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Posted: 2017-12-06T04:31:20Z | Updated: 2017-12-06T19:11:15Z

Two influential women in media said they warned Hillary Clinton s aides about Harvey Weinstein but their words of caution appeared to go unheeded.

Actress and director Lena Dunham told The New York Times that she reached out to two members of Clintons presidential campaign team last year to alert them to troubling rumors shed heard about the Hollywood mogul. She recalled telling Kristina Schake, the campaigns deputy communications director, last March that Harveys a rapist and this is going to come out at some point.

I think its a really bad idea for him to host fundraisers and be involved because its an open secret in Hollywood that he has a problem with sexual assault, Dunham remembered adding, referencing Weinsteins support for Clintons campaign. Weinstein was a major Democratic Party donor . He donated in the range of $100,001 to $250,000 to the Clinton Foundation through June 2017, according to the nonprofits website .

Dunham, a vocal Clinton supporter, said Schake promised to relay her message about Weinstein to campaign manager Robby Mook. Dunham said she later also reached out to Adrienne Elrod, a Clinton spokeswoman, after her initial warnings had no apparent effect.

The Girls creator has since been outspoken in her support of Weinsteins accusers.

The woman who chose to speak about their experience of harassment by Harvey Weinstein deserve our awe. It's not fun or easy. It's brave.

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The woman who chose to speak about their experience of harassment by Harvey Weinstein deserve our awe. It's not fun or easy. It's brave.

Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) October 5, 2017

Magazine editor and author Tina Brown told the Times that shed also warned Clintons aides years before about Weinstein.

During the 2008 presidential race, Brown said she told a member of Clintons inner circle in an email that the former first lady was unwise to be so closely associated with him.

It remains unclear whether these warnings ever reached Clintons ears. Elrod and Schake did not deny that Dunham had reached out to them, however, telling the Times only that the term rape was never mentioned.

Clinton, who was criticized for initially remaining silent about the Weinstein accusations, has suggested she knew nothing of the producers predatory behavior prior to the first bombshell article in the Times describing the sexual harassment allegations against him.

I was appalled. It was something that was just intolerable in every way, she told CNN s Fareed Zakaria in October. And, you know, like so many people whove come forward and spoken out, this was a different side of a person who I and many others had known in the past.

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Clinton added at the time that she intended to donate the funds that Weinstein had given to her campaign to charity.

What other people are saying, what my former colleagues are saying, is theyre going to donate it to charity, and of course I will do that, she told Zakaria. I give 10 percent of my income to charity every year, this will be part of that. Theres no theres no doubt about it.

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