Today is the 40th anniversary of the day on which Juanita Broaddrick claims she was “brutally raped” by then-Arkansas Attorney General Bill Clinton. Earlier today Broaddrick memorialized the day be tweeting a detailed timeline of events.
On this morning, 40 years ago, my life changed forever. On 4-25-78, I was brutally raped by Ark AG, Bill Clinton. I have spent the majority of my life trying to forget….. and watching the Evil thrive. A timeline of that day follows…….:
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) April 25, 2018
1. On 4-24-78 around 6pm Norma Rogers, my nursing director and I left Van Buren and drove to Little Rick for a nursing seminar. We checked into the Camelot hotel…
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) April 25, 2018
2. On 4-25-78 at approx 8am, I called Bill Clinton’s campaign office. I was given another no. to call. He answered.
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) April 25, 2018
3. I told him I had brought the information we had discussed 3 weeks prior when he visited my nursing home on campaign tour. I asked if we could come to his office on our lunch break at noon…..
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) April 25, 2018
4. Bill Clinton replied he would not be in his office that day….. and said he could come to the Camelot shortly and meet me. He said he would call when he got to the coffee shop….
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) April 25, 2018
5. I told Norma the plan. She went on to the seminar to sign us in. I told her I would be there as soon as I left the coffee shop. I waited for The call ……
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) April 25, 2018
6. In a short time the phone rang. Bill Clinton said he was at coffee shop but it was very crowded…..and then said…can we have coffee and discuss this in your room?. ..I was nervous …but he was the Attorney General. I agreed and ordered coffee…
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) April 25, 2018
7. After the coffee arrived, there was a knock on the door. I opened it and there stood Bill Clinton in “sunglasses”. I ushered him to the table and poured the coffee and began to talk about info I had brought….
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) April 25, 2018
8. He motioned for me to come to his side of the table and was pointing out the window…. I walked to where he was to look. He said it was an 1800 jailhouse he wanted to restore when he became governor. …….
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) April 25, 2018
9. As he pointed to it, he put his arm around my shoulder and I backed away. He then grabbed me and started kissing me. I was so startled and shocked. I told him NO!!……
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) April 25, 2018
10. When I realized he was not taking No for an answer I began to scream…that is when he began to bite my upper lip every time I screamed. ….then he shoved me backwards onto the bed……
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) April 25, 2018
11. After 40 years, I am still very emotional and tearing remembering what followed. It was a forcible brutal rape!
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) April 25, 2018
12. Afterwards……I was sitting up on the side of the bed crying. He simply straightened himself, and very cold and casually, walked to the door, put on his sunglasses and said to me, motioning to my swollen and bleeding lip, “You’d Better Put Some Ice On That” and left.
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) April 25, 2018
13. When I did not show up for the seminar, Norma became worried and returned to our room looking for me. It was less than an hour after the rape.
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) April 25, 2018
14. I was lying on the bed still confused and in a state of shock when she knocked on the door. I had locked it after he left. I opened the door when I saw it was Norma. When she saw me and I saw the look on her face, I began to cry all over again……
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) April 25, 2018
15. I told Norma everything. She got ice for my mouth and helped me change my torn clothing. She asked me what I wanted to do. I replied “I just want to go home”. She packed our belongings and drove us back to Van Buren.
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) April 25, 2018
Based on the comments that follow, it’s clear some people were vocally unhappy with the thread but Broaddrick said most people were kind:
The majority of comments are so kind. Thanks. It’s a tough day.
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) April 25, 2018
Late last year there was a ripple of reassessment of Bill Clinton among some on the left who suddenly felt it was actually a problem to champion the #MeToo movement after decades of defending Bill. But even those reconsideration pieces were heavily laden with throat clearing caveats and stopped well short of demanding Bill Clinton be shunned in public. Some mentions of this shift seemed to happen only in private conversations which only came to light as a way to create space for attacks on President Trump. Would any of this have happened at all if Hillary had won the election? It’s ultimately unknowable but my guess is that it would not have. Bill was only gently, belatedly thrown under the bus because he wasn’t so useful anymore.
Buzzfeed wrote a piece in 2016 looking closely at Broaddrick’s claims and concluding they seemed credible. But most of the information in that piece wasn’t new. This has been something the left has not wanted to talk about for a very long time. And for most of that time, Broaddrick wasn’t interested in talking about it. But social media has changed things for her and that’s a good thing:
To Bill and Hillary Clinton….I am never going to stop telling the world how truly Evil you are.
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) April 25, 2018
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