Hillary Clinton and her defense of an accused child rapist: Is it a big deal and will the media cover it?

[The One]

Hillary Clinton suggested in a decades-old interview that she knew her client was guilty when she defended him for allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl, according to audio released late Sunday night by the Washington Free Beacon.

“It was a fascinating case, it was a very interesting case,” Clinton, who took the case in 1975 when she was just 28 years old, said in an interview conducted years later in the mid-1980s. “This guy was accused of raping a 12-year-old. Course he claimed that he didn’t, and all this stuff. ...


“I had him take a polygraph, which he passed – which forever destroyed my faith in polygraphs,” she added.

And in a move that would later become Team Clinton's go-to response for dealing with accusations of sexual misconduct, Hillary launched an attack on the 12-year-old's credibility, claiming in court documents that the girl was "emotionally unstable."

Clinton accused the girl of having a "tendency to seek out older men and engage in fantasizing," the documents obtained by the Beacon show.

“I have also been told by an expert in child psychology that children in early adolescence tend to exaggerate or romanticize sexual experiences and that adolescents in disorganized families, such as the complainant’s, are even more prone to exaggerate behavior,” Clinton said.

She added that the girl had "in the past made false accusations about persons, claiming they had attacked her body" and that the girl "exhibits an unusual stubbornness and temper when she does not get her way."

It turned out that the attacks on the girl weren't even necessary. Clinton used evidence found at the scene of the alleged rape to defend her client.

And she got her way: Her client, who was originally looking at a 30-year stretch in prison, was sentenced to just one year, with two months reduced for time served, the Beacon reported.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2f13f2awK4




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