A U.S. Minnesota Senate candidate is calling for a state investigation into Rep. Keith Ellison, a Democrat who has been accused by an ex-girlfriend of physical and emotional abuse, according to an internally leaked Democrat report.
Karin Housley, the Republican nominee for the United States Senate, announced that she had officially asked the Minnesota Office of the Attorney General to investigate the claim of Karen Monahan against Ellison, who is running for attorney general ahead of the November elections.
Housley said that Ellison’s call for a congressional investigation into Monahan’s allegations isn’t aimed at genuinely getting to the truth.
“These are serious, recent and substantiated allegations that deserve immediate attention and raise significant doubts about Keith Ellison’s fitness to serve as Minnesota’s chief legal officer.”
Housley highlighted how her opponent, Senator Tina Smith, joined in the calls for an investigation into Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh but has chosen to side with Ellison rather than his accuser.
“Tina Smith said Judge Brett Kavanaugh ‘committed sexual assault’ and called for a ‘quick and thorough investigation’ into the allegations made against him, despite the judge’s repeated, emphatic denials. But curiously, Tina Smith has chosen to believe Keith Ellison’s ‘categorical’ denials, affirming her support for him and openly campaigning with him,” Housley said.
Abuse and Threats
The allegations against Ellison, who has in the past been linked to far-left elements including Antifa and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, surfaced earlier this year after Monahan’s son said he discovered a disturbing video on his mother’s computer showing Ellison throwing her to the floor in a bedroom while screaming and yelling obscene slurs.Austin Monahan said he’s also seen over 100 text and Twitter messages in which the congressman threatened his mother.
“The pathological lying, cheating, smearing my name, and seeking validation and sympathy from the various females he was preying on, kept getting more and more frequent,” she said. “By the time the physical abuse occurred, I was dealing with the PTSD full-blown.”
Monahan, an organizer with the Sierra Club, released a medical record in mid-September that showed a doctor’s report from 2017. The doctor stated that Monahan was suffering from anemia. “She states that she was in a very stressful environment for years, emotional and physical abuse by a partner with whom she is now separated,” the doctor wrote.
Democrat Report
The Democratic National Committee ordered an investigation into Monahan’s claim and the draft report was leaked on Oct. 1.A lawyer with links to the state’s Democratic party concluded that the abuse claim couldn’t be substantiated because Monahan declined to show the video she says she has showing the abuse to the attorney.
“She has thus repeatedly placed the existence of the video front and center to her allegations, but then has refused to disclose it.”
Another woman, Amy Alexander, has said that in 2006 Ellison verbally abused her.
Ellison has denied any wrongdoing during a Sept. 21 debate with the Republican nominee for attorney general Doug Wardlow, only admitting calling Monahan a derogatory term once.
Wardlow has highlighted the abuse claims in his campaign, arguing that they make Ellison unfit for office.
