Sen. Cory Booker has found himself the subject of a piece of erotic fan fiction gay sex rumors on social media over the weekend. But not everyone is buying the B.S., including some Republicans.
Related: Anonymous man’s outrageous sex claims against Cory Booker on Twitter read like a bad romance novel
The accusations were made on Twitter by an anonymous person claiming to be a “liberal, gay man” who alleges Booker sexually assaulted him in a workplace bathroom in 2014, shortly after Booker was elected to the US Senate.
#CoryBooker Sexually Assaulted Me
and why it won't matter to the #metoo movement. https://t.co/8VQuMGY8bj pic.twitter.com/D5DWnFmfzd— Deep Throat (@TheeDeepThroat) October 20, 2018
The whole document reads a bad romance novel. It details how the man heard a knock on the bathroom door. When he opened it, he saw Sen. Booker standing there looking at him in a seductive manner.
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“Being a hero is a serious turn-on,” Booker allegedly said. “The Senate appreciates fine citizens like you. Especially this senator.”
Then he sexually assaulted him.
Not surprisingly, internet trolls, including Donald Trump Jr., have latched onto the story, creating the disparaging hashtag #BathroomBooker and calling for a full investigation into the 49-year-old senator from New Jersey:
Based on @CoryBooker’s rules when it comes to due process for accused sexual assaulters, we must assume he’s guilty until he proves otherwise by calling for an FBI investigation into himself. I assume he won’t be running for president until that investigation is complete.
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) October 22, 2018
But not everyone is so quick to jump on the #BathroomBooker bandwagon. On her show last night, FOX News host Laura Ingraham raised doubts about the story.
“I don’t like anonymous allegations,” she said. “We actually think everyone should wait for the details to come in before we say something like this, right?”
We have to say, we’re pleasantly surprised by Ingraham’s measured response to this whole thing. After all, this is the same woman who’s gay brother describes her as “a monster,” who made sport out of outing her gay classmates at Dartmouth, and who joked the solution to the trans bathroom issue was to make trans people wear adult diapers.
She continued:
I don’t like it when people do this kind of stuff. I believe it is a smear. I mean, if you’re going to make an accusation — this is a supposedly a man making an accusation that something happened in a bathroom- if you’re going to make that kind of accusation you better put your name to it. Our point is a simple one. We have major media outlets during Kavanaugh rolling when this anonymous stuff and people like Cory Booker out there tarring Brett Kavanaugh because of the mountain of evidence, which ended up being nothing.
Watch.
funpitt412
Hey if we are suppose to believe everyone that comes forward, we have to believe this man that accused him.
Juanjo
Sorry but what man? No one knows who posted this. No one knows if anything about it is factual. The allegations about Kavanaugh came from people who identified themselves and came forward publicly.
Greg
That’s what they want you to do. People who just parrot that bullshit. “we’re supposed to believe everyone that comes forward”. Use your brain. This is obviously a smear campaign. The man who is accusing Senator Booker should come forward if it’s true. But he won’t because it’s not.
Kieran
@Greg ALL accusations of sexual abuse MUST be taken seriously and fully investigated. Unlike Prof. Blasey Ford’s 40 year old allegation in which she had no witnesses, no proof, and remembered nothing except she had only “one beer”, the Booker accusation is only a couple years old.
Vince
@Kieran. Except an accusation doesn’t count when they refuse to come out and identify themselves.
Heywood Jablowme
@Kieran: Blasey Ford remembers much, much more than that and described it all in great detail at the Kavanaugh hearings.
You are parroting Trump’s LIES and complete BULLSH*T from his Nuremburg rallies. That’s where the “one beer” bullsh*t comes from. Trump just made it up, and you’re stupid enough to believe him.
Kieran
Keep blowing your angry, hot air Haywood.
Meanwhile Justice Kavanaugh sits on the US Supreme Court.
Kieran
Miss Cory needs to demand an FBI investigation to clear her name. If she is not a sexual predator she should welcome a full investigation into these disturbing allegations. The gay male victim in this case should be treated with the same sensitivity and respect afforded to Prof. Christime Blasey-Ford.
Juanjo
Miss Kieran is on her usual rag.
Greg
Okay. So where’s the male victim? Hello? Anybody there? Come out, come out wherever you are. Tell us all about Big Bad Booker. Don’t be shy. We all want to hear about how he assaulted you. No? I didn’t think so.
MusicalTheaterSurvivor
Fascinating to see how everyone has piled on this male accuser. This site, Ingraham, who else?
Someone’s very eager to shut this story down.
Could it be Booker’s “secret girlfriend”, the attractive middle-aged woman recently profiled in a story on Page Six of the New York Post?
Juanjo
Really?
Greg
Nobody should care about any secret girlfriend considering what they let Trumpty Dumpty get away with. That’s the problem they have now. They cannot claim any moral outrage about ANYTHING because they support Trumpty.
Toofie
The problem is when you read the incident, it comes across a fake. Like the guy who wrote it had his thesaurus out to sound intelligent.
rray63
We are becoming selective in what we choose to believe. Contrary to what someone on here said there was no evidence against the judge. If he was as bad as the one woman, that changed her story a few time said why didn’t she come forward when he first became a judge? Please, please don’t tell me about a buried memory. I’m sure it can happen but as a victim, I will never forget who, when, where, or how. I know you folks who are so kind to all members of the LBGTQ community will call me a variety of names. I call that being shortsighted. I don’t know if the alleged person, making the alleged claim against Booker is real. I will grant one thing, until he comes forward I will not give much credence to the story. However, if he does come forward, we should treat him the way the Judge’s accuser was treated. Let’s hope you all remember that in this country, at least on paper, we are innocent until proven guilty. That is not what we as a community did with Kavanaugh. If you say we treated him as innocent you are being disingenuous at best, a liar at worst. Okay, start with the name calling.
JK 1984
I disagree with several things you said, here is my rebuttal:
1. While I haven’t (thankfully) being a victim of sexual assault, I have friends who have been and they have discussed it with me. For them (can’t speak for everyone, just them plus some research I’ve seen) they haven’t give to the police for a variety of reasons, whether it be that the attacker is too well protected (e.g. priests/politicians), the feeling no one believe them (based on how society/authorities victim shames by saying they were too drunk, skirt was too short, etc) or not wanting to re-live the experience again and again in police station, court, etc…
I have been on the jury for a sexual assault case (man assaulting his teenage step daughter) and the lawyers go after the victim with a vengeance. I can understand why someone wouldn’t want to put themselves through all of that, especially when there no guarantee that if they go through all of that there is no guarantee that the person who assaulted them will be found guilty.
With all that being said, those who have been assaulted and either never gone to the police or have and the case was lost/never started have done their best to forget about what happened as they know they won’t get the justice they deserve. So I can absolutely believe that after 30+ years someone can forget whether it was a Saturday or Friday, out they were driven home or walked, etc.
2. Unless someone comes forward and identifies themselves and goes on the record, this is nothing more than unsubstantiated muck raking, which has been brought up just before a Senate race that Republicans are expecting to lose.
3. By treating the Bookers accuser the same way that Kauvagnahs accuser was, you mean calling her names, calling her a liar, shill for the democrats, Hillary, Soros, et al?
Because that is what Republicans/Conservatives did to Dr Ford. Wolfe I don’t know if she was assaulted by Kauvagnah, the fact she publicly identified herself, went before a Senate committee and spoke under oath (tbh I’m not sure if either of them had to speak under oath, this is an assumption of mine) gives credence to me that she was assaulted by him 30 something years ago.
See, no name calling required.
jakejacob
The fact is Dr Ford is a fraud. Just watch her interview in the senate. A doctor does not act like a 12 year old, And the most important question is — where is she now? She is into hiding. If she were telling the truth she would’ve sued Kavanaugh But she didn’t. Because she’s a liar and a scam artist.
ROBTWILO
Great Facts!! This is how low the Democrats will go to stop our president Donald Trump and his policies which I agree with. I will never vote Demorcrat again after these shenanigans. #gaysfortrump
Mick406
While I don’t have any use for Booker, being such a rabble-rousing Democrat, I do have to admit he is very educated, nice looking and has very good articulation.
With that said, I will also defend him because first of all, he’s a politician, and in the public eye. People of that ilk are always targets of ‘tales’. But . . while he is probably not a full-fledged homo, I think he is fully capable of participating in a male-on-male sex act. Only consensual though. He would be a fool to force himself on someone.
Therefore, “Not Guilty’.
jakejacob
Remember he was fat before. I could see him forcing himself with anyone because he was unattractive.
I say Guilty.
rray63
@JK 1984, you still didn’t give any evidence, either someone else corroborating that he was there, she was there, anything, that ties this to Kavanaugh. No one can even place the Judge there. As for Republicans expecting to lose the Senate? Did you mean the House? Because as far as most people are concerned there isn’t much chance for them to take the Senate. The House was a lock for Democrats, until Judge Kavanaugh, not, it’s not quite as sure as it once was. We finally succeeded in doing the one thing that’s never happened. Insuring that the Republicans are going to get off their butts and vote. So, like with Hillary being Pres., I wouldn’t count those new Dem. seats in the House until the counting is done, we may have screwed the pooch.
Juanjo
rray63 – where did you get your law degree? Because you need to get a refund.
Kavanaugh puts Kavanaugh there by his own calendar. That is why when the “prosecutor” the Republicans brought in to ask questions started asking Kavanaugh about the calendar, they took a break and fired the prosecutor.
jakejacob
Juanjo, Stop making things up.
JK 1984
So no third party can remember whether or not a person was at one specific party 30 something years ago. When I was a teenager/young adult I wouldn’t of been able to tell you who was at a party a few weeks before, let alone try and remember it now.
In sexual assault cases the instructions for the jury are that there doesn’t need to be physical evidence or corroborating testimony as most sexual assault takes place behind closed doors without either of those being available.
So to the best of my knowledge there isn’t any evidence and it comes down to who is more believable. Considering that multiple people from Kauvagnahs past have said that he was a much heavier drinker than he said he was under oath (I.e. he said he was never black out drink vs he was a heavy drinker as said by several people) I am more inclined to believe Dr Ford.
And yes you are correct it was the House I was thinking of, not the Senate.
rray63
@Juanjo, if you think this is a legal discussion you need more than your degree checked. You need you psychiatrist to clear you for public conversations.
o.codone
Dr. Blasey Ford didn’t come forward to be a witness to the alleged abuse, she was outed by Diane Finestein. Outed the victim against her wishes. That’s how dems play. Dirty.
jakejacob
Bingo!
Bryanbami
The person making accusations may want to stay anonymous because he doesn’t want his name in the media, simple as that. Lord if a politician in my country forced themself on me I would have a problem coming forward. there status, their supporters, the fear of having my name bring tarnished by any possible thing that could be nothing as the press and media and lawyers look for things to discredit me.
All on my own.
But I do think it needs investigating.
Just remember. Stop victim shaming