Q. for Hillary Clinton's new hire: Should we believe Juanita Broaddrick's rape accusation as 'a matter of default'?

Greg P. | 5:29 PM on February 12, 2016

Hillary Clinton announced yesterday that she hired political analyst Zerlina Maxwell to help the campaign’s digital outreach with a focus on “black voters, feminism and gender inequality.”

So….I have some news >> Clinton Campaign Hires Zerlina Maxwell For Digital Outreach https://t.co/nV65mD6Gbj

— Zerlina Maxwell (@ZerlinaMaxwell) February 12, 2016

You might remember Maxwell from the heat she took over a 2014 Washington Post op-ed she wrote on the Univ. of Virginia rape hoax that argued, “No matter what Jackie said, we should generally believe rape claims.”

MY NEW PIECE: No matter what Jackie said, we should generally believe rape claims. http://t.co/nBM5CPiqBn

— Zerlina Maxwell (@ZerlinaMaxwell) December 6, 2014

She even wrote that we should believe the accuser “as a matter of default”:

We should believe, as a matter of default, what an accuser says. Ultimately, the costs of wrongly disbelieving a survivor far outweigh the costs of calling someone a rapist. Even if Jackie fabricated her account, U-Va. should have taken her word for it during the period while they endeavored to prove or disprove the accusation. This is not a legal argument about what standards we should use in the courts; it’s a moral one, about what happens outside the legal system.