A woman who claims she was raped by Bill Clinton repeated the charge Wednesday as she responded to the family’s attempts this week to downplay the former president’s many sex scandals.
“[Y]ou said you don’t remember a time in your life that your parents weren’t being attacked,” Juanita Broaddrick said in a series of tweets addressed to Chelsea Clinton.
“There’s a very good reason for this — your parents are not good people,” she said.
Broaddrick, who maintains Clinton raped her in a hotel room in 1978, went on the offensive against the Clintons in response to fallout from the first presidential debate Monday.
Donald Trump’s team have patted him on the back for not going after the Democratic nominee during the debate with remarks about her husband’s past infidelities.
In response to the Trump camp praising the GOP nominee’s supposed discipline, Chelsea Clinton said in an interview that the whole storyline is a “distraction.”
“My reaction to that is just what my reaction has been kind of every time Trump has gone after my mom or my family, which is that it’s a distraction from his inability to talk about what’s actually at stake in this election and to offer concrete, comprehensive proposals about the economy,” she said in an interview published Tuesday by Cosmopolitan, “or our public school system, or debt-free college, or keeping our country safe and Americans safe here at home and around the world.”
Broaddrick was not impressed with Clinton’s remarks.
“Your father was, and probably still is, a sexual predator. Your mother has always lied and covered up for him,” Broaddrick said on a Twitter account that has been verified as belonging to her.
“I say again ‘I was 35 when Bill Clinton Raped me and Hillary tried to silence me. I am now 73. It never goes away,'” she said.
Broaddrick’s story first surfaced during the final weeks of the 1992 presidential election, where the country’s leading newsrooms, including the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, ignored it.
Broaddrick then restated her story in an NBC News interview taped on Jan. 20, 1999, one day after the president was impeached over the Lewinsky scandal. NBC held onto the interview for 35 days, and aired it shortly after Clinton was acquitted.
Broaddrick has maintained since that she was sexually assaulted by Bill Clinton.
On Jan. 6, 2016, months after Hillary Clinton launched her presidential campaign, the alleged rape victim repeated her charge against the former president.
“I was 35 years old when Bill Clinton, Ark. Attorney General raped me and Hillary tried to silence me. I am now 73,” she said on social media. “It never goes away.”
