ARKANSAS — A woman who publicly accused former President Bill Clinton of raping her in the past has renewed her allegations on social media.
“I was 35 years old when Bill Clinton, Ark. Attorney General raped me and Hillary tried to silence me,” Juanita Broaddrick Tweeted. “I am now 73….it never goes away.”
Broaddrick is a former nursing home administrator from Arkansas. She alleged in 1999 that Bill Clinton had raped her two decades earlier. President Clinton’s attorney, David Kendall, denied the allegations on his client’s behalf. Clinton refused to comment further on the issue.
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Broaddrick first met Clinton when he made a visit to her nursing home during his 1978 gubernatorial campaign. Broaddrick wanted to volunteer for the campaign, and says Clinton invited her to stop by the campaign office in Little Rock.
Broaddrick says the two spoke briefly in her room, with Clinton describing plans to renovate a prison visible from her window if he became governor. Then, according to Broaddrick, Clinton suddenly kissed her. Broaddrick says she pushed Clinton away and told him she was married and not interested, but he persisted. As recounted in the NBC interview:
“Then he tries to kiss me again. And the second time he tries to kiss me he starts biting my lip … He starts to, um, bite on my top lip and I tried to pull away from him. And then he forces me down on the bed. And I just was very frightened, and I tried to get away from him and I told him ‘No,’ that I didn’t want this to happen but he wouldn’t listen to me. … It was a real panicky, panicky situation. I was even to the point where I was getting very noisy, you know, yelling to ‘Please stop.’ And that’s when he pressed down on my right shoulder and he would bite my lip. …”
“When everything was over with, he got up and straightened himself, and I was crying at the moment and he walks to the door, and calmly puts on his sunglasses. And before he goes out the door he says ‘You better get some ice on that.’ And he turned and went out the door.”
The former President recently dodged a question regarding the new allegations.
When asked if there was any way Clinton could have thought it was consensual, Broaddrick said “No, not with what I told him and with how I tried to push him away. It was not consensual.”
Broaddrick says she did not tell her then-husband, Gary Hickey, about the incident, and told him she accidentally injured her lip.
Broaddrick filed a lawsuit against Clinton in the summer of 1999, to obtain documents which the White House may have gathered about her, claiming its refusal to accede to her demand for such documents violated the Privacy Act of 1974. During that time, Broaddrick’s business was audited by the IRS which she charged was retaliation: “I do not believe this was coincidence,” Broaddrick declared, “I do not think our number just came up.”
No legal action, civil or criminal, was taken against Clinton or Broaddrick based on the allegation and the case was dismissed in 2001.
