Clinton and Women: Up to Seven May Have Been Assaulted - Part 1
Carl Limbacher
October 26, 1998
The dark underside of the current sex scandal engulfing the Clinton administration has yet to receive much media attention.
White House spinmeisters complain that the president is being persecuted for an inappropriate -- but nonetheless consensual -- sexual relationship with a woman not his wife. But before the entire Paula Jones-Monica Lewinsky saga plays out, that perception could radically change.
That's because a review of accounts by numerous women linked to Clinton reveals no less than seven allegations of sexual abuse -- and in several cases even rape.
Kathleen Willey's now-famous claim that Clinton groped her against her will the day she came to plead for a paying White House job was finessed by feminists who concocted the "he took no for an answer" defense. But that rationale crumbles in the face of new revelations buried in the documents released by Congress two weeks ago.
It turns out Willey's story is far more harrowing than the one she told "60 Minutes" last March -- at least according to Linda Tripp, to whom Willey confided just moments after her close encounter of the Clinton kind.
As NewsMax.com reported exclusively last week, Tripp said Willey told her that Clinton's sexual approach "came out of nowhere and was forceful, almost to the point of an attack. ... The president had his hands on her breasts and all over her body. The president put Willey's hand on his penis. ...
"Willey said that the president was so out of control that his face was purple, and the veins were showing on his neck and forehead. The meeting ended when someone entered the adjacent office." (FBI Statement of Linda Tripp; House Document 105-316; Part 3; Page 3998.)
That last line is key, since it reveals that Clinton's assault stopped only when discovery seemed likely -- and not because Willey said "no." What might have happened if the president hadn't been interrupted? Perhaps what Juanita Broaddrick says happened to her some 20 years ago.
At the time, Broaddrick was a Clinton campaign worker. And according to a friend who says she confided in him, Clinton, who was then the Arkansas state attorney general, visited Broaddrick's room in Little Rock's Camelot Motel on the pretext of discussing business. Once there, he pounced.
That friend, Phillip Yoakum, reminded Broaddrick of her nightmare in a letter he wrote hoping to convince her to go public in 1992:
"I was particularly distraught when you told me of your brutal rape by Bill Clinton ... [how] he started trying to kiss you and ran his hands all over your body until he ripped your clothes off, and how he bit your lip until you gave into his forcing sex upon you." (ABCNews.com, March 28, 1998)
Yoakum's version of Broaddrick's story is corroborated by a nurse who treated her after the assault. Norma Rogers told NBC News last March that Juanita Broaddrick was "distraught, her lips were swollen at least double in size. ... She told me they had intercourse against her will."
Norma Rogers not only backs up Phillip Yoakum on the rape charge here, but her observation about Broaddrick's swollen lips seems to confirm Yoakum's report that Clinton bit Broaddrick's lip until she submitted to unwanted sex. That's a curious detail for two witnesses to simply make up.
Broaddrick herself first denied the rape story in an affidavit submitted to Paula Jones' lawyers, only to retract her denial when questioned under oath by independent counsel Ken Starr's investigators.
The House Judiciary Committee has thus far decided to keep all of Starr's material on Broaddrick under seal -- including a reported audiotape recorded by Jones' investigators where Broaddrick discusses the impact her traumatic encounter with Clinton had on her life.
Biting figures in yet another allegation of sexual assault by Bill Clinton, this one from a Little Rock lawyer who told Clinton biographer Roger Morris about an attack she suffered the same year Clinton allegedly raped Broaddrick. In his best-selling book "Partners in Power," Morris reports:
"A young woman lawyer in Little Rock claimed that she was accosted by Clinton while he was attorney general and that when she recoiled he forced himself on her, biting and bruising her. Deeply affected by the assault, the woman decided to keep it all quiet for the sake of her own hard-won career and that of her husband. When the husband later saw Clinton at the 1980 Democratic Convention, he delivered a warning. 'If you ever approach her,' he told the governor, 'I'll kill you.' Not even seeing fit to deny the incident, Bill Clinton sheepishly apologized and duly promised never to bother her again." (page 238)
This anonymous woman's story sounds similar enough to Juanita Broaddrick's that some believe they are one and the same. But Broaddrick wasn't a lawyer and she wasn't quite so young. At 35, she was actually three years older than Clinton at the time.
In a November 1997 interview about this explosive paragraph, author Morris told me that he had interviewed both the victim and her husband several times in late 1993 and early 1994. He refused to divulge their names but did say that the couple was more socially prominent than the Clintons were at the time of the attack, which was not true of Juanita Broaddrick and her husband.
Not every accusation of sexual abuse by Clinton is quite so frightening. Still, Christine Zercher's encounter with then-candidate Clinton was scary enough to her. In 1992, Zercher was a stewardess aboard Clinton's campaign plane, Longhorn One. By all accounts, a party atmosphere prevailed as Clinton continually flirted with the all-blond flight attendant cadre.
A recently broadcast ABC News video showed Clinton snuggled next to Zercher's co-worker, Debra Schiff, as the two exchanged affectionate touches. Of course, when Mrs. Clinton was aboard, all such shenanigans were put on hold.
But while flight attendant Schiff may have been receptive to Clinton's advances, Zercher recounted an episode to Star magazine last March that left her paralyzed with fear.
For forty minutes late one airborne night, Zercher sat frozen after Clinton awoke, plunked himself down next to her, and casually began caressing her breasts – as Mrs. Clinton slept all the while just feet away.
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