Thread by @gtconway3d

“Sitting with Trump were four women, three of whom claimed to have been subjected to Bill Clinton’s unwelcome sexual advances. One ... was Juanita Broaddrick. And she made an accusation of criminal sexual assault.”
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“‘Mr. Trump may have said some bad words,’ [Broaddrick] said, ‘but Bill Clinton raped me.’ The next night, at a campaign rally in Ambridge, Pa., Trump ... called Bill Clinton ‘a predator,’ ‘the worst abuser of women ever to sit in the Oval Office.’”
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“Republicans and conservatives rallied to [Broaddrick’s] cause. ... But today there’s another woman with a similar allegation, against a different powerful man. Her name is E. Jean Carroll. She, too, says that she was raped — by Donald Trump.”
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“Carroll’s story is at least as compelling as Broaddrick’s — if not more so. And that is because Carroll’s claim, for a number of reasons, actually rests upon a significantly stronger foundation than Broaddrick’s.”
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“Carroll’s account is supported by the sheer number of claims that have now surfaced against Trump, [and] by Trump’s depraved remarks on the “Access Hollywood” video .... What Trump described on the video is exactly what Carroll says he did to her.”
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“Finally, no controversy involving Trump would be complete without at least one utterly brazen, easily disprovable Trumpian lie. In his statement denying the rape allegation, he added the claim that ‘I’ve never met this person in my life.’”
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“Carroll’s published account [contains] a photograph of [Trump] chatting with Carroll .... By making the absurd and mendacious assertion that he never even met Carroll, Trump utterly annihilates the credibility of his claim that he didn’t assault her.”
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“Republicans or conservatives who promoted Broaddrick’s charges would be hypocritical if they fail to champion Carroll and condemn Trump.”
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