- Hillary Clinton wrote at length about her decision to keep a top adviser on her 2008 presidential campaign after he was accused of sexual harassment by a female subordinate.
- Clinton argued that she did not believe firing her aide was the appropriate punishment at the time and that the country's approach to sexual misconduct has undergone a "seismic shift."
- "The short answer is this: If I had it to do again, I wouldn't," she wrote.
- She published the Facebook post right before President Donald Trump's State of the Union address began.
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Hillary Clinton addresses 2008 sexual harassment controversy in epic Facebook post, blasts New York Times for not firing Glenn Thrush
Hillary Clinton wrote at length about her decision to keep a top adviser on her 2008 presidential campaign after he was accused of sexual harassment.
In a lengthy Facebook post on Tuesday evening, Hillary Clinton addressed controversy surrounding her newly revealed decision to keep her faith adviser, Burns Strider, on her 2008 presidential campaign after he was accused of sexual harassment by a female subordinate.
The New York Times first reported the story last Friday and Clinton responded with a tweet late Friday night saying that she had been "dismayed" to learn of the allegations against Strider in 2008, but that she believed the woman's concerns had been "
"We can't go back, but we can certainly look back, informed by the present," she wrote. "We can acknowledge that even those of us who have spent much of our life thinking about gender issues and who have firsthand experiences of navigating a male-dominated industry or career may not always get it right."
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