Bill Clinton
Energetic crowds for @HillaryClinton in AZ yesterday. Tomorrow is election day—vote and remind your friends, too!
Bill Clinton is a former president of the United States and the spouse of War Hawk Hillary Clinton.
He's a great deal more than that.
He's a serial cheater, for example.
We recently asked of Bill Clinton "Is he a rapist?"
We still don't know.
Because, to this day, he's refused to speak to Juanita Broaddrick's charge (first made publicly in 1999) that he raped her.
But what we do know is that Bill Clinton is the hangman.
Bill Clinton was more than happy to execute Ricky Ray Rector on January 24, 1992.
Rector was mentally incapacitated.
Bill was involved in one of his many sordid messes (rumors of infidelity to Hillary Clinton were threatening to surface) as he attempted to win the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.
So he flew home to Arkansas to oversee the execution of Rector.
It's an issue that will not go away.
- Bill Clinton recently apologized for some of his tough on crime policies during the 90s, but hasn't discussed the Rector execution.
- The Rector execution happened right before NH primary as Bill touted himself as tough on crime & attacked opponents as soft.
- As far as I can tell, the last reporter to ask was @democracynow's Amy Goodman, who asked Bill about it in 2000.
- Clinton left the campaign trail in 92 to make a ceremonial trip, rejecting clemency, to oversee execution. Rector was mentally disabled.
- Just asked Bill Clinton if he has any regrets over executing Ricky Ray Rector. He just stared and moved on to next selfie on rope line.
Lee Fang