Reprise | Susan McDougal, The Woman Who Wouldn't Talk (Part 1)

Up in Your Business with Kerry McCoy

Ep 318 | Aired 10/28/2022 With all the refusing to testify and “contempt of court” in the news, Up In Your Business decided to replay my interview with Ms. Susan McDougal, the most interesting person of the 1994 Whitewater investigation. In the mid-90s, Susan’s face was everywhere. She was interviewed by Diane Sawyer and Larry King. We first saw her as an attractive court defendant, but later, the image we came to remember was of her being taken from jail in her orange jumpsuit, shackles, and chains. In 1994, this young woman was made the target of Republican Counselor Kenneth Starr’s Whitewater investigation into what some call the “Hunting of President Clinton.” To put things in perspective, last week, Steve Bannon received four months of incarceration and a $6,500 fine for criminal contempt of Congress. In the mid 90’s, Susan and her family went broke in defense fees while she spent years imprisoned in not one but four different jails. Though no wrongdoing by the Clintons was ever found, a vendetta against Susan McDougal remained. Through misuse of judicial power, Susan would be subjected to Diesel Therapy during her jail time and serve the longest sentence of any persons convicted in the Whitewater case. In preparation for this interview, I read her book, The Woman Who Wouldn’t Talk. It is a tell-all biography you don’t want to miss. It is an eye opener into abuse of judicial power, fake media, and corrupt politics. Tune in to hear how this attractive, smart, young lady wound up married to the older, marginally handsome, bi-polar, real estate developer, and banker, Mr. Jim McDougal…and how this decision would forever change her life, for the better and the worse.