'You cannot silence me': Kirsten Gillibrand hits back at Trump for harassing her on Twitter

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) fired back at President Donald Trump's Tuesday morning tweet in which the president suggestively said that she used to be willing to "do anything" to receive his campaign donations.

"You cannot silence me or the millions of women who have gotten off the sidelines to speak out about the unfitness and shame you have brought to the Oval Office," Gillibrand wrote.

Trump's original tweet, which was in response to Gillibrand calling on Trump to step down in the wake of multiple sexual misconduct allegations made against him, accused the senator of regularly coming to his office and "begging" him for campaign donations.

"Lightweight Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a total flunky for Chuck Schumer and someone who would come to my office 'begging' for campaign contributions not so long ago (and would do anything for them), is now in the ring fighting against Trump," the president wrote.

The combination of Trump saying Gillibrand would come "begging" for money and would "do anything for them" has led some commenters to question whether Trump was making some kind of sexual innuendo in his attacks on the New York senator.

Gillibrand, who last week led the charge in calling on Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) to resign in the wake of his own allegations of sexual misconduct, said this week that Trump ought to resign his office after more than a dozen women have accused him of sexual harassment.