Michelle Goldberg at the New York Times titled a column simply, "I Believe Juanita."Īnd indeed, the Juanita Broaddrick case is the hardest one for admirers of Bill Clinton. Chris Hayes at MSNBC tweeted, "As gross and cynical and hypocritical as the right's ‘what about Bill Clinton’ stuff is, it's also true that Democrats and the center left are overdue for a real reckoning with the allegations against him." "The women involved had far more credible evidence than many of the most notorious accusations that have come to light in the past five weeks," Caitlin Flanagan writes in the Atlantic. Now, in the wake of revelations about Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, James Toback, Louis CK, and many, many more, Bill Clinton’s record is being reassessed as well. But Bill himself was not on the ballot, and many were understandably hesitant to make the candidate answer for her husband’s offenses. The issue of Clinton’s sexual misconduct came up repeatedly during Hillary Clinton’s presidential run. Most seriously of all, Juanita Broaddrick claims that Clinton raped her during his 1978 campaign for Arkansas governor. Kathleen Willey claims that Clinton fondled her breast and forced her hand on his crotch in the Oval Office in 1993, when she was a White House volunteer.
Paula Jones, a former Arkansas state employee, sued Clinton during his presidency for allegedly exposing himself to her when he was governor in 1991. America’s ongoing national reckoning with sexual assault and sexual harassment by powerful men now has liberals and Democrats reconsidering the legacy of one of party’s most important figures of the past quarter-century: President Bill Clinton.Ĭlinton has faced multiple allegations of sexual assault and harassment, most famously his affair with Monica Lewinsky - which, while consensual in some sense, was nonetheless textbook sexual harassment of a subordinate of a kind that would (or perhaps more accurately, should ) get many CEOs fired from their companies.īut it’s not just Lewinsky.
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