Halperin: Bill Clinton Allegations Weren’t Disproven, ‘They Were Confirmed and Acknowledged’

Bloomberg host Mark Halperin said Monday morning that bringing up the allegations of sexual misconduct and assault against former president Bill Clinton were fair game, since Clinton confirmed many of the stories himself.

“…Hillary Clinton said that people have a right to be heard until their allegations are disproven, and I think that in some of the most prominent cases, not only were the accusations not disproven, they were confirmed and acknowledged by President Clinton,” he said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.

“He acknowledged he had a relationship with Gennifer Flowers,” he continued, when pressed for examples. “He paid Paula Jones off in a settlement and has acknowledged much of what Monica Lewinsky said happened. So those are three pretty prominent examples.”

Halperin noted that even in more serious cases like Jones’ and Juanita Broderick‘s where Clinton denied all wrongdoing, “Secretary Clinton, what she said about people get to be heard until they’re disproven, I don’t know that anybody has disproven the allegations of those two women.”

Host Joe Scarborough, who earlier in the program compared Clinton to Bill Cosby, agreed. “Nobody ever had,” he said.

Watch above, via MSNBC.

[h/t Washington Free Beacon]

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