Bennett excerpts

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Excerpts from a news conference Friday by Clinton lawyer Bob Bennett:

It's clear from the filing today, which we're in the process of studying, that the very serious legal deficiencies fatal to Paula Jones' case remain.
She has no case. She has suffered no damages. She was never harassed. Her filing is really not a serious legal document. It's a scurrilous paper which really proves what we have been saying all along -- namely, that the plaintiff and her political and her financial backers are pursuing this case as a vehicle to humiliate and embarrass the president and to interfere with his presidency.
The Clinton-haters are trying to hound him out of office, and filings such as today's are a part of that scheme.

We have a trial date set of May 27. And I think you're all going to learn on May 27 that these six or seven hundred pages are like a big piece of cotton candy. When you bite into it, it just doesn't, it just doesn't exist.

So the president isn't going to admit to something that didn't happen. And if the courts don't protect the presidency like they should, we will go to trial and we will vigorously contest the charges.

This article was published on Saturday, March 14, 1998

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