‘Spitting, Uncontrollable Rage’: 2024 Dem Hopeful Accused by Staff of Abuse

📖Marianne Williamson, a 2024 Democratic presidential hopeful, is being accused of mistreating her 2020 campaign staff.

Politico reported on interviews conducted with 12 individuals who worked for Williamson in 2020.

“It would be foaming, spitting, uncontrollable rage,” a former staffer told the outlet.

The staffer added, “It was traumatic. And the experience, in the end, was terrifying.”

Three of the former staffers claimed Williamson would throw her phone at them.

According to Politico, “Her outbursts could be so loud that two former aides recounted at least four occasions when hotel staff knocked on her door to check on the situation.”

It is reported that, in one situation, Williamson grew so angry “about the logistics of a campaign trip to South Carolina that she felt was poorly planned that she pounded a car door until her hand started to swell,” citing four former staffers.

They said Williamson had to go to an urgent care facility.

Politico noted all 12 former staffers interviewed remembered situations during which Williamson would “scream at people until they started to cry.”

Paul Hodes, a former congressman who also served as Williamson’s 2020 New Hampshire state director, explained, “Those reports of Ms. Williamson’s behavior are consistent with my observations, consistent with contemporaneous discussions I had about her conduct with staff members, and entirely consistent with my own personal experience with her behavior on multiple occasions.”