He boasted later that he did not want to discuss them for Chelsea's sake

Juanita Broaddrick, who has accused him of raping her in 1978, responded with a vengeance on Twitter

Chelsea Clinton d ismissed Donald Trump's claim that he did not mention her father's past sex scandals during Monday's debate out of respect

A former Arkansas nursing home administrator who has accused Bill Clinton of raping her nearly 40 years ago lashed out at Chelsea Clinton on Wednesday for minimizing her father Bill's past sex scandals.

'Your father was, and probably still is, a sexual predator. Your mother has always lied and covered up for him,' Juanita Broaddrick wrote on Twitter.

Chelsea said in an interview with Cosmopolitan on Tuesday that focusing on the former president's reputation as a sex abuser was a 'distraction' from issues important to voters in the November election.

Trump said after Monday's debate that he shied away from criticizing Hillary Clinton as an enabler of her husband's past infidelities because he didn't want to embarrass Chelsea, who was sitting in the front row of the audience.

BACK IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Broaddrick, pictured in a network television interview in 1999, has brought her rape claim against Bill Clinton back to light on Twitter in a stinging response to Chelsea Clinton

Broaddrick tweeted a storm at Chelsea on Wednesday after the former first daughter said talk of her father's sex scandals are a 'distraction'

'My reaction to that is just what my reaction has been kind of every time Trump has gone after my mom or my family,' Chelsea told Cosmo, 'which is that it’s a distraction from his inability to talk about what’s actually at stake in this election.'

'Candidly, I don't remember a time in my life when my parents and my family weren't being attacked, and so it just sort of seems to be in that tradition, unfortunately,' she added. And what I find most troubling by far are ... Trump's continued, relentless attacks on whole swaths of our country and even our global community.'

Broaddrick shoved back in a storm of tweets.

'Chelsea,' she wrote, 'you said you don't remember a time in your life that your parents weren't being attacked.'

'There's a very good reason for this---your parents are not good people.'

'The truth is what has brought the attacks on your family and you are smart enough to know that by now,' Broaddrick added on Twitter.

'I was 35 when Bill Clinton Raped me and Hillary tried to silence me. I am now 73. It never goes away.'

Broaddrick has accused Bill Clinton of raping her in 1978, and the woman who found her afterward has corroborated her account of that day

Donald Trump said after Monday's presidential debate that he held back on calling Hillary Clinton an enabler of a sexual predator because he saw Chelsea sitting in the front row

Broaddrick recounted during a 'Dateline NBC' interview in 1999 the night she says she was raped by the then-Arkansas attorney general in a Little Rock hotel room.

'He starts to bite on my top lip, and I tried to pull away from him,' she recalled.

'And then he forces me down on the bed. And I just was very frightened, and I tried to get away from him and I told him "No," that I didn’t want this to happen but he wouldn’t listen to me.'

'It was a real panicky, panicky situation,' she recounted. 'I was even to the point where I was getting very noisy, you know, yelling to "Please stop." And that’s when he pressed down on my right shoulder and he would bite my lip.'

'When everything was over with,' Broaddrick claimed, 'he got up and straightened himself, and I was crying at the moment and he walks to the door, and calmly puts on his sunglasses.'

'And before he goes out the door he says "You better get some ice on that." And he turned and went out the door.

Chelsea Clinton was 18 when her then-president father admitted to having an 'improper' relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky in 1998.

Broaddrick, shown in 1992, has said her second marriage broke up after Clinton raped her because she found it difficult to be intimate with husband David

He had previously denied in a televised address, with his wife by his side, that he had ever ever had 'sexual relations with that woman.'

Trump said nothing of that particular scandal during Monday's debate, instead focusing on his opponent's political record as secretary of state.

Later he boasted during an interview with CNN: ' I was very happy that I was able to hold back on the, you know, indiscretions with respect to Bill Clinton because I have a lot of respect for Chelsea Clinton and I just didn't want to say what I was going to say.'

He went on to tease that any remarks he held back from on Monday may emerge later.

'Maybe I'll tell you at the next debate,' he said.

Separately he told Fox News' Sean Hannity: 'Well I didn't want to say, her husband was in the room, along with her daughter, who I think is a very nice young lady.

'I didn't want to say what I was going to say, about what's been going on in their life.