When Hillary Silences the Rape Victim

First, there was the accusation of a rape committed by then-Arkansas Attorney General Bill Clinton-the man Arkansan Broaddrick was supporting for governor. Broaddrick described the incident this way to Lisa Myers of NBC:

"Then he tries to kiss me again. And the second time he tries to kiss me he starts biting my lip ... He starts to, um, bite on my top lip and I tried to pull away from him. And then he forces me down on the bed. And I just was very frightened, and I tried to get away from him and I told him 'No,' that I didn't want this to happen but he wouldn't listen to me. ... It was a real panicky, panicky situation. I was even to the point where I was getting very noisy, you know, yelling to 'Please stop.' And that's when he pressed down on my right shoulder and he would bite my lip. ... When everything was over with, he got up and straightened himself, and I was crying at the moment and he walks to the door, and calmly puts on his sunglasses. And before he goes out the door he says 'You better get some ice on that.' And he turned and went out the door."

In the weeks that followed, Broaddrick was terrified. She had, she claimed, been raped by the state attorney general: a probable governor. In a rare interview in November of 2015 with radio host Aaron Klein, written up here at Breitbart, she went on:

"I was in a state of shock afterwards,â€\" an emotional Broaddrick said, clearly still impacted by the event. "And I know my nurse came back to the room to check on me because she hadn't heard from me â€¦She came up and it was devastating to her and to me to find me in the condition that I was in."

"We really did not know what to do. We sat and talked and she got ice for my mouth. ... It was four times the size that it should be. And she got ice for me and we decided then I just wanted to go home. I just wanted to get out of there, which we did."

Two weeks later, she encountered Bill and Hillary Clinton at a political event. Bill avoided her, Hillary did not. Here's how Broaddrick describes the scene in a 2000 open letter to Hillary:

"I remember it as though it was yesterday. I only wish that it were yesterday and maybe there would still be time to do something about what your husband, Bill Clinton, did to me. There was a political rally for Mr. Clinton's bid for governor of Arkansas. I had obligated myself to be at this rally prior to my being assaulted by your husband in April, 1978. I had made up my mind to make an appearance and then leave as soon as the two of you arrived. This was a big mistake, but I was still in a state of shock and denial. You had questioned the gentleman who drove you and Mr. Clinton from the airport. You asked him about me and if I would be at the gathering. Do you remember? You told the driver, "Bill has talked so much about Juanita", and that you were so anxious to meet me. Well, you wasted no time. As soon as you entered the room, you came directly to me and grabbed my hand.

Do you remember how you thanked me, saying "we want to thank you for everything that you do for Bill". At that point, I was pretty shaken and started to walk off. Remember how you kept a tight grip on my hand and drew closer to me? You repeated your statement, but this time with a coldness and look that I have seen many times on television in the last eight years. You said, "Everything you do for Bill". You then released your grip and I said nothing and left the gathering.

What did you mean, Hillary? Were you referring to my keeping quiet about the assault I had suffered at the hands of your husband only two weeks before? Were you warning me to continue to keep quiet? We both know the answer to that question."

What Juanita Broaddrick is describing here is Hillary enabling her husband's disgusting behavior. She accuses Hillary directly of knowing what Bill did and then directly threatening Broaddrick to be quiet. Which, once upon a time, out of sheer terror, Broaddrick did. And does no longer.

The moment Hillary Clinton went out there and said of Trump the following, as reported by CNN, Clinton re-opened this old wound. Piously, Hillary said:

"Nothing really surprises me anymore. I don't know that he has any boundaries at all. His bigotry, his bluster, his bullying have become his campaign. And he has to keep sort of upping the stakes and going even further."

She added, "I don't respond to him personally, because he thrives on that kind of exchange. I think he has to answer for what he says, and I assume that others will make the larger point about his language. It's not the first time he's demonstrated a penchant for sexism. Again, I'm not sure anybody's surprised that he keeps pushing the envelope." Got all that? Trump is, among other things, sexist and a bully. The fighter that he is-and too many other Establishment Republicans are not-Trump promptly fired back, tweeting:

"Hillary, when you complain about "a penchant for sexism," who are you referring to. I have great respect for women. BE CAREFUL!" Later Trump added: "We all have to fight fairly. She's playing the woman's card and it's like 'gimme a break."

Gimme a break is right. More than right. Here we have a candidate for president-a woman-who is running around America preaching in a campaign ad to "every survivor of sexual assault" that rape victims "...have the right to be heard. You have the right to be believed. We're with you." Juanita Broaddrick happened to see that gem and said she "almost died" when she saw it.

No kidding. The utter hypocrisy here is so thick it would take two chain saws and four blade changes to cut through it.

The real question here is: Where are all the other GOP candidates? Quiet as church mice. In a year in which rape has been made a cause celebre on college campuses, the American Left falls silent when Juanita Broaddrick speaks out. Recall back in the mists of 2012 when then-Missouri GOP Senate candidate Todd Akin watched his entire campaign implode after he said there was such a thing as "legitimate rape"? Ohhhhh the howls of liberal outrage. President Obama himself stepped into the fray, sternly saying to Jay Leno on the Tonight Show:

"Let me make a very simple proposition: Rape is rape. It is a crime. And so these various distinctions about rape don't make too much sense to me -- don't make any sense to me."

After which Obama asked Bill Clinton-he, the accused by Ms. Broaddrick-to deliver the speech re-nominating Obama at the Democratic National Convention.

All of this reminds of another incident in 1990's history. That would be the 1991 confirmation hearings for Judge Clarence Thomas to be a Supreme Court Justice. Suddenly up popped Anita Hill, a onetime Thomas colleague, who essentially accused Thomas of making off-color remarks, quickly labeled as sexual harassment. All hell broke loose. "Women tell the truth" went the outraged line of the day from the left. Thomas was confirmed. Time passed. Suddenly the Bill Clinton scandals burst on the scene. And there was Juanita Broaddrick with her allegation of rape. Not to mention the lurid tale of Paula Jones, who charged Governor Clinton had summoned her to his hotel suite and proceeded to drop his pants, asking her to "kiss it." And then there was Kathleen Willey, another Clinton supporter who accused President Clinton of groping her in the small study adjacent to the Oval Office.

And the reaction? Why, this was only about sex, don't you know. Accused of far, far more than Clarence Thomas was ever accused of in terms of sexual harassment, now sexual harassment, not to mention the appalling Broaddrick allegations, was just no big deal.

Let's be blunt. The hard fact is that the American Left has two sets of rules. If you are black and conservative, like Clarence Thomas, and accused of sexual harassment without proof, the "high tech lynching" (as Thomas called his hearings) is on. If you are a white liberal guy and accusations of rape and sexual harassment emerge, it just doesn't matter. And if you are Hillary Clinton, and charged with threatening the survivor of sexual assault to be quiet-it simply doesnâ€™t matter.

The good news? Donald Trump has the guts to stand up and say that if Hillary and company is going to be playing the woman card on him he will have a lot to say in response. And right there is exactly why so many people are cheering Trump on. He is fighting back.

And, no small thing, so too now are Juanita Broaddrick and Kathleen Willey. Says the latter? "Hillary is the war on women." Exactly.

It is timeâ€¦past time...for this candidate and the left in general to be asked a simple question. Is President Obama right? Is it true that "rape is rape"? Is rape a crime? And exactly what is right about threatening the victim to be silent?

Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director, author and CNN commentator. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com - See more at: https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2015/12/when-hillary-silences-the-rape-victim#sthash.oV5vFe4m.dpuf

1) Eileen Wellstone, 19-year-old English woman who said Clinton sexually assaulted her after she met him at a pub near the Oxford where the future President was a student in 1969. A retired State Department employee, who asked not to be identified, confirmed that he spoke with the family of the girl and filed a report with his superiors. Clinton admitted having sex with the girl, but claimed it was consensual. The victim’s family declined to pursue the case;

2) In 1972, a 22-year-old woman told campus police at Yale University that she was sexually assaulted by Clinton, a law student at the college. No charges were filed, but retired campus policemen contacted by Capitol Hill Blue confirmed the incident. The woman, tracked down by Capitol Hill Blue last week, confirmed the incident, but declined to discuss it further and would not give permission to use her name;

3) In 1974, a female student at the University of Arkansas complained that then-law school instructor Bill Clinton tried to prevent her from leaving his office during a conference. She said he groped her and forced his hand inside her blouse. She complained to her faculty advisor who confronted Clinton, but Clinton claimed the student ‘’came on’’ to him. The student left the school shortly after the incident. Reached at her home in Texas, the former student confirmed the incident, but declined to go on the record with her account.

4) Several former students at the University have confirmed the incident in confidential interviews and said there were other reports of Clinton attempting to force himself on female students;

5) Broaddrick, a volunteer in Clinton’s gubernatorial campaign, said he raped her in 1978. Mrs. Broaddrick suffered a bruised and torn lip, which she said she suffered when Clinton bit her during the rape;

6) From 1978-1980, during Clinton’s first term as governor of Arkansas, state troopers assigned to protect the governor were aware of at least seven complaints from women who said Clinton forced, or attempted to force, himself on them sexually. One retired state trooper said in an interview that the common joke among those assigned to protect Clinton was “who’s next?”. One former state trooper said other troopers would often escort women to the governor’s hotel room after political events, often more than one an evening;

7) Carolyn Moffet, a legal secretary in Little Rock in 1979, said she met then-governor Clinton at a political fundraiser and shortly thereafter received an invitation to meet the governor in his hotel room. “I was escorted there by a state trooper. When I went in, he was sitting on a couch, wearing only an undershirt. He pointed at his penis and told me to suck it. I told him I didn’t even do that for my boyfriend and he got mad, grabbed my head and shoved it into his lap. I pulled away from him and ran out of the room.”

8) Elizabeth Ward, the Miss Arkansas who won the Miss America crown in 1982, told friends she was forced by Clinton to have sex with him shortly after she won her state crown. Last year, Ward, who is now married with the last name of Gracen (from her first marriage), told an interviewer she did have sex with Clinton but said it was consensual. Close friends of Ward, however, say she still maintains privately that Clinton forced himself on her.

9) Paula Corbin, an Arkansas state worker, filed a sexual harassment case against Clinton after an encounter in a Little Rock hotel room where the then-governor exposed himself and demanded oral sex. Clinton settled the case with Jones recently with an $850,000 cash payment.

10) Sandra Allen James, a former Washington, DC, political fundraiser says Presidential candidate-to-be Clinton invited her to his hotel room during a political trip to the nation’s capital in 1991, pinned her against the wall and stuck his hand up her dress. She says she screamed loud enough for the Arkansas State Trooper stationed outside the hotel suite to bang on the door and ask if everything was all right, at which point Clinton released her and she fled the room. When she reported the incident to her boss, he advised her to keep her mouth shut if she wanted to keep working. Miss James has since married and left Washington. Reached at her home last week, the former Miss James said she later learned that other women suffered the same fate at Clinton’s hands when he was in Washington during his Presidential run.

11) Christy Zercher, a flight attendant on Clinton’s leased campaign plane in 1992, says Presidential candidate Clinton exposed himself to her, grabbed her breasts and made explicit remarks about oral sex. A video shot on board the plane by ABC News shows an obviously inebriated Clinton with his hand between another young flight attendant’s legs. Zercher said later in an interview that White House attorney Bruce Lindsey tried to pressure her into not going public about the assault.

12) Kathleen Willey, a White House volunteer, reported that Clinton grabbed her, fondled her breast and pressed her hand against his genitals during an Oval Office meeting in November, 1993. Willey, who told her story in a 60 Minutes interview, became a target of a White House-directed smear campaign after she went public. In an interview with Capitol Hill Blue, the retired State Department employee said he believed the story Miss Wellstone, the young English woman who said Clinton raped her in 1969.

(Source = http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1157708/posts?page=6#6, Freeper FormerACLUmember)

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