How Bill & Hillary Bashed His ‘Bimbos’ Into Silence

In 1992, as Bill Clinton's presidential election neared its close, my wife and I spoke to the candidate's former chief of staff, Betsey Wright. She headed the “bimbo patrol” — the fleet of private detectives who tracked down women who had affairs with Bill to shut them up. “Don’t worry, they’re safe,” she assured us. “Maybe get a safe deposit box,” I ventured. “Safe deposit box? A basketball court would be more like it!” she sneered.

Betsey, a particularly close friend of Hillary’s, told me that she “sat Bill down” before the campaign started and “I made him tell me about all of the women he had been involved with. I made him come clean.” Betsey described the women: “Most were married and they had as much to lose by exposure as Bill did. But there’s one I’m worried about who he sees all the time, often when jogging.”

She was likely referring to Gennifer Flowers, who did come forward only to be pilloried by the media. “How do you shut them up?” I asked naively. “We dig up material on them that they don’t want to see out in public," said Betsey. “Past records, divorces, abortions, that sort of thing. In some cases, we offer to help them get jobs or favors. We use the carrot and the stick.”

Although I ran all of Bill’s campaigns in the 1980s in Arkansas (except for the one he lost in 1980), I never needed to use such tactics. The issue of Bill’s women didn’t surface until 1990, and then only in passing. But by the 1992 presidential campaign (that I did not run), it was in full swing, and Betsey set up her bimbo patrol to protect Bill from the truth.

Many of the female victims of this blackmail were women who had said no instead of yes to Bill. Now, as Hillary runs for president and piously accuses Donald Trump of abusing women, her own record of demeaning women makes her posturing hypocritical — and disgusting!