Donald Trump sat down with Sean Hannity tonight on Fox News and hit Bill Clinton with the hardest charge yet. Trump
brought up a rape accusation against the former Democratic president
when talking about Clinton's past behavior with women with the Fox News
host. The
two were discussing a recent New York Times article that was supposed
to expose Trump's own treatment of women and how several of the sources
had come out and said the newspaper twisted their words.
Trump labeled the story a 'con job' and called it a 'disaster' for the newspaper.
Hannity then asked why the Times hadn't dug into Bill Clinton's past.
'Are
they going to interview Juanita Broaddrick? Are they going to interview
Paula Jones? Are they going to interview Kathleen Willey?' Hannity
asked, ticking off the names of women who have accused Bill Clinton of
inappropriate behavior through the years.
'In
one case, it's about exposure. In another case, it's about groping and
fondling and touching against a woman's will,' Hannity continued.
'And rape,' Trump inserted.
'And rape,' the television host repeated.
'And big settlements, massive settlements. And lots of other things. And impeachment for lying,' Trump continued.
This
is only the latest in a string of attacks on Bill Clinton, after Trump
himself was hammered by a pro-Hillary Clinton PAC on some of the
language he's used to describe women.
During
tonight's interview, Trump took issue with the ad using a line out of
context, in which he tells someone to go 'f*** themselves,' a comment he
made about bad trade deals at a Portsmouth, New Hampshire rally in
February, where he mouthed the four-letter swear word.
'The
main punchline wasn't about women,' Trump pointed out. 'They put it in
like it was about women. Now I guess they have to do a retraction.'
The other lines used in the attack ad, including one aimed at Fox News host Megyn Kelly, were about women.
But in order to negate these attacks, Trump has pushed back hard.
He started laying the groundwork to exploit Bill Clinton's sexual past before the first votes were being cast.
'She's
got one of the great women abusers of all time sitting in her house,
waiting for her to come home for dinner,' Trump said back in January.
He repeated the charge earlier this month.
'She’s
married to a man who was the worst abuser of women in the history of
politics. She’s married to a man who hurt many women,' Trump said, while
also bringing Hillary Clinton into the picture.
Trump charged that the Democratic frontrunner 'would go after these women and destroy their lives.'
While
Bill Clinton has been accused of rape, along with groping and affairs –
and his sexual history with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky
is well known – the 'rape' accusation had yet to be used in the
political campaign by someone as prominent as the presumptive Republican
nominee.
Trump,
however, has pushed the boundaries of political discourse this campaign
season and been close to leveling the 'rape' charge at Bill Clinton
before.
In January he posted a video that linked Bill Clinton to both Lewinsky and accused rapist Bill Cosby.
The campaign video was released around the time that Broaddrick, who accused Bill Clinton of rape, emerged on social media.Broaddrick has
accused Clinton of raping her in an Arkansas hotel room in 1978 when he
was the state's governor, saying he left her with a swollen lip and some
advice: 'You better get some ice on that.'
And while
Hillary Clinton was campaigning on a platform of women's issues,
Broaddrick says she knew about the sexual assault and tried to cover it
up.
Broaddrick
tweeted in January that 'I was 35 years old when Bill Clinton, Ark.
Attorney General raped me and Hillary tried to silence me. I am now
73....it never goes away.'-DailyMail
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