Bill Clinton sexual misconduct allegations

Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, has been publicly accused by many women of sexual misconduct; one woman (Juanita Broaddrick) has publicly accused him of rape, another (Kathleen Willey) states Clinton groped her without consent, and a third accuser (Paula Jones) states that Clinton sexually harassed her. No other woman has publicly accused Clinton of sexual misconduct, although many others have accused him of adultery, and rumors of additional sexual misconduct have been publicized in tabloid magazines and on the Internet.

Of all the allegations made against him regarding his sexual history, Clinton has only admitted extramarital relationships with Monica Lewinsky and Gennifer Flowers. Through his representatives, he has responded to the allegations by completely discrediting the credibility of the accusers, noting that (in the case of Broaddrick and Willey) they previously testified, under oath, that Clinton never made unwanted advances.[1]

Juanita Broaddrick

In a 1999 episode of Dateline NBC, former Clinton volunteer Juanita Broaddrick alleged that in the late 1970s, Bill Clinton raped her in her hotel room. According to Broaddrick, she agreed to meet with Clinton for coffee in the lobby of her hotel, but Clinton asked if they could go to her room to avoid a crowd of reporters. Once Clinton had isolated her in her hotel room, he sexually assaulted her. Broaddrick stated Clinton injured her lip by biting it during the assault. [2] [3] [4] In 1999, Clinton denied Broaddrick's allegations through his lawyer.

Supporters of Clinton have questioned her account by noting that Broaddrick continued to support Clinton, and appear at public events on his behalf, weeks after the alleged rape.[1]

Broaddrick's allegations resurfaced in the 2016 presidential campaign. In various media interviews, Broaddrick stated that Clinton raped her and that Hillary Clinton knew about it, and tried to threaten Broaddrick into remaining silent.[5]

Paula Jones

According to Jones's account, on May 8, 1991, she was escorted to Clinton's hotel room in the Excelsior[6][7][8] (now Little Rock Marriott) Hotel in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he propositioned and exposed himself to her. She claimed she kept quiet about the incident until 1994, when a David Brock story in the American Spectator magazine printed an account. In any case, in 1994, Jones filed a federal lawsuit against Clinton, alleging sexual harassment. In the discovery stage of the suit, Jones's lawyers had the opportunity to question Clinton under oath about his sexual history; in the course of this testimony, Clinton denied having had a sexual affair with Monica Lewinsky, a denial that (once his affair with Lewinsky was exposed) would lead to his impeachment for perjury and obstruction of justice.[9]

In April 1998, the case was dismissed by Republican Judge Susan Webber Wright as lacking legal merit.[10] But Jones appealed Webber Wright's ruling, and her suit gained traction following Clinton's admission to having an affair with Monica Lewinsky in August 1998.[11]

On appeal, in the midst of his trial for impeachment based on false testimony in the Jones case (about his affair with Monica Lewinsky), Clinton was faced with the prospect of having to go under oath again and testify more about his sexual history. Instead, Clinton agreed to an out-of-court settlement, paying Jones and her lawyers $850,000 to drop the suit.[12] Clinton's lawyer said that the President made the settlement only so he could end the lawsuit for good and move on with his life.[13]

Gennifer Flowers

In 1992 Gennifer Flowers stated that she had a relationship with Clinton that began in 1980.[14] Flowers at first denied that she had an affair with Clinton, but later changed her story.[15][16] After initially denying it, Clinton later admitted that he had a sexual encounter with Flowers when put under oath during the Lewinsky investigation.[17]

Monica Lewinsky

Main article: Lewinsky scandal

In 1995, Monica Lewinsky, a graduate of Lewis & Clark College, was hired to work as an intern at the White House during Clinton's first term, and began a personal relationship with him, the details of which she later confided to her friend and Defense department co-worker Linda Tripp, who secretly recorded their telephone conversations.[18] When Tripp discovered in January 1998 that Lewinsky had signed an affidavit in the Paula Jones case denying a relationship with Clinton, she delivered the tapes to Kenneth Starr, the Independent Counsel who was investigating Clinton on other matters, including the Whitewater scandal, the White House FBI files controversy, and the White House travel office controversy. The news of this extra-marital affair and the resulting investigation eventually led to the impeachment of President Clinton in 1998 by the U.S. House of Representatives and his subsequent acquittal on all impeachment charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in a 21-day Senate trial.[19]

Kathleen Willey

In 2015, Kathleen Willey alleged Clinton groped her in a hallway in 1993. An independent counsel determined Willey gave "false information" to the FBI, inconsistent with sworn testimony related to the Jones allegation.[20] Willey dodged perjury charges after Kenneth Starr granted her immunity for her testimony.[20][21] But Starr did not view her allegations as sufficiently credible to pursue them further.

Linda Tripp, the Clinton Administration staffer who secretly taped her phone conversations with Monica Lewinsky in order to expose the latter's affair with the President, testified under oath that Willey's sexual contact with President Clinton in 1993 was consensual, that Willey had been flirting with the President, and that Willey was happy and excited following her 1993 encounter with Clinton.[22]

Other allegations

In 1998, in response to what she called false media claims that Clinton had raped her, Elizabeth Ward Gracen (former Miss Arkansas and Miss America) recanted a six-year-old denial and stated she had a one night stand with Clinton in 1982.[23] Gracen later apologized to Hillary Clinton.[23]

Dolly Kyle Browning began writing a "semi-autobiographical novel" about her alleged affair with Bill Clinton. In the publication process, Browning asserted that Clinton did everything in his power to prohibit and undermine publication. Browning sued Clinton for damages, but the US Court of Appeals denied her appeal.[24]

Sally Perdue, a former Miss Arkansas who said she had a four-month affair with him in 1983.[25]

Connie Hamzy, a self-described rock-and-roll groupie, who said Clinton propositioned her in 1984 while she was sunbathing by a Little Rock hotel pool.[26]

Bobbie Ann Williams, a one-time Little Rock prostitute who said Clinton fathered a child by her when he was the governor of Arkansas.[27]

Lencola Sullivan, a former Miss Arkansas and fourth runner-up in the Miss America pageant was claimed to have "sexual relationship" with Clinton.[28]

Susie Whitacre, press aide to Clinton when he was governor of Arkansas.[29]

Clinton's name appears more than 10 times on flight manifests for Jeffrey Epstein's private airliner: a Boeing 727. Epstein was convicted in 2008 in Florida for soliciting underage teenage prostitutes. Court documents show that Epstein used the Fifth Amendment to avoid self-incrimination in a deposition when directly asked, “Do you know former President Clinton personally?” Epstein made the plea in a 2010-2011 civil case between Epstein and Florida lawyer Brad Edwards, who sued Epstein on behalf of some of Epstein’s alleged victims.[30][31]

References

  1. 1 2 http://www.vox.com/2016/1/6/10722580/bill-clinton-juanita-broaddrick
  2. ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/janedoe022099.htm
  3. ↑ Archive.org record from February 2006, of Capitol Hill Blue's original record; Full Transcript of NBC Dateline report on Juanita Broaddrick; February 1999.
  4. ↑ "Clinton Accuser's Story Aired". The Washington Post. March 14, 1999. Retrieved April 26, 2010.
  5. ↑ http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430081/she-threatened-me-juanita-broaddrick-hillarys-role-covering-bill-clinton
  6. ↑ Clinton v. Jones, No. 95-1853 U.S. (1997-05-27).
  7. ↑ "Key Events in Paula Jones's Sexual Harassment Case Against President Clinton". Retrieved 2007-09-26.
  8. ↑ "Top 8 Clinton Scandal Sites". Retrieved 2007-09-26.
  9. ↑ Tiersma, Peter. "The Language of Perjury", languageandlaw.org, 20 November 2007
  10. ↑ "Clinton Welcomes Jones Decision; Appeal Likely". CNN. April 2, 1998. Retrieved September 11, 2011.
  11. ↑ "Text of Jones's Appeal". The Washington Post. July 31, 1998. Retrieved August 25, 2010.
  12. ↑ "Appeals court ponders Paula Jones settlement". CNN. November 18, 1998. Retrieved September 11, 2011.
  13. ↑ Baker, Peter (November 14, 1998). "Clinton Settles Paula Jones Lawsuit for $850,000". The Washington Post. Retrieved October 27, 2011.
  14. ↑ "Declaration of Gennifer Flowers". The Washington Post. March 13, 1998. Retrieved 2008-03-20.
  15. ↑ "Gennifer Flowers may proceed with defamation suit". Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. November 19, 2002. Retrieved 2008-03-20. At the press conference, Flowers — who initially denied allegations that she had an affair with then Arkansas governor Bill Clinton but then changed her story — played tapes of conversations she had secretly recorded between herself and Clinton
  16. ↑ "Entrepreneur - Start, run and grow your business.". Entrepreneur.
  17. ↑ Clines, Francis X. (1998-03-14). "TESTING OF A PRESIDENT: THE ACCUSER; JONES LAWYERS ISSUE FILES ALLEGING CLINTON PATTERN OF HARASSMENT OF WOMEN". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-03-20. In his January deposition, the President, though finally confirming a sexual encounter with Ms. Flowers, was precise in denying Ms. Willey's report that he had sought to kiss her and feel her breasts
  18. ↑ "Tripp: I Am Not Intimidated". CBS Worldwide Corp. July 7, 1998. Retrieved January 26, 2010. In January, Trpp[sic] gave Starr the tapes. She made the recordings secretly at her home at the urging of her friend Lucianne Goldberg, a New York literary agent.
  19. ↑ "Lewinsky scandal", The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, ©2008 Columbia University Press, "As Retrieved 2010-02-09". Archived from the original on 2012-07-04.
  20. 1 2 "The Lives Of Kathleen Willey". CNN. March 30, 1998. Retrieved September 11, 2011.
  21. ↑ Clines, Francis X. (March 14, 1998). "Testing of a President: The Accuser; Jones Lawyers Issue Files Alleging Clinton Pattern of Harassment of Women". The New York Times. Retrieved March 20, 2008. The Presidential deposition released today confirmed several revelations reported earlier, including Mr. Clinton's confirmation... that he had had sex with Gennifer Flowers, a one-time Arkansas worker.
  22. ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/willey110198.htm
  23. 1 2 "Former Miss America Apologizes To First Lady – April 25, 1998". CNN. Archived from the original on June 14, 2008. Retrieved November 9, 2008.
  24. ↑ Browning v. Clinton No. 01-5050, June 11, 2002. Retrieved August 23, 2012.
  25. ↑ David Plotz (1998-01-29). "All The President's Women". Slate. Retrieved 2008-08-23.
  26. ↑ Stephanopoulos, George (2000) [1999]. All Too Human: A Political Education. Boston: Back Bay. pp. 54–55. ISBN 0-316-93016-4. Retrieved 2008-11-29.
  27. ↑ http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/re-surfaced-sex-allegation-could-be-hillary-clintons-biggest-nightmare/
  28. ↑ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/pjones/docs/brown031398.htm
  29. ↑ http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/jun/24/20040624-121742-7463r/?page=all
  30. ↑ http://observer.com/2015/03/the-jeffrey-epstein-affair-imperils-hillary-clintons-presidential-prospects/
  31. ↑ "Pedophile Took The Fifth When Asked About Clinton Friendship - The Daily Caller". The Daily Caller.
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