The Hacked Manafort Texts and #MeToo
What kept the wider media from talking about Manafort’s sex stuff.

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Episode Notes
Virginia Heffernan talks to Maya Gurantz, co-host of culture and politics podcast The Sauce, about the hacked Manafort texts, journalists’ efforts to confirm allegations, E. Jean Carroll, “do me” feminism, and #MeToo’s ability to free men from the patriarchy.
Podcast production by Melissa Kaplan, with help from Merritt Jacob.
Further reading
Maya Gurantz, Los Angeles Review of Books: “Kompromat: Or, Revelations from the Unpublished Portions of Andrea Manafort’s Hacked Texts”