Chicago City Wire

Recent exam questions in an African Studies class indicate the left may be doing all it can to paint the current president as a bigot while ignoring the ethical and moral lapses of leaders on its own side.

The above-mentioned exam from a class at California State University-Northridge included a question asking whether President Donald Trump expressed negative views toward women, Muslims, immigrants or "all of the above."

Although we may hear reports about once-prominent male figures in the media and entertainment field, such as Charlie Rose, Matt Lauer and Harvey Weinstein, becoming ensnared in fallout from past sexual relationships, the left may be anemic when it comes to indicting its own political leaders – who may be as guilty of hypocrisy as other politicians, including those on the right.

Another name has joined the list of once-prominent men caught up in the #MeToo movement: longtime political activist and former Democratic presidential candidate Jesse Jackson.

Karin Stanford, 39, alleges she had a four-year affair with Jackson and that the consensual relationship produced their daughter, Ashley, according to a report by ABC News. Jackson has not denied the allegation and refused to comment to ABC News, citing privacy concerns for the child.

The ABC News report says the pregnancy occurred at the same time Jackson was serving as an adviser to President Bill Clinton regarding his affair with Monica Lewinski.

A bombshell allegation from Stanford alleges that although she tried to conceal her pregnancy after the four-year affair, once Jackson found out the child was his, he chose not to run for the presidency again in 2000.

"I think he was concerned that because reporters were calling and asking about who the father of my baby was," she told ABC News. "His concern was that they would focus more on his personal life rather than his campaign platform."

Shortly after Jackson and Stanford finalized an agreement for child support of $4,000 a month, the ABC report says Jackson presented Stanford with a confidentiality agreement she declined to sign.

The ABC report quotes Stanford as saying, “I was shocked. I had basically kept the details of our relationship confidential. … So then to be hit with the confidentiality agreement was highly insulting to me.”

Stanford took a position working for Jackson after the two met to discuss her plans to turn her Ph.D. dissertation on Jackson’s foreign policy positions into a book. Although Jackson had a wife and five children, the two fell in love.

"I know it's caused a lot of pain," Stanford said during the ABC News interview. "I know it's caused a lot of problems for people, but she's here, and she's happy and she's healthy. I think it was a good decision."