By Daily Wire. Hillary Clinton made headlines Tuesday for a wide-ranging interview she held with The Hollywood Reporter in anticipation of the world premiere of “Hillary,” a documentary about her life, premiering this week at the Sundance Film Festival, but largely because she finally let loose on Sen. Bernie Sanders, her rival for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, trashing the Vermont Senator and calling him unlikeable and fake.

But in her interview with THR, she also defended her longtime friend, Democratic mega-donor Harvey Weinstein, despite “disavowing” the accused sexual predator back in the 2017, when he was first accused of dozens of sexual assaults and rapes. . .

That makes it sound as though Clinton just cashed Weinstein’s checks, but the pair have at least a cordial relationship going back more than a decade. Indeed, he was a donor; Weinstein reportedly bundling around $1.6 million for Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, per Newsweek, and giving around $1.4 million of his own to Democrats since 1992, when Clinton’s husband, Bill, first ran for president. . .

But Bill and Hillary Clinton were personal friends of Weinstein’s. The trio were spotted together at fundraisers, like the Planned Parenthood 100th Anniversary Gala, which took place just a couple of months before the #MeToo movement began in earnest, and Bill and Hillary dined out with Harvey at New York landmark Rao‘s in December of 2016, after she lost the presidential election to Donald Trump — one of her first times out after the election. It was a business meeting, The New York Times reported; Clinton wanted to make a documentary about her loss.

And Clinton was, reportedly, told several times about Weinstein’s extra-curricular activities during the 2016 election cycle, most notably by writer and women’s rights activist Lena Dunham, who took a front-and-center role on Clinton’s campaign. Dunham emailed Clinton’s then-communications director with a dire warning: “I just want you to let you know that Harvey’s a rapist and this is going to come out at some point,” she said. “I think it’s a really bad idea for him to host fund-raisers and be involved because it’s an open secret in Hollywood that he has a problem with sexual assault.” (Read more from “Hillary Clinton Defends Pervert Harvey Weinstein” HERE)

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Harvey Weinstein’s Legal Team Claims It Has ‘Dozens’ of ‘Loving’ Emails From Witnesses

By NBC News. Harvey Weinstein’s legal team has “dozens and dozens and dozens” of “loving” emails written by witnesses who accuse him of sexual misconduct, one of the former film mogul’s defense attorneys said in court Tuesday.

The judge overseeing Weinstein’s rape trial ruled Tuesday that the producer’s defense attorneys can talk about the emails but cannot show them. He also prohibited Weinstein’s lawyers from using the emails in their opening statements, which are slated to begin Wednesday in the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan.

The emails “undercut” prosecutors’ arguments that Weinstein was a serial sexual predator, defense attorney Damon Cheronis said.

Cheronis claimed one accuser sent his client an email after an alleged encounter giving him her new phone number, while another sent him an email after another alleged encounter in which she sought to introduce him to her mother.

“We have dozens and dozens and dozens of emails which include statements from complaining witnesses that they were involved in a relationship with Mr. Weinstein, including loving relationships and sexual encounters, and show in one case that they care about him,” Cheronis said, later characterizing the emails as “loving.” (Read more from “Harvey Weinstein’s Legal Team Claims It Has ‘Dozens’ of ‘Loving’ Emails From Witnesses” HERE)

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