Herman Cain: It depends on what your definition of "I paid women hush money to keep them quiet about sexual harassment and then conveniently forgot all the details except how I'm innocent" is
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Yesterday, Herman Cain
insisted that the charges against him of sexual harassment were "rumors that never stood up to the facts." Of course, he couldn't remember any of those facts, but he knew they didn't stand up—whatever they were.
Until he remembered that he'd "recused" himself from dealing with the allegations. And then he remembered that there had been no settlement ... until he remembered discussing a settlement with his general counsel, but couldn't remember the amount.
Funny how the details keep coming back to him. Via Politico:
Herman Cain once again revised his account of the sexual harassment allegations he battled in the 1990s, saying in a TV interview he recalled there were additional “ridiculous” items in his accuser’s complaint, beyond the single incident he detailed Monday. [...]
But this time, Cain went on to say that there had been “a couple of other things” in the complaint filed during his time at the National Restaurant Association, though he claimed not to remember the specifics.
Convenient, isn't it, to be able to block out any memory whatsoever of that time multiple employees accused him of sexual harassment, and were paid off to keep their mouths shut—but to have just enough details suddenly come back to him to assert that it's just a bunch of baseless accusations? Funny how memory works that way, isn't it?
Of course, this is all moot because it turns out, the whole Herman Cain paid hush money to multiple women to keep them silent about his sexual harassment of them story is so yesterday's news. So sayeth Martin "Smoking Man" Block, Cain's chief of staff:
“Done. Move on,” Block said. “Let’s talk about what the American people want to hear about, and that’s jobs, jobs jobs.” [...]
"If we have to spend every hour, every day, responding to these ridiculous accusations, it will take us off our message and our campaign. So my statement will stand: Mr. Cain has never sexually harassed anyone, period, end of story."
Hey, Marty, you may want to forward that "end of story" memo to your boss, Mr. Cain. Because apparently, he can't stop talking about how much he doesn't remember about the story that's "done."