Alleged behavior from the first lady’s “work husband” contended the senior adviser was a “classic Me Too” case amid complaints featuring bullying, bulges and more.
With “decency” on the ballot, nearly a dozen current and former colleagues of Jill Biden’s top adviser Anthony Bernal came forward to voice their concerns about inappropriate workplace behavior that has left many feeling “uncomfortable.”
Tuesday, the New York Post’s Washington, D.C. reporter Steven Nelson released a report citing inside sources allegations of sexual harassment that were said to have gone overlooked because the openly gay Bernal’s relationship with the first lady made him “untouchable.”
“It lines up with everything I experienced working there,” an anonymous former aide told Fox News Digital of the stories presented about the adviser. “I’m surprised it has taken this long for so many staffers to speak out. I wouldn’t be shocked if this empowered current and past staff to move forward.”
As the Post reported, “Anthony Bernal, whose status as the first lady’s top aide grants him enormous clout in both White House operations and Democratic politics, has repeatedly speculated in the workplace about the penis size of colleagues, according to three sources with firsthand knowledge.”
Top Biden White House official Anthony Bernal has bullied and verbally sexually harassed colleagues over more than a decade — but is considered “untouchable” because first lady Jill Biden regards him as her “work husband.” He sounds like Hunter Biden. pic.twitter.com/OKda3TAirU
— Ron Milner (@RonMilnerBoodle) March 12, 2024
Those sources suggested that the adviser had shared theories on how to discern the size of a man’s genitalia, speculated on the endowments of Secret Service agents and other aides, asked “if people are gay all the time,” accused a colleague of having a small penis during a disagreement and even “remarked on another staffer’s bulge in his khakis.”
“It is to make people uncomfortable and to have power over them,” one source said. “It is Me Too — classic Me Too.”
Another said, “It was a lot of inappropriate remarks — talking about other people’s attractiveness and speculating about their sex lives at very weird moments…that’s actually sexual harassment.”
Sources also asserted the White House’s retention of Bernal was “hypocritical” as President Joe Biden had vowed to fire anyone “on the spot” if he heard them “treat another colleague with disrespect…talk down to someone…On the spot. No ifs, ands or buts. Everybody…everybody is entitled to be treated with decency and dignity. That’s been missing in a big way the last four years.”
However, it seemed that claims brought against Bernal hadn’t even warranted an investigation, leading one former aide to suggest to Fox News Digital, “If the White House Counsel is investigating the behavior of a junior staffer in the scheduling and advance office, does that mean they’re investigating Anthony Bernal, an assistant to the president, too? A dozen sources seem like enough to trigger that type of internal investigation.”
Responding to the allegations against the adviser, White House chief of staff Jeff Zients told the Post “His many fans at the White House know him to be both gracious and tough, holding himself up to the highest standards, with a heart dedicated to public service. It is disappointing that he is the target of unfounded attacks from unnamed sources.”
The statement only drew further ire from one former aide he contended to the newspaper, “From a comms approach, I have no idea what the hell they were thinking by putting Jeff Zients’ name on a statement defending a guy accused by a dozen staffers of being a bully and worse.”
“If I were Zients, I would be furious that I was left up the creek without a paddle. No one was protecting him in an effort to protect a serial abuser who has been a ticking time bomb for the Bidens for over a decade,” the aide continued. “If it weren’t for that book from a New York Times reporter, this would have continued to go unnoticed.”
The book referenced was “American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden” by Times reporter Katie Rogers, released at the end of February. As previously reported, that book also touted the first couple’s sex life.
In addition to other corporate management positions, Bernal served on the board of Facebook from 2018 to 2020 and was previously named in a report from Fox News Digital as one of dozens of current and former officials in the administration whom the president’s son, Hunter Biden, “had frequent contact with…”
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Author: Kevin Haggerty
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