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Why is alleged predator Bill Clinton still welcome in the Democratic party? (www.theguardian.com)
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People who like Bill Clinton, or who find him convenient for their own goals, have a long history of underplaying the multiple allegations of sexual harassment and violence that he faces from at least four women. They say that Paula Jones, the former Arkansas state employee who sued Bill Clinton for sexual harassment after the then governor brought her to his hotel room, propositioned her and exposed himself, is lying – even though Jones has multiple corroborating witnesses, and even though her story has not changed in more than 30 years.

They say that Juanita Broaddrick, the woman who says that Clinton raped her in a hotel room in 1978, when he was Arkansas attorney general, is lying, too – even though Broaddrick, like Jones, told multiple people of Clinton’s attack at the time.

They say that Monica Lewinsky, the 22-year-old unpaid intern whom Clinton carried on an affair with in the White House when he was 49 and the most powerful person in the world, technically consented to the sex acts that Clinton asked her to do – an insistence that betrays a startlingly simple-minded and willfully obtuse understanding of sexual ethics.

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

because he's never actually been guilty of anything, despite what the right wing media wants you to believe.

also why is this article quoting juanita broaddrick when she's literally a far right trump supporting lunatic?

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's right in the title of your dumb article.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

ikr; same reason why i ask why alleged journalists the guardian are still taken seriously.

[–] BertramDitore@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

This is an opinion piece, which is separate from their journalism.

[–] morphballganon@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for revealing that you are a fascist so I can block you

[–] kikutwo@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Google "adjudicated in a court of law" and then get back to us.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why does the headline have to use 'alleged'?

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Because it's never been proven. Only alleged. Like Vance's couch fucking or Lindsay Graham's ladybugs.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

But isn't it guilty until proven innocent?

Plus can you really look at JayDeeVee and honestly think that's a guy who doesn't fuck couches?

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Technically I think it was a misunderstanding of the term loveseat. "No J.D! Not like that!"

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Lazyboy wonder.

[–] mriguy@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

On the off chance you aren’t joking, no, it’s innocent until proven guilty.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Bill brought in the neoliberal movement that still controls the DNC. His people are Hillary's people, and the same as Biden's people.

Probably the biggest dropped ball of Obama's presidency was his decision to just ignore the DNC instead of replacing leadership and pointing it in the right direction.

I believe his reasoning was after he beat Hillary they tried to hang him out to dry, so he didn't pay them any attention the next 8 years.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

Because he's not a progressive.

[–] MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world -4 points 3 months ago

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[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz -5 points 3 months ago

Because the DNC has no principles. It's nothing more than a money-making machine, and the Clintons are enormously successful money-makers, and nothing else really matters.