Something tells us that Donald Trump isn’t going to accuse Bill Clinton of being a Republican during an appearance with Sean Hannity Wednesday night, so Matt Drudge must be teasing something else.
Drudge headline reporting Trump uses "rape" regarding Bill Clinton's past on Hannity tonight. pic.twitter.com/l37LEgME2a
— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) May 19, 2016
What, too soon?
It's May 18. pic.twitter.com/EIkI6TIKy5
— Chris Cillizza (@TheFix) May 18, 2016
@TheFix what the hell is the R word? My guess Robot. I refuse to go to Drudge Report
— Justin (@Justin_BBN) May 18, 2016
It rhymes with rape.@Justin_BBN @TheFix
— VACUOUS CIPHER (@THE_DAILY_BLEAT) May 18, 2016
@THE_DAILY_BLEAT @TheFix oh no he didn't
— Justin (@Justin_BBN) May 18, 2016
It’s been an ugly campaign for sure, but is it possible that Trump of all people is dragging ’90s relics Bill and Hillary into 2016? Some have theorized that Clinton has had trouble attracting young feminists who have been very vocal about campus rape culture and had their views reinforced by the current administration and its “It’s On Us” campaign. Whoopi Goldberg learned a similar lesson when she said Roman Polanski wasn’t guilty of “rape-rape” and vigorously cross-examined Bill Cosby rape accuser Beverly Johnson.
On the other hand are feminists like Jill Filipovic, who argued that people who bring up Bill Clinton’s “naughtiness” (Carol Costello’s term) are the real sexists.
What I've learned from right-wing Twitter: Rape victims are liars unless they are accusing Bill Clinton in which case it's Hillary's fault.
— Jill Filipovic (@JillFilipovic) January 25, 2016
So is Juanita Broaddrick a liar? If a woman says she was assaulted, believe her — right? Broaddrick suggested today that the New York Times spend the same amount of time investigating Bill Clinton’s past as it did digging up dirt on Trump.
The NY times should do equal time investigating Hilary's enabling of Bill Clintons sexual assaults on women
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) May 18, 2016
Considering the Times has had decades to investigate the Clintons, that doesn’t seem likely.
Just when you can't think of a lower depth he could sink to….
— Raymond W Hansler (@RayHansler) May 19, 2016
Bill raped a woman dude. The woman says so herself.
— Jason (@EnemyWithinn) May 19, 2016
Here’s an option; shame NBC News’ Katy Tur for tweeting Drudge’s headline.
@KatyTurNBC And you dutifully repeat it. Shame on you.
— Connie C. Keys (@hotelkeys) May 19, 2016
Update:
The Clinton campaign responded to the Trump interview by accusing him of trying to changing the subject, while attempting to change the subject in the process.
HRC campaign responds to Trump's rape comment: "Trump is doing what he does best, attacking when he feels wounded." pic.twitter.com/mqPoeNtksP
— Dan Merica (@danmericaCNN) May 19, 2016
For what it’s worth, it seems there’s still rape and there’s rape-rape. The rest of the media didn’t exactly light up Twitter in response, but journalists did either dip into the big bag of quotation marks or avoid the r-word.
Donald Trump goes there. Accuses Bill Clinton of ‘rape’ https://t.co/udfh7zVo97
— Blake Hounshell (@blakehounshell) May 19, 2016
Trump accuses Bill Clinton of "rape" (Hannity didn't follow up with: 'Why did you invite him to your wedding?') https://t.co/c2u3XiSl53
— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) May 19, 2016
Here's Trump's reference to "rape" in the Hannity intvu—Hannity raises the issue, but Trump mentions rape unprompted pic.twitter.com/8aZKqBZyI7
— Alexandra Jaffe (@ajjaffe) May 19, 2016
Who could have predicted Trump would bring up the whole Bill Clinton-sexual-predator thing https://t.co/hWJvhrjzOQ
— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) May 19, 2016
Yeah, that whole thing.
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