Flowers: Prosecute Clinton Sex Crimes Just Like Weinstein, Cosby

Former President Bill Clinton should be “prosecuted for his sex crimes” just as disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and comedian Bill Cosby were, Gennifer Flowers said Tuesday night during an exclusive interview on “The Ingraham Angle.”

“I’m advocating that Bill be prosecuted for his sex crimes just like Harvey Weinstein has been arrested, and Bill Cosby is about to be sentenced. Why not Bill Clinton?” Flowers, a former actress and model, told Fox News host Laura Ingraham during her first interview in six years.

Clinton admitted in January 1998 to having had a sexual encounter with Flowers in 1977. Clinton was already married to 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at the time of the encounter.

But Flowers came forward with claims that she engaged in a 12-year affair with Clinton during his first presidential campaign in 1992. After initially denying Flowers’ claim of an affair, Clinton eventually testified under oath — while denying Kathleen Willey’s sexual assault allegations — that he did have sex with Flowers.

Flowers said she first met Clinton in 1977, when she was “sent out on my first story by myself” as a reporter. Noting that she “was in the workplace in a man’s world,” Flowers said she “just had to do the best that I could.”

Ingraham noted that Flowers decided “at some point” that her relationship with Clinton “became a nonconsensual harassment relationship,” which “doesn’t really comport with what you originally — how you originally classified this.”

“So now how are you, all these years later, claiming that it was nonconsensual at some point?” Ingraham asked Flowers.

“[Bill Clinton] came onto me that night. I told him to knock it off. He proceeded to continue to come on to me for three months before I decided that I wanted to have a relationship with him, which at that point was consensual,” Flowers clarified. “But in today’s standards and in hindsight, it was definitely sexual harassment.”

Noting that she was “a little bit ashamed” to claim that Clinton sexually harassed her, Flowers said she “felt guilty because I was a willing participant at a point. So I felt guilty about saying that I was sexually harassed and abused in the beginning. But I definitely was. Absolutely.”

Because sexual harassment claims don’t qualify for the same levels of criminal prosecution involved in the Weinstein and Cosby cases, Flowers insisted that she sought criminal prosecution for Clinton because of Juanita Broaddrick’s rape allegations.

Broaddrick accused Clinton of raping her in her hotel room in 1978. Clinton denied the allegations when they surfaced in the late 1990s and worked to discredit them, pointing to apparent discrepancies in Broaddrick’s accounts.

“He raped Juanita,” Flowers said. “Why shouldn’t he be prosecuted for rape, as Bill Cosby has and Harvey Weinstein was just arrested? Why shouldn’t he be?”

In the era of the #MeToo movement — which took flight after Weinstein’s downfall and highlights women’s stories of abuse by influential men in superior/subordinate relationships — Americans began to revisit the allegations against Clinton. In particular, the nation re-evaluated Clinton’s infamous affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

News of the Lewinsky affair first broke in January 1998, and the resulting scandal led to Clinton’s impeachment by the House of Representatives in December 1998 for perjury and obstruction of justice. The Senate, also controlled by Republicans, declined to convict Clinton.

Although Bill Clinton professes to support the #MeToo movement, Flowers insisted that “he has been a huge abuser” of it.

An angry Clinton defended himself during an interview that aired Monday on NBC’s “Today” show. He doubled down on his decision not to apologize personally to Lewinsky — after offering a group public apology publicly years ago — Monday night during an appearance at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City.

“The suggestion was that I never apologized for what caused all the trouble for me 20 years ago. So first point is, I did. I meant it then, I meant it now,” Clinton said Monday night. “I apologized to my family, to Monica Lewinsky and her family and to the American people before a panel of ministers in the White House, which was widely reported.”

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“The second is that I support the #MeToo movement and I think it’s long overdue. And I have always tried to support it in the decisions and policies that I advanced,” Clinton continued. “Beyond that, I think it would be good if we could go on with the discussion.”

Flowers laughed at Clinton’s defense, saying he’s “just not as good a liar anymore as he used to be. He’s not on his game where that’s concerned. And I think Bill is afraid.”

She believes “he’s nervous. That’s why he’s acting that way.”

Although Clinton professes to support the #MeToo movement, Flowers insisted that “he has been a huge abuser” of the movement.

“And I would like for the #MeToo movement to be so kind as to recognize myself and Paula [Jones] and Juanita and Kathleen and many, many other women starting many years ago that have come out with claims of sexual harassment from Bill Clinton,” Flowers said. “They haven’t given us any respect, as far as I’m concerned. We’re the #MeNot movement. That’s what we are.”

Flowers lamented that the Clintons seem to be “bully-proof.”

“They seem to get away with things, and this would be another instance of that,” Flowers said. “[Clinton] hasn’t been held accountable.”

PoliZette writer Kathryn Blackhurst can be reached at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter.