Clintons ‘should not be running’

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The woman who sued Bill Clinton for allegedly exposing himself and propositioning her in an Arkansas hotel room in 1991 has warned voters not to elect Hillary Clinton as president.

Paula Jones, whose 1994 sexual harassment lawsuit led to the exposure of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, claims that Clinton’s wife is unfit for office because she knew about her husband’s affair and lied about his extramarital activities.

‘‘There is no way that she did not know what was going on, that women were being abused and accosted by her husband,’’ Jones said. ‘‘Who would want Bill Clinton back a second time, doing the same stuff he was doing before, philandering with women? They have both lied.’’ She added: ‘‘She should not be running, with the terrible history they have.’’

Jones, 48, was a 24-year-old Arkansas state employee when, according to her lawsuit, she had the opportunity to meet Clinton, the governor of the state, who would be elected president 18 months later.

She claimed he told her ‘‘I love your curves’’ before lowering his trousers and asking her to perform oral sex. According to her account, Clinton advised her as she fled the hotel room: ‘‘You are smart. Let’s keep this between ourselves.’’

Jones filed a US$750,000 lawsuit against him nearly three years later.

The president’s deposition in the case led to perjury charges after he was asked about his relationship with Lewinsky, then a 21-year-old White House intern.

‘‘I did not have sexual relations with that woman,’’ Clinton famously declared. After it was revealed that he did indeed have an ‘‘improper physical relationship’’ with Lewinsky, Clinton became only the second US president to be formally impeached, but was acquitted in the Senate.

Jones received a US$850,000 outof-court settlement from Clinton and went on to pose nude for Penthouse magazine. More than 20 years later, she now seems determined to keep his wife out of the White House.

‘‘The Clintons don’t care what they do, who they run over to get to the top,’’ she alleged. ‘‘It is all about political status. If [Hillary Clinton] is for the everyday person, why did she not stand up for the women when she knew what her husband did?’’

Jones went on to accuse the Clintons of having a ‘‘political relationship’’ and suggested that a second president Clinton would act at her husband’s behest.

‘‘He is going to be telling her what to do,’’ she claimed.

‘‘It is a partnership . . . they do not have a normal relationship.’’

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