• Ronan Farrow: Bill Clinton 'credibly accused of rape' by Juanita Broadd

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    Author and journalist Ronan Farrow, whose reporting provided a leading
    impetus for the #MeToo movement, said that former President Bill
    Clinton was “credibly accused of rape” by Juanita Broaddrick, an
    allegation “overdue for revisiting.”

    Asked by HBO “Real Time” host Bill Maher if the former president could
    have survived sexual misconduct allegations in today’s political
    climate, Mr. Farrow replied, “Bill Clinton is a different
    conversation.”

    “He has been credibly accused of rape,” Mr. Farrow said during a Friday
    panel discussion. “That has nothing to do with gray areas. I think that
    the Juanita Broaddrick claim has been overdue for revisiting.”

    In 1999, Ms. Broaddrick came forward with a claim that Mr. Clinton
    raped her in her hotel room in Little Rock in 1978, when he was
    Arkansas attorney general and running for governor. He has denied the accusation through attorneys.

    Mr. Farrow, who won a 2018 Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on
    accusations of sexual assault and harassment against Hollywood producer
    Harvey Weinstein, also said that public opinion on Mr. Clinton appears
    to be turning.

    “I’m heartened by the fact that people now routinely express outrage
    about Bill Clinton, and particularly those more serious allegations
    about him,” said Mr. Farrow, author of “Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies,
    and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators.”

    The subject came up during a discussion of last week’s resignation of
    Rep. Katie Hill, California Democrat, following reports that she
    engaged in sexual affairs with subordinates.

    “Could Bill Clinton, if he had done what he did in 1998, survive today,
    or would his own party have thrown him under the bus?” asked Mr. Maher.

    Mr. Clinton was impeached after being charged by the House with lying
    under oath and obstruction of justice stemming from a sexual harassment
    claim brought by Paula Jones and his affair with White House intern
    Monica Lewinsky, but the Senate acquitted him on both counts.

    Ms. Broaddrick responded Sunday with a blast at Democrats and NBC News,
    which featured her accusations in a “Dateline NBC” interview that aired
    Feb. 24, about two weeks after the Senate’s Feb. 12 to acquit.

    “All Democrats in Congress refused to read my interview with
    [independent counsel] Ken Starr during the impeachment process … and of
    course, NBC’s Andy Lack held my ‘Dateline’ interview until impeachment
    was over,” she tweeted.

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