- The Washington Times - Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Former President Bill Clinton’s past came back to haunt him in Ohio on Wednesday when a female heckler appeared at one of his events.

Mr. Clinton was trying to trying to support his wife’s presidential campaign with a speech on the economy while in Canton when a woman began chanting, “Bill Clinton is a rapist.”

She slowly walked through the venue with a shirt carrying the same message before being escorted away by security.

“I love it when people come into my rallies, and it’s a dead giveaway when they don’t want to have a conversation because they know they’ll lose the conversation,” Mr. Clinton said over the agitated crowd.

Video of the exchange, which was posted to YouTube by NTK Network, was reminiscent of a protester who appeared on Saturday during a live taping of “Fox and Friends.”

“Bill Clinton is a rapist! Bill Clinton is a rapist!” a man yelled while host Tucker Carlson was trying to complete a segment. The individual was hauled away as the Fox commentator laughed and called him an “excitable young man.”


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The actions of both individuals bring attention to the charges leveled by Juanita Broaddrick, the 73-year-old woman who says she was raped decades ago Mr. Clinton.

“I was 35 years old when Bill Clinton, Ark. Attorney General raped me and Hillary tried to silence me. I am now 73. … It never goes away,” Mrs. Broaddrick tweeted Jan. 5.

“Chelsea you said you don’t remember a time in your life that your parents weren’t being attacked,” Mrs. Broaddrick added Sept. 28 after the former president’s daughter complained of attacks on the family.

“There’s a very good reason for this — your parents are not good people,” she wrote in a series of tweets. “Your father was, and probably still is, a sexual predator. Your mother has always lied and covered up for him.”

Mr. Clinton also reached an out-of-court settlement with former Arkansas state employee Paula Jones in 1998 over sexual harassment charges.

• Douglas Ernst can be reached at dernst@washingtontimes.com.

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