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CPAC Speaker Lambasts GOP 'Hypocrites' Over Trump Sexual Harassment Allegations

Mona Charen, a conservative political analyst, was booed for her comments and later was escorted by security from the event for her safety.

By Dominique Mosbergen

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President Donald Trump spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at National Harbor, Maryland, on Friday.

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A speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference drew the ire of audience members on Saturday when she expressed disappointment that "people on our side" have been silent about allegations of sexual harassment lodged against President Donald Trump and other Republicans.

Booed and heckled by the crowd, Mona Charen, had to be escorted out by security for her own safety following the event.

Charen, a veteran conservative political analyst and writer, was on a panel discussing feminism when she said she was "disappointed in people on our side for being hypocrites about sexual harassers and abusers of women who are in our party, who are sitting in the White House, who brag about their extramarital affairs, who brag about mistreating women."

Charen added: "And because he happens to have an 'R' after his name, we look the other way, we don't complain."

Although she did not explicitly name the president, Trump talked about grabbing women by their genitals in a 2005 "Access Hollywood" tape that surfaced late in the 2016 presidential campaign.

Trump also has been accused by at least 21 women of sexual harassment and misconduct. He has denied the allegations.

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Mona Charen bravely discusses the hypocrisy against women in the WH at #ustoo panel during @CPAC

She specifically mentions the Roy Moore endorsement. Audience boos.

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Charen, who was a speechwriter for former First Lady Nancy Reagan, went on to criticize the Republican Party for supporting Alabama U.S. Senate hopeful Roy Moore "even though he was a credibly accused child molester."

"You cannot claim that you stand for women and put up with that," she said.

Her comments prompted boos and jeering from the audience. "Prove it!" shouted one audience member. "It was a witch hunt!" yelled another.

In an upset, Moore ended up losing the December special Senate election to Democrat Doug Jones

A Newsweek reporter at CPAC said Charen's words were the most critical of Trump that he'd heard since the annual gathering began on Thursday. A straw poll of attendees showed a 93 percent approval rating for the president.

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Whoa, Mona Charen just called out President Trump on his alleged sexual misconduct from the CPAC floor. By far the strongest criticism of the President I've heard here.

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First serious booing I've heard here in four days. https://twitter.com/alexnazaryan/status/967483778384965632 …

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I cannot emphasize how surprising Charen's criticism was, and how upset many of the conservatives in the audience seemed. There seemed to be indignation that she would think to mention him as a potential harasser. https://twitter.com/alexnazaryan/status/967483778384965632 …

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Charen was also loudly booed for criticizing CPAC for inviting French far-right politician Marion Le Pen to speak at the event.

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Mona Charen at CPAC torches Marion Le Pen: "The only reason she was here is she's named Le Pen. And the Le Pen name is a disgrace. Her grandfather is a racist and nazi. She claims she stands for him."

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CHAREN: "The fact that CPAC invited her is a disgrace."

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Following the panel discussion, Charen had to be escorted out of the event by three security guards, according to a Politico reporter.

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Mona Charen, who stunned #CPAC by rebuking conservatives for excusing the behavior of Donald Trump and Roy Moore, was just escorted outside by 3 security guards after her speech. More in @POLITICOMag story later.

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Charen wrote about the experience in a New York Times Op-Ed that published on Sunday. The guards, she said, "seemed genuinely concerned for my safety."

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She also said she had been "dreading" her appearance on the CPAC panel, because she anticipated a negative reaction to what she was prepared to say about hypocrisy.

But when the crowd booed and jeered her, "I almost welcomed it," she said. "There is nothing more freeing than telling the truth. And it must be done, again and again, by those of us who refuse to be absorbed into this brainless, sinister, clownish thing called Trumpism, by those of us who refuse to overlook the fools, frauds and fascists attempting to glide along in his slipstream into respectability."

This story has been updated with comments from Charen's Op-Ed.

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