{"id":127267,"date":"2016-01-07T14:52:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T14:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=127267"},"modified":"2016-01-11T06:17:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T06:17:06","slug":"bill-clinton-rape-accuser-hillary-tried-to-silence-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=127267","title":{"rendered":"Bill Clinton rape accuser: Hillary &#8216;tried to silence&#8217; me"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Mark Hensch and Jonathan Easley &#8212; The Hill Jan 6, 2016<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A woman who publicly accused former President Bill Clinton of raping her in 1978 is resurrecting her claims on social media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cI was 35 years old when Bill Clinton, Ark. Attorney General raped me,\u201d Juanita Broaddrick tweeted Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cHillary tried to silence me,\u201d she wrote of Bill Clinton\u2019s wife and the current Democratic presidential front-runner. \u201cI am now 73\u2026it never goes away.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I was 35 years old when Bill Clinton, Ark. Attorney General raped me and Hillary tried to silence me.  I am now 73&#8230;.it never goes away.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atensnut\/status\/684822324227379200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Hill reached a woman by phone in Van Buren, Ark., on Wednesday who identified herself as Broaddrick. She said the Twitter account is hers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Broaddrick said she set the account up in 2009 but hasn\u2019t used it much since because she\u2019s unfamiliar with Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The former nursing home administrator alleged in 1999 that Bill Clinton raped her in Little Rock, Ark., during his 1978 gubernatorial campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In a brief interview, Broaddrick, who said she retired after selling her nursing home business in 2008, said she\u2019s decided to play a more visible role heading into 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cI\u2019ve been quiet for too long, and now with the possibility of [Hillary Clinton] being the Democratic nominee and possibly president, I feel the need to get involved,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Broaddrick said that she doesn\u2019t describe herself as Republican or Democrat, but is supporting Donald Trump for president.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cHe says the things I like to hear,\u201d Broaddrick said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">She lauded Trump for broaching the issue of Bill Clinton\u2019s past marital infidelities and allegations of sexual assault.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cI\u2019m glad someone did. Everyone has been hanging back and most of the mainstream media won\u2019t approach it but it\u2019s something that should be talked about.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">David E. Kendall, the Clinton\u2019s then-personal attorney, strongly denied Broaddrick&#8217;s\u00a0charges when they first emerged during Bill Clinton\u2019s presidency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cAny allegation that the president assaulted Ms. Broaddrick more than 20 years ago is absolutely false,\u201d he said in a statement released by the White House in February 1999, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/politics\/special\/clinton\/stories\/janedoe022099.htm\">according to<\/a><\/strong><\/span> The Washington Post.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cBeyond that we are not going to comment,\u201d the attorney added then.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/264988-bill-clinton-rape-accuser-hillary-tried-to-silence-me\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the same Hillary Clinton who said in a recent campaign speech: &#8220;women who are victims of sexual assaults, should be believed until disproved\u201d.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":115497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,15,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-Hidden_and_Revisionist_History","category-Inside_the_White_House_and_Washingtons_Beltway"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127267"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127269,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127267\/revisions\/127269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}