Betsy DeVos, President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the Education Department, said Tuesday that if a female student were grabbed by the genitals, as Trump bragged about doing in a hot mic incident in 2005, she would consider it an act of sexual assault.
“Trump was recorded bragging about kissing, and groping, and trying to have sex with women without their consent,” Murray said. “If this behavior, kissing and touching women and girls without their consent, happened in a school, would you consider it sexual assault?”
“Yes,” was DeVos’ simple answer when asked as much by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash.
Murray followed up with a question about the Office for Civil Rights, asking DeVos if she would rein in the office and “the department’s work to protect students from campus sexual assault.”
“I will be looking very closely at how this has been regulated and handled,” DeVos said, “with great sensitivity to those who are victims, and also considering perpetrators as well.
Jason Russell is the contributors editor for the Washington Examiner.
