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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton downplayed financial contributions to her political campaigns by Harvey Weinstein.

He contributed to every Democrats campaign, Clinton said when asked about the disgraced movie mogul's contributions at the Berlin International Film Festival, where she was attending a screening of her new Hulu documentary. He contributed to Barack Obama's campaign, and John Kerry's campaign and Al Gore's campaign and everybody's campaign.

I don't know whether that should chill anyone else from contributing to political campaigns, but it certainly should end the kind of behavior that he was just convicted for, Clinton added.

Weinstein, 67, was convicted Monday of first-degree sexual assault and third-degree rape in New York City. He faces a possible sentence of between five and 25 years. Weinstein also faces charges in Los Angeles after he was indicted in January, just after the first trial got underway. In that case, he is accused of raping one woman and sexually assaulting another in back-to-back nights during the week of the Oscar Awards in 2013.

Clinton received roughly $55,000 from Weinstein while running for Senate and the presidency, according to Federal Election Commission data. Weinstein also gave $72,000 to Barack Obamas presidential campaigns.

Clinton, who has had a well-documented friendship with Weinstein over many years, defended the relationship earlier this year by suggesting there was no way she could have known about Weinstein's alleged predatory ways.

How could we have known? He raised money for me, for the Obamas, for Democrats in general, Clinton said in January. And that at the time was something that everybody thought made sense. And of course, if all of us had known what we know now, it would have affected our behavior.

Journalist Ronan Farrow wrote in his book Catch and Kill that Weinstein reached out to Clinton to help kill Farrows investigation into sex crimes alleged against him.

Farrow claimed Clintons publicist wrote to him to say that the investigation into Weinstein was a concern for us.

President Trump made the connection between Democratic politicians and Weinstein when asked about the news of the conviction.

I was never a fan of Harvey Weinstein, Trump told reporters on Tuesday. The people who liked him were the Democrats. Michelle Obama loved him, loved him. Hillary Clinton loved him.

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