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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