Hillary Clinton claimed that any woman claiming to be the victim of sexual assault should be believed, but after her campaign re-examined the actions of her husband they had to rephrase that position.
On a page dedicated to "campus sexual assaults," Clinton proudly displayed a quote from September 2015 that stated all victims should be listened to and believed.
“I want to send a message to every survivor of sexual assault: Don’t let anyone silence your voice. You have the right to be heard. You have the right to be believed, and we’re with you.”
That all changed after Juanita Broaddrick, a woman who accused Bill Clinton of rape and said Hillary intimidated her to help cover it, began tweeting about her experience of being sexually assaulted.
I was 35 years old when Bill Clinton, Ark. Attorney General raped me and Hillary tried to silence me. I am now 73....it never goes away.
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) January 6, 2016
Not wanting to face further scrutiny for her husband's long list of sexual assaults, Hillary's campaign quietly changed the quote and removed the part that said all victims deserved to be believed sometime in February, according to Buzzfeed.
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Changing a quote to try to change history seems like nothing compared to deleting tens of thousands of emails and using a private server for official State Department communications.
Barack Obama said that there's nothing Hillary won't say to win. Well, there's also nothing she won't try to unsay or manipulate to avoid more public scrutiny.
(h/t Heast)