T he West Wing star Bradley Whitford has ripped into fellow actor Cheryl Hines over her husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr . The US presidential candidate announced last week that he is suspending his bid for the White House as an independent candidate.
He’s instead throwing his support behind Republican nominee and former US president Donald Trump . But Whitford, 64, isn’t having any of it, and has taken aim at the politician’s wife, Curb Your Enthusiasm star Hines. The Josh Lyman actor, who appeared on West Wing between 1999 and 2006, wrote on X: ‘Hey @CherylHines, way to stay silent while your lunatic husband throws his support behind [Trump] who brags about stripping women of their fundamental rights.
‘Gutsy. Great example for the kids. Profile in courage.
’ Whitford shared a video of Trump thanking the US Supreme Court judges for scrapping abortion rights in overturning Roe v Wade . Earlier this year, former president Trump was found liable of sexually abusing E Jean Carroll by a jury , but has not been found guilty of rape, Carroll alleged that Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman fitting room in the mid-1990s and that he defamed her when he called her case on his Truth Social platform ‘a Hoax and a lie’ and ‘a complete con job’. According to The Washington Post , though the jury did not find Trump guilty of rape, the judge clarified that it was on a legal distinction.
‘The finding that Ms. Carroll failed to prove that she was ‘raped’ within the mean.