Paula Jones (Photo: Inside Edition screenshot)
Paul Jones is taking up Hillary Clinton on the offer to believe “every survivor of sexual assault.”
Jones, a former Arkansas state employee, sued former President Bill Clinton for sexual harassment in 1994. She accused him of propositioning her for sex and exposing himself. The lawsuit was dropped in 1998 after an $850,000 out-of-court settlement was reached.
“I can’t believe he’s got the nerve to do it,” Jones told Inside Edition of Clinton’s decision to hit the campaign trail for his wife. “I can’t believe he’s still going out there and showing his face. How can you go out there and talk to people like nothing has happened? He talks about what a good leader Hillary is for women. No, that just makes me sick. She can’t be trusted. I don’t see how they can believe that she is for women. She is for herself.”
The former secretary of state’s quest for the Democratic Party’s 2016 presidential nomination has been haunted by her husband’s past. After she tweeted, “Every survivor of sexual assault deserves to be heard, believed, and supported,” on Nov. 22, 2015, pundits and voters began asking if that included the slew of women who accused her husband of sexual assault.
“You recently came out to say that all rape victims should be believed, but would you say that about Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey and Paula Jones? Should we believe them as well?” a voter asked Clinton at a New Hampshire campaign event Dec. 3, 2015, WND reported.
“Well, I would say that everybody should be believed at first until they are disbelieved based on evidence,” Clinton responded.
Jones told Inside Edition she sued Clinton for sexual harassment in 1994 to hold him accountable for his actions.
“I felt like, you know, no man is above the law. Why should he not pay for what he does as well?”
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Jones is the second high-profile accuser from Clinton’s past to remind American voters of his sordid behavior. Juanita Broaddrick took to Twitter in early December to say she is still traumatized by her experience with the former president after nearly 40 years.
“I was 35 years old when Bill Clinton, Ark. Attorney General raped me and Hillary tried to silence me. I am now 73. … It never goes away,” Broaddrick tweeted Jan. 6, WND reported.
Broaddrick was a nurse with the last name Hickey when she met the future commander in chief in 1978. She and a friend called Clinton while in Little Rock to attend an American College of Nursing Home Administrators event, at which point he allegedly asked to meet in a hotel room.
Candice Jackson, author of “Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine,” recounted Broaddrick’s story for WND in May 2005.
She felt “a little bit uneasy” meeting him in her hotel room, but felt a “real friendship toward this man” and didn’t feel any “danger” in him coming to her room. When Clinton arrived she had coffee ready on a little table under a window overlooking a river. Then “he came around me and sort of put his arm over my shoulder to point to this little building and he said he was real interested if he became governor to restore that little building and then all of a sudden, he turned me around and started kissing me. And that was a real shock.” Broaddrick pushed him away and said, “No, please don’t do that” and told Clinton she was married. But he tried to kiss her again. This time he bit her upper lip. She tried to pull away from him but he forced her onto 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.” But he “was such a different person at that moment, he was just a vicious awful person.” At some point she stopped resisting. She explained, “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.”
Clinton didn’t linger long afterward. “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 whole encounter lasted less than 30 minutes, but it changed Juanita Broaddrick’s life forever.
Broaddrick also gave a famous NBC News interview on the incident in 1999. The network did an extensive background check on her prior to airing its investigative report.
“The good news is you’re credible. The bad news is that you’re very credible,” journalist Lisa Myers told Broaddrick prior to the broadcast, Jackson said.
Clinton denied Broaddrick’s allegations and pointed to an affidavit she signed in November 1997 saying she never experienced unwanted sexual advances.
“I didn’t want to be forced to testify about one of the most horrific events in my life. I didn’t want to go through it again,” Broaddrick told Meyers on getting tangled in Paula Jones’ lawsuit.
Other issues Hillary Clinton may be forced to discuss before her campaign ends include:
- Eileen Wellstone claims Clinton raped her in 1969. The two allegedly met at an Oxford pub.
- Gennifer Flowers said she was Clinton’s mistress for 12 years.
- Kathleen Willey, a former White House aide, claims Clinton sexually assaulted her Nov. 29, 1993.
- Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky had an affair with Clinton in 1998.
- Virginia Roberts, who accused billionaire Jeffery Epstein of turning her into a sex slave on “Orgy Island,” said Clinton visited the U.S. Virgin Islands property. Authors Roger Stone and Robert Morrow of “The Clintons’ War on Women,” also claim Clinton “took eighteen trips on Epstein’s plane (which was known as the ‘Lolita Express’ for orgies with underage girls).”
Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders are set to debate each other in New Hampshire on Thursday, just days after a razor-thin Iowa caucus victory for the Democrat front-runner. Clinton bested Sanders by less than three-tenths of 1 percent on Monday.
The DNC said on Wednesday that a debate in Flint, Michigan, will be held on March 6. Dates for two other debates for April and May have not yet been confirmed.
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