Todd Akin Re-Emerges: Hillary Clinton 'Delegitimized' Rape Victims

CATHERINE THOMPSON – JUNE 26, 2014, 9:34 AM EDT

Former Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO), whose Senate campaign went down in flames after he claimed the female body could shut down a pregnancy in a case of "legitimate rape," slammed Hillary Clinton's treatment of sexual assault victims in an interview published Thursday.

"Hillary Clinton, in fact, has made a practice of trashing women with legitimate claims to having been assaulted," Akin told the Daily Mail's David Martosko.

The conservative Washington Free Beacon recently published audio recordings in which Clinton discussed a 1975 child rape case where she represented the defendant. Clinton's comments on the recordings suggest that she thought her client was guilty even after he passed a polygraph test. The Daily Beast later spoke with the victim, who said Clinton "took me through hell" and "lied like a dog."

"It is incredibly hypocritical that Hillary Clinton would carry on about an imagined 'Republican war on women' when she once got a child rapist off the hook who she knew to be guilty, and laughed about how she did it when interviewed," Akin told the Daily Mail. "In the process, she de-legitimized the legitimate claims of the 12-year-old victim and then slandered the victim to justify her tactics."

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