The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 116 - Surviving Bill Clinton's Sex Crimes ft. Juanita Broaddrick

00:00:00.000 Democrats have turned on the Clintons. Me too. Hashtag me too. I guess I was never for the

00:00:05.520 Clintons and I'm still not. Me too. The New York Times ran a column by Michelle Goldberg in which

00:00:10.340 the columnist stated that she believes Bill Clinton raped Juanita Broderick. That ran in 0.63

00:00:15.600 November 2017. The Atlantic ran a piece in November 2017 titled Reckoning with Bill Clinton's Sex 0.82

00:00:22.340 Crimes. Also November 2017. The Washington Post ran a piece titled Democrats are trying to reckon

00:00:29.000 with Bill Clinton's alleged sex crimes. It's not going well. Guess when that ran? November 2017.

00:00:34.460 November 2017. You know, one full year after all of those outlets were campaigning hard to put Bill

00:00:41.180 Clinton back in the White House. One full year after Democrats, after feminists, after all of the 1.00

00:00:46.820 Me Too lapel pin wearing pussy hat clad activists did everything in their power to put Bill Clinton 0.99

00:00:53.220 back in the White House. But in November 2017, something changed. Despite every effort to deny

00:01:00.080 the results of the 2016 election, the Clintons were finished in electoral politics and Democrats

00:01:05.100 needed to attack Republican candidates for October surprise sexual allegations. But they had trouble

00:01:11.060 doing so when they had denied and covered up Bill Clinton's far more credible decades long allegations

00:01:16.420 of sex crimes up to and including the rape of Juanita Broderick in 1978. When Clinton's sex crimes

00:01:23.060 mattered, Democrats denied them, buried them, said they didn't matter. When there was no electoral cost

00:01:28.920 to throwing out pervy Democrats, as with the case of Al Franken or the Clintons post-2016, they did it

00:01:35.200 when there was no cost. When there was electoral cost, as with the case of Bob Menendez last year or the

00:01:41.420 Clintons pre-2016, they vigorously defended them. Today, we are joined by Juanita Broderick to discuss

00:01:47.440 her firsthand experience outlined in her new book, You'd Better Put Some Ice on That, How I Survived

00:01:53.520 Being Raped by Bill Clinton. The Clintons, the Me Too movement, feminist hypocrisy, and more. I'm Michael

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00:04:55.920 to bring Juanita on right off the top. Before we get into it, I do want to make one point

00:04:59.780 with regard to a show last week. I did a show on Bill Buckley where I had my college professor

00:05:04.480 and my friend of many years, Al Felsenberg on to talk about Buckley. But then I saw

00:05:08.700 the replay and there was this audio issue where I could not hear his audio stream while

00:05:13.980 I was asking questions. There's probably a grander metaphor to this, but as a technical

00:05:18.140 matter, I couldn't hear him. So I didn't hear some of his interjections during that discussion,

00:05:22.040 which is too bad because I heard them on a replay and I actually want to quibble with

00:05:26.420 some of those interjections. But it's too late now. I just wanted to point that out because

00:05:30.540 it looks like I was just steamrolling him. So I want to apologize to Professor Felsenberg

00:05:35.160 in the audience. And I certainly would never do that intentionally. And hopefully that issue

00:05:40.760 is fixed now as we bring on today's guests. Juanita Broderick is a former nursing home 1.00

00:05:46.200 administrator from Van Buren, Arkansas, and the author of a new book, You'd Better Put

00:05:50.840 Some Ice on That, How I Survived Being Raped by Bill Clinton. Juanita, thank you so much

00:05:55.640 for being here. Hey, Michael. Thanks for asking. Juanita, your life is obviously so much more

00:06:02.760 than one incident, particularly such an awful incident that anybody would want to bury and forget.

00:06:08.520 But April 25th, 1978 changed your life. You titled your book, You'd Better Put Some Ice on That. Why?

00:06:15.880 That was exactly what Bill Clinton said to me after he had bitten my lip, which was swollen about three

00:06:24.440 times the size that it should be. It was bleeding. And as he left the room, that's what he said to me.

00:06:32.120 You'd better put some ice on that. Very coldly. In the book, you tell this experience very graphically.

00:06:39.720 I don't want to make you go into that here and make you relive it on the show. But as he as he's heading

00:06:47.160 toward the door, he looks at you. He says, you'd better put some ice on that. Is there any look on his

00:06:53.320 face of remorse or of anything? What is how does somebody say that to a person they've just victimized?

00:07:01.400 I have no idea, Michael. It was just so blatant. It was just so cold. And the phrase that he said to

00:07:12.760 me just before that, before he put on his coat, I was sitting up on the side of the bed. I was crying.

00:07:19.880 And he just looks at me very bewildered. And he makes this very weird statement. And he says,

00:07:26.440 I'm sterile. Don't worry. I had mumps when I was a child. And I, that, that to me was the most bizarre

00:07:35.520 statement that anyone could make after raping someone. But then when he calmly walked to the door

00:07:43.760 and he motioned with his hand to my lip and puts on his sunglasses and says, you better put some ice on

00:07:51.760 that. And then just walks out the door. Like, like it was an everyday thing.

00:07:57.480 Well, obviously there have been multiple victims of Bill Clinton. So I don't know if it was an

00:08:02.840 everyday thing, but clearly there was a pattern. And it's, it's that image that you, you discuss

00:08:08.060 is so haunting because we have this image of Bill Clinton on the Arsenio Hall show with his saxophone

00:08:14.220 and putting his sunglasses on. Now we have a very different image of Bill Clinton with those

00:08:17.940 sunglasses. You said he wore the sunglasses to the hotel room. Was he hoping not to be noticed?

00:08:24.900 Yes. Yes. When I, I, I assumed, I just, I can still remember four decades ago when I opened the door

00:08:33.420 and there he stood in a dim lit hallway with his sunglasses on. That's the first thing that should

00:08:40.360 have tipped me off. Uh, but, but I still let him come into the room. I mean, this was the attorney

00:08:46.920 general. And, uh, even though I thought that was extremely strange, I let that go by.

00:08:52.860 Now you, you write in the book that Bill Clinton apologized to you in 1991. So this is decades after

00:08:59.380 the incident. This is 13 years after the incident. How did he apologize and why did he apologize?

00:09:06.920 Right. Right. I, when I was at a nursing home, now I had had, uh, uh, a letter from the state in 1984. I

00:09:16.460 had, I hadn't had any contact with Bill Clinton except when he would try to get in touch with me

00:09:21.740 on the phone after the rape, he would call my nursing home and I would tell him to tell him I'm

00:09:26.900 not there. But in 1984, I got a letter for being the best nursing home in the state of Arkansas.

00:09:33.380 And across the bottom of it, he had scrolled, I admire you very much Bill. And I thought that was

00:09:40.940 so, so strange, you know, to me, he was saying, I admire you for keeping quiet. Right. And then in

00:09:48.100 1991, uh, I was down at a nursing home meeting with the same nurse who was with me the day of the rape,

00:09:55.380 uh, and her sister, we were down there at a meeting. And all of a sudden the gentleman comes to the door

00:10:01.340 and said, Mrs. Broderick is wanted in the hall. So I get up and walk out and the nurses come behind 0.85

00:10:08.340 me. They're following a little ways behind me. And the gentleman points down around the corner

00:10:13.400 toward the elevator. And he said, you're wanted down there. And I was alarmed that it was emergency

00:10:19.060 from home. Uh, but anyway, as I go and I go around the corner, there stands Bill Clinton.

00:10:26.080 And he's standing there with two, I assumed Arkansas state policemen. And he walks away from

00:10:33.300 them, comes toward me. And this was shocking. I mean, I hadn't been in this man's presence in

00:10:40.020 13 years. And, and it was just shocking to see him standing there. And he rushes over to me,

00:10:46.520 tries to take my hand. And I start backing up from him. And he keeps saying, he started saying these

00:10:52.620 things like, I'm so sorry for what I did. I'm a changed man. I'm a family man. I'm just not that

00:11:00.760 same person anymore. Something I'm paraphrasing, but that was the essence of what he was saying to me.

00:11:06.600 And I just looked at him and I, I didn't, I didn't say anything for a minute. And he just stood there

00:11:15.320 with his puzzled look on his face. And I looked at him and I said, you go to hell. And I turned and 1.00

00:11:21.540 walked away back to the nurse, where the nurses were standing. So this, after the incident, he's,

00:11:27.620 he tries to get in touch with you. And as you write in the book, a very bizarre behavior. I mean,

00:11:34.560 just as bizarre as leaving the room and saying, put some ice on that and don't worry, I'm sterile.

00:11:40.320 And then he comes in 1991 and that timing seems a little coincidental. Was he just tying up a loose

00:11:45.580 end? Yeah, exactly. But I didn't know it at the time. In fact, the nurses and I, we went,

00:11:51.540 two on our lunch break right after that. And we began to, to, uh, feel a little bit sympathetic

00:11:59.040 with him. And we would say, I told him what he had said. And they said, well, do you think he

00:12:04.380 really means it? And then I got to feeling bad because I told him, told him to go to hell. 0.99

00:12:10.180 And I thought, I really did. And, uh, so it was about two weeks later that he announced he was 0.79

00:12:19.720 running for president. And I thought, that's the reason. But you know what frightened me is that he

00:12:26.780 knew where I was at that, at that moment in time, that really frightened me as much as him calling me

00:12:34.280 out of the meeting and apologizing to me. It frightened me that he knew my whereabouts.

00:12:39.280 This is the question that very often comes up and not just with you, but other victims of sexual

00:12:44.620 crimes is, well, why didn't you right away file a police report? Why didn't you make a big deal

00:12:50.480 about it? Why didn't you tell everybody? And you bring up this point of, this is a powerful man and

00:12:56.460 he knows where I am. Uh, it was that you're feeling right after the incident to that feeling

00:13:02.180 grow by the time that it's 1991 and he can find you quickly. Uh, what was, what was that journey

00:13:08.640 like? No, that, that didn't bother me. What bothered me more than anything was the time that I was in,

00:13:15.660 uh, in the seventies, you would, people would say, all men will be men, just deal with it.

00:13:21.640 And I felt responsible Michael for allowing him to come to my room. I took the blame myself. I

00:13:29.540 should never have, but that's the, that's how it was back in the seventies. Uh, you allow a man to 0.94

00:13:35.800 come to your room or be with you or in any way. And it's your, it's the woman's fault. And also this 0.99

00:13:42.920 man was the attorney general, he was the police. I never, ever thought that I could go to the police

00:13:50.980 in any way. And also hit the office of attorney general and the office of governor, which he

00:13:56.880 became shortly operated at, they regulated my nursing homes. He could have shut me down at a

00:14:03.900 moment's notice. Of course, there's so much threat. And you, you see this throughout Bill Clinton's

00:14:07.860 career is this, not just the personal depravity, but also the professional abuse of power constantly.

00:14:15.020 One thing, uh, the book is a fascinating read and I noticed it's self-published. And I think that is

00:14:21.200 a great strength of the book. It doesn't read like it was written by some publishing executive or some

00:14:26.580 famous editor. It reads much more unfiltered like that. It reads like you telling what happened.

00:14:32.540 Why did you choose to self-publish? I'm sure any publishing house would have given you a book deal

00:14:37.420 in two seconds with a big fat advance as well. Oh no, no. In fact, when I submitted it

00:14:43.680 to two or three different, uh, publishers, they wanted nothing to do about my life before Bill

00:14:50.160 Clinton. They only wanted to do with Bill Clinton. And I just felt like I was more than that. You know,

00:14:57.480 my life, how my life was going along before I met Bill Clinton and what that rape did to me,

00:15:04.800 uh, you know, after I met him, I just thought it was so important to tell about my life and also

00:15:11.620 about my struggles with my mom who was an abuser, uh, who physically abused my sister and I, it was

00:15:18.300 just an important story to, for me to tell. It was part of the survival in what I had gone through as a

00:15:24.840 child and then got over all of that, became a successful business woman, owned my own nursing

00:15:31.600 homes. And then I meet Bill Clinton and I had to start all over again. It's so important that context,

00:15:38.200 I will say, having read the book, it, it just puts you into a context where if it were just some

00:15:44.640 tabloid thing, and this is one day that happened and maybe a couple of the follow-ups, you would have

00:15:49.720 so many questions. You would say, how did this woman get here? What was she like? Can I relate to

00:15:55.260 this person? Can I, what, what it was the circumstances of her life. And it really puts it into context and you

00:16:00.940 do it very well in the book. Now you talk about this also, obviously in, in your, uh, story about

00:16:07.760 what happened in 1998 in the Paula Jones affidavit, you said that Bill Clinton did not rape you despite

00:16:13.960 having told friends and family for years from an hour after it happened that he did rape you.

00:16:19.160 Why did you say otherwise 20 years later in that Paula Jones affidavit?

00:16:23.160 Well, it was just like I was saying, Michael, my life was going along very well. I was successful

00:16:29.860 and I had seen what had happened to the other women who came forward who, who were villainized, 0.99

00:16:35.800 who were absolutely drugged through the dirt. And I did not want that to happen to me. I had,

00:16:42.200 I had absolutely denied this for 20 years to anybody in the media who would ask. And I was just

00:16:50.560 absolutely incensed that someone would out me for their own personal gain. It, it made me very

00:16:58.020 angry. And I told my attorney at the time, I said, I'm not getting involved in this. You do anything,

00:17:05.060 set up the deposition. I will deny it. And that's exactly what I did. I did not want involved.

00:17:11.760 You know, one thing I always found it so tawdry when people would drag this out and say, look,

00:17:16.600 in this one affidavit, she denied it when there are plenty of explanations why you've given plenty

00:17:21.720 of explanations why you did that. But the, the, I think the most glaring evidence here is that

00:17:27.260 independent counsel Ken Starr granted you immunity for perjury it for, in the Jones affidavit,

00:17:32.560 if you would state honestly what did happen and you did state what happened, that he raped you,

00:17:38.080 but you said that he didn't bribe you. So your testimony to Ken Starr actually didn't help

00:17:43.560 any obstruction of justice case against Bill Clinton. It's not as though Ken Starr said,

00:17:47.720 I'll give you immunity. If you say what we want you to say, your testimony to Starr didn't further

00:17:53.240 that case. You, you simply told the truth after consulting lawyers who said you can't lie to the

00:17:59.060 federal government. Right. That's exactly how it was. And I knew my son's an attorney and he,

00:18:05.960 whenever he found out that I was going to be deposed by Ken Starr and the FBI, he came to me and he said,

00:18:12.100 mom, it's time you've got to tell the truth. And I told him, I said, I can't, I just can't do that.

00:18:17.900 And he said, it's time you're going to have to. So I listened to my son. I went there and those

00:18:23.720 attorneys and people that interviewed me were so courteous and so nice and so respectful

00:18:30.960 and were very sympathetic to what had happened to me. But when they kept asking me questions,

00:18:37.220 did you, were you offered bribes? Were you threatened to keep quiet? I had to say no.

00:18:42.320 Right. Because you, you weren't, you weren't threatened in any overt way by the Clinton team.

00:18:47.560 But this does bring us to the, the former future president herself, Hillary Clinton. What was Hillary's

00:18:53.940 role in all of this? Oh my goodness. Hillary Clinton. Now, if you go back to 1978,

00:19:01.320 I was in a daze for probably two or three months. I was in shock. There was a few people that know that

00:19:08.520 knew, uh, but I just had to face this every day, what had happened to me and try to go on with life.

00:19:16.780 And then about three weeks after the rape, I, when I was volunteering for Clinton's campaign,

00:19:24.200 I had set up a fundraiser with my friends, Buddy and Betty Criswell. They had a beautiful home here

00:19:31.440 in Van Buren. And I thought, well, that's going to be a great place for a fundraiser. So I helped

00:19:36.280 set that up. I got them to, uh, to say that they would have it at their home. And then as the time

00:19:42.840 grew toward this, I knew I couldn't go. I knew that I just, I just didn't want to be in their presence

00:19:49.580 at all. But I told Betty, I said, I'm going to run some information up to you. And I also had a few

00:19:55.420 checks that people, when I would go around in the evenings and put up yard signs, I had about three

00:20:01.040 or four checks for $25 or less. And I gave those to Betty and I was about to leave, uh, about 15

00:20:08.920 minutes before the fundraiser began. And then as I start toward the front door, a gentleman comes over

00:20:16.400 to me, a good friend, his name is Charles Watts. And he comes over to me. He was the one that drove

00:20:21.980 him from the airport. And he said, I've just got to tell you that the topic of the conversation all

00:20:27.660 the way from the airport was the Clintons asking me questions about you. And man, I just froze. I

00:20:33.860 thought I've got to get out of here. But before I could, here comes Hillary Clinton straight for me. 1.00

00:20:40.880 And you know, I even relate to this in the book. As she started toward me, my thoughts were,

00:20:47.920 here comes that poor woman that's married to that monster. I mean, I was, I was thinking, 0.96

00:20:54.220 how am I even going to say anything to her after what her husband did to me? And she comes over to

00:21:00.120 me very pleasant, smiling, uh, takes my hand and begins to say, I just want you to know how appreciative

00:21:07.400 Bill are, Bill and I are for everything that you do in the campaign. And I think I just sort of

00:21:13.080 nodded because I was just in shock and started to walk toward the door. And as I did, I feel

00:21:19.280 somebody grab me from behind. And I think it's somebody wanting to tell me goodbye. They knew I

00:21:24.380 was leaving. And, uh, I turn around and it's Hillary Clinton that has a hold of my arm and she pulls me 0.98

00:21:32.040 down to her and that there's not, it's not a pleasant smile anymore. It's a very much of a

00:21:39.760 angry frown. And she pulls me down to her and she says, do you understand everything you do?

00:21:49.420 And that's when I thought, my God, I've got to get out of here. That was a threat. And that was just

00:21:55.860 like being raped all over again. And at that moment in time, I felt like she knew what had 0.97

00:22:02.620 happened to me. It certainly sounds like she does. And that double whammy of, of you're expecting this,

00:22:08.760 this woman to you, to have some, for you to have some empathy for her or vice versa. And then,

00:22:13.940 and then a very thinly veiled threat. You know, one thing about this, so you, you see Hillary Clinton 0.93

00:22:21.140 here, she says this thing to you. And, and then publicly you're silent for many years and you,

00:22:29.260 obviously the story was percolating in the press. You would get calls from reporters,

00:22:32.780 but you'd turn them down. Finally, you relent and you grant an interview to Lisa Myers of NBC.

00:22:39.040 And then NBC didn't run the interview. Eventually Brit Hume of Fox news started wearing a free Lisa 0.93

00:22:45.060 Myers button on his own program. Eventually much later, NBC under pressure aired the interview.

00:22:52.180 Why did it take so long? Well, I don't think they would have ever aired it had it not been for Dorothy

00:22:57.220 Rabinowitz. Well, she showed up at my home and did a, uh, uh, Juanita Broderick meets the press. 0.95

00:23:03.500 This was in the wall street journal. Is that right?

00:23:05.760 Yes. Yes. Yes. In the wall street journal. And I think then the public outrage, you know,

00:23:11.440 for the, uh, interview to be shown was really mounting. And of course, when they did show it,

00:23:17.760 it was after the impeachment. That timing is crucial because this has been going on in NBC

00:23:23.760 for a long time, but they buried it. And, uh, when you spoke to people from NBC, when you spoke to,

00:23:30.880 uh, Lisa or whomever, Lisa Myers or anyone else there, did they give you any indication of why

00:23:37.060 they wouldn't air it? Was it just simply, they were, they were flacking for Hillary Clinton or

00:23:42.040 rather flacking for Bill Clinton? Uh, the, the, the explanation that I got, I was, I was getting

00:23:49.720 angry with Lisa and I should never have that really Lisa was a hero in all of this. And I would get

00:23:56.680 angry at her. And she said, well, she said, they're still trying. Mr. Lack, Mr. Lack wants to have

00:24:04.400 further investigation. And they found out nothing after that time that it was supposed to have been

00:24:10.080 aired in the middle of the impeachment. They found out nothing new that, that they held it because

00:24:17.000 they, they didn't want to, uh, uh, have this shown during the impeachment. There's no other question.

00:24:23.020 I mean, that's, that's exactly why it was held. You know, that, that's Andrew Lack, right? NBC

00:24:28.340 president. Yes. And he was, he was friends with Bill Clinton. Yes. Yes. He played golf with him.

00:24:35.440 Uh, one of the NBC producers told me, she said, well, you know, um, um, Mr. Clinton and Mr. Lack

00:24:42.300 play golf quite frequently. And I think that was just a little tiding that, that they gave to me to

00:24:48.880 try to understand why it was not being aired. I mean, I had put my heart and soul into that

00:24:54.440 and absolutely bared my soul to the bone in that interview. And for them to hold it like that

00:25:03.340 was just like a slap in the face. Well, you know, this is what happens so frequently at

00:25:08.000 mainstream outlets when they, when they have something like a dirt on Democrats or they get

00:25:12.660 a big expose, they'll, they'll hold it and they'll just keep it. So it's a little carrot hanging over

00:25:18.080 you. Oh, we've already done this. We've got it, but no, we're not going to hold it. Did they ever

00:25:21.840 tell you, they say, well, the, the, it's not good enough. It's not, sorry, this isn't convincing

00:25:27.460 enough. And that's why we're not going to air it. Or they just stonewalled you.

00:25:31.540 No, they just stonewalled completely. Incredible. That's incredible. Now, you know, it's a related 1.00

00:25:37.920 story. And I, speaking of golfing buddies and NBC news, Norm Macdonald, the comedian relates this,

00:25:44.720 that he lost his job at Saturday night live because he was making jokes about OJ Simpson and Don

00:25:50.280 Ohmire, an NBC executive said, Oh, he's my golfing buddy. We're going to fire you. We're going to

00:25:54.260 bury this story. And, and you see, you see this for a long time at, at places like NBC and NBC in

00:26:00.580 particular. Then we get to 2016. You, you speak out during the 2016 presidential race. You had every

00:26:08.200 right and reason to do it, but what did motivate you to try to stop Hillary Clinton?

00:26:12.800 Oh my goodness. It, the, at the, in November or December, she was lecturing at a university for

00:26:23.600 women or something like that. And she put this on her tweet that every victim of sexual, sexual abuse 1.00

00:26:31.200 should come forward and be believed and be supported. And that just went all over me. And I thought,

00:26:38.220 how dare you Hillary Clinton, how dare you the one who intimidated and frightened the victims of your 1.00

00:26:45.260 husband? Yeah, it just, it absolutely, I had stayed quiet, you know, for so long. And I thought, good

00:26:53.340 gosh, I've got to answer this somehow. And I thought I had, didn't know how to use Twitter. I had to get my

00:26:59.700 grandson to show me how to use Twitter. And so on the, I know, I know I couldn't get it to go through.

00:27:06.280 And so finally he explained to me what was going on and how I had to do it. He did not know what I

00:27:11.600 was going to tweet, but, uh, uh, he did help me get, get on Twitter and, and decide and see how to use

00:27:19.060 it. So I sat and got my statement just like I wanted it and did not say anything, Michael, that I hadn't

00:27:27.440 said for the last 20 years. I mean, the last 40 years. And, uh, I thought, well, that looks good. I

00:27:34.480 believe I'll just tweet that. So I punched tweet and I mean, just like I said in the book,

00:27:40.300 all hell broke loose. It was, uh, my phone started ringing off the wall and people, I get,

00:27:48.800 there were so many people that didn't know, you know, so many people out there, millions that had

00:27:54.560 no idea that I had been on Dateline in 1999 and, and told about my rape by Bill Clinton. So many didn't

00:28:01.860 know. So it was a news story all over again. There is an amazing vindication in this moment.

00:28:08.020 I didn't realize until I read the book that you weren't on Twitter before this, but Hillary sends

00:28:12.860 out this egregious tweet, this jaw dropping tweet, which says, uh, you have the right to be heard.

00:28:19.260 You have the right to be believed. We're with you to every survivor of sexual assault, Hillary Clinton

00:28:24.480 of all people to say this. And then for you to get, this is so long since the event, uh, the media

00:28:30.480 Democrats have pushed you to the side and you send out one tweet that you have trouble sending out,

00:28:35.700 that you need your grandson to help you send out one tweet. And it is the tweet heard around the

00:28:40.260 world. All hell breaks loose. And all of a sudden people are starting to take this seriously. And,

00:28:46.220 and there is clearly a parallel here between the traditional media and the new media,

00:28:52.180 the traditional media buries your interview on NBC. They won't let you speak the new media. They,

00:28:57.640 there are not those gatekeepers anymore. When that, uh, when, when that tweet happened,

00:29:05.100 what was your, was it a feeling of vindication? Was it a feeling of, of shock that now perhaps I can,

00:29:12.660 my, the culture is ready to hear the same story I've been telling for 40 years?

00:29:17.200 Yeah, well, a little bit, Michael, but the first phone call, well, about the second or third phone

00:29:23.120 call that I got was from my son. And my son said, you know, he's an attorney. And he said, mom,

00:29:29.620 what did you do? And I said, I didn't know. I had no, I had no idea the power of Twitter.

00:29:36.940 I had absolutely no idea what I had done. Uh, but it wasn't, didn't take long before I did know.

00:29:43.560 That was, and Twitter. And of course, with our dear president Covfefe, the Twitter has played a

00:29:49.760 keen role in the 2016 race. And, and so this brings us 38 years later, 38 years after Bill Clinton is

00:29:56.340 in your hotel room, the Clintons are finally vanquished from politics. President Trump says

00:30:02.920 he believes you. He, he brings you out in the campaign. What did the Trump victory mean for you

00:30:09.540 personally? Oh, it was like this huge weight had been lifted off of my shoulders. My son had a,

00:30:17.160 a, a political party, you know, for the voting and, and for watching the return. And he said,

00:30:24.480 mom, come over and be with us during this. He didn't think Trump would win. And, and I didn't

00:30:29.000 either. None of us did. I didn't think so, but I didn't. And I told him, I said, I just don't feel

00:30:36.080 well. Well, the truth was I had to go through that by myself. So I stayed here alone to watch the

00:30:42.300 return. Right. And when, and Michael, when it happened, I felt like a new person. I felt like

00:30:50.300 that all of that threat and intimidation and all I had gone through for 38 years was finally going

00:30:58.980 away. I felt so relieved. It is. It's an amazing story because I'm, I'm so pleased that you chose

00:31:07.440 to self-publish the book because you do get this whole life and you get a lot of tribulation here

00:31:12.340 and you get particularly one awful event. And it's constantly a process of you creating something

00:31:19.180 of yourself, becoming a, running a nursing home, becoming the president of your nursing home

00:31:24.540 association, uh, you know, being a professional success and having this weight over you. And

00:31:29.320 that final comeuppance is, uh, is really a joy. And I love the last chapter of the book

00:31:33.940 too. I think it ends on a really nice note. So I really encourage everybody to go get it.

00:31:38.080 You can get it on Amazon. I know, uh, you'd better put some ice on that, how I survived being

00:31:42.840 raped by Bill Clinton. And you certainly did survive. And Juanita, thank you so much for being 0.98

00:31:47.180 here. Really, really, uh, wonderful to talk to you.

00:31:50.080 Oh, Michael, thank you so much for having me.

00:31:54.540 All right. We've got to get to the news. We do have to cover a little bit of news today.

00:31:58.440 That was so excellent. All right. I wanted to keep the, the live stream going for Facebook

00:32:02.920 and what used to be the audience on YouTube before they started censoring us, uh, just to hear all of

00:32:07.400 that because it's really, really, uh, powerful stuff from Juanita Broderick. And I highly recommend

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00:34:11.800 All right. Do we have time to cover a little bit of news? We can cover a little bit of news

00:34:14.660 today. We can't. We have to start with Sam Nunberg. Here he is on CNN.

00:34:18.640 Talked earlier about what people in the White House were saying about you.

00:34:21.960 Yeah. Talking about whether you, you were, you were drinking or on drugs or whatever they

00:34:25.320 had happened today. Um, talking to you, I have smelled alcohol on your breath.

00:34:31.680 Well, I, I have not had a drink. You haven't had a drink. So that's not true.

00:34:35.360 No. So I, I just, because it is the talk out there, again, I know it's awkward. Let me just

00:34:40.220 get, give you the questions. You can categorically answer that.

00:34:42.420 No, no, no, no. Besides my meds. Okay. Antidepressants. Is that okay? No, I mean,

00:34:56.320 I'm not, I'm just trying to understand. Well, look, well, look, they can say, they can say

00:35:01.260 whatever they want. I don't really care. Yikes. That is when your excuse for not being

00:35:08.960 drunk is that you're only on your meds. That's not a good excuse. That is not a

00:35:13.220 really rough. I actually think it was journalistic malpractice. This guy, Sam Nunberg was a Trump aid

00:35:18.860 before the campaign. He was a Trump aid in 2014 and 2015. Uh, and then he got fired twice in 2014

00:35:25.320 and 2015. And they had him on the air like three or four times yesterday on CNN and MSNBC. Sometimes

00:35:32.180 he called in. He clearly sounded drunk. Uh, the word about town is that he does have a drinking problem

00:35:38.140 as Aaron Burnett said, she smelled booze on his breath. He's also, I guess, on prescription

00:35:42.200 medications. They're trying to make a big deal out of this because he's saying, yeah, they're going to

00:35:46.260 get Trump and I'm not going to cooperate with Mueller. And okay, I will cooperate with Mueller

00:35:49.700 and dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah. And they're making big hay out of this as always. Guys, calm down

00:35:54.600 for one second and ask yourself, is this person credible? Can, can that you have to, whenever people

00:36:00.580 make extraordinary claims, we've been talking about claims for the whole show today. And some claims are

00:36:05.960 credible and demonstrable and some are not look at this guy. Well, what do we know about him?

00:36:10.760 Uh, apparently he has a drinking problem. He's on prescription medication. He comes off as though

00:36:16.200 he he's drunk. Uh, he worked for Donald Trump in 2014 before he ran for president, got fired,

00:36:21.300 worked for him again in 2015, again, before he ran for president, got fired. He, the, the alleged

00:36:27.000 collusion, the big Boris and Natasha meeting was a full year later at Trump tower. He had absolutely

00:36:33.240 nothing to do with that for a year. And the only person that he knew on the campaign that he was

00:36:37.500 sort of friends with is Roger Stone, who also got fired in 2015. So there's, and Roger Stone is the

00:36:44.040 most famous dirty trickster in all of Republican politics. Is this guy credible? Of course not. I kind

00:36:49.580 of feel bad for him. They really shouldn't have trotted him out like this. This is a guy who's clearly

00:36:53.640 very troubled and, uh, but you can't, you can't possibly take what he says, uh, seriously. There isn't,

00:37:00.120 there isn't that level of credibility. So it's, it's like the guy who wrote fire and fury who

00:37:04.740 basically admitted, yeah, I'm lying, but you want to believe it. I think that's basically how the

00:37:08.360 media responded to this. Yeah. He's a bloviating drunk, but you want to believe it. So that's Sam

00:37:14.900 Nunberg. We have to talk about these tariffs. Donald Trump is threatening tariffs on steel and

00:37:19.280 aluminum. Everybody is losing their minds on the conservative side of the aisle. Conservatives

00:37:23.980 are free traders. I'm a free trader. Free trade is a wonderful thing. It increases prosperity

00:37:28.500 for everybody involved. They're pretending like the world is falling down and this is unprecedented.

00:37:33.240 The Republican party was founded as a staunchly protectionist party. It's first president,

00:37:37.920 Abraham Lincoln was staunchly protectionist. And luckily we've gotten a little freer over time on

00:37:42.320 economics as the global economy has freed up and prospered. But, uh, all Republican presidents

00:37:47.440 specifically love steel tariffs. Uh, Richard Nixon loved steel tariffs. Ronald Reagan loved steel

00:37:53.040 tariffs and both bushes loved steel tariffs. And by the way, the tariff is addressing

00:37:58.160 something that's real. China subsidizes their steel industry. That's not very free trade. Uh,

00:38:04.300 there is a global excess of, uh, of steel production according to even the OECD recognizes

00:38:11.260 this, uh, problem. Uh, it, what we don't want is a trade war. That's the reason we don't want

00:38:17.300 tariffs is we don't want a trade war where everybody loses. Is this going to lead to a trade war? I don't

00:38:21.880 know. Did it lead to a trade war under, under all of the previous Republican presidents? Was it good 0.78

00:38:25.880 for trade? Was it bad for trade? We can debate that. The one thing we know about Donald Trump

00:38:29.120 is that he always takes an extreme position to get leverage in a negotiation. And then he

00:38:33.780 calms down a little bit. So for instance, he said, we're going to deport every illegal alien in the 0.98

00:38:38.180 country. We're going to build a giant wall immediately. And Mexico is going to pay for it. 1.00

00:38:41.180 Did that happen? Not quite. Have we gotten a little bit tougher on immigration? Seems we have. 0.84

00:38:45.920 That's clearly the, where he's starting from. He said the other day, didn't make me very happy. He said he

00:38:50.340 was going to take all of our guns and then have due process later. Within 24 hours, he said,

00:38:55.180 we need to respect the second amendment. I try not to lose my mind when Donald Trump says things.

00:39:00.140 He says a lot of things. That's not an argument for more tariffs when Reagan does it or Bush does

00:39:05.420 it or Trump does it. But it is to say that this is not out of the ordinary for Republican presidents

00:39:10.200 at all. Finally, today, there are primaries in Texas. The media are trumping this up, pun very much

00:39:15.840 as always intended, as a preview of what we're going to get in November. What does this mean for the

00:39:20.580 GOP chances in November? Looking ahead, I don't want to make predictions. I have a nice $400 check

00:39:26.040 on my table over there to show why it's not a great idea to make predictions sometimes. Put your money

00:39:30.620 on it. Thank you, Mr. Shapiro. So what does this mean in November? Historically speaking, the party in

00:39:37.540 power loses the House. Historically speaking, we're likely to lose the House, especially as a Republican

00:39:42.480 because we've got the whole media apparatus against us. That said, there are 23 Republican seats

00:39:47.280 in Congress that Hillary won in 2016. It's not good. But let's not forget, there are a dozen Democrat

00:39:53.420 seats in Congress that Donald Trump won. And by the way, some of those seats that Hillary won was by

00:39:58.180 one percentage point or two percentage points in places like Texas, where Donald Trump, we were told,

00:40:03.380 is going to start crazy wars, excuse me, shoot nuclear missiles everywhere, destroy the economy. 0.93

00:40:09.360 None of that happened. I wonder if that one to two percentage point margin for Democrats is really

00:40:14.000 going to remain. Everybody's going to just collapse once we see that the sky has not fallen down.

00:40:18.200 Right now, so we've got 23, we've got a dozen is where that even, so you're talking about 11,

00:40:23.700 11 states or 11 seat swing. The GOP has a 45 seat advantage in the House right now. Doesn't mean we're

00:40:29.540 not going to lose it. If history is any indication, we are going to lose the House. But if conservatives

00:40:34.340 are energized, there's a chance that we keep the House. There's a fair chance. I'm energized. The Heritage

00:40:39.480 Foundation, which says that Donald Trump is affecting their conservative agenda at a faster rate

00:40:43.760 even than Ronald Reagan. The Heritage Foundation is energized. Democrats have tried to sap our energy

00:40:48.640 with all this useless nonsense like Sam Nunberg and Russia and blah, blah, blah. But I'm energized.

00:40:54.740 I hope you're energized too, because if, if we somehow magically hold the House, oh my gosh,

00:41:02.380 I'm going to need a warehouse full of these leftist years tumblers. It is going to be tremendous.

00:41:08.780 Huge folks going to be huge. Okay. That's our show. Come back tomorrow. I'm Michael Knowles. This is

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The Michael Knowles Show - March 06, 2018

Ep. 116 - Surviving Bill Clinton's Sex Crimes ft. Juanita Broaddrick

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