The New York Democrat, who is running for president, said she had no regrets about the way the matter was handled. The aide was not fired until a media outlet contacted Gillibrand’s office about the case.
By Felicia Sonmez Felicia Sonmez National reporter on The Washington Post's breaking political news team Email Bio Follow March 11 at 10:35 PM Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand , a 2020 presidential candidate and leading voice in Congress on combating sexual misconduct, on Monday defended her handling of sexual harassment allegations against a former aide who was not fired until a media outlet contacted the senator’s office last month.
Neither the senator nor her spokeswoman explained why Gillibrand’s staff had failed to contact the two witnesses who were recommended to them by the initial accuser. Both witnesses were former employees of Gillibrand’s office. “When I had the courage to speak up about my harasser, I was belittled by her office and treated like an inconvenience,” she said. “She kept a harasser on her staff until it proved politically untenable for her to do so.”
The woman later resigned in protest of the way Gillibrand’s office handled her accusations as well as the aftermath of the investigation, during which one senior Gillibrand aide had reportedly told the woman that she, too, had committed fireable offenses. “When we’ve asked service members, ‘What would you do? What would make you actually report?’ Overwhelmingly they have answered, ‘If you took it out of the chain of command,’ ” Gillibrand said at the hearing, noting that the perpetrator is often a member of the chain of command.
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