Juanita Broaddrick (born c. 1943) - birth name Juanita Smith , first married name Juanita Hickey - is a former American nursing home administrator. In 1999, he alleged that US President Bill Clinton raped him in April 1978 when he was 35 years old and he was Arkansas Attorney General. Clinton's attorney, David Kendall, denies the allegations on behalf of his client. Clinton declined to comment further on the matter.
Rumors circulated about Broaddrick's accusations over the years, but he refused to talk to the media. In a sworn statement in 1997 under the name of "Jane Doe # 5" dwelling place, Broaddrick filed a written statement with lawyer Paula Jones stating there were rumors and unfounded stories that Mr. Clinton had made an unwanted sexual push towards me at the end in the seventies... This accusation is not true ".
Speculation continues that Broaddrick has more to say about the matter, and in an interview with NBC's Dateline aired on February 24, 1999, Broaddrick told his story in full public for the first time, this time declaring that Clinton did rape her. This is the most serious claim that emerged during the 1990s and consists of allegations of Bill Clinton's sexual offenses.
Broaddrick's claim has received new attention as a consequence of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, 2016 and the #MeToo phenomenon of 2017.
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Broaddrick is from Van Buren, Arkansas, a town in the northwestern part of the state. She was born by Juanita Smith to Buster Smith's parents and Mary Elizabeth Smith. He has an older sister. His father had the founding of Smith Cleaners. The family belongs to the Episcopal Church. In his memoir he says his mother is physically and emotionally rude to him and his sister.
Juanita Smith graduated from Van Buren High School in 1960. She attended a nursing school at the Sparks School of Nursing from 1960 to 1963. She then worked as a registered nurse in several nursing homes.
In 1974 he decided to run a nursing home on his own so he bought one at Van Buren. It's known as Nursing Manor Brownwood Manor. Her mother is the owner of the part with her.
Juanita first married Gary Hickey, with a marriage that took place before she left the nursing school. They had a son born around 1969. At the time of the alleged rape in 1978, he had an affair with David Broaddrick, who also married someone else.
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Accusations against Bill Clinton
1978: The account
Broaddrick, known as Juanita Hickey at the time, first met Hillary when she visited her orphanage during the 1978 campaign of his governor. Clinton was Attorney General of Arkansas at the time. Broaddrick wanted to volunteer for the campaign, and said Clinton invited him to stop by the campaign office in Little Rock. She contacted the office a few weeks later while in the area for a nursing home conference. Clinton said he would not be in the campaign office that day and suggested they meet at his hotel coffee shop. On his arrival, however, he allegedly requested that they even drink coffee in his room to avoid a crowd of journalists in the lobby. Broaddrick agreed.
Broaddrick said the two spoke briefly in his room, with Clinton explaining plans to renovate a prison visible from his window if he became governor. Then, according to Broaddrick, Clinton suddenly kissed her. Broaddrick said he pushed Clinton away and told him that he was married and not interested, but he insisted. As told in NBC interview:
Then he tried to kiss me again. And the second time he tried to kiss me he started biting my lips... He started, um, biting my upper lip and I tried to get away from him. And then he forced me in bed. And I was just terrified, and I tried to get away from him and I told him 'No,' that I did not want this to happen but he did not listen to me.... This is really a panicky and panicky situation. I even got to the point where I became very noisy, you know, shouting 'Please stop.' And that's when he pressed my right shoulder and he would bite my lips.... When it was all over, he got up and straightened out, and I cried then and he walked to the door, and calmly put his sunglasses on. And before he came out the door he said, "You'd better grab the ice." And he turned and came out the door.
When asked if there was any way Clinton could think it was consensual, Broaddrick said, "No, not with what I told him and with how I tried to push it.
Broaddrick shared a hotel room with his friend and his employee Norma Rogers. Rogers attended the conference seminar that morning, and said he went back to their room to find Broaddrick in bed "in a state of shock," his pantyhose was torn in his crotch and his lips were swollen as if he had been beaten. Rogers said Broaddrick told him that Clinton had "forced himself." Rogers helped Broaddrick wet his lips, and then the women left Little Rock. Rogers said that Broaddrick was very upset on the way home and blamed himself for letting Clinton in the room. Broaddrick said he did not tell her husband, Gary Hickey, about the incident, and told him that he had accidentally injured his lips. He told NBC he did not remember his injury or explanation. David Broaddrick, however, said he saw his lips hurt, and he told him that Clinton had raped him when he asked about it. Three other friends confirmed that Broaddrick had told them about the incident at the time: Susan Lewis, Louis Ma, and Jean Darden, the sister of Norma Rogers. Broaddrick does not remember the date of the alleged incident, but said it was spring 1978 and that he had stayed at the Camelot Hotel. Notes show Broaddrick attending a nursing home meeting at Camelot Hotel in Little Rock on April 25, 1978. The Clinton White House will not respond to requests for Clinton's official schedule for that date, but news reports show that he was in Little Rock that day. , without an official commitment in the morning.
Three weeks after the alleged assault, Broaddrick participated in a small Clinton fundraiser at the home of a local dentist. Broaddrick said he was "in denial" and felt guilty, thinking that he had given Clinton the wrong idea by letting him into his room. When he arrived at the event, he said, his friend who had taken Clintons from the airport told him that Hillary Clinton had asked him if he would attend the event. Broaddrick said Bill Clinton did not talk to him at the event, but Hillary Clinton approached him, grabbed his hand, and said, "I just want you to know how much Bill and I appreciate what you did for him." When Broaddrick moved his hand, he said, Hillary Clinton held her and said, "Do you understand? Everything you do." Broaddrick said he felt sick and left the meeting. Broaddrick said he interpreted the incident when Hillary Clinton thanked him for silence.
Next development
He divorced Hickey around 1979 and married David Broaddrick around 1981.
Broaddrick opened a second facility, to provide services for mentally disabled children in Fort Smith, Arkansas.
In 1984, Broaddrick's nursing facility was decided to be the best in the state, carrying an official letter of congratulations from the governor. At the bottom is a handwritten note from Clinton, saying, "I really admire you."
Broaddrick said that in 1991, Clinton called him out of the state nursing standards meeting to try to apologize: "'Juanita, I'm so sorry for what I did I'm not the first person, can you forgive me? What can I do to make this for you? 'And I stood there in absolute surprise and I told him to go to hell, and I left. "Jean Darden, who was lied to Broaddrick about the incident, also attended the meeting, and said he saw Broaddrick talking to Clinton in the hallway. Clinton announced the 1992 presidential campaign soon after the alleged interaction.
1992-1998
Although Broaddrick refused to speak to the media, rumors about his story began to circulate no more than Clinton's presidential bid in 1992. Broaddrick has told in Phillip Yoakum, whom he knew from business and was then considered a friend. When Clinton won the Democratic nomination, Yoakum, widely regarded as having a Republican agenda, contacted Sheffield Nelson, Clinton's opponent in the 1990 election of governor. Yoakum arranged a meeting between Nelson and Broaddrick, who rejected Yoakum and Nelson's encouragement that he became public. Yoakum silently recorded the conversation and wrote a letter summarizing the accusations, which began to circulate among Republicans. The story reached the New York Times and Los Angeles Times in October 1992, but the newspapers dropped news after Broaddrick refused to talk to reporters and Yoakum refused to release the recording..
In the fall of 1997, Paula Jones's private investigator tried to talk to Broaddrick at home, also secretly recording the conversation. Broaddrick refused to discuss the incident, saying "it was just a horrible horrible thing," and that he "would not turn it on for anything." The researchers told him that he would likely be summoned if he did not want to talk to them. Broaddrick says he will deny everything, saying "You can not get him, and I will not spoil my good name to do it... there is absolutely no way anyone can get it, he's too fierce." Broaddrick was called in Jones's lawsuit soon after and submitted a statement denying that Clinton had made "any sexual advancement". Broaddrick's recording of conversations with investigators leaked into the press, but Broaddrick continued to refuse to speak to reporters.
Despite Broaddrick's refusal in his remarks, Jones's lawyer inserted Yoakum's letter and Broaddrick's name in a 1998 filing. The letter stated that Clintons had bought Broaddrick's silence, describing a phone call in which Broaddrick's husband asked Yoakum to say the incident had never happened and said that he intends to ask Clinton "for some great help." This, along with a discrepancy between Broaddrick's letter and letter, drew the attention of independent lawyer Kenneth Starr, who was investigating Clinton for the obstruction of justice. After being approached by the FBI, Broaddrick consulted with his son, a lawyer, who told him that he could not lie to federal investigators. After Starr gave his immunity, thereby ensuring that he would not be prosecuted for perjury over his statement in Jones's case, Broaddrick withdrew the statement. However, he insisted that Clinton did not press or bribe him in any way, and Starr concluded that the story was irrelevant to his investigation and his report only mentioned recess in footnotes.
1999
Rumors continue to circulate in tabloids and on radio talk, now with the name Broaddrick attached. Broaddrick is upset with tabloid reports that he's paid to remain silent, and decides to approve an interview with NBC, Lisa Myers. Myers interviewed him on January 20, 1999, the day after Clinton was dismissed. The interview only aired on February 24, 1999, 35 days later and after Clinton was released on 12 February. NBC was accused of deliberately sitting in the story and asked for an unusual standard of affirmation until the impeachment process ended. Broaddrick and other sources said NBC collected key evidence in 10 days after the interview, NBC's producer assistant Chris Giglio said it might take 14 days - in both cases, while the impeachment process is in progress. Although the story is irregular, at least one Republican senator reportedly asked him to convince the Republicans who have not yet decided to vote for impeachment.
While NBC waited to broadcast the interview, Broaddrick was approached by Dorothy Rabinowitz, who writes for the Wall Street Journal editorial page . Annoyed by NBC's delay, Broaddrick agreed to talk to Rabinowitz, and the story debuted on the Wall Street Journal's editorial page on February 19th. NBC broadcast Myers interviews soon after.
Clinton's response to the allegations
On Friday evening, February 19, 1999, Clinton's lawyer, David Kendall, denied the allegations on behalf of Clinton. Kendall states: "Any allegation that the president attacked Mrs. Broaddrick more than 20 years ago is wrong and we will not comment."
Clinton himself did not say anything about the matter. When asked about Broaddrick's claim at a press conference on February 24, 1999, Clinton said: "Well, my advisor has made a statement about... a problem, and I have nothing to add."
Clinton was never charged with involvement in Broaddrick's allegations.
Public and press reactions
Because of the time elapsed since the alleged incident and the rape nature of the rape case, there is limited corroborating evidence so that the allegations are based on Broaddrick's testimony. Because he had filed and then withdrew a statement saying there was no attack, some people thought he was not credible. According to the New York Times in 1999, the problem with Broaddrick's allegations was that "there was no physical evidence to verify it." No one else was present during the alleged meeting in a Little Rock hotel room nearly 21 years ago , the hotel has been closed, and Mr Broaddrick refused the meeting in a written statement in January 1998 in the case of Paula Jones, where she was known only as 'Jane Doe No. 5.' 'For years, he refused to move in. When pressed by Jones's lawyer, he rejected the allegations, and now he has withdrawn the rejection.'
In March 1999, Slate's magazine contained a much-quoted piece of analysis called "Is Juanita Broaddrick Telling the Truth?", Which provides a possible reason for Broaddrick to be trusted, or not to be trusted, about - out of a number of key points. On the unbelieving side, it was suggested five people who said Broaddrick had told him soon after the incident could lie. Rogers and Darden have independent reasons to dislike Clinton: when they told NBC, Clinton had changed the life sentence of the man who killed their father. The argument of distrust suggested that they might have a grudge against Clinton. Even if the believer tells the truth, the skeptic notes that Broaddrick may be lying when he initially tells them.
Some details in Broaddrick's account deal with allegations of other women. In an interview that emerged after Broaddrick's allegations, Elizabeth Ward Gracen said that Clinton bit her lip during a rough consensus meeting.
Broaddrick said that after the attack, Clinton told him not to worry about pregnancy because childhood hyacinth has made him sterile. When contacted on this issue, Gennifer Flowers, whom Clinton later admitted to sexual intercourse with, agreed that Clinton thought he could not have children.
In March 1999, shortly after the allegations were publicly broadcast, 56% of Americans believed the allegations were wrong, while the third believed Broaddrick's alleged rape might be true. Similarly, 29% of the public felt the press should continue to cover the news, while 66% felt that the media should stop pursuing the story.
The public and the media are experiencing a "fatigue scandal" due to allegations of repeated sexual abuse against Clinton and, after his impeachment and release, many feel there is no place to go. Many journalists have found the story while being disseminated by Republican activists and feel they have investigated it. Jack Nelson, the Washington bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times, said, "This is a story that has been torn down and discredited countless times... [E] everyone has taken a piece of it, and after looking at it , everyone dropped it.The woman has changed her story about what happened.It's unbelievable. "Julia Malone, a Cox Communications reporter, became frustrated by what she saw as a media that ignored the story and held a National Press Club panel on the issue entitled "Too Hot for 'The Tight-Scaled New Media to Handle?" Sam Donaldson of ABC News said he was frustrated at his journalists' unwillingness to pressure Clinton to respond to the allegations: Clinton refused to comment when Donaldson asked about the allegations, and no one else would press the matter.
Judgment on the Broaddrick issue has varied among the care of Bill Clinton's year-round books. The book Joe Conason and Gene Lyons Presidential Hunters have argued that Broaddrick's claims are not credible, noting that the FBI has found evidence for "inconclusive" accusations. Michael Isikoff's Book, Revealing Clinton, claims that Clinton's lawyers thought he might have consensual sex, out of wedlock with Broaddrick, but they did not believe he would impose himself. Christopher Hitchens's book, No One Left to Lie To, believes that Broaddrick's claims are trustworthy and show similarities with the alleged sexual harassment of Paula Jones.
Aftermath
Broaddrick filed a lawsuit against Clinton in December 1999 to obtain documents that the White House may have collected about him, claiming his refusal to approve his request for the document violates the Privacy Act of 1974. His lawyer is a conservative judicial activist Larry Klayman, the head of Judicial Watch. The suit was dismissed by US District Court Judge Henry H. Kennedy, Jr. in March 2001. The judge ruled that the Privacy Act did not apply in this case and that Broaddrick had failed to show evidence that the US Department of Justice had incorrectly released documents about him. The lawsuit does not ask for money, and indeed unlike many women involved in Bill Clinton's case, Broaddrick is not looking for a financial settlement, issuing a deal, or acting as a celebrity.
During that time, Broaddrick's business was audited by the IRS which he alleges was retaliation: "I do not believe this is a coincidence," Broaddrick stated, "I do not think our number just appeared."
When the US Senate election in New York, 2000 opened, where Hillary was a candidate, Broaddrick published an open letter to her, denouncing her alleged role in covering for her husband's alleged assault.
The Broaddricks divorced in 2004. David Broaddrick has been opposed to him becoming public with his rape story in 1999. Juanita Broaddrick felt, according to a 2005 book, that the publicity around the Dateline interview contributed significantly to the end of the marriage both. He said he also developed a fear of enclosed space as a result of what happened.
In 2008 Broaddrick sold the nursing home and retirement business, having worked well as an entrepreneur. He continues to live in Van Buren, on a 23-acre farm.
Rethinking attention during the 2016 US presidential campaign
Broaddrick raised his rape claim on Twitter during the United States presidential election, 2016, because Hillary Clinton is a Democratic candidate for president.
In this context, Broaddrick's case often creates anxiety on the part of people who generally support the Clintons. In a recap of the October 2016 case, Dylan Matthews of Vox said: "The basic answer is that some claims [against Bill Clinton] seem more credible than others.There are three main accusers [others are Jones and Willey], who seem to be the most credible - based proof that is available publicly - is Broaddrick. "Matthews continues:" Given the prevailing views among many progressives - including Hillary Clinton - that one should default to trust rape, Broaddrick's allegations pose a problem. " Michelle Goldberg of Slate writes in a late essay in 2015, "our rule to talk about sexual violence has changed since the 1990s, when these women were last in the news.Today, feminists have repeatedly and making sure that when women say they have been sexually assaulted, we must assume that they are telling the truth, especially when it comes to Broaddrick, it is not easy to present arguments against it with the dominant progressive consensus about trusting victims, the tension that people in the right wants to exploit. "
Many conservative commentators who are usually quite skeptical of claims of sexual assault without strong evidence, found Broaddrick's accusations quite credible. As Katie J. M. Baker of BuzzFeed put it, "In theory, partisan politics should not play a role in determining whether a rape victim is supposedly worth listening to." Similar observations have been made by Robby Soave from the magazine Reason .
The retired NBC reporter, Lisa Myers, says: "No one can see Juanita's story objectively and no problem, one of the things that makes it so credible is who she is - open, straightforward, seemingly helpless."
When at the end of 2015, during the town hall which was an event during Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, 2016, Hillary Clinton was asked about this question in terms of this woman's accusations, she replied: "Well, I would say that everyone should believe in the beginning until they do not believe in evidence. "
In January 2016, Broaddrick shared on the social networking site Twitter, "I was 35 years old when Bill Clinton, Ark Attorney General raped me and Hillary tried to silence me. I am now 73... never lost." Broaddrick says he's not a Democrat or a Republican, but he supports Donald Trump's presidential campaign: "He said the things I wanted to hear." In the 2008 US presidential election he chose Barack Obama and awarded more than $ 1,000 for his campaign because he fought Hillary Clinton. He agreed with Trump's injection that Bill Clinton acknowledged and alleged sexual crimes into the campaign. And as the campaign progresses, it is increasingly aligning itself with conservative actions and views.
On October 8, 2016, in the midst of Donald Trump's controversy on Access Hollywood, Trump retweet Broaddrick's tweet in which he calls Bill Clinton a "rapist" and calls Hillary Clinton's "horrible" action. On 9 October Broaddrick appeared in the panel alongside Trump, Paula Jones, and Kathleen Willey (the fourth woman on the panel, Kathy Shelton, had an unrelated complaint against Hillary Clinton) an hour before the second debate between Trump and Clinton in the election part of the election debate president of the United States, 2016. Broaddrick and others were also present at audiences during the debate, such as Bill Clinton, although the debate organizers kept them in separate territories. The Trump Campaign says it has paid Broaddrick's trip to the debate.
# MeToo and re-evaluation in 2017-18
In 2017, after Harvey Weinstein's alleged sexual harassment, Broaddrick criticized Bill Ching in power in the 1990s, Monica Lewinsky for aligning himself with the #MeToo movement, saying, "I always feel sad for you but where are you when we need You? "Broaddrick added," I always felt he was a victim, I just wish he had spoken in '99 when I went through the persecution so much after my interview at NBC Dateline . "
Again the media attention focused on the accusations against Clinton, including from Broaddrick. Matthews writes that "America's ongoing national account of sexual assault and sexual abuse by powerful people now has liberals and Democrats reconsidering the legacy of one of the most important figures of the party in the last quarter century: President Bill Clinton."
Caitlin Flanagan of The Atlantic wrote "But let's not forget the sex crime where the younger and stronger Bill Clinton was accused of being very credible in the 1990s." Juanita Broaddrick reported that... "before closing the case back.. During the NPR interview, Flanagan said, "So there are a series of women throughout his presidency who go ahead with the things they say he did to those who really reflect the things we see now in the most severe cases." Juanita Broaddrick, the most prominent, saying that he raped her very cruelly in the same way as Harvey Weinstein's accusation in a hotel room and all of a sudden and a grim horror about it all. "
Goldberg wrote an op-ed in the New York Times titled "I Believe Juanita", where he said, "In this #MeToo moment, when we reassess the decade of man's behavior and open an open secret to expose , we must see clearly on the credible evidence that Juanita Broaddrick was telling the truth when she accused Clinton of raping her, but reviewing the Clinton scandal in the light of today's politics is both complicated and painful. "
Following the allegations filed against senatorial candidate Alabama Roy Moore, Broaddrick said, "All the victims are important. It does not matter if you're a Democrat or Republican... We all have the right to be trusted."
In January 2018 Broaddrick publishes itself a memoir, co-written by Nick Lulli, under the title You Should Put Some Ice on That: How I Survived raped by Bill Clinton .
See also
- Linda Tripp
- Monica Lewinsky
- Sally Perdue
- Their Life: Women Targeted by Clinton Machines
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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