Juanita Broaddrick Tweets About Bill Clinton Rape Allegations, Refers to Him as "My Abuser"
PoliticsIn a not-surprising development, rape allegations against Bill Clinton are getting fresh circulation. Juanita Broaddrick, who says Clinton raped her in a hotel in 1978 and who first disclosed the incident in 1999, tweeted Wednesday that she is still suffering after Bill raped her and Hillary Clinton “tried to silence me.”
Broaddrick first alleged that Bill Clinton raped her in a February 1999 interview with Dateline. With the help of right-wing organization Judicial Watch, she sued him in the summer of that year, part of a bid to get access to an FBI file she said was being kept on her. She also told the Weekly Standard her nursing home business was audited shortly after she filed suit, saying, “I feel like it’s politically motivated.” Her lawsuit was dismissed in 2001.
Vox reporter Dylan Matthews says he’s confirmed that the Broaddrick account is really her, as did NBC News: