Trump’s decision to retweet the messages from Broaddrick seem to be an attempt at diverting attention away from his campaign’s latest crisis. | Getty Trump puts Clinton on watch by retweeting Juanita Broaddrick

Juanita Broaddrick, the woman who accused Bill Clinton of raping her in 1978, wrote on Twitter Saturday that Hillary Clinton’s defense of her husband throughout the episode was “horrific.” Donald Trump, under fire for his own boasts of committing sexual assault, agrees.

The Manhattan billionaire retweeted a pair of posts Saturday evening that Broaddrick had written earlier in the day. In them, Broaddrick says that Trump’s most recent scandal pales in comparison to Hillary Clinton’s behavior when her husband was accused of rape.


It was the clearest sign yet that Trump plans to lean hard during Sunday night's debate on the notion that Hillary Clinton was an "enabler" of her husband's infidelities who bullied the women he had sexual contact with.

“How many times must it be said? Actions speak louder than words. DT said bad things! HRC threatened me after BC raped me,” Broaddrick wrote, following that post with another. “Hillary calls Trump's remarks ‘horrific’ while she lives with and protects a ‘Rapist.’ Her actions are horrific.”

In a 1999 interview with NBC, Broaddrick detailed how Bill Clinton, then a candidate for governor of Arkansas, allegedly raped her in Little Rock hotel room despite her repeated pleas for him to stop. Bill Clinton has denied the allegation.

Trump’s decision to retweet the messages from Broaddrick seem to be an attempt at diverting attention away from his campaign’s latest crisis, which began Friday afternoon when The Washington Post published a clip of the reality TV star making incredibly lewd comments about women into a hot mic. In the clip, Trump says he “did try to f--k” a married woman by taking her furniture shopping and brags that his celebrity status allowed him to sexually assault women free from consequence.

“When you’re a star they let you do it,” Trump can be heard saying on the tape. “Grab them by the p---y. You can do anything.”