”Bill Clinton respekteras trots #MeToo – varför?”

Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States (1993–2001), has been publicly accused of sexual misconduct by three women. Juanita Broaddrick accused Clinton of rape; Kathleen Willey accused Clinton of groping her without consent; and Paula Jones accused Clinton of exposing himself and sexually harassing her. Many other women claim to have had consensual adulterous liaisons with Clinton. Of all the allegations made against him regarding his sexual history, Clinton has only admitted extramarital relationships with Monica Lewinsky and Gennifer Flowers. The former, which led to the Lewinsky scandal, as been criticized as misconduct on Clinton's part due to the vast power imbalance between a president and an intern, even though it was completely consensual. Through his representatives, he has responded to the allegations by attempting to discredit the credibility of the accusers, noting that (in the case of Broaddrick and Willey) they previously testified, under oath, that Clinton never made unwanted advances. Several witnesses close to Willey and Jones state that the two women described their encounter with Clinton as consensual. Charges of sexual misconduct on Clinton's part regained publicity during the 2016 presidential campaign of his wife, Hillary Clinton. A lewd recording of Clinton's opponent, Donald Trump, boasting about groping women was released during the campaign, and he attempted to deflect the issue by citing Clinton's accusers. Broaddrick, Willey, and Jones reemerged into the public sphere as critics of Hillary Clinton, accusing her of enabling her husband's alleged sexual assaults. They appeared as debate guests at the second 2016 presidential debate and referenced Bill Clinton in pre-debate statements. During the 1990s, most Democrats suspended judgment on the three accusations or stated that they believed Clinton's denials. In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegations in 2017, the allegations were revisited and lent more credibility by liberals and feminists than before.