Bill Clinton rape accuser Juanita Broaddrick said in an interview Tuesday that Hillary Clinton has played a key role in covering up the former president’s indiscretions over the years.
“It’s important for everyone to know that Hillary Clinton is not innocent in all of the cover up and the attempted attacks on all of the women that Bill Clinton abused,” Broaddrick said when asked why she’s been speaking out. “I think she’s been very paramount.”
Broaddrick, who claims Clinton raped her during his 1978 gubernatorial campaign, said on WRKO radio in Boston that she is dumbfounded that people are outraged by Bill Cosby’s alleged abuse of women, but not Bill Clinton’s. Her remarks came a day after Donald Trump released an attack ad against Hillary Clinton that focuses directly on the former president.
She also recalled how she met Hillary Clinton after the alleged rape took place, and how Clinton thanked her for her work on Clinton’s campaign.
“She grabbed a hold of my arm and my hand, and she pulled me close to her, I think so no one else could hear, and said to me very sternly with a frown on her face, ‘Do you understand everything you do for Bill?'” Broaddrick recounted. “It shocked me. I got my hand from hers and my two friends and I left immediately.”
Throughout the 13 minute interview, Broaddrick criticized NBC’s Andrea Mitchell after the host said last week that her rape claims against Clinton were “discredited.” She called Mitchell a “Clinton lapdog.”
“It’s simply outrageous for Andrea Mitchell to spew such a lie,” said Broaddrick. “Nothing has changed from the detailed investigation that NBC did into my story in [1999] before airing it. And now, if NBC thinks my experience has been discredited, why did Andrea Mitchell call me and ask me for new information about my encounter with Hillary? Why didn’t she just go ahead and write her own story that explains how I was discredited?”
Broaddrick told the hosts that she hasn’t had any contact with Trump or his campaign, nor did she know that her voice would be used in the ad. She told WRKO that she was “extremely surprised” when she found out about the ad, but that she’s “not unhappy” that it was used.
She also made clear that the main reason she plans going to be voting for Trump to simply keep the Clintons out of office, adding that she is “very appreciative” of Trump for speaking out against the former president’s past. She said it still bothers her to see the Clintons on television.
