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BREAKING: Trump Campaign BUSTED Funneling Cash To Bill Clinton’s Rape Accuser
A political action committee founded by a prominent Trump ally, Roger Stone, paid an anti-Clinton sexual assault victim $2,500 to appear with the GOP candidate before the debate this past Sunday, according to the Associated Press.
At age 12, Kathy Shelton was sexually assaulted, and her attacker, 41-year-old Thomas Alfred Taylor, was represented by Hillary Clinton in the 1975 trial. Shelton has given numerous interviews where she attacked the way Clinton handled the case, accusing her of crossing ethical lines. Conservative news media frequently cites records from that case, in an effort to call Clinton’s level of compassion regarding women’s issues into question.
In campaign finance reports filed by the FEC, the payment to Shelton was listed as “contract labor.” Shelton received her compensation in May, from the Committee to Restore America’s Greatness PAC. When the Associated Press interviewed Mr. Stone about why Shelton received compensation, Stone replied that she “was extensively interviewed on video about her experience with Hillary Clinton and was paid for her time.” Shelton herself did not reply to a request for comment.
A judge presiding over the sexual assault case appointed Clinton to represent Shelton’s accused attacker in 1975, as Clinton said in her 2003 autobiography Living History.
‘[Prosecuting attorney Mahlon Gibson] called me to tell me an indigent prisoner accused of raping a twelve-year-old girl wanted a woman lawyer. Gibson had recommended that the criminal court judge, Maupin Cummings, appoint me. I told Mahlon I really didn’t feel comfortable taking on such a client, but Mahlon gently reminded me that I couldn’t very well refuse the judge’s request.’
Documents from the court case show that other people involved in the case, including an expert in child psychology, had characterized the victim as “emotionally unstable with a tendency to seek out older men and to engage in fantasizing about persons, claiming they had attacked her body.”
Due to a mishandling of critical evidence, the defendant, represented by Clinton, was able plead his case down to a lesser charge. Around a decade afterwards in a taped interview, Clinton was recorded laughing uncomfortably at the results of her former client’s lie detector test, presumably because she knew he was guilty. Conservative media organizations seized on the tape in an effort destroy Clinton’s candidacy.
Roger Stone, who manages the PAC responsible for paying Shelton is a former Trump lobbyist who was tangentially involved in the Watergate scandal that brought down Richard Nixon. He also acted as a head adviser in the early months of the Trump campaign. Though he quit the campaign last summer, Stone has been involved in the creation of several organizations made to support the candidate. This isn’t the first time he’s courted female victims in an attempt to discredit Clinton.
In 1993, when she was 47 years old, volunteer White House aide Kathleen Willey accused then-President Bill Clinton of sexually assaulting her. Stone attempted to raise money to pay off her mortgage and claimed in an interview that Trump himself had financially contributed to the effort personally.
The Trump campaign has not encouraged ties with Stone’s PAC, however. In fact, the campaign sent them a cease-and-desist letter and has denied that the GOP nominee gave money to the fund for Willey set up by Stone.
http://bipartisanreport.com/2016/10...g-cash-to-bill-clintons-rape-accuser-details/
A political action committee founded by a prominent Trump ally, Roger Stone, paid an anti-Clinton sexual assault victim $2,500 to appear with the GOP candidate before the debate this past Sunday, according to the Associated Press.
At age 12, Kathy Shelton was sexually assaulted, and her attacker, 41-year-old Thomas Alfred Taylor, was represented by Hillary Clinton in the 1975 trial. Shelton has given numerous interviews where she attacked the way Clinton handled the case, accusing her of crossing ethical lines. Conservative news media frequently cites records from that case, in an effort to call Clinton’s level of compassion regarding women’s issues into question.
In campaign finance reports filed by the FEC, the payment to Shelton was listed as “contract labor.” Shelton received her compensation in May, from the Committee to Restore America’s Greatness PAC. When the Associated Press interviewed Mr. Stone about why Shelton received compensation, Stone replied that she “was extensively interviewed on video about her experience with Hillary Clinton and was paid for her time.” Shelton herself did not reply to a request for comment.
A judge presiding over the sexual assault case appointed Clinton to represent Shelton’s accused attacker in 1975, as Clinton said in her 2003 autobiography Living History.
‘[Prosecuting attorney Mahlon Gibson] called me to tell me an indigent prisoner accused of raping a twelve-year-old girl wanted a woman lawyer. Gibson had recommended that the criminal court judge, Maupin Cummings, appoint me. I told Mahlon I really didn’t feel comfortable taking on such a client, but Mahlon gently reminded me that I couldn’t very well refuse the judge’s request.’
Documents from the court case show that other people involved in the case, including an expert in child psychology, had characterized the victim as “emotionally unstable with a tendency to seek out older men and to engage in fantasizing about persons, claiming they had attacked her body.”
Due to a mishandling of critical evidence, the defendant, represented by Clinton, was able plead his case down to a lesser charge. Around a decade afterwards in a taped interview, Clinton was recorded laughing uncomfortably at the results of her former client’s lie detector test, presumably because she knew he was guilty. Conservative media organizations seized on the tape in an effort destroy Clinton’s candidacy.
Roger Stone, who manages the PAC responsible for paying Shelton is a former Trump lobbyist who was tangentially involved in the Watergate scandal that brought down Richard Nixon. He also acted as a head adviser in the early months of the Trump campaign. Though he quit the campaign last summer, Stone has been involved in the creation of several organizations made to support the candidate. This isn’t the first time he’s courted female victims in an attempt to discredit Clinton.
In 1993, when she was 47 years old, volunteer White House aide Kathleen Willey accused then-President Bill Clinton of sexually assaulting her. Stone attempted to raise money to pay off her mortgage and claimed in an interview that Trump himself had financially contributed to the effort personally.
The Trump campaign has not encouraged ties with Stone’s PAC, however. In fact, the campaign sent them a cease-and-desist letter and has denied that the GOP nominee gave money to the fund for Willey set up by Stone.
http://bipartisanreport.com/2016/10...g-cash-to-bill-clintons-rape-accuser-details/
