Clinton rape accuser dismayed by the left’s lauding of Stormy Daniels

Juanita Broaddrick, who accused former President Bill Clinton of raping her in 1978, is troubled by the dismissive remedy she obtained from liberal information media in comparison with its embrace of porn star Stormy Daniels, who has been lauded as a “feminist hero” for her authorized tangle with former President Donald Trump.

Ms. Broaddrick sees a transparent double commonplace.

“They didn’t want to admit this horrible thing happened to me and they still supported Bill Clinton. But the left wants every little thing they can find to go after Trump and that’s what’s fueling this Stormy Daniels’ situation,” she mentioned in an interview with The Washington Times.

One of the important thing variations between the 2 conditions, as Ms. Broaddrick sees it, is that Ms. Daniels has basked within the media highlight as a lot because it has welcomed her.

Since coming ahead to accuse Mr. Clinton, Ms. Broaddrick largely stayed out of the general public eye exterior of transient appearances in 2016 to unnerve Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton when she debated Mr. Trump and, in 2018, to precise help for the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Ms. Broaddrick mentioned she has “no respect” for Ms. Daniels’ want to maintain the highlight on herself whereas publicly accusing a president of wrongdoing.

“Stormy’s livelihood depends on being in the spotlight to promote her business,” she mentioned. “I believe she is being motivated by financial enhancement and not for personal self-respect of doing the right thing.”

Ms. Daniels didn’t reply to a number of requests for remark.

The accusations leveled by the 2 girls are very totally different.

Ms. Broaddrick got here ahead in 1999 to accuse Mr. Clinton of raping her in an Arkansas lodge room when he was the state’s legal professional common, a cost he denied. It was probably the most severe accusation amongst a slew of sexual misconduct allegations lodged in opposition to Mr. Clinton over time.

She was nearly instantly dismissed by Democrats and media pundits, who argued the incident, if true, occurred a very long time in the past or that she wasn’t credible.

Ms. Daniels, whose actual title is Stephanie Clifford, accused Mr. Trump of a consensual extramarital affair in 2006. Mr. Trump has lengthy denied the affair however he tried to maintain Ms. Daniels quiet about it with $130,000 funds in 2016.

That cost is now on the heart of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s prosecution of Mr. Trump on 34 felony costs of falsifying enterprise information to hide hush cash payoffs.

Ms. Daniel additionally sued Mr. Trump for defamation. She misplaced the swimsuit. On April 4, the identical day Mr. Trump was arraigned in Manhattan, a decide ordered her to pay Mr. Trump $121,972 for his authorized charges within the failed defamation case.

Feminist writer Lauren Leader in an essay final month hailed Ms. Daniels as a “feminist hero” for taking over Mr. Trump, praising her for “speaking out on her own terms, loudly and unabashedly.”

Ms. Daniels has change into a frequent visitor on the late-night speak present circuit and made a visitor look on Saturday Night Live.

Even when her allegations in opposition to Mr. Trump first turned public in 2018, she was welcomed with open arms. Rep. Maxine Waters, California Democrat, predicted Ms. Daniels can be their Trump slayer.

“If for some reason [special counsel Robert] Mueller does not get him, Stormy will. So we know that this is going to go on,” she mentioned.

When Ms. Broaddrick stepped ahead, she was instantly brushed apart by lawmakers and political pundits.

“Even if it does turn out to be true, it happened a long time ago. … Maybe the American public has heard all they want to hear about this and are saying, you know, ‘Next. Let’s move on to the next thing,’” CBS News anchor Dan Rather instructed radio host Don Imus on the time.

Years later, come of Ms. Broaddrick’s critics had a change of coronary heart.

In 2018, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen known as for a contemporary have a look at Ms. Broaddrick’s claims, saying he didn’t imagine her at first.

“I remember refusing to deal with Broaddrick’s allegation because I simply chose to believe Clinton was not a rapist,” he wrote.

Ms. Broaddrick mentioned she was dismissed just because Democrats didn’t wish to be confronted with the likelihood that Mr. Clinton raped her. When she was interviewed as a part of impartial counsel Kenneth Starr’s investigation of Mr. Clinton, not one Democrat learn the transcript.