Watch CNN Claim There is No Evidence Hillary Chuckled About Her Child Rapist Client
"I don't know anything about that story."
10.3.2016
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While the mainstream media continue to hammer Donald Trump with accusations of sexism, they are also circling the wagons around their candidate Hillary Clinton, who is no friend to women.
Finishing up a recent CNN segment on "Trump and women," conservative Professor (yes, they do exist!) Carol Swain urged viewers to look for a video featuring Hillary who "laughed about getting a rapist off of a 12-year-old girl, and there's a video out there."
Check out the tail end of the video clip above for Swain's assertion.
After the commercial break, host Michael Smerconish comes back and states that CNN checked out Swain's claim that there is "a rape video that Hillary Clinton laughed at. CNN has no evidence that there is such a video. I don't know anything about that story." Then he swiftly moves on:
It's difficult to believe that Smerconish and CNN don't know anything about that story, because the incident sparked some controversy earlier this year. In the 1980s, young Arkansas attorney Hillary Clinton was caught on tape chuckling about helping get a reduced sentence for her client in a 1975 rape case, in which a man was accused of raping a 12-year-old girl. The snippet of audio clearly shows that Hillary believed him to be guilty and found the whole thing amusing. Meanwhile a 12-year-old girl's life and reputation lay in ruins.
Technically, CNN and Smerconish are correct, at least in the way in which he incorrectly -- or falsely -- rephrased Swain's assertion: there is not "a rape video that Hillary Clinton laughed at." Swain herself misspoke -- there is no video of Hillary discussing the case, but there is audio, and here it is, embedded in a Fox News segment about it:
The victim herself came forward decades later to declare that Hillary smeared her credibility in the courtroom. "'I don't think [Clinton is] for women or girls. I think she's lying, I think she said anything she can to get in the campaign and win. If she was [an advocate for women and children], she wouldn't have done that to me at 12 years old."
And now CNN seems to be covering for Hillary.
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