Republicans zeroed in on former President Bill Clinton’s speech on the second night of the Democratic National Convention, calling his mere presence at the largely virtual gathering “hypocritical,” “tone-deaf,” and a “betrayal of #MeToo.”

On a night otherwise devoted to Joe Biden formally receiving the Democratic nomination for president on his third campaign to do so in 32 years, Clinton sought to reprise his old attack dog role with an address assailing President Trump as a failure. But just as it used him as a foil in its own attacks against his wife Hillary in 2016, the Trump campaign used the 42nd president as a cudgel with which to beat Biden on the 1994 crime bill, trade policy, and even the Tara Reade sexual assault allegations that dogged the Democratic nominee in the early primaries.