ED KLEIN ON HILLARY: 4 - Hillary meets Juanita Broaddrick

THE TRUTH ABOUT HILLARY | 2005 | Ed Klein

[doug from upland]

1 - Clinton Administration's Bradford DeLong Says No to Hillary
2- Gulping for air, I started crying and yelling at him; plus, Jesse blows it
3 - Military Uniforms in the White House

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In the Spring of 1978, during Attorney General Bill Clinton's campaign for governor, he and Hillary scheduled a joint appearance at a fund-raiser in Van Buren, a small town nestled in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains in Crawford County.

The chairman of the Crawford County committee for the Election of Bill Clinton was an attractive thirty-five-year-old nursing home owner by the name of Juanita Broaddrick. She had volunteered to work for the young attorney general because, as she explained in an interview for this book, "all the women in this area were taken by his charisma, looks, and personality."

But Juanita was no longer "taken" by Bill Clinton. In fact, she was dreading seeing him at this night's event, for the last time they were in the same room, he had raped her.

Just three weeks before, he had come up to her hotel room in Little Rock. "He turned me around and started kissing me," she said, "and that was a real shock. I first pushed him away and just told him 'no.' . . . The second time he tries to kiss me he starts biting on my lip. . . . And then he forces me down on the bed. I just was very frightened, and I tried to get away from him and I told him 'no.' ... He wouldn't listen to me. . . . He was such a different person at that moment; he was just a vicious, awful person."

Juanita did not tell her husband about the sexual assault.

"I felt responsible for what happened," she explained. "You go back to the nineteen seventies and allow a man to come to your hotel room, you feel you get what you deserved. I accepted this guilt.

"When Hillary arrived with Bill at the fund-raiser, she made her entrance through the kitchen area," Juanita continued. "And I was going to leave immediately. But she made her way directly to me, making me very nervous. I was dumbfounded that she came straight to me.

" 'I'm happy to meet you,' Hillary said. 'Bill has talked a lot about you and what you have done for the campaign. And I want you to know how much I appreciate what you do for Bill.'

"I was falling apart emotionally. She would not let me go. She came close to my face.

"'Everything you do for Bill,' she said, looking me stern in the eye. 'Everything.'

"I extracted my hand from hers. And in that instant, I knew that she knew. I never thought for a moment there was any possibility that she didn't know that her husband had raped me."

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