The Decadent and Unethical Anti-Clinton Website that Shall Not Be Named published a story last night about Hillary Clinton's efforts as a defense attorney to get a 41-year-old man accused of raping a 12-year-old girl off the hook. The newsiest part of the piece wasn't the case itself—Glenn Thrush wrote about it back in 2008, though his editor buried it because it "might have an impact" on her run for the presidency—but newly unearthed audio tapes of Hillary discussing the case. The most chilling bit?
Describing the events almost a decade after they had occurred, Clinton’s struck a casual and complacent attitude toward her client and the trial for rape of a minor.
"I had him take a polygraph, which he passed – which forever destroyed my faith in polygraphs," she added with a laugh.
Clinton can also be heard laughing at several points when discussing the crime lab’s accidental destruction of DNA evidence that tied Taylor to the crime.
My two favorite responses to the story, by far, were these:
Hillary Clinton tapes from the mid 80s. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯) tbh http://t.co/BBGJIEP0S8
— Erin Gloria Ryan (@morninggloria) June 16, 2014
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— joshuafoust (@joshuafoust) June 16, 2014
I imagine a conversation with these two on the topic would be fascinating:
Did you hear about that time Hillary Clinton was literally laughing about the rapist of a 12-year-old girl going free?
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You don't think it's noteworthy? Or at least interesting?
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I mean, I get the argument that defense attorneys have to defend their clients. I don't think she did anything unethical here—though discussing the case with a reporter seems a pretty clear violation of attorney-client privilege, don't you think?
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And, look, I'm open to the argument that the system, in order to function, needs semi-sociopathic people who are able to compartmentalize.
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But do we really want those dissociative sociopaths to be president? Not sure that's the best thing for the republic.
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Considering all the chatter about "rape culture" in recent weeks, you'd think the left would be kind of upset by the fact that Hillary Clinton used the judicial system to smear a girl—to say, in essence, she was either asking for it or that she was making it all up.
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Really?
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Good point. I mean, it's not like Hillary did something really despicable like shave the head of a kid in high school.
I dunno, I guess I shouldn't expect much more from Mr. Foust, given his habit of casually (and inaccurately) tossing around accusations of rape threats. I do expect a bit more from Miss Ryan, the news editor at Jezebel, though. Hannah Horvath's favorite site is usually pretty interested in the intersection of politics and rape culture.
Then again, they've got real news to focus on.
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