STEVE WYNN HAS RESIGNED FROM THE RNC AND IT FOLLOWS A REPORT BY
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL INDICATING THAT DOZENS OF FORMER
EMPLOYEES AT HIS CASINOS HAD EXPERIENCED SEXUAL
MISCONDUCT BY HIM AND HIS BEHAVIOR.
LET ME GIVE YOU THE DETAILS ON WHAT HE ALLEGEDLY DID BASED
ON THESE REPORTS AND BY THE WAY, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL DID
SPEAK TO DOZENS OF INDIVIDUALS WHO CORROBORATED THESE
ALLEGATIONS AND WHY IT LED TO HIS RESIGNATION.
ACCORDING TO THE WALL STREET JOURNAL:
THERE WAS A STORY PROFILED OF A MANICURIST THAT WORKED AT ONE OF
HIS CASINOS AND APPARENTLY HE WENT LOOKING FOR A MANICURE
BUT PRESSURED HER TO DO SEXUAL FAVORS FOR HIM.
AFTER THIS MANICURIST HAD SEX WITH HIM, SHE IMMEDIATELY
WENT AND TOLD HER SUPERIORS ABOUT IT.
SHE TOLD THE HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT ABOUT IT AND
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING HAPPENED.
THAT WAS A REOCCURRING THEME IN THIS REPORT.
PEOPLE WOULD TRY TO SPEAK UP ABOUT WHAT WAS GOING ON AND
NO ONE WOULD HELP THESE INDIVIDUALS.
AGAIN, NOTHING HAPPENED AFTER THAT.
AFTER ALL OF THESE REPORTS CAME OUT OVER THE WEEKEND, WYNN
DECIDED TO STEP DOWN FROM THE RNC.
INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, THE RNC AND GOP DIDN'T REALLY
RELEASE ANY STATEMENTS FOR THE FIRST 24
HOURS AND THEN FINALLY, THEY DID RELEASE A STATEMENT.
LET ME GO AHEAD AND READ THAT TO YOU, GRAPHICS 73.
RONNA MCDANIEL SAID:
THAT'S ALL THEY WROTE.
LET'S BREAK THIS DOWN.
ACCORDING TO REPORTS, STEVE WYNN PAID THAT MANICURIST 7 1/2
MILLION DOLLARS IN A SETTLEMENT.
JUST FYI.
HE SAYS THESE ARE ALL ALLEGATIONS AND THEY'RE
COMING FORWARD BECAUSE OF MY NASTY DIVORCE WITH MY EX-WIFE.
I CAN UNDERSTAND THAT.
I TELL YOU GUYS ON THE SHOW A LOT, I'VE NEVER GONE THROUGH A
DIVORCE BUT I HAVE KNOWN PLENTY OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE AND PEOPLE
WHO WORK IN THE FIELD AND DIVORCES CAN BE BRUTAL AND SHE
IS TRYING TO DO SOMETHING WITH THE STOCK THAT SHE HAS AT WYNN
SO NONETHELESS, AND HE SAYS IT IS JUST ALLEGATIONS AND
THAT DOESN'T MAKE IT BACK.
THAT IS A FAIR POINT BUT THERE ARE DOZENS OF PEOPLE WHO ARE
ALLEGING THESE THINGS AND THERE ARE SETTLEMENTS OF NOT A SMALL
NATURE TO MAKE A PROBLEM GO AWAY, BUT 7 1/2 MILLION DOLLARS.
AND THAT WAS FOR A SETTLEMENT INVOLVING THE MANICURIST
AND HER ALONE.
THERE ARE DOZENS OF ALLEGATIONS.
LET ME GIVE YOU ANOTHER ONE.
LET'S GO TO GRAPHIC 70.
HE LATER PRESSURED HER TO MASTURBATE HIM AND AFTER
THAT HAPPENED, HE STARTED PRESSURING HER TOWARD ORAL SEX
AND SHE REFUSED THOSE ADVANCES BUT AGAIN, SAME SITUATION.
SHE CLAIMS THAT SHE COMPLAINED ABOUT IT BUT NO ONE DID
ANYTHING ABOUT IT WHATSOEVER.
REMEMBER, THESE WOULD BE OUTRAGEOUS UNDER ANY
CIRCUMSTANCE BUT HE IS ALSO THEIR BOSS.
IF THERE IS ONE THING I KNOW ABOUT REPUBLICANS, IF THERE
IS DIRTY MONEY LIKE FROM HARVEY WEINSTEIN, THEY THINK THAT
IT SHOULD BE RETURNED.
SO ANA, IT IS WEIRD TO ME THAT THAT STATEMENT DOESN'T SAY
ANYTHING ABOUT RETURNING THE MONEY, JUST THAT HE RESIGNED.
IT IS NO SURPRISE THAT WYNN IS A HUGE SUPPORTER AND
BACKER OF THE GOP AND ESPECIALLY DONALD TRUMP.
HE IS GIVEN A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF MONEY TO
REPUBLICANS AND TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN AND AS YOU KNOW, HE WAS A
FINANCE A CHAIR FOR THE RNC.
WHEN THE HARVEY WEINSTEIN STORY CAME OUT, REPUBLICANS,
CONSERVATIVES, THEY WERE OUTRAGED BY IT.
THEY WERE ANGERED BY IT.
THEY CLAIMED THAT THEY WANTED TO PROTECT THE WOMEN AND THAT
THE DNC AND EVERY DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE NEEDED TO RETURN
THE MONEY TO HARVEY WEINSTEIN.
IT IS INTERESTING BECAUSE YOU DO NOT SEE THE SAME BEHAVIOR AND
RHETORIC DIRECTED TOWARD REPUBLICANS AND DONALD
TRUMP HIMSELF, WHO ALSO ACCEPTED MONEY FROM STEVE WYNN, YOU
DON'T GET ANY OF THAT COMMENTARY AND LOOK, IT IS NO SURPRISE
THAT THEY ARE HYPOCRITES BUT THAT STATEMENT THAT CAME
OUT FROM THE RNC WAS RIDICULOUS.
ONE SENTENCE, TODAY I ACCEPTED STEVE WYNN'S RESIGNATION FROM
THE RNC.
WHAT ABOUT ALL OF THOSE WOMEN YOU PRETENDED TO CARE ABOUT
WHEN THE SCANDALS BROKE ON THE LEFT?
I WANT TO GET TO THE COMMENTS AHEAD OF THE RNC AT THIS POINT.
RONNA MCDANIEL AND FIRST LET ME SHOW YOU THE WEINSTEIN ONES.
WE ARE GOING TO GO TO GRAPHIC 75 HERE.
SHE SAID:
TO BE FAIR TO THE REPUBLICANS, THREE QUARTERS OF $1
MILLION IS A LOT OF MONEY.
DID STEVE WYNN GIVE THAT MUCH TO THE REPUBLICANS?
OF COURSE YOU KNOW IT IS MORE IN FACT, HERE'S
THE NUMBERS.
NOT BEING SATISFIED WITH THAT:
BY THE WAY, THIS IS ONLY THE MONEY THAT IS REPORTED.
THERE IS ALSO DARK MONEY.
THERE IS A MONEY THAT HE HAS GIVEN TO OTHER GROUPS THAT
ARE NOT REPORTED BACK TO HIM.
WE KNOW THAT HE HAS GIVEN FAR MORE THAN THE THREE QUARTERS OF
$1 MILLION THAT WEINSTEIN GAVE TO THE DEMOCRATS.
IF YOU SAY DEMOCRATS SHOULD RETURN WEINSTEIN'S MONEY, I
UNDERSTAND THAT.
IT IS A FAIR POINT.
BUT THIS MONEY IS ALSO FROM DECADES OF SEXUAL
HARASSMENT ALLEGATIONS,
AT LEAST A VERY SIMILAR FACT PATTERN AND THAT IS WHAT
THE REPUBLICANS EARLIER CALLED DIRTY MONEY.
SO FAR, NOT A WORD ABOUT RETURNING IT.
IT IS PATHETIC.
THE DOUBLE STANDARD IS PATHETIC AND LOOK, THEY SUCCESSFULLY
FRAME THINGS TO THEIR ADVANTAGE, AND YOU HEAR SOME LIBERALS IN
THE MEDIA CRITICIZING REPUBLICANS FOR THE DOUBLE
STANDARD HERE, BUT OVER ALL, THEY GET AWAY WITH THIS
HYPOCRISY TIME AND TIME AGAIN.
IT IS TOTALLY OKAY FOR THEM TO GO AFTER PEOPLE, DO SO
AGGRESSIVELY, BUT WHEN THE SAME BEHAVIOR IS HAPPENING ON
THEIR SIDE, THEY JUST GLOSS OVER IT.
NOT A BIG DEAL.
AGAIN, UNEVEN PLAYING FIELD.
SOMETIMES, PROGRESSIVES
RIGHTFULLY CALLOUT THEIR OWN AND I DON'T THINK HARVEY WEINSTEIN
IS REPRESENTATIVE OF ANYBODY, BUT SHOULD HE BE DISAVOWED?
ABSOLUTELY.
IN THEIR CASE,
SOMETIMES BASED ON FLIMSY ALLEGATIONS FROM JUST
CONSERVATIVES, PROGRESSIVES WILL DO A CIRCULAR FIRING SQUAD
SO QUICK YOU WILL NOT KNOW WHAT HIT YOU.
REPUBLICANS ON THE OTHER HAND, DO NOT CARE.
EVEN THOUGH WE JUST SAID THE OPPOSITE JUST A LITTLE
WHILE AGO, I AM NOT GOING TO RETURN THE MONEY.
I DO NOT CARE, I'M GOING TO CIRCLE THE WAGONS.
TRUMP IS ACCUSED BY 19 WOMEN OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT.
I SAID ALL OF THE THINGS ABOUT AL FRANKEN, JOHN CONYERS,
YOU NAME IT.
DON'T CARE, NOT GOING TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT TRUMP AND
THE LIST GOES ON AND ON.
NOW STEVE WYNN, HE GAVE MILLIONS AND MOTIVES OF DOLLARS TO
THE REPUBLICANS.
WE WERE LYING WHEN WE SAID IT WAS DIRTY MONEY OR THAT WE
CARED ABOUT SEXUAL HARASSMENT.
WE DO NOT CARE, WE'RE JUST GOING TO KEEP IT.
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?
WHEN YOU HAVE ONE SIDE
THAT ALWAYS CIRCLES THE WAGON AND ONE SIDE THAT ALWAYS
SURRENDERS,
IT IS NOT A GOOD THING.