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Hillary Clinton represented a man who abused a young girl while working as a defense lawyer.

Posted by Bannon`s War Room, Checked

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Bannon`s War RoomOct 7, 2026
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Multiple fact-checkers and contemporaneous reporting confirm that Hillary Rodham, as a court-appointed young lawyer in 1975, defended Thomas Alfred Taylor, a man accused of raping a 12-year-old girl, and that he later pleaded guilty to a lesser charge (reported as unlawful fondling).

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… How about that? Would that work out? Drudge had that famous ah side eye, Bill Clinton sitting there, side eye, because he was scared to death. This rattled them to their core. We even brought the woman that Hillary Clinton, as a young, I guess, defense lawyer for one of these not-for-profits, or for indigent people, had represented a guy that had been a predator and abused a young girl. At the time, we brought this woman i think she was in her 60s at the time and she was very adamant about how, essentially, Hillary Clinton had used some, let's say, this untoward tactics to her to get her client off. …
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What we found

Supports. Clinton was court-appointed to defend Thomas Alfred Taylor, a 41-year-old man accused of raping a 12-year-old girl in 1975, when she was a young attorney.[1][2][5][6][7]

Supports. Taylor's case ended in a plea bargain in which he pleaded to a reduced charge, reported as unlawful fondling, so the abuse of the girl was admitted in part.[2][6]

Supports. Clinton's own accounts and a later prosecutor's statement confirm she represented him, though she said she had asked to be relieved of the case.[1][3][7]

Context. Fact-checkers rejected the separate allegation that Clinton laughed at the victim, but that does not bear on whether she represented a man who abused a girl.[2][4][5]

Sources

7 sources: 4 fact-checkers, 1 tier 2, 2 not rated

  1. 1AP FACT CHECK: Trump says Clinton laughed at rape caseapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
  2. 2FactChecking the Second Presidential Debate - FactCheck.orgfactcheck.org · fact-checker · cited for: supports, context
  3. 3Did Hillary Clinton ask to be 'relieved' from representing an accused ...politifact.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
  4. 4Top Fact Checks of 2016snopes.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
  5. 5Hillary Clinton did not laugh about the rape of a 12-year-oldpolitico.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports, context
  6. 6Family disputes and a nasty can of beans: Hillary Clinton as litigatorboston.com · not rated · cited for: supports
  7. 7Fact Check: Hillary Clinton did defend man in 1975 rape casejacksonville.com · not rated · cited for: supports

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