Reporter Says NBC Edited Juanita Broaddrick Interview to Omit Hillary's Attempt to Silence Her

"Amazing" that the very people defending Bill Clinton against his accusers are the ones quick to embrace the current claims against Trump.

The Free Beacon reports that Michael Isikoff, the reporter who first learned about President Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky, asserts that NBC has possession of the full tape of its 1999 interview with Juanita Broaddrick. According to Isikoff, NBC edited that 1999 interview to omit the portion in which Broaddrick talks about Hillary Clinton's attempt to silence her. That claim is corroborated by Lisa Myers, the NBC reporter who conducted that 1999 interview. 

Isikoff is now calling on NBC, which leaked the tape of Donald Trump's lewd 2005 comments, to release the full Broaddrick interview. 

Fat chance.

The Beacon reports: 

Michael Isikoff, who was a leading reporter during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, said in a Thursday discussion that NBC should release a 17-year-old tape of an interview that it conducted with Broaddrick. Broaddrick has long claimed that the interview that NBC aired edited out her claim that Hillary Clinton was involved in quashing Broaddrick’s rape claims.

“NBC has the full tape of the original Lisa Myers interview,” Isikoff said during an online discussion on Sidewire.com. “NBC ought to check its archive and run the full interview. (AS long as they’re now culling their archives!)”

Isikoff worked as a national correspondent for NBC from 2010 to 2014. He says that NBC reporter Lisa Myers has confirmed Broaddrick’s claim that NBC edited out references that could have been damaging to Hillary Clinton.

“Folks have made much of the fact that her claim about the conversation she had with Hillary wasn’t in the interview that run,” Isikoff said. “Broaddrick said it got cut out; Lisa Myers has since agreed Broaddrick said this then—and NBC chose to cut it out.”

Isikoff reiminds that both NBC and the Washington Post "closely vetted" Broaddrick’s claims at the time and still chose to run their story of her, insinuating they believed it was legitimate.

"Amazing to watch," then, Isikoff states, that the very people defending Bill Clinton against his accusers are the ones quick to embrace the current claims against Trump.

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