Third woman accuses George H.W. Bush of groping
Former President George H.W. Bush and his wife Barbara Bush speak before the first half of a college basketball game in Houston on March 29, 2015. (David J. Phillip / AP)
Another woman has come forward with allegations that George H.W. Bush groped her as she posed for a photo with the former president at an event.
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Novelist Christina Baker Kline became the third woman this week to make such allegations, writing in Slate that Bush inappropriately touched her in April 2014 at a fundraiser for the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy. While she was taking a picture with Bush at the event, Kline wrote, Bush asked: “You wanna know my favorite book?”
At age 93, President Bush has been confined to a wheelchair for roughly five years, so his arm falls on the lower waist of people with whom he takes pictures. To try to put people at ease, the president routinely tells the same joke – and on occasion, he has patted women’s rears in what he intended to be a good-natured manner. Some have seen it as innocent; others clearly view it as inappropriate. To anyone he has offended, President Bush apologizes most sincerely.”
And in other news-- a 20-something student from San Francisco claimed that former president George Washington groped her on several different occasions...
(Other girls at her college backed up her story...one claiming that not only George Washington but also Alexander the Great has groped her and her friends on several occasions! Another said she had been groped by Thomas Edison in the rear . . . of the schools Science lab. She said she was quite shocked by the incident