Discussion: Juanita Broaddrick Resurfaces Bill Clinton Rape Allegations On Twitter

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I don’t doubt that Bill Clinton may have gotten cheeky with her, given how many women have alleged similar behavior, but as to rape, well, that was never proven (granted the legal deck was usually stacked against women making this allegation).

However, I do question her motives for piping up now, given she is an avowed GOP activist, Tea bagger, and Trump supporter. So tired of these people and their Clinton Derangement Syndrome. Whatever evil deeds they allege against Hillary (and they are legion), she will of course also have to answer for every imaginable evil deed committed by her husband, regardless of the fact his catting around was never beneficial to his wife.

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BILLGHAZIII!!! Fer fucks sake. This superfluous verbiage brought to you by the goddamned comment censorbot… How’s THAT for descriptive?

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@CPL593H
What happens between a married couple is unknowable and unexplainable, but if either one in the marriage can live with and make peace with the stories, that’s all anyone else needs to know.

A film called 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi directed by rock 'em sock 'em Michael Bay of Transformers is coming out very soon, and Faux is getting ready to trash HRC’s campaign with it and its appeal to the American Sniper crowd…

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Looks like Joe Rogan about to take an indica nap…

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“Drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park…”

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Haha, really? I guess I’m a little behind on that one after avoiding all news for a week of vacation. Sigh…such good fun, but I’m glad I took a break to relax.

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You;'ll get an even better freakout if you drag a packet of Sudafed through there…I can almost hear the bunson burners firing up right now…

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Unfortunately for her, she has these GOP options for what she claims:

  1. you asked for it
  2. you’re like the other women who say they’re raped: A LIAR
  3. you asked for it
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This is what happens when feminists like Hillary push the idea that rape is the one crime that requires not one shred of evidence. Just she says it happened, so lock him up. I have no sympathy for a woman who waits until there is nothing to corroborate her story before she “comes forward”. It’s just character assassination plain and simple. She can’t prove it happened, he can’t prove it didn’t, but women who were not there and know nothing of the incident will swear he’s a rapist for decades to come.

It’s kind of poetic that this is stunt is pulled to damage Hillary, I’m sure she’d approve if it was done to any man other than Bill.

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I was expecting the comments on a story of this nature to be a bit higher-brow on this website.

I was mistaken.

Please explain those expectations so we might be able to live up to your “higher-brow” standards.

Edited to include the high-brow context.

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You lost me right after the 5th word (“when”).

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She also could not remember when the rape took place, what day it happened or the time of the rape. Also it was never verified that Bill Clinton was even in Little Rock at the supposed time of the alleged rape. She did not go to the police, did not file a civil suit and waited 21 years to come forward with her allegations. We all know that Bill Clinton was no saint, but she was the only one that ever alleged sexual relations was not concensual. Also, the timing of her coming forward stank of politics.

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If she had not signed an affidavit that she was never raped, went to the police at the time of the rape, or even filed a civil suit in court or even remembered the day of her rape or where it happened I would have great sympathy for her. But the time when she came forward after 21 years to me stinks of politics. Also, to top it all off she went to a Clinton fundraiser three weeks after the alleged rape was supposed to have happened. I am not trying to be unsympathetic here, but what woman would actually go to a fundraiser of their alleged rapist or even want to see that person the rest of their life. That is the kicker. Also, Bill Clinton was only 32 years old in 1978 and Broaddrick was 35, three years older than him. So, saying in a tweet she was 35 like she was a kid compared to Bill Clinton is ridiculous.

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Oh yeah? Like how, exactly?

Broaddrick’s allegations had a political stink at the time they were made. Yes, Bill Clinton was apparently aggressive in his responses to what he perceived to be feminine willingness (behavior that in romance novels might be characterized as “overwhelming passion,” blah blah blah). It seems to have “worked” for him in gaining apparently willing temporary partners. The extent of his trespasses in this vein will probably never be known, but according to Linda Tripp, Katherine Willey was glowing with disheveled pride after Bill kissed her in his typical Lothario fashion. Tripp (not exactly Bill’s biggest fan, as I think we’ll all agree) claimed that Willey was pleased as punch that she had confirmed that she was now going to be “Clinton’s Judith Exner (JFK’s mistress)”

It was only after she got home and found out that her husband had committed suicide that the guilt of her exciting encounter caught up with her.

Broaddrick apparently got more than she bargained for (as did Paula Jones), when she agreed to meet Clinton alone in his hotel room, but both women’s accounts of those meetings are riddled with problems, and any reasonably competent attorney would demolish them if they were brought to court.

I do not question that Broaddrick might still FEEL that she was assaulted that day (whenever it was), especially when she thought about her hasty encounter after the fact. However, I question, as I did then, why she decided to haul this harrowing experience into the public limelight at such a politically…opportune time.

But the ugliest frosting on the cake, which makes me want to be unsympathetic to this woman who is claiming rape, is the utter bullsht about Hillary Clinton supposedly obliquely THANKING HER LATER for not reporting the incident.

I’m sorry, but that is just a flat out lie. Broaddrick willingly went to a fundraiser for Clinton after the clandestine terror of her experience with him, and amazingly, Hillary thanked her for her support. The bitch! (Because Bill was so grievously aware of Broaddrick’s lack of consent or enjoyment, he undoubtedly went home riven with guilt and told his wife all about raping Juanita. “I didn’t MEAN to, Hills, honest!” Yeah. That’s it.)

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Just check her bank account for a large “service fee” from one of the Koch Astro-Turf LLC’s.
That will explain it all.

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In other words, if someone accused you of rape at least 20 years or more ago, and again 20 years later after the alleged fact and initial accusation, without one intervening criminal indictment or prosecution, you would believe the regurgitated accusation 20 years later it was a “higher brow” allegation warranting a “higher brow” response of some sort?

Frankly, the “higher brow” response was the non-indictment and non-prosecution after an investigation 20 years ago.

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Huh?

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You might want to reread the original and reply posts. The “high-brow” comment was directed at expectations of quality of comments in the original post.

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Not only did she give a statement under oath that she was NOT raped, she attended a fundraiser for her alleged rapist a mere 3 weeks after the alleged rape…just what rape victims do…seek out their rapist to help him, eh?

Then she has given interview after interview to say how she was victimized by HRC and when asked what she did…well HRC said thank you for your support.

Almost makes you think this is entirely about politics.

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Exactly Julia. Not to mention that she testified under oath that Bill did NOT rape her.

She has repeatedly said that she was victimized by HRC. The big crime? Hillary thanked her.

They are not even trying to pretend this is not entirely about politics.

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