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A new report in the New York Times details the many ways that Harvey Weinstein’s “complicity machine” allowed him to command “enablers, silencers and spies” to keep his secrets about allegedly mistreating women and to court influential people in media and politics to burnish his image and help him stay in power.

Those influential people include Hillary and Bill Clinton, as well as David J. Pecker, the chief executive at American Media Inc., which owns The National Enquirer. Pecker is also good friends with President Donald Trump, and both Weinstein and Trump were known in the tabloid industry as untouchable “F.O.P.’s,” the Times said. That is, friends of Pecker.

The disgraced movie mogul has been accused by 83 women, including actresses Ashley Judd, Rose McGowan, Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow, of various forms of mistreatment, from harassment to rape, USA Today said. The allegations go back decades, with some accounts generating interest by police in Los Angeles, New York City and London. Weinstein has consistently said that none of his encounters with women involved “nonconsensual sex.”

The Times, which first reported on allegations against Weinstein on Oct. 5, published a new report on Wednesday describing the Weinstein “complicity machine” that allowed him to get away with so much for so long.

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“Some aided his actions without realizing what he was doing,” the report said. “Many knew something or detected hints, though few understood the scale of his sexual misconduct. Almost everyone had incentives to look the other way or remain silent.”

The report said these enablers included executives at his own company as well as top agents and managers across Hollywood who sent actresses to meet him alone at hotels and advised them to stay quiet when things went wrong.

One of those actresses was Paltrow who told the Times that she rebuffed Weinstein’s advances when she was an up-and-coming young star. Since the Weinstein scandal broke, she has learned that Weinstein boasted that he had sex with her. In trying to coerce other women to have sex with him, he used Paltrow’s Academy Award-winning “First Lady of Miramax” prestige as proof that he could advance the careers of women who pleased him, she told the Times.

Meanwhile, among those who may not have known about Weinstein’s alleged misconduct is Hillary Clinton — even though her presidential campaigns reportedly received warnings about him in 2008 and 2016 from loyal supporters as well as from magazine editor Tina Brown and actress Lena Dunham.

Weinstein had long been a generous donor to Hillary and Bill Clinton. He donated $10,000 to Bill Clinton’s legal defense fund after he was impeached in the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and he served as a fundraiser and informal adviser during Hillary Clinton’s 2000 Senate campaign. He also was an early backer of her presidential bids.

Weinstein’s political activities, which included consistent support to former President Barack Obama, “boosted his image as a man with friends in high places and close ties to the country’s leading female politician,” according to the report.

While Dunham told the Times that she remains loyal to Hillary Clinton, she also said she was troubled by the producer’s visible presence during Clinton’s 2016 presidential run, which ran on a pro-woman, feminist platform.

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Dunham said she had heard some of the stories others had heard about Weinstein. In March of 2016, Dunham said, she warned the campaign. She told Clinton’s deputy communications director Kristina Schake: “I just want you to let you know that Harvey’s a rapist and this is going to come out at some point.”

She added, “I think it’s a really bad idea for him to host fundraisers and be involved because it’s an open secret in Hollywood that he has a problem with sexual assault.”

Based on stories she had heard about Weinstein’s “sleaziness with women,” Brown said she also warned Clinton’s inner circle about him back in 2008.

It appears that their warnings went unheeded because Weinstein helped organize a star-packed fundraiser for Clinton weeks before the election: an evening on Broadway with Julia Roberts, Anne Hathaway and others.

Though Clinton’s communications director Nick Merrill, Schake and Clinton’s campaign manager Robby Mook said they didn’t recall receiving any warnings about Weinstein — including reports about rape or other forms of sexual misconduct — from Dunham or Brown.

In a statement, Merrill said, “We were shocked when we learned what he’d done. It’s despicable behavior, and the women that have come forward have shown enormous courage. As to claims about a warning, that’s something staff wouldn’t forget.”

The Times said that Hillary and Bill Clinton dined with Weinstein and David Boies, his attorney and trusted adviser, at a restaurant in Harlem days after Clinton’s loss in the election.

Soon after, Clinton and Weinstein began planning a TV documentary about her campaign, according to the report. Discussions about the project continued for months, with Clinton’s lawyer exchanging emails with Weinstein about potential European buyers as recently as Sept. 28.

A week later, the Times published its bombshell report on Weinstein’s alleged misconduct. The New Yorker followed with another explosive story a few days later.

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Clinton came under criticism for waiting nearly a week to respond to the allegations about her friend and top political supporter. When she finally issued a statement, she said: “I was shocked and appalled by the revelations about Harvey Weinstein. The behavior described by the women coming forward cannot be tolerated. Their courage and the support of others is critical in helping to stop this kind of behavior.”

While Dunham doesn’t believe Weinstein’s misconduct reports ever reached Clinton herself, she remains troubled that he was so involved in her campaign. “A year and a half ago, on one of the most progressive campaigns in history, this wasn’t a problem,” Dunham said.