Paula Jones to Penthouse: The Right ‘Used Me’

Ann Coulter allegedly wrote her legal complaint, then slammed her as ‘trailer trash’—and Paula Jones herself complained to Penthouse in 2000 that conservatives had abused her for their own gain. So what is she doing back with the alt-right?

BRANDY ZADROZNY

10.17.16 1:15 AM ET

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Meanwhile, Jones’s harassment suit was being commandeered for a greater cause—the takedown of a president. The search for evidence in Jones’s case uncovered the affair between the president and Monica Lewinsky, and the discovery that Clinton had lied under oath about his relationship with the White House intern, which in turn led to independent counsel Kenneth Starr’s report and Clinton’s historical impeachment.

Things were moving fast for Jones, and it wasn’t always clear just who was in control of her case. In 1997, Jones was being represented by Gilbert Davis and Joseph Cammarata—two moderate Republicans who suggested that Jones accept a settlement offer of $700,000. For her part, Jones later said, “Oh, I instructed them many times to try and get the case settled…”

But there were other lawyers steering the ship from behind the scenes, a group of young conservatives who referred to themselves as Elves (as in the muscle and magic that runs Santa’s workshop). These elves included George Conway—husband to Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s third and current campaign manager who has defended Trump’s trotting out of Jones and the other women, telling Anderson Cooper, “I believe that voters should know who Hillary Clinton is.” George Conway wrote the Supreme Court brief which allowed Jones’ case to continue and leaked to Matt Drudge details of a sealed affidavit that would later be used to discredit Jones—one in which she described a “distinguishing characteristic” of the president’s penis, specifically a bend, a condition that doctors who examined Clinton disputed.

Another “elf,” now-famous conservative firebrand, Ann Coulter, was little known outside far-right DC circles at the time, but made no secret of her distaste for the quick settlement that Jones said she always wanted.

In Michael Isikoff’s Uncovering Clinton, Coulter called news of a settlement “a fucking disaster!”

“We were terrified that Jones would settle,” Coulter reportedly said. “It was contrary to our purpose of bringing down the president.”

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