(This article is taken from Roger Stone’s new book, which is being published today, The Making of the President 2016: How Donald Trump Orchestrated a Revolution.)
Some of you may not know who Christian Josi is, but he ran the Clinton Rape T-shirt campaign for me, which Alex Jones then kicked off into the stratosphere. Yes, it was a crude guerilla tactic, but it was the only way to break through the mainstream media blackout of Bill Clinton’s sexual assaults and Hillary’s role as an accessory after the fact by running the terror campaign/cover-up.
Christian is the most reluctant, yet one of most gifted, political operatives out there — next to me, of course. That’s why I like him. He had great success in politics at a very young age and then ‘accidentally’ became a famous jazz singer. He even wrote a book about Hillary Clinton before writing books about Hillary Clinton was cool. The whole deal has left him sort of messed up in the head, frankly. Which is probably what makes him good. Difficult, temperamental, but good.
Successful political “black ops” involve truth and levity. Alone, either of these can be ineffective, but together they are powerful weapons for conveying a message that will have an impact.
Alone, truth is not enough. It’d be nice if it were, but that’s not the world in which we live. People are busy and have a lot of distractions. The truth is often filed away with names of high school teachers and where you left your keys.
Attaching truth to something else, especially humor or shock, makes it stick. The odds are much higher that you can remember a joke you heard in high school rather than the name of the person who told it to you.
When it comes to the Clintons, there is almost too much opposition research to use. Oddly, it almost works to their advantage. If people are bombarded by information on too many subjects it just becomes noise; a choir all singing different songs. To effectively message things you want to “stick,” you have to be selective and relentless. Know what you want to get across and hammer it, over and over again.
Choosing what to message is as important as the how. With the Clintons, what to choose? Some Clinton scandals would be covered by the mainstream media, if only out of necessity. All of their coverage of Hillary couldn’t be positive; journalists had to at least pay lip-service to the concept of objectivity.
The email scandal, the pay-for-play aspect of the Clinton Foundation, Bill’s philandering: these would get ink on their own. Not much, but as much as the media would ever allow, and only in the left’s context: quick, dismissive mentions to say they “checked that box” and couldn’t be accused of ignoring these stories.
As Hillary was running to break the “highest, hardest glass ceiling” in the world, it was unlikely the media would spend any time investigating, let alone reporting, the extent of Bill’s personal perversions, which made that aspect of their existence ripe for the picking.
The allegations of sexual assault and rape against Bill Clinton were well known to people who paid attention to politics in the 1990s, but even then the media did all they could to hide the stories of Juanita Broaddrick.
While the media unfairly morphed the name Paula Jones into a late-night punch line, there were millions of voters unaware of the stories of Jones and Broaddrick. They needed to be educated.
The horrific account of Bill Clinton’s rape of Broaddrick in a hotel in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1978 was not widely reported when she came forward in 1999. Only one mainstream media outlet didn’t ignore it, but NBC News sat on its exclusive with Broaddrick until after Clinton’s impeachment trial for perjury regarding his affair with intern Monica Lewinsky failed to remove him from office. It aired only once, and anyone who missed the segment, missed her story.
In the 16 years since the Clintons left the White House, the progressive left set out to change the culture even more than they had, especially with young people on college campuses. Drunken hook-ups, once a rite of passage, became the sole responsibility of the man, even if he was drunk too and didn’t initiate the activity. Moreover, they made the accuser a hero who must be believed, no matter what.
Emma Sulkowicz, a student at Columbia University who became known as “mattress girl” because she carried the mattress she claimed she was raped on to every class across campus after the university found no proof of her account of rape. Sulkowicz was held up as a champion of women’s rights, and still is today by many on the left.
The false Rolling Stone story “A Rape On Campus” also had campus leftists demanding the accuser, “Jackie,” be believed even after she was exposed as a fraud and the story was retracted.
This mentality, especially with millennial voters, made the rape of Juanita Broaddrick the best, most fertile ground for weaponization against the Clintons.
In November of 2015, Hillary Clinton really solidified this choice when she tweeted, “Every survivor of sexual assault deserves to be heard, believed, and supported.” Once she said they “deserved” to be believed, the obvious question was: Did Hillary believe Juanita?
When asked this question at a public forum a month later, Clinton said, “Well, I would say that everybody should be believed at first until they are disbelieved on evidence.”
We posted her tweet just before she deleted it.
Since Bill had never spoken about, let alone denied, Broaddrick’s claims, and most people had never heard them, coupled with Hillary’s original absolutist declaration of absolute belief, the choice was clear: voters who didn’t know this bit of the Clinton’s history had to be educated on it.
Since the best message is a simple message, the Bill Clinton “RAPE” t-shirt was born from my fertile mind. Modeled after the “HOPE” posters from Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, the Clinton “RAPE” shirt became reality when I baited the press in Cleveland. It was an immediate hit.
Soon after it was printed, the shirt started showing up at Clinton rallies. This wasn’t an accident.
Alex Jones offered $1,000 to anyone who could get on TV wearing the shirt and $5,000 to anyone who wore the shirt to a Clinton rally and could be heard shouting “Bill Clinton is a rapist!” Jones paid out more than $125,000!
The game was on.
The T-shirt began appearing everywhere.
Clinton Rape Tee Timeline
July 19, 2016 — Alex Jones of InfoWars tweeted a photo of the Bill Clinton rape t-shirt calling it “Sneak Preview of the Next Big Fashion Statement.”
July 20, 2016 — The Guardian calls the Bill Clinton rape t-shirt “symbolic — not just of the tone of the Republican national convention but of the presidential election as a whole.” The Guardian also credited Stone with being behind the t-shirt and noted that “the T-shirt is representative of some of the most important issues at play in this year’s election.”
July 21, 2016 — Time magazine features Roger Stone wearing a Bill Clinton ‘RAPE’ T-Shirt at the RNC convention in Cleveland.
July 21, 2016 — Bloomberg Politics reporter Jennifer Jacobs tweets a photo of Roger Stone wearing the Bill Clinton rape t-shirt at the RNC. @JenniferJJacobs: “Trump ally Roger Stone unfurls anti-Bill Clinton posters outside the GOP convention.”
July 21,2016 — The Guardian highlights attendees lining up to buy Clinton rape t-shirts at the GOP convention. Headline: “Bill Clinton ‘rape’ T-shirt goes on sale at Republican national convention.”
August 9, 2016 — Child rape victim Kathy Shelton came forward in an interview with the Daily Mail after forty years to take on Hillary Clinton who defended her rapist. The victim revealed how the champion of women rights was a vicious defense lawyer who smeared the victim, blocked evidence and laughed knowing her client was guilty.
August 13, 2016 — Twitter @ClintonRapeTee account goes live.
August 13, 2016 — Hashtag #RapeShirt begins spreading across social media.
August 13, 2016 — Video of man wearing the Clinton rape shirt gets told at the UN building he must turn the shirt inside out and gets kicked out.
August 15, 2016 — The Clinton campaign removes from the campaign website the pledge that all victims of sexual assault “have a right to be believed.”
August 17, 2016 — Over 1200 tees have been sold.
August 19, 2016 — Clinton sexual assault accusers Paula Jones and Kathleen Willey defended Clinton rape accuser Juanita Broaddrick from NBC News anchor Andrea Mitchell who had falsely claimed Broaddrick’s claims had been “discredited.”
August 19, 2016 — @ClintonRapeTee sends birthday wishes to the former president: “@billclinton happy birthday y’old RAPIST. #RAPESHIRT”
August 27, 2016 — @ClintonRapeTee encourages social media to follow Juanita Broaddrick’s Twitter account @atensnut.
August 31, 2016 — Christian Josi spoke to Kathleen Willey and wrote about it on Facebook and Twitter. Immediately following talking to Willey, his accounts were hacked.
September 1, 2016 — @RogerStoneJr was hacked.
September 2, 2016 — Social media activism spreads. The Twitter account encourages people to “wear it somewhere that will kicked” and to “Send the video. Respect.”
September 8, 2016 — More supporters of the Clinton Rape Tee come out to show off their shirts at events.
September 9, 2016 — Stacy, mother of three, shows off her t-shirt on her social media account.
September 13, 2016 — Milo Yiannopoulos, the anti-PC movement commentator and Breitbart writer, joined the t-shirt movement by sporting it on social media.
September 17, 2016 — Roger Stone passionately expresses on Vine how the women assaulted by Clinton deserve to be believed. “Can’t wait to see Hillary’s face when Juanita sits front & center at the debates,” he writes on Twitter.
September 25, 2016 — Juanita Broaddrick expresses interest in being at the first presidential debate. “Remember me? I’m the one your husband raped and you threatened. I’m still here telling the truth and you are a liar,” she told American Mirror.
October 1, 2016 — Jones keeps offering cash money for protesters to out Bill Clinton as a rapist at events. This sparked a series of protesters popping up on television and Clinton rallies.
October 1, 2016 — A man with a Clinton Rape t-shirt photobombs the set of Fox and Friends and caused a stir with the anchors.
October 5, 2016 — Bill Clinton’s speech gets interrupted in Canton, Ohio by a woman holding up a sign calling Clinton “A Rapist.” The former president tried to dodge responding to her sign and heckling as she was being escorted out of the event. He claimed that she didn’t “want to have a conversation.”
October 6, 2016 — At a Senator Tim Kaine rally in Las Vegas, a protester interrupts the event by shouting “Bill Clinton is a rapist!”
October 8, 2016 — Juanita Broaddrick calls out Hillary Clinton for her attacks on Donald Trump. “Hillary calls Trump’s remarks ‘horrific’ while she lives with and protects a ‘Rapist’. Her actions are horrific,” she tweeted.
October 9, 2016 — Another protester appeared on live television yelling, “Bill Clinton is a rapist!”
October 9, 2016 — At a Bill Clinton rally, his speech is interrupted by a protester yelling “Bill Clinton is a rapist!” Clinton responds, “That’s what is a matter with politics. When other people try to pour poison down your throat, don’t drink it.… Give him a hand. Tell him bye! We wish him well.”
October 9, 2016 — A man interrupts a Senator Kaine rally with his Clinton rapist t-shirt.
October 9, 2016 — In an exclusive Breitbart interview, the victims of Bill Clinton’s alleged sexual assault — Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey, and Paula Jones — spoke about how their experiences forever traumatized their lives.
October 9, 2016 — Kathy Shelton, the rape victim who Hillary Clinton attempted to discredit to help her client win, wrote on Twitter, “If I’d had justice vs my rapist, maybe I could have healed. But Hillary Clinton made sure I suffered loss of justice, then laughed it off.”
October 9, 2016 — Juanita Broaddrick, Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey, and Kathy Shelton held a press conference with Donald Trump before Trump’s second debate with Hillary Clinton at Washington University. The women sat in the audience at the debate.
October 10, 2016 — News media attempted to claim Clinton’s accusers received money from the Trump campaign. Kathy Shelton quickly disputed these claims on Twitter, “No one from the Trump campaign paid me a dime! More dishonesty & lies from the media!”
October 10, 2016 — African American protester disrupts a Hillary Clinton rally in Detroit with a Clinton rape t-shirt. As he was being removed by security, she told supporters that, “I do hope somebody follows that gentleman out and stages an intervention.”
October 10, 2016 — California television station KCOY reports on a high school student being told to change his Clinton rape t-shirt. The student had to get ACLU involved in fighting the school’s decision.
October 12, 2016 — A protester with a Clinton rape sign is tackled at a Hillary Clinton rally in Las Vegas.
October 12, 2016 — Drudge Report headline: “Clintons Fed Up With Rape Protesters. Fear Voter Disgust.”
October 12, 2016 — Bill Clinton gets interrupted by several protesters in Waterloo, Iowa, shouting, “You’re a rapist!”
October 14, 2016 – ClintonRapeWhistle.com rolls out a rape whistle for Clinton rallies.
October 14, 2016 — At a Cleveland, Ohio rally, President Obama spars with a protester yelling, “Bill Clinton is a rapist!” Obama tried to distract the crowd by beginning the chant of “Hillary! Hillary! Hillary!” Then he remarked, “I noticed this has been happening everywhere.
October 20, 2016 — The Clinton rape whistle was heard during pre-presidential debate television shows.
October 21, 2016 — At a rally in Jacksonville, Florida, Bill Clinton gets called a rapist by a protester, who interrupts Clinton in mid-sentence.
November 1, 2016 — Hillary Clinton loses it at a rally in Fort Lauderdale, Florida after a heckler shouted “Bill Clinton is a rapist!” Her voice grew shrill and pointed out the protester as what’s wrong with this election. “I am sick and tired of the negative, dark, divisive, dangerous vision and behavior of people who support Donald Trump,” she yelled. The New York Post noted that the protesters seemed to be wearing on her. “It’s not uncommon for ‘rapist’ protesters to show up at Clinton rallies, but the Democratic nominee offered a rare reaction,” the Post wrote.
November 2, 2016 — Clinton rape t-shirt wearing protesters from the Fort Lauderdale rally did an online video celebrating Hillary Clinton losing it at the rally.
November 6, 2016 — Protesters came out in force to President Obama’s Kissimmee, Florida rally. They are seen with signs, Clinton rape shirts, blowing rape whistles and yelling, “Bill Clinton is a rapist!”
November 6, 2016 — While President Obama’s motorcade passed by a crowd of protesters leaving Kissimmee, the crowd used rape whistles and used a megaphone yelling, “Bill Clinton is a rapist!”
January 16, 2017 — After NBC Security Guards rough a male t-shirt wearer on the Today Show, NBC’s lawyers argue, “he should have expected to be beaten.”
It may seem crude, but it was effective. People at Clinton rallies across the country started yelling, “Bill Clinton is a rapist” on live TV. This forced the media to cover it. True, they usually did so with their voices dripping with contempt, but they had to give it context.
Hillary underperformed with women, particularly white suburban women, and millennials on Election Day.
It all went according to plan, and it worked.
News outlets that would have been all too happy to ignore Juanita’s story yet again had no choice but to do their jobs. Political operatives found themselves having to defend the indefensible when it came to the husband of their candidate.
For all that was said about Donald Trump and what he’d said about women, the specter of Bill Clinton’s treatment of Juanita Broaddrick hung over it all. Were it not for that shirt and the effort to get it out there, there is no doubt no one in the mainstream media would have mentioned Bill’s record as a serial rapist.
Bringing Juanita Broaddrick and the other women victims of Bill to the forefront of the national consciousness brought with it all the other Clinton women Hillary’s campaign did not want to talk about. More importantly, Hillary’s role in being an accessory after the fact in covering up Bill’s sex crimes was exposed. It was Hillary who directed a virtual terror campaign against these women. It was Hillary who directed the heavey-handed private detectives and nasty lawyers to threaten, intimidate and bully these woman. David Brock , of all people, confirms this in his book The Seduction of Hillary Rodham.
A simple t-shirt and a last minute stroke of brilliance called the Rape Whistle put a billion-dollar campaign on its heels, and eventually on its back.
In the final weeks we released the official Clinton Rape Whistle. Dozens of “whistle blowers” started disrupting Clinton rallies. Because the whistles were plastic, they slipped easily through the US Secret Service’s metal detectors.
It was true, it was simple, it was disruptive, it was memorable, and it worked.
(This article is excerpted with permission from Roger Stone’s new book, The Making of the President 2016: How Donald Trump Orchestrated a Revolution, which is being published today by Skyhorse Publishing.)
