Quote:In 1999, however, Time magazine reported that DNA testing had definitively proved that Danney Williams, who was 13 at the time, was not the son of Bill Clinton.
DNA....science...ain't that a bitch? Run with it though, because you know better. LOL!
Summary of eRumor:
Bill Clinton fathered a son named Danney Williams with a prostitute from Arkansas.
The Truth:
Reports of Bill Clinton secretly fathering a son named Danny Williams with a prostitute date all the way back to the early 1990s, but they have long since been debunked.
New twists on the rumor surfaced during the 2016 election, but they lack concrete proof that can be investigated. We’ll lay out a history of the Danney Williams claims to help put things into perspective.
Quote:In 1999, however, Time magazine reported that DNA testing had definitively proved that Danney Williams, who was 13 at the time, was not the son of Bill Clinton. We couldn’t find an archived version of the story, but the Independent reported a nice summary at the time:
https://www.truthorfiction.com/bill-clinton-s...-williams/
He may be the first president this century to be impeached, but there was some good news for Bill Clinton yesterday, with reports that he was not after all the father of an illegitimate boy in his home state of Arkansas.
In an article headed “Scandal Interruptus”, Time magazine’s Internet website reported that DNA tests on the boy, Danny Williams, 13, and his mother, Bobbie Ann, had shown no match with Mr Clinton. “There was no match. Not even close,” Time quoted a source at the tabloid weekly, the Star, that commissioned the tests. The weekly was reported to have paid Ms Williams and her son to take the tests, intending to compare the results with the information about Mr Clinton’s DNA contained in the report of the independent prosecutor Kenneth Starr.
The editor of the tabloid, Phil Bunton, had said that he would publish only if the test showed that Mr Clinton could be the father. But news of the investigation leaked out before the results were ready, reviving rumors that had circulated in Arkansas for years and clogging radio phone- in lines with callers wanting to have their say.
Bobbie Ann Williams, who is black, was said to have told her mixed-race son ever since he was born that Bill Clinton was his father. She says that she was working as a prostitute when her son was conceived and that Mr Clinton was her only white customer that month. However, she never instituted a paternity suit.
Numerous media outlets picked up the story in 1999, including Drudge Report, which, according to a report from the archives of the right-leaning Accuracy in Media non-profit, reported that Williams had been paid a six-figure sum to consent to the DNA testing:
A claim by Bobbie Ann Williams, a Little Rock prostitute, that her son, Danny, was fathered by Bill Clinton has been proven false by DNA analysis. Star, the tabloid that first published Gennifer Flowers’ claim that she had been one of Clinton?s lovers, was reported to have paid Williams “a low six-figure” sum for exclusive rights to the story. It arranged to have Danny’s DNA checked against that of the President. On January 9, the Drudge Report broke the news that Time magazine had learned that the DNA tests cleared Clinton.
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