NBC on Bill Clinton's rape accusation: Nothing new here

Former President Bill Clinton

Juanita Broaddrick has been using social media to remind the world that Democrat front-runner Hillary Clinton tried to silence her when she accused Bill Clinton of raping her in 1978. And she's getting a lot of attention.

In fact, NBC News reached out to her recently trying to set up an interview to tell her story.

Then the network, which did not respond to a WND request for comment, decided there was no story there.

WND had reported only days ago how Broaddrick has been tweeting out the statements:

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"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.

It was Bill Clinton's move to hit the campaign trail on behalf of his wife that prompted the comments, in which Broaddrick reminds the world how he allegedly raped her, and bit her lip, and then left, telling her, "You better get some ice on that."

"Was dreading seeing my abuser on TV campaign trail for enabler wife, but his physical appearance reflects ghosts of past are catching up," Broaddrick tweeted.

Now Buzzfeed has reported that NBC was very interested in an interview, before abruptly dropping the story.

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After pursuing Broaddrick for an interview, NBC News announced, "We established there was not [anything new], and decided not to pursue it any further."

Broaddrick was taken aback, telling the website, "I was really surprised when they said I had nothing new to offer. I never said I had anything new to offer. What I said on Twitter is what I said in 1999."

She continued, "I get this call from Andrea Mitchell. She called me personally. She asked me about my meeting with Mrs. Clinton in 1978. That's the only thing she was interested in. She didn't want to go into anything else. And when I told her, she seemed she was being very defensive of Mrs. Clinton. She said, 'How do you know what she meant?' And I said, 'You had to have been there. I knew what Mrs. Clinton was trying to say."

Not even the telephone interview aired.

"I really felt bad with how she was questioning me; she wanted to know what I thought and then right in the middle of it to question my sincerity," she said. "That hurt my feelings."

Chuck Ross commented at Daily Caller, "When Broaddrick resurfaced last week, NBC approached her, seemingly enthusiastic about airing her story. Andrew Mitchell, who hosts a daytime show on MSNBC, called Broaddrick. That was followed up with a call from a producer who later traveled to Van Buren, Arkansas, to negotiate an on-camera interview. ..."

NBC's persistence in pursuing the interview was evidenced by email exchanges, he wrote.

"It is unclear why [NBC's] passion did not translate into a news segment about Broaddrick's allegations," the Daily Caller reported.

The report continued, "NBC's apparent decision to spike its coverage of Broaddrick's story is not a surprise given how the mainstream media has acted to protect Bill Clinton in the past from accusations of sexual impropriety."

Ross pointed out it was 1998 when "Newsweek infamously spiked the story of Clinton's affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Matt Drudge's website, the Drudge Report, sparked a revolution ...  when he reported news of the affair and of Newsweek's actions on his website."

He reported, "There were also rumblings that NBC sat on its 1999 'Dateline' interview with Broaddrick until after the Senate voted on perjury and obstruction of justice charges against Clinton."

WND posted online, only days ago, a chapter from Candice Jackson's explosive book, "Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine."

She tells, like never before, the stories of Kathleen Willey, Broaddrick and others who have suffered from the actions of William Jefferson Clinton.

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She describes how Juanita Hickey, as she then was known, 35, a registered nurse, was on hand when a charismatic Clinton stopped by her nursing home in the midst of a gubernatorial race.

Jackson writes: "While glad-handing there, Clinton told her to be sure to stop by campaign headquarters if she was ever in Little Rock. She was so impressed with him that for the first time in her life she volunteered to help a political campaign, agreeing to hand out bumper stickers and signs. She thought he had 'bright ideas' for the state and felt eager to pay a visit to his Little Rock headquarters, excited about picking up T-shirts and buttons to hand out.

"Not long after that, she attended a seminar of the American College of Nursing Home Administrators at the Camelot Hotel in Little Rock. She stayed in a hotel room with her friend, Norma Kelsey. After they checked in to their room, Broaddrick called Clinton campaign headquarters and was told to call Clinton at his apartment. She did, and asked Clinton if he was going to be at his headquarters that day. He said no, but suggested they meet for coffee in the hotel coffee shop. A bit later the same morning, Clinton called her and asked if they could meet in her hotel room because there were reporters crawling around the coffee shop.

"She agreed.

"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.'"

As Hillary Clinton edges toward the Democratic nomination for president, and as Donald Trump continues to lead in the GOP race, the issue being raised again seems inevitable.

In fact, it's already been raised, when Hillary Clinton described Trump as sexist and he objected.

It was then ABC News reporter Cecilia Vega confronted the former president about his past.

"If I may, Mr. President. Donald Trump says your past is fair game. I’ve got to ask you, you going out on the trail: Is it fair game?" Vega asked.

"I think there’s always an attempt to take the election away from the people, so I am just going to give it to them," Clinton replied after an extended pause.

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Some of the accusations Trump will reference if attacked by Democrats include:

• Eileen Wellstone's claim that Clinton raped her in 1969. The two allegedly met at an Oxford pub.
• Gennifer Flowers' claim that she was Clinton’s mistress for 12 years.
• Kathleen Willey, a former White House aide, claimed Clinton sexually assaulted her Nov. 29, 1993.
• Paula Jones sued Clinton for sexual harassment in 1994. The lawsuit was dropped in 1998 after an $850,000 out-of-court settlement was reached.

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