Plaintiff in Landmark Sexual Harassment Case Voting Trump

The woman who won a landmark sexual harassment case against the Reagan administration after she lost her job as an air traffic controller is not backing the first female major party nominee for president.

Deborah Katz Pueschel said Democrat Hillary Clinton’s corruption outweighs whatever personal foibles Republican Donald Trump has.

“I saw the corruption come into the government, come into Washington, especially when the Clintons came in … Donald Trump needs to come in and sweep the system in D.C.”

“I am a lifetime federal employee, a lifetime civil servant … And I saw the corruption come into the government, come into Washington, especially when the Clintons came in,” she told LifeZette. “Donald Trump needs to come in and sweep the system in D.C.”

Pueschel, now 64 and living in Florida, said she’s disliked the Clintons since their early days in the White House, when they fired seven civil service employees of the White House Travel Office in May 1993 to make room for friends and allies.

Travelgate, as the incident came to be known, was the first scandal of Bill Clinton’s presidency.

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The director, Billy Dale, was charged with embezzlement but eventually found not guilty.

Independent Counsel Robert Ray issued a report in 2000 determining that Hillary Clinton had made false statements during the investigation — but he recommended no criminal charges because of insufficient evidence that she knew the statements were false or that she understood her statements led to the firings.

Pueschel said Clinton aided and abetted her husband’s exploitation of women.

“Hillary Clinton has been planning to be president of the United States since Day 1,” she said. “She has exploited women.”

Pueschel’s sexual harassment case is widely taught in law schools. She sued in 1981, alleging that her supervisors had permitted a hostile work environment. After a federal judge found in favor of the government, the Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled she had demonstrated that her workplace “was pervaded with sexual slur, insult, and innuendo.”

Pueschel eventually got her old job back, although many of her colleagues lost theirs after President Ronald Reagan ordered a mass firing in response to an illegal strike.

“Believe it or not, those controllers are probably supporting Trump,” she said. “He’s the true patriot.”

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Pueschel later lost her job again after she became sick. She said the government refused to make accommodations for her so she could continue her job and that she unsuccessfully sued.

Pueschel called into “The Laura Ingraham Show” Wednesday to weigh in on the media-fueled outrage over Trump’s past criticism of a Miss Universe participant for weight gain.

“I have to look at the bigger picture,” she said. “Is he crass? Yes. Have I been crass? Yes … I can put aside my personal feelings. Does he say things that upset me? Yes. I get more angry with her. To me, my patriotism comes first.”