Juanita Broaddrick made waves when she tweeted that Bill Clinton raped her in 1978. Who is she, and what is her story?
In 1978 , Bill Clinton was campaigning to be Arkansas ’ regulator when he made a stoppage at a breast feeding home , where a char named Juanita Broaddrick worked as a nurse .
In a 1999 interview with NBC News , Broaddrick say she remembered the then 35 - year - erstwhile Clinton as “ a very magnetic man with bright ideas ” — she even campaigned for him . In the interview , Juanita Broaddrick says that Clinton told her to drop by his movement office in Little Rock , Arkansas , if she were ever in the neighborhood . At the time , Clinton was serving as the state ’s Attorney General .
A short while later , a nursing group discussion took her to Little Rock , Broaddrick said . She recount NBC News newspaperwoman Lisa Myers that when she called Clinton ’s home base to let Clinton know she was in town , they inform her that he was in his flat and that she should call him there directly . When she did , Broaddrick says that Clinton suggested they forgather for coffee .
“ I did call and ask him if he was gon na be at the central office that day and he say no he did n’t design to be there , ” Broaddrick sound out in the interview . “ Clinton say , ‘ Why do n’t I just meet you for deep brown in the Camelot coffee shop ? ’ ”
But then Broaddrick says that Clinton ’s care about local reporters lead to a change in encounter place : her hotel room .
Juanita Broaddrick tell Myers that she thought Clinton ’s interest was entirely professional , and although she felt a bit unquiet about his coming to her hotel room , she said she did n’t finger any risk . After Clinton arrived , Broaddrick say that they face out the window from the hotel elbow room . At this moment , Broaddrick said , Clinton reached around her to taper to a construction he go for to restore if he became governor .
On the next breath , Juanita Broaddrick claims , he turned her around and began to kiss her .
Broaddrick bear on him away , insisting that she was married and was not at all interested in him . She claims that Clinton implied she must have understood what his true purpose were when he involve to number to her hotel elbow room , but Broaddrick felt she had not give him any reading that she would accept his advances . In the interview , she sound out she rejected him emphatically , but he buss her again , pushed her down onto the layer , and ravish her .
“ He was a such a dissimilar person at that present moment , he was just a reprehensible dire soul , ” Broaddrick said in the interview :
Several hebdomad after the incident , chevy by thoughts that she had somehow contribute Clinton on , she attended a fundraising issue for his run . It was here , she says , that she was come near by Hillary Clinton — and where a unknown , laconic exchange occurred .
Broaddrick says that Hillary took clench of her handwriting and said that she and Bill take account “ everything [ Broaddrick ] did for him . ” At first , Broaddrick hoped Hillary meant only the electioneering she ’d been doing . But when Broaddrick seek to lead , she says Hillary grabbed her hand tight and said , “ Do you understand?Everything that you do . ”
In a 2003 audience with Fox News , Juanita Broaddrick says she felt Hillary knew what had happen in her Little Rock hotel way and that she wanted Broaddrick to keep hushed .
When postulate why she did not go to the police force in 1978 — when the incident was said to have take place — Broaddrick shrug : at the sentence , Bill Clinton was the law in Arkansas , as he served as Attorney General .
Juanita Broaddrick keep tacit for 20 years after the alleged rape—14 days after Arkansas ’ six - year legislative act of limitation on assault ends .
When she finally go to the insistency with her write up in the 1990s , Broaddrick conceded that there were no attestor to back up her title . She also knew that the hotel had no phonograph recording of Clinton ever being there , and in fact , had no records dating back that far to prove that even she had stayed there . Bill Clinton — as well as his legal squad — have not commented on the allegation .
Why Is Juanita Broaddrick’s Story Being Brought Up Again?
In the aftermath of Hillary Clinton ’s bid for the Democratic Party nomination for president , and ultimately the White House , Juanita Broaddrick ’s story has resurface , this time , with a few more details that wander a compelling web . On January 6th of this year , Broaddrick squeeze :
I was 35 years previous when Bill Clinton , Ark. Attorney General raped me and Hillary tried to silence me . I am now 73….it never goes aside .
— Juanita Broaddrick ( @atensnut)January 6 , 2016
When need by Gawker why she ’s taking to Twitter now , Broaddrick explicate that this tweet send by Hillary Clinton ’s movement hit a bitter chord with her :
Every survivor of intimate rape deserves to be try , believed , and supported.https://t.co/mkD69RHeBL
— Hillary Clinton ( @HillaryClinton)November 23 , 2015
“ She ’s just not the one , ” Broaddrick said of Clinton . “ I ca n’t imagine what made her possibly do that . ”
Broaddrick ’s initial statement made the word just after the election in 1992 , and she ’s been persistently hounded by the press ever since . But with social media playing a more pervasive role than ever , she is more engaged in telling it — as well as communicate her political belief , which do not necessitate a voting for Hillary .
In a tweet from January 5th , Juanita Broaddrick write , “ Was fear seeing my abuser on tv campaign trail for enabler wife … … but his physical show reflects ghost of past tense are catching up . ”
