimate of the likelihood that Donald Trump leaves office before his term ends, whether by being impeached (and convicted) or by resigning under threat of same.
It’s beyond ironic that the Republican party is trying to make hay out of Democrats’ history of associating with Harvey Weinstein, a party donor who was widely rumored to be a sexual predator well before the New York Times printed allegations about sexual harassment accusations against him this week. Still, partisan hypocrisy aside, it’s not a great look that Democrats have taken more than $660,000 of Weinstein’s money in donations; that Democratic Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance specifically took a $10,000 donation from one of Weinstein’s lawyers in 2015 after declining to press charges against the movie executive in a sexual assault case; that Barack Obama spoke at a fundraiser Weinstein threw in his home in 2011; or that former Obama staffer Anita Dunn and former Bill Clinton staffer Lanny Davis have both reportedly advised Weinstein on his current PR crisis.
Tolerating and perpetuating the prominence of a well-known creep because he’s got a lot of money: How could it ever backfire?
