{"id":364500,"date":"2018-06-08T02:16:36","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T01:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/justin-trudeau-accused-of-groping-reporter-in-2000\/"},"modified":"2018-06-08T02:16:36","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T01:16:36","slug":"justin-trudeau-accused-of-groping-reporter-in-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/justin-trudeau-accused-of-groping-reporter-in-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Trudeau Accused of Groping Reporter in 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>In a recently\u00a0resurfaced editorial, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau appears to apologize for \u201cinappropriately handling\u201d a young journalist nearly 18 years ago.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>WOW. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was accused of &#8220;groping&#8221; a young female reporter on assignment in August 2000. &#8220;Like father, like son&#8221; reads the editorial. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7GiBEd6RIr\">https:\/\/t.co\/7GiBEd6RIr<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Candice Malcolm (@CandiceMalcolm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CandiceMalcolm\/status\/1004545777278992384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 7, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the\u00a0<em>Creston Valley Advance<\/em>, Trudeau told the young woman:\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m sorry. If I had known you were reporting for a national paper, I would never have been so forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>Here is a slightly better quality image of an editorial in the August 14, 2000 Creston Valley Advance, a local B.C. paper, which claims Justin Trudeau apologized for &#8220;inappropriately handling&#8221; (or &#8220;groping&#8221; in the paper&#8217;s words) a female reporter. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fZ748QqWYX\">pic.twitter.com\/fZ748QqWYX<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Sean Craig (@sdbcraig) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sdbcraig\/status\/1004536374052024321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 7, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The editorial, largely dismissive of the apology, chides Trudeau over what the author perceives as a lack of self-awareness as the son of former prime minister Pierre\u00a0Elliott Trudeau.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[S]houldn\u2019t the son of a former prime minister be aware of the rights and wrongs that go along with public socializing?\u201d the<em>\u00a0<\/em>editorial asks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDidn\u2019t he learn through his vast experiences in public life, that groping a strange young woman isn\u2019t in the handbook of proper etiquette, regardless of who she is, what her business is or where they are?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau, a champion of the #MeToo&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/justin-trudeau-accused-of-groping-reporter-in-2000\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recently\u00a0resurfaced editorial, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau appears to apologize for \u201cinappropriately handling\u201d a young journalist nearly 18 years ago. WOW. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was accused of &#8220;groping&#8221; a young female reporter on assignment in August 2000. &#8220;Like father, like son&#8221; reads the editorial. https:\/\/t.co\/7GiBEd6RIr \u2014 Candice Malcolm (@CandiceMalcolm) June 7, 2018 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-364500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}