The Clintons' War on Women (33 page)
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Authors: Roger Stone,Robert Morrow
Soon after Williams gave birth to Danney in 1985, she was sent to jail for prostitution and drug crimes, and Bolton was chosen to be Danney’s guardian.
“I was so furious over the situation that I went to the governor’s mansion last year to talk to Clinton about Danney,” said Bolton. “But I couldn’t get past his aides, who listened to my story and then sent me packing. They took my name and address and asked me some questions about the boy, but I never heard another word from them.”
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As time went on, Williams became more assured that the baby was Clinton’s. “The older he got, the more he started looking like his daddy Bill,” said Williams.
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Following Danney’s birth, local Little Rock black activist and restaurant owner Robert “Say” McIntosh took it upon himself to publicize Clinton’s paternity of Danney. McIntosh did it with fliers he spread all over Little Rock. McIntosh had justification for his attack. Years earlier, Clinton had made a promise to McIntosh that he did not keep. Clinton had promised McIntosh some state grant money to help develop his sweet potato pie business.
McIntosh’s flier read:
The Hottest Thing Going: Bill Clinton’s Dick Will Keep Him From Running for President of the United States of America.
Please help me raise money to take care of [this] black baby, the “black sheep of the family.” This baby is by a black woman. This picture is furnished by the Righteous Rev. Tommy Knots. Rev. Knots is an aide to Hillary Clinton at the Rose Law Firm. After he did a six-month investigation, God told him to bring it to me. All Clinton is willing to do for the mother is keep her out of jail and prison.
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Newsmax
later reported that “Reverend Knots became involved, according to McIntosh, after Danney’s mom contacted him at the Rose Law Firm about her son. She gave Knots the photo and told him that the governor wouldn’t take care of the child. Bobbie Ann Williams had sought out Knots undoubtedly hoping that the news would reach one of Rose’s leading lawyers, Hillary Clinton.”
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Despite the intersession by Reverend Knots, the Clintons would not acknowledge Danney as Bill’s son nor would they pay any child support. “During the 1980 election, Clinton agreed to pay me $25,000 to have Yarnell’s Ice Cream Company manufacture my pie mix,” the flier also proclaimed.
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McIntosh had protesters follow Clinton around with signs asking for “Just One Drop” of blood so there could be a paternity test. A frazzled Clinton got his press secretary, Susie Whitacre, to meet with McIntosh in an attempt to silence him. “McIntosh said she never denied Bobbie Ann’s claim.”
“Bill Clinton has been with enough black women to cast a Tarzan movie. And he’s got a little black son out there living in poverty,” McIntosh said.
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In 1992, when the
Globe
first broke the story, Bobbie Ann Williams subjected herself to two lie detector tests. She passed with flying colors.
“’Little
Rock is a small town in a small state,” said State Trooper L. D. Brown. “Clinton was like God here and acted out all his fantasies. Buddy Young, another state trooper, was Clinton’s driver. Young would take the governor and Williams to Clinton’s mother’s cabin. Clinton never doubted for a moment that his people would keep their mouths shut about his habits.”
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Towards the end of 1992, Steve Dinari, head of the Ross Perot campaign in Illinois, contacted Clinton’s communications director George Stephanopoulos and told him that he had solid information on Clinton’s spurious offspring. This story was covered well in December 28, 1998, by
Newsmax
, which has has since been scrubbed from its web archives.
Stephanopoulos put Dinari on blast. “I guarantee you that if you do this you’ll never work in Democratic politics again,” the communications director said. “It’s completely bullshit! If you went on the radio and said that Bill Clinton is the father of an illegitimate black child, you will be laughed at. People will think you’re crazy…. You will be embarrassed before the national press corps. People will think, nobody will believe you, and people will think you’re scum.”
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The crazy thing: the story was completely true.
The details of the story came to the attention of Tom Luce, a heavyweight Republican lawyer in Dallas. Luce was Ross Perot’s personal attorney. Perot, a self-funded independent in the 1992 race, had decided to release the information publicly. A private detective for Perot confirmed that Clinton was Danney’s father after Luce paid for an extensive private investigation.
Clinton operative George Stephanopoulos blocked that investigation. Stephanopoulos would assent to a top media job with ABC and skewered
Clinton Cash
author Peter Schweitzer in an ABC interview, without revealing the $75,000 he gave the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Clinton froze Stephanopoulos out when the diminutive aide cashed in with a tell-all that did not flatter Bubba. “Little Cocksucker” Hillary
called him according to a Hillary staffer I socialized with in Washington. The book made him a superstar at ABC. His last contract was for $100 million. Between the money and the treatment of Schweitzer, George was trying to buy back in.
As Carl Limbacher of
Newsmax
reported:
It was the day before the 1992 election. Stephanopoulos was in Clinton’s Little Rock campaign headquarters nervously anticipating the next day’s returns when a secretary told him that Dinari was on the phone and “he wants to talk to someone confidentially.”
Stephanopoulos’ side of their conversation was captured on videotape by a film crew preparing a documentary on the 1992 Clinton-Gore campaign, which was released the next year under the title “The War Room.”
Dinari was told by Stephanopoulos that the story had already been investigated and rejected by “every major national news organization,” which, according to several sources close to the Danny Williams story, is altogether untrue.
Dinari informed Stephanopoulos, then campaign communications director, that he had names, addresses, and phone numbers of people who could back the story up. In a tense moment of election-eve panic, the Clinton wunderkind barked into the phone:
“It’s completely bullshit! If you went on the radio and said that Bill Clinton is the father of an illegitimate black child, you will be laughed at. People will think you’re crazy…. You will be embarrassed before the national press corps. People will think, nobody will believe you, and people will think you’re scum.”
Then Stephanopoulos changed tack, pointing out to Dinari that his cooperation on the Danny Williams bombshell would not go unnoticed: “If you don’t do it, it will cause you some temporary pain with people who tomorrow aren’t going to matter. And you have a campaign that understands that in a difficult time you did something right.”
With
a video camera rolling just a few feet away, Stephanopoulos was quick to qualify his hint of possible favors for Dinari’s silence, adding: “I mean, it doesn’t mean anything. We can’t do anything for you specifically or anything like that.”
Stephanopoulos would use the same tactics four years later, when similarly damaging charges surfaced in a book by a friend of mine and FBI agent who had just retired from his post at the Clinton White House. Gary Aldrich’s “Unlimited Access” featured allegations of illicit presidential sex and an insider’s view of an unprecedented breakdown in White House security.
George Stephanopoulos knows to this day Bill Clinton is a dead beat dad and granddad.
Newsmax
also reported that “Danney’s aunt, disturbed by the publicity, phoned the governor’s mansion and actually got Hillary on the line. In the conversation, which lasted two or three minutes, Hillary asked, ‘Is it true that he has this illegitimate child?’ and gave Lucille the number of a security agency to call in order ‘to get the publicity to stop.’”
Hillary’s private detectives were not able to silence McIntosh, and he started to run the same exposure campaign on Bill Clinton when he ran for president in 1992. At that point the Clintons made a deal with Say McIntosh—a pardon for his son Tommy McIntosh in exchange for silence. Tommy was in jail on major drug charges and not eligible for parole until 2010. Say zipped his lips for the rest of the 1992 general election, and in early 1993, as Bill Clinton was being sworn in as president, his son received his pardon by the acting governor of Arkansas, a Clinton ally.
“On January 20, 1993, the day Bill Clinton was inaugurated as President, Tommy McIntosh was pardoned,” said Joyce Milton. “The papers were signed by Dr. Jerry Jewell, president pro tempore of the state senate and acting governor for the four days during which Clinton’s successor, Jim Guy Tucker, was in Washington attending the inaugural festivities. Dr. Jewell, a dentist and one of Little Rock’s most
prominent black political figures, later said he was just executing paperwork prepared by the governor’s office.”
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Subsequent to Tommy McIntosh’s pardon in 1993, reporter Jerry Seper of the
Washington Times
ran into Say McIntosh. He bragged about the deal he had made with the Clintons. “Those who question my credibility should ask themselves, ‘If there was no deal, how did this happen?’ How did my son get out of prison eighteen years before he was eligible for parole?”
After Clinton became president, the haunted Arkansan issued a White House memorandum on the topic of responsible paternity around Father’s Day 1995:
THE WHITE HOUSE
Washington
June 16, 1995
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
SUBJECT: Supporting the Role of Fathers in Families
I am firm in my belief that the future of our Republic depends on strong families and that committed fathers are essential to those families. I am also aware that strengthening fathers’ involvement with their children cannot be accomplished by the Federal Government alone; the solutions lie in the hearts and consciences of individual fathers and the support of the families and communities in which they live. However, there are ways for a flexible, responsive Government to help support men in their roles as fathers.
Therefore, today I am asking the Federal agencies to assist me in this effort, I direct all executive departments and agencies to review every program, policy, and initiative (hereinafter referred to collectively as “programs”) that pertains to families to:
ensure, where appropriate, and consistent with program objectives, that they seek to engage and meaningfully include fathers; proactively
modify those programs that were designed to serve primarily mothers and children, where appropriate and consistent with program objectives, to explicitly include fathers and strengthen their involvement with their children; include evidence of father involvement and participation, where appropriate, in measuring the success of the programs; and incorporate fathers, where appropriate, in government initiated research regarding children and their families.
I ask the departments and agencies to provide an initial report on the results of the review to the Vice President through the national Performance Review within 90 days of the date of this memorandum.
The information gained from this review will be combined with information gathered through the Vice President’s “Father to Father” initiative and other father involvement programs to determine the direction of those programs for the future. The National Performance Review, together with the Domestic Policy Council, will recommend further action based on the results of this review.
William J. Clinton
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In 1998, when Danney was thirteen, his aunt Lucille Bolton told
Newsmax
that there were “no buts, there’s no ifs, there’s no supposes about Danny’s bloodline to the president.’”
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Newsmax Media noted that Bolton had been the guardian of Danney Williams for years. Bolton told Limbacher that she even had a personal conversation with Hillary Clinton about Danney Williams’s circumstances and she fruitlessly asked for help. On another occasion, Bolton and Danney showed up at the Arkansas governor’s mansion and were turned away.
Later that year, Newsmax Media followed up with another article. Bolton declared that both she and Williams’s other sister, Shirley Howard, wanted Clinton to take a DNA test to officially confirm him as the father of his abandoned son Danney. Bolton told
Newsmax
that
men claiming to be FBI agents (most likely impersonating them) showed up at Danney’s home two days before she spoke to
Newsmax.com
. When Howard answered the door, the two men identified themselves as FBI agents.
“Shirley said they gave her a card and told her she should get a lawyer—and then she should contact them,” said Bolton. “I asked Shirley, ‘You mean they didn’t show you a badge or anything?’ They didn’t, so she just slammed the door in their faces. So the only way she’s going to do any talking is through me.”
Both Bolton and Howard believed the visit was a ruse perpetrated by reporters chasing the story. What Bolton couldn’t explain was why reporters would advise her sister to hire a lawyer. Moreover, as any good reporter would know, impersonating a federal agent is a felony.
On December 15, 1998,
Newsmax
published another follow-up article. Reporter Carl Limbacher interviewed Say McIntosh, who said, “If you see Danney, you can tell it’s definitely his kid. I’ve met him, talked to him. Danney isn’t black.”
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Following the
Newsmax
articles, the Clinton administration issued an interesting press release:
December 31, 1998
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(Hilton Head, South Carolina)
For Immediate Release December 31, 1998
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
Since I became President, my Administration has waged an unprecedented campaign to make deadbeat parents pay the support their children need and deserve. Today, we have new evidence that our efforts are working: child support collections have gone up a record 80 percent since I took office, from $8 billion in 1992 to an estimated $14.4 billion in 1998. But we must do more to ensure that each and every
parent honors his obligation to his children. That is why my new budget will propose new funds to help identify, investigate, and prosecute deadbeat parents. This effort will include new investigative teams in five regions of the country to identify, analyze, and investigate cases for criminal prosecution, and an eightfold increase in legal support personnel to help prosecute these new cases.
With continued commitment and this new funding, we can do even more to support our nation’s children.