The Clintons' War on Women (23 page)

Hillary Clinton has a long history of being domestically violent with Bill. By any reasonable definition Hillary is a domestic spousal abuser, and she should have been carted off to jail a long time ago. Hillary has beaten Bill, hit him with hard objects, scratched and clawed him, and made him bleed. In 1979 the Clintons went on vacation to Bermuda. Bill told one of his new drinking buddies, “I’m going back to my cottage to rape my wife.”
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As author Ed Klein tells the story, the next morning one of Bill’s new friends, a New York investment banker, went by the Clintons’ cottage. “When we get there, the place looks like World War III. There are pillows and busted-up furniture all over the place. Obviously, Hillary’s got pissed off at Bill, and threw a few things across the room. I guess that’s the price he paid for going back to his room and taking the initiative and demanding sex.”
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Before David Brock wrote his December 1993 blockbuster article “His Cheatin’ Heart: Living With the Clintons: Bill’s Arkansas bodyguards tell the story the press missed,” he spent more than thirty hours with Bill Clinton’s state troopers. The stories that Brock heard were not just about Bill’s flaming adultery but also about Hillary’s outrageous, nasty, and even violent behavior. The troopers were in a position to know, Brock pointed out, because “the troopers functioned as chauffeurs, butlers, body-guards, errand boys, and baggage handlers” for the Clintons.
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State trooper Larry Patterson gave this account: “I remember one time when Bill had been quoted in the morning paper saying something she didn’t like … I came into the mansion and he was standing
at the top of the stairs and she was standing at the bottom screaming. She has a garbage mouth on her, and she was calling him motherfucker, cocksucker, and everything else. I went into the kitchen, and the cook, Miss Emma, turned to me and said, ‘The devil’s in that woman.’”
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David Brock, back when he hated the Clintons, reported on this disturbing outburst of Hillary’s domestic violence: “‘Even though she knew what was going on, he would hide it because he didn’t want the confrontation,’ [Trooper Roger] Perry said. Bill did get caught every once in a while. Generally a heavy sleeper, Hillary once woke up in the middle of the night, flicked on the bedroom light, and called down to the guard house looking for Bill. ‘The sorry damn son of a bitch!’ she exclaimed when told the governor had gone out for a drive. Perry grabbed the cellular phone, turning Clinton up at one of the women’s homes, and told him to get back to the residence fast. ‘He started saying “Oh god, god, god. What did you tell her?”’ Perry recalled. When Clinton arrived soon after, Hillary was waiting in the kitchen, where, not unexpectedly, a wild screaming match ensued. When Perry entered the kitchen after the dust had settled, the room was a wreck, with a cabinet door kicked off its hinges.”
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Author Chris Andersen describes that Bill-Hillary kitchen melee as involving “shattering glass and slamming doors. When it was over, staff members … [found] broken glass, smashed dishes and a cupboard door ripped off its hinges.”
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Hillary had a habit of frequently throwing objects at Bill in the governor’s limousine. The objects included “yellow legal pads, files, briefing books, car keys, Styrofoam coffee cups.” And the battles were reportedly usually pitched by Hillary: “‘They’d be screaming at each other, real blue-in-the-face stuff,’ one of their drivers said, ‘but when the car pulled up to their destination it was all smiles and waving for the crowd.’”
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If Bill was cowed by the domestically violent Hillary, then the Arkansas state troopers were terrified by her, and later her Secret Service
detail was appalled by her atrocious and disrespectful behavior. There was even one state trooper whom Hillary used to be so cruel with that the grown man would break down and cry. In 1984 Hillary was named “Arkansas Mother of the Year.” While the Clinton entourage was waiting for the honorary ceremony to begin, one of the state troopers Ralph Parker sneered incredulously, “Mother of the Year?” and then improvised, “How about
Motherfucker
of the Year?” The eyewitness to this precious moment said that the others “looked as if they had been struck by lightning. They were scared shitless that Hillary might have heard. It was truly a great moment.”
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Early on in Bill’s first term the Clintons brought their Jerry Springer–style dysfunction to the White House. Barely a month into the nation’s residence, the
Chicago Sun-Times
reported the story of Hillary smashing a White House lamp: “Seems first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton has a temper to match her hubby’s. Wicked Washington whispers claim Hillary broke a lamp during a heated late night argument with the president. Not to worry: the lamp was in the family quarters, belonged to the Clintons and ‘wasn’t a priceless antique, or anything like that,’ says a White House source.”
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On Inauguration Day, January 21, 1993, Hillary had launched into a screaming, profane fury as she lashed out at Bill for not letting her have the West Wing office of Vice President Al Gore. White House staff and the Secret Service were appalled at these continual outbursts and they leaked the story of Hillary smashing the lamp to the press. The Clintons have referred to the Secret Service as “personal trained pigs” (source: Chelsea to her Secret Service detail).

In March of 1993, Hillary’s father Hughie suffered a massive stroke that put him in a coma and on life support. Hillary, Chelsea, and her brothers flew into Little Rock to watch vigil at the St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center. Bill was in Washington, DC, and the media reported that Barbra Streisand, who had earlier performed at the Clinton Inauguration, had stayed overnight in the Lincoln Bedroom.

Hillary “had
also heard that during her absence Bill, spiffy in a black-sequined tuxedo, had escorted Streisand and his mother, who had become very friendly with the singer, to the Gridiron Dinner, an annual media-politico event. There, in a party-hardy mood, the president wailed on his sax to the Coasters’ golden oldie, ‘Yakety Yak.’”
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Upon hearing the news about Bill partying with Barbra Streisand, an enraged Hillary, while her dad was lying in the hospital (eventually dying on April 7, 1993), got on a plane and stormed back to the White House. Not long after, Bill Clinton was sporting a nasty-looking scratch on his neck. Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers said, “I’m the idiot who said he cut himself shaving before I’d seen him. Then I saw him—it was a big scratch, clearly not a shaving cut. Barbra Streisand was clearly around at the time.”

Except it had not been Barbra doing the scratching. Nor was it Socks the cat. Nor was it Chelsea. It was Hillary in one of her patented “attack Bill” modes. Paul Fray, who personally bore the brunt of Hillary’s rage on election night 1974, said, “Hillary left Little Rock like a rocket, went back, and caught the son of a bitch. You know who got hit in the chops, who got smacked around.”
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Gail Sheehy described Bill’s wound as a “mean claw mark along his jawline.”

Let us not forget Hillary diving into domestic violence with Bill on August 13, 1999, when Hillary (supposedly) first learned about Bill’s affair with Monica. Bill had to confess because the special prosecutor had a DNA match with his semen and the stains on Monica’s blue dress, which proved Bill had lied under oath about not having an affair with Monica. Let us also remember that by 1999 Bill Clinton had already cheated on Hillary hundreds of times with dozens of women over the past twenty-five years. With that in mind, author Christopher Andersen describes the scene:

Hillary’s friend, Linda Bloodworth-Thomasen, who was staying in the White House at the time, said she “thought it was great that Hillary “smacked him upside the head.”
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As Glen Sacks points out: “The US Department of Justice’s Office for Victims of Crime classifies these types of attacks—scratching, slapping, hitting, throwing objects, and inflicting bruises or lacerations—as physical abuse and domestic violence.”
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There was still another Hillary assault incident during the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. A White House maid entered the presidential bedroom to find Bill and Hillary’s bed covered with blood. As the
NY Post
reported:

The blood belonged to the president, who said publicly that he “hurt himself running into the bathroom door in the middle of the night.”

But the White House residence staff believed differently. As one worker told author Kate Anderson Brower, “We’re pretty sure [Hillary Clinton] clocked him with a book.”

“There were at least 20 books on the bedside table for his betrayed wife to choose from,” Brower adds, “including the Bible.”
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Lieutenant Colonel Buzz Patterson, who was a military aide in the Clinton White House described what Hillary did after she got some bad news about the Whitewater investigation and her immunity:

“Every
vulgar word you’ve ever heard poured from her mouth: ‘Goddamnit,’ ‘you bastard,’ ‘it’s your fucking fault,’ on and on and on. What grabbed my attention was not so much that she was saying these things but the way the president reacted. He looked like a beaten puppy. He put his head down and did not try to fight back. He said, ‘Yes, I understand. Yes, dear, I know.’”
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Lieutenant Colonel Patterson says that Hillary could be “harsh, difficult, and unpredictable” and she was the one with a temper “who could rip your heart out.”
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Even after they left the White House, the Clintons were still having knockdown, drag-out fights. R. Emmett Tyrrell says, “Sources close to the Secret Service, however, do report that dreadful altercations have erupted several times: in September 2001, January 2002, August 2002, April 2003 and May 2004.”
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Tyrrell’s sources tell him the Clinton “verbal violence” includes “yelling, screaming, throwing of soft and hard objects, breakage of vases and glasses and just plain nastiness.”
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In April of 2015 blogger Kristinn Taylor posted a column that asked: “Hillary Clinton: Will Dems Nominate Reported Violent Spouse Abuser for President?”
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Good question. We will see if the Democrats take domestic violence seriously in 2016. Not only that, if Hillary was beating up the president, why is she not in the slammer for ten years as federal law suggests? “Whoever assaults any person designated [the President] in subsection (a) (1) shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.”
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Hillary was running Bill’s 1974 congressional campaign even while she was on the staff of the House Judiciary Committee that was investigating Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandals. Hillary’s boss, Jerry Zeifman, the general counsel and chief of staff to the House Judiciary Investigative Committee during the Watergate hearings, fired Hillary after it was uncovered that Clinton was working to impede the investigation and undermine Nixon’s defense. He told Fox News that “Hillary’s lies and unethical behavior goes back farther—and
goes much deeper—than anyone realizes.” Zeifman maintains that he fired Hillary “for unethical behavior and that she conspired to deny Richard Nixon counsel during the hearings.”

When asked why he fired Clinton, Zeifman responded, “Because she is a liar.” He went on, “She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.”

Zeifman wrote candidly about his encounter with a young Hillary Clinton when she worked for him as a staff lawyer. He mentioned a number of facts that he thought people should know about how the prospective presidential contender conducts herself. He said, “Because of a number of her unethical practices I decided that I could not recommend her for any subsequent position of public or private trust.” Other Judiciary Committee staffers who worked with Clinton, such as Franklin Polk, the chief Republican counsel on the committee, have confirmed many of the details of what Zeifman has reported.

Zeifman stated, “Nixon clearly had right to counsel, but Hillary, along with Marshall, Nussbaum and Doar, was determined to gain enough votes on the Judiciary Committee to change House rules and deny counsel to Nixon. And in order to pull this off, Hillary wrote a fraudulent legal brief, and confiscated public documents to hide her deception.” When Nixon was leaving the Clinton White House after a three-hour discussion with the loquacious Arkansan, Hillary greeted him as he left. “How did you find her?” I asked. “Cold, cold as ice,” Nixon said.

Bill Clinton had his own strange connections to many embroiled in the Watergate caper.
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In
2013, Hillary would show her disdain for Nixon in a discussion with an all-woman group over a glass of wine at a restaurant and tavern, Le Jardin Du Roi, near her palatial home in Chappaqua. “The IRS targeting the Tea Party, the Justice Department’s seizure of
AP phone records and [Fox reporter] James Rosen’s e-mails—all these scandals. Obama’s allowed his hatred for his enemies to screw him the way Nixon did,” Hillary said.

After Bill Clinton lost his governorship of Arkansas in 1980, it was Hillary and her close friend, political operative Betsey Wright, who organized Bill’s name card files, put them on a computer, and executed tremendous amounts of legwork to get Bill Clinton elected again to the position just two years later.