Mrs. Clinton's longtime close aide, Huma Abeddin, writes in a new book that she was sexually assaulted by a U.S. senator.
Abedin makes this shocking claim in his memoir, "Both: Life in Many Worlds," which will be published next week. Abedin does not mention the name of the senator who violated her in the book, nor does he reveal a clue about his identity.
In the book, Abedin details her experiences working for Hillary Clinton, who was the first lady, secretary of state and presidential candidate, as well as the Senator of New York State, in detail.
The incident happened shortly after the book's passage describing the couple's january 2005 wedding between Trump and his third wife, Melania, in Palm Beach, Florida, and after a Washington dinner in which only "a few senators and their aides" attended (Hillary did not go), Abedin wrote: "I ended up going out with a senator, and soon we stopped in front of his building and he invited me in for coffee." As soon as I entered, he let me sit on the couch. ”
According to her description, the senator first made her a cup of coffee, then sat down next to her and began kissing her.
Abedin said she pushed him away and was "in a state of complete shock", thinking only "hoping that the 10 seconds just now would be erased".
According to Abedin, the senator was surprised and apologized for saying he had misunderstood her "all along" and that she was thinking about how to "avoid leaving awkwardly."
"Then I said something I would say only in my 20s — 'I'm sorry' — and left, trying to act as casual as possible," she wrote. ”
Abedin said she avoided the senator in the days that followed, but eventually met him on Capitol Hill. She recalled that when he asked if they were still friends, she nodded her head in agreement.
Aladdin herself said in the book that she quickly "covered up" the incident and successfully deceived herself and made it disappear into her mind.
Then, in late 2018, Kavanaugh was nominated by Trump as a Supreme Court justice, and University Professor Christine Blasey Ford accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her at a party years ago, a charge Kavanaugh denied.
When Ford accused Kavanaugh of being nominated by Trump as Supreme Court Justice in 2018, what happened that year came back to Abedin's mind.
Abedin said that when he learned of Ford's incident, his memory of that day was triggered.
Information: Ford, accusing Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her in late 2018, denied Ford's allegations. Ford also said the sexual assault "completely changed" her life. Before a psychotherapy in 2012, she had "done her best to suppress memories of sexual assault because telling the details would bring me back to that experience and trigger panic and anxiety."