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Longtime Donald Trump ally Roger Stone's super PAC paid a sexual assault victim who appeared with the Republican presidential nominee prior to the October 9 debate.
The Associated Press reported today that Stone paid Kathy Shelton $2,500 through his political group the Committee to Restore America's Greatness. Stone has a decades-long history of employing political smears, and he regularly spouts violent, racist, and sexist rhetoric, including calling Hillary Clinton a cunt and advocating that she be executed for treason.
Shelton was one of several women who appeared with Trump at a "surprise panel of Bill Clinton's accusers" that Trump broadcast live to Facebook immediately prior to the debate (a strategy that comes from Stone). As a young lawyer in 1975, Clinton represented an indigent defendant alleged to have raped Shelton. While conservatives have attacked Clintons work on the case, such criticisms undermine the American system of justice, as Republican lawyers and the American Bar Association have previously noted.
The AP reported of Stone and Shelton:
Shelton's case has been extensively cited in conservative media as evidence that Clinton, the Democratic nominee for president, does not have the best interests of women at heart.
The May payment to Shelton by the Committee to Restore America's Greatness PAC, founded by Stone, was described as "contract labor" in campaign finance reports filed with the Federal Election Commission. Asked by The Associated Press about the reason for the payment, Stone said in an email that Shelton "was extensively interviewed on video about her experience with Hillary Clinton and was paid for her time."
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/10/10/trump-ally-roger-stones-group-paid-sexual-assault-victim-critical-hillary-clinton/213689
Proud liberal 80
(4,167 posts)Clinton was a public defender, what was she supposed to do?
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)However, her responsibility as an officer of the court arguably didn't include alleging the victim was asking for it and ordering a psychiatric exam.
Although pretty much verboten today, it's not as if the 'blame the victim' defense wasn't uncommon in 1975, but it was still controversial even at the time, and was especially condemned within feminist circles and rightfully so. The fact that the victim was 12 yrs old at the time makes it particularly egregious. I find it pretty hard to make the claim that Clinton was 'just doing her job'. Not all defense lawyers at the time were using the blame the victim defense, especially with very young child victims.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)"She was supposed to have defended her client to the best of her ability..."
And she did precisely that, regardless of the editorial otherwise.
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usedtobedemgurl
(1,143 posts)"Documents from the 1975 case include an affidavit (p. 34) sworn by Clinton, from which the "in court, Hillary told the judge that I made up the rape story" portion of the claims was derived. That affidavit doesn't show, as claimed, that Hillary Clinton asserted the defendant "made up the rape story because [she] enjoyed fantasizing about men"; rather, it shows that other people, including an expert in child psychology, had said that the complainant was "emotionally unstable with a tendency to seek out older men and to engage in fantasizing about persons, claiming they had attacked her body," and that "children in early adolescence tend to exaggerate or romanticize sexual experiences." Clinton therefore asked the court to have the complainant undergo a psychiatric exam (at the defense's expense) to determine the validity of that information:"
You are welcome.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)usedtobedemgurl
(1,143 posts)That this site supports. I am not sure what your question was but that was the first time I showed up in this thread and it was not directed at me. Again, your information was wrong so the person you were directing said question to should keep that in mind.
Why are you, as a democrat or progressive, trying to spread outright lies and not even acknowledge that it damages our candidate when people believe them. There is a question for you!
imanamerican63
(13,811 posts)Jim Beard
(2,535 posts)Hillarys own words
She did not laugh at the 12 year old. It was at other people. Listen to it so you can get fired up!