The Clinton Double Standard

There's little in the Weinstein story that doesn't apply to Bill Clinton.

Bill Clinton speaks at a symposium for the Center for American Progress Action Fund and the Democratic Leadership Council in April 2010.Ralph Alswang / Center for American Progress / Flickr


“Who’s next after Harvey Weinstein?” feminist outlet Jezebel asked after the film producer’s decades of abuse of women came to light.

“Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, Bill O’Reilly, R. Kelly, Roger Ailes, and Donald Trump are not the only men who have allegedly abused women from positions of great power,” the website’s staff wrote. “There are men out there who have sexually harassed and assaulted women and gotten away with it who are now looking over their shoulders, hoping no one will be brave enough to tell the truth about them.”

They are right. Weinstein is just one case of an influential man using his clout to abuse vulnerable women, and the number of such cases is likely depressingly high. But there was one powerful figure missing from Jezebel’s list of abusers: former president Bill Clinton.

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