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But Fairfax\u2019s aspirations were also upended in 2019 when two women accused him of sexual assault. One woman claimed Fairfax assaulted her at the Democratic National Convention in 2004 \u2014 while another woman said he raped her in 2000 when they were both students at Duke University. <\/p>\n
Despite his troubling track record, Blake doubled-down in an other Instagram post where he claimed he would remember Fairfax\u2019s \u201clegacy before today\u201d.<\/p>\n
Blake defended Fairfax in multiple deleted posts across Instagram and X. Kevin C Downs forThe New York Post<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t forget what he endured when he was hours away from becoming Governor,\u201d Blake wrote in the since deleted rant, seemingly alluding to the sexual assault claims.<\/p>\n
The strange feting of Fairfax by Blake did not sit well with many. <\/p>\n
\u201cY\u2019all are ignoring the pain of Black Women with posts like this,\u201d another Instagram user hit back at Blake.<\/p>\n
While Blake\u2019s posts across X and Instagram have since been deleted, he did not issue an explanation as to why. A rep for Blake did no immediately respond to The Post\u2019s request for comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not so killer instincts. A New York congressional candidate praised Justin Fairfax in a series of sympathy-filled social…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,858,79280,57,14034,9,24,63,129,131,130,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-201274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-congress","10":"tag-justin-fairfax","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-murder-suicide","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-the-bronx","17":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","18":"tag-the-bronx-news","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}