Be Informed: Trump links Bill Clinton to rape during extraordinary Fox News interview in which accusations of 'exposure, groping, fondling and touching against a woman's will' are brought up against the ex-President

.Donald Trump hit Bill Clinton with his hardest charge yet during a sit-down with Fox News host Sean Hannity

.In the past, Trump has called the former president an 'abuser' and has connected him to accused rapist Bill Cosby

.Hannity brought up the name of accuser Juanita Broaddrick and then Trump reminded the host of Broaddrick's rape charge against Bill Clinton

By NIKKI SCHWAB, U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER FOR BE INFORMED

PUBLISHED: 23:00 GMT, 18 May 2016 | UPDATED: 12:13 GMT, 19 May 2016

Donald Trump sat down with Sean Hannity tonight on Fox News and hit Bill Clinton with the hardest charge yet.

Trump brought up a rape accusation against the former Democratic president when talking about Clinton's past behavior with women with the Fox News host.

The two were discussing a recent New York Times article that was supposed to expose Trump's own treatment of women and how several of the sources had come out and said the newspaper twisted their words.

Donald Trump brought up a rape charge made against Bill Clinton in 1999 by a woman named Juanita Broaddrick

Interviewer Sean Hannity brought up Juanita Broaddrick's name as the two men discussed a New York Times article that detailed some of Donald Trump's inappropriate behavior with women

Trump labeled the story a 'con job' and called it a 'disaster' for the newspaper.

Hannity then asked why the Times hadn't dug into Bill Clinton's past.

'Are they going to interview Juanita Broaddrick? Are they going to interview Paula Jones? Are they going to interview Kathleen Willey?' Hannity asked, ticking off the names of women who have accused Bill Clinton of inappropriate behavior through the years.

'In one case, it's about exposure. In another case, it's about groping and fondling and touching against a woman's will,' Hannity continued.

'And rape,' Trump inserted.

'And rape,' the television host repeated.

'And big settlements, massive settlements. And lots of other things. And impeachment for lying,' Trump continued.

Daggers out between Trump and Clinton clans: This is the latest in a string of attacks on Bill Clinton, after Trump was hammered by a pro-Hillary Clinton PAC on some of the language he's used to describe women

This is only the latest in a string of attacks on Bill Clinton, after Trump himself was hammered by a pro-Hillary Clinton PAC on some of the language he's used to describe women.

During tonight's interview, Trump took issue with the ad using a line out of context, in which he tells someone to go 'f*** themselves,' a comment he made about bad trade deals at a Portsmouth, New Hampshire rally in February, where he mouthed the four-letter swear word.

'The main punchline wasn't about women,' Trump pointed out. 'They put it in like it was about women. Now I guess they have to do a retraction.'

The other lines used in the attack ad, including one aimed at Fox News host Megyn Kelly, were about women.

But in order to negate these attacks, Trump has pushed back hard.

He started laying the groundwork to exploit Bill Clinton's sexual past before the first votes were being cast.

'She's got one of the great women abusers of all time sitting in her house, waiting for her to come home for dinner,' Trump said back in January.

He repeated the charge earlier this month.

'She’s married to a man who was the worst abuser of women in the history of politics. She’s married to a man who hurt many women,' Trump said, while also bringing Hillary Clinton into the picture.

Trump charged that the Democratic frontrunner 'would go after these women and destroy their lives.'

While Bill Clinton has been accused of rape, along with groping and affairs – and his sexual history with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky is well known – the 'rape' accusation had yet to be used in the political campaign by someone as prominent as the presumptive Republican nominee.

Trump, however, has pushed the boundaries of political discourse this campaign season and been close to leveling the 'rape' charge at Bill Clinton before

In January, Juanita Broaddrick sent out this tweet repeating rape allegations she made against President Bill Clinton in 1999

Juanita Broaddrick pledged to play a bigger role in the presidential campaign, especially with Bill Clinton hitting the campaign trail for Hillary

Juanita Broaddrick chimed in on Twitter today and made the same suggestion as Sean Hannity - that the New York Times should dig into Bill Clinton's devious sexual past

In January he posted a video that linked Bill Clinton to both Lewinsky and accused rapist Bill Cosby.

The campaign video was released around the time that Broaddrick, who accused Bill Clinton of rape, emerged on social media.

Broaddrick has accused Clinton of raping her in an Arkansas hotel room in 1978 when he was the state's governor, saying he left her with a swollen lip and some advice: 'You better get some ice on that.'

And while Hillary Clinton was campaigning on a platform of women's issues, Broaddrick says she knew about the sexual assault and tried to cover it up.

Broaddrick tweeted in January that 'I was 35 years old when Bill Clinton, Ark. Attorney General raped me and Hillary tried to silence me. I am now 73....it never goes away.'

A day before, she had said she was 'dreading seeing my abuser on TV,' as Bill Clinton was campaigning for his wife, the Democratic front-runner, in New Hampshire, 'but his physical appearance reflects ghosts of the past,' which she said were 'catching up.'

The former nursing home administrator made her allegations public in 1999.

She said Bill Clinton, when campaigning for Arkansas governor in 1978, raped her in Little Rock, Arkansas.

At the time, noted the Hill Newspaper, who authenticated Broaddrick's social media account, Clinton's personal attorney David E. Kendall strongly denied the charges.

'Any allegation that the president assaulted Ms. Broaddrick more than 20 years ago is absolutely false, he said in a statement from February 1999, reported the Washington Post.

'Beyond that we're not going to comment,' Kendall added.

Broaddrick said she planned to yell the allegations louder as she doesn't want to see another Clinton in the White House.

'I've been quiet for too long, and now with the possibility of [Hillary Clinton] being the Democratic nominee and possibly president, I feel the need to get involved,' she told the Hill.

Broaddrick said in an interview in January that she was happy that Donald Trump, whom she supports, brought up Bill Clinton's sexual past.

'I'm glad someone did,' she said. 'Everyone has been hanging back and most of the mainstream media won't approach it, but it's something that should be talked about.'

Broaddrick said she was a Trump fan because, 'he says the things I like to hear.'

This week, she defended him again.

'The NY Times should do equal time investigating [Hillary's] enabling of Bill Clinton's sexual assaults on women,' Broaddrick tweeted.

Mrs Clinton's decision to advocate for victims of sexual assault has persuaded some of her husband's accusers, including the three mentioned by Hannity, to resurface.

Willey, a former White House volunteer, claims Bill Clinton groped her in an Oval Officer hallway in 1993 when she came to him tearfully seeking a paid job.

Jones settled a lawsuit with the former president after she accused him of sexual assault back in 1991 when he was Governor of Arkansas.