Senator Mazie Hirono asked Kash Patel a question. He answered it. She then accuses Patel of not answering the question, which he did. Why don’t we remind readers that Mazie Hirono looked the other way when a fellow Democrat was accused of sexually harassing women. The article from 2018 reminds readers of her silence:

In 1992, when Hirono was in her 12th year in the Hawaii House of Representatives, the New York Times published a 1,500-word article describing allegations of serial sexual assault by U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye against Lenore Kwock, a local woman who worked as a hairdresser (“Accusations Against Hawaii Senator Meet a Silence in His Seat of Power” by Jane Gross). An opinion poll found that more than twice as many people believed Kwock than believed Inouye’s curious denials (the senator said “I am not suggesting she is lying” and “it could be a matter of imagination”).

After Kwock’s accusations were made public, Inouye went on to be reelected to the Senate four more times. When he died in 2012, the Times obituary hailed him as “Hawaii’s quiet voice of conscience in the Senate.” Last year, a Civil Beat article reported more troubling details about Inouye’s interactions with Kwock, the first of which apparently occurred when he was in his 50s and she was 22.

Hirono maintained a studied silence about the behavior of Hawaii’s most powerful politician.