Weinstein’s Web

One thing that stares you in the face after Harvey Weinstein’s fall from grace is the vast web of connections and backscratching that protected him for so long. Start with Woody Allen, who on Monday “clarified” his comments about being “sad for Harvey” (and “those poor women”) to specify that Weinstein “is a sad, sick man.”

Thing is, the mogul played a key role in saving Allen’s own career in the wake of his early-’90s sex scandals — the marriage to Soon-Yi Previn, a teen to whom he’d been a father figure; the allegations of abuse that lost him visitation rights with an adoptive daughter. Weinstein produced Allen’s 1994 “Bullets Over Broadway,” which earned the director an Oscar nomination.

That air of an “old pervs network” makes Woody the wrong guy to be warning against “a witch hunt atmosphere” just now, with dozens of women accusing Harvey of sex abuse, weird come-ons and rape.

And, for the record, there’s no sign of “a Salem atmosphere” so far, just all of Hollywood rushing to break ties with Weinstein, from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science to his own company.

And some witch-hunting is plainly in order — to, for example, get every last Democratic cause to get rid of Weinstein’s tainted cash.

That includes $250,000 in Weinstein donations to the Clinton Foundation — formerly the William J. Clinton Foundation, set up by an ex-president with his own sex scandals.

To be fair, some are linked to Weinstein through no fault of their own: The taxpayers of New York never chose to hand Harvey’s company $400,000 in tax credits. That blame falls on politicians eager to buy some Hollywood glamor and donations.

Can the pols please end this waste of public money now? It would be one small step to unraveling Harvey’s web.