May 18, 2019: President Trump Hangs with a lot of Dodgy Characters

  

5/18/19: The party of family values, the sanctity of marriage, and magic “point of contact” coins for $45 (see: 5/15/19), admits it has accepted $400,000 in campaign donations from Steve Wynn, the disgraced former casino magnate. 

If you have forgotten, Mr. Wynn lost his position as fundraising chairman of the Republican National Committee and was forced out as head of Wynn Resorts in January 2018, after evidence of serious sexual abuse was uncovered. The company has since paid a $20 million fine assessed by the Nevada Gaming Commission for ignoring employee complaints about his aberrant behavior. 

The Massachusetts Gaming Commission has also filed a report. Wynn Resorts executives are accused of hushing up complaints, including one from an employee who said Wynn raped her in a massage room.

 

According to the Wall Street Journal, Wynn had a “decades-long history” of sexual abuse. As summarized by The Week, the Journal found: 

…that in 2005, Wynn called a salon worker to his office at the Wynn Las Vegas for a manicure, after which the businessman “pressured her to take her clothes off and told her to lie on the massage table he kept in his office suite.” Despite the manicurist’s repeated statements that she did not want to have sex, Wynn “persisted in his demands,” the Journal wrote, “and ultimately she did disrobe and they had sex.” After the incident, the manicurist filed a report to the Wynn Las Vegas’ human resources department, which ended in Wynn paying the woman a $7.5 million settlement [emphasis added].

 

The Journal reported that Wynn allegedly repeatedly acted inappropriately around the female hospitality staff in his casinos, to the point where employees “entered fake appointments in the books to help other female workers get around a request for services in Mr. Wynn’s office.” One masseuse, who worked at the Wynn Las Vegas, said Wynn told her to “massage his penis to climax,” and she said she complied because Wynn was her boss – though she refused subsequent requests from him to perform oral sex. Another woman said Wynn asked to kiss her, a comment she “laughed off” so as not to anger him, per the Journal.

 

As Politico notes, “Last month, Wynn greeted President Donald Trump on the tarmac when the president flew to Las Vegas for a rally.” 

Two perverted peas in a pod.

Wynn and Trump in better days.