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Hillary faces voters' wrath for alleged ethnic slur

July 18, 2000

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jul/18/uselections2000.usa

Hillary Clinton is fighting a rearguard action to avoid further damage to her standing with the crucial Jewish vote in her campaign for a Senate seat after a claim that she once used an ethnic insult against one of Bill Clinton's aides.

A book out today claims that 26 years ago she called Paul Fray, her husband's campaign manager at the time, a "fucking Jew bastard".

Mrs Clinton denied the allegation and pressed the president into supporting her, but the author, Jerry Oppenheimer, said: "Three witnesses have now publicly acknowledged that she said it."

Those present at the inquest into the defeat were Mr Clinton, his then-girlfriend Hillary, his campaign manager Paul Fray, and Mr Fray's wife, Mary Lee. Neill McDonald, a campaign worker, was just outside the room and claims to have heard everything.

The Frays and Mr McDonald are the three witnesses on whom Mr Oppenheimer, a former reporter on the National Inquirer tabloid, relies for the passage in his book State of a Union: Inside the Complex Marriage of Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Mr Fray, 57, said yesterday: "I was a little defensive about it. I looked to the floor thinking 'How do I respond?' I didn't mind being called a son-of-a-bitch, but when it came to attacking my culture, that's a whole 'nother ballgame.

"You've got to understand it was the heat of the moment. We knew we had lost. It was a case of people lashing out at one another and it just got to that point."

Mr Fray is actually a Southern Baptist but says that he is one-eighth Jewish through his great-grandfather.

Mrs Fray said that her husband's recollection of the meeting, which lasted about an hour, was accurate. Mr McDonald said: "I don't know what provoked it or what. I just remember that one little comment."