A woman who worked for Bill Clinton has accused him of
rape and Hillary of ‘silencing’ her.
On Wednesday Juanita Broaddrick tweeted: ‘I was 35 years
old when Bill Clinton, Ark. Attorney General raped me and Hillary tried to
silence me. I am now 73 It never goes away.’
She alleges the rape happened in 1978, when Clinton was
the Arkansas attorney general. She first made the allegation publicly in 1999.
Speaking to Vox, Broaddrick confirmed that she sent the
tweet and said she did so because of the high visibility of Hillary, who is now
a presidential candidate herself.
‘I guess it was just seeing them on TV so much now, and
her [Hillary] with the Benghazi [hearing],’ she said. ‘That was impossible, to
watch her during that, and now having to see her on the TV, and on the TV campaigning
– it’s torture. I have to grab and switch my TV every time I turn around.’
In the wake of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and two other
allegations of sexual assault, Broaddrick claimed Clinton forcibly had sex with
her in a hotel room in Little Rock.
When asked by the Washington Post at the time why she
took almost two decades to make the allegations, she said: ‘It was a horrible,
horrible experience and I just wanted it to go away.’
Although Broaddrick, 73, only tweeted about the alleged
rape this week, her historic claims have been resurfacing in Hillary’s campaign
since last Autumn.
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