Flowers: 'Hillary Knew Bill Used Coke'
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Hillary Clinton knew that her husband used cocaine and pressured him to quit, Gennifer Flowers told Fox News Channel's Sean Hannity on Thursday.
Appearing on Hannity's WABC New York radio show, Flowers also said she has specific knowledge of other women who claim they were sexually assaulted by the President and who may be ready to come forward.
Mrs. Clinton, an all but announced candidate for one of New York's U.S. Senate seats, has yet to be hit with the cocaine question by reporters. But after a month-long media feeding frenzy over unsourced rumors that George W. Bush may have used the drug, the question may be unavoidable.
Flowers did not claim to know whether the first lady had used cocaine herself. But she told Hannity that Mrs. Clinton definitely knew that her husband had used the drug:
FLOWERS: He came in one day and told me that Hillary had found out, had heard from some friends that he'd been doing cocaine. And that she said, "Hey, you better stop it." And I said, "Well, what are you going to do?" And he said, "Well, I'm going to stop it." But this wasn't untill, I'd say about the mid-80's. So she was aware of his drug problem, as, like I said, as were many others...... It was very common knowledge in Arkansas by a number of people, including his wife, that he was a user of cocaine.
The President carried on a longterm affair with Flowers from 1977 till 1989. During her Aug. 6 appearance on Hannity's radio show, Flowers told Inside Cover that Clinton had offered her cocaine and had told her he had used a "substantial amount" of the drug on at least one occasion.
When Flowers' accusation was belatedly picked up by the mainstream press, the story sent shockwaves through official Washington. On Monday two White House spokesmen denied Flowers' charge. The President has yet to respond to the allegation directly.
Later in the interview, Flowers returned to the topic of what Hillary knew:
FLOWERS: I would like for a press person to ask Hillary Clinton if she was aware of her husband's cocaine use. I assure you, that if she says she was not, she is lying. And there's evidence out there to prove that.
HANNITY: What's the evidence?
FLOWERS: We can talk about that off the air. I mean, there are a number of people that saw Bill do cocaine, that knew that she knew. So I'm just telling you, that's the way to back her in a corner if she lies about that.
Clinton's onetime paramour also claimed to have knowledge of another "Juanita Broaddrick" waiting in the wings.
HANNITY: Do you have any knowledge that he's involved with any other women?
FLOWERS: I do. Not that he is involved with someone at this point but that there are a couple of women who have had a problem with him that may come forward.
HANNITY: In the Juanita Broaddrick sense?
FLOWERS: Yes.
HANNITY: There are other women out there alleging that he assaulted them?
FLOWERS: Yes.
HANNITY: And you think that we may be hearing from them in the near future?
FLOWERS: I think it's possible. It's been my understanding that they are very scared.
HANNITY: Have you ever spoken with any of these people?
FLOWERS: I have not.
HANNITY: Have you ever spoken to anybody who has spoken to them?
FLOWERS: I have.
HANNITY: And they've told you their stories?
FLOWERS: Yes, they have.
In January Juanita Broaddrick told NBC News that Bill Clinton brutally raped her while he was Arkansas state attorney general. Reporters have yet to ask the first lady if she watched Ms. Broaddrick accuse her husband of rape on national television and if she finds the charge believable.
Six days after talking to NBC, Broaddrick told Inside Cover that network brass had privately described her allegation as "very, very credible."
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