People who like Bill Clinton, or who find him convenient for their own goals, have a long history of underplaying the multiple allegations of sexual harassment and violence that he faces from at least four women. They say that Paula Jones, the former Arkansas state employee who sued Bill Clinton for sexual harassment after the then governor brought her to his hotel room, propositioned her and exposed himself, is lying – even though Jones has multiple corroborating witnesses, and even though her story has not changed in more than 30 years.

They say that Juanita Broaddrick, the woman who says that Clinton raped her in a hotel room in 1978, when he was Arkansas attorney general, is lying, too – even though Broaddrick, like Jones, told multiple people of Clinton’s attack at the time.

They say that Monica Lewinsky, the 22-year-old unpaid intern whom Clinton carried on an affair with in the White House when he was 49 and the most powerful person in the world, technically consented to the sex acts that Clinton asked her to do – an insistence that betrays a startlingly simple-minded and willfully obtuse understanding of sexual ethics.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Bill brought in the neoliberal movement that still controls the DNC. His people are Hillary’s people, and the same as Biden’s people.

    Probably the biggest dropped ball of Obama’s presidency was his decision to just ignore the DNC instead of replacing leadership and pointing it in the right direction.

    I believe his reasoning was after he beat Hillary they tried to hang him out to dry, so he didn’t pay them any attention the next 8 years.