--- title: Is Hillary Clinton a Hypocrite on Sexual Assault? description: The American Enterprise Institute scholar says Clinton is not applying her own policies to herself canonical: https://time.com/4198344/hillary-clinton-sexual-assault/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-04T15:35:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T14:32:29.238Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Christina Hoff Sommers: Is Hillary Clinton a Reformer or Hypocrite? og:description: The AEI scholar says Clinton has double standards on sexual assault victims og:url: https://time.com/4198344/hillary-clinton-sexual-assault/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Christina Hoff Sommers: Is Hillary Clinton a Reformer or Hypocrite? twitter:description: The AEI scholar says Clinton has double standards on sexual assault victims twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Christina Hoff Sommers: Is Hillary Clinton a Reformer or Hypocrite? by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Feb 4, 2016 3:35 PM UTC by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Feb 4, 2016 3:35 PM UTC Christina Hoff Sommers, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, has a video up this week in her series, [The Factual Feminist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLytTJqkSQqtr7BqC1Jf4nv3g2yDfu7Xmd), about Hillary Clinton’s support for sexual assault survivors. In a recent campaign video, the Democratic presidential candidate [said](http://www.refinery29.com/2015/09/94139/hillary-clinton-campus-sexual-assault-interview#.tqhqb2h:lxth): “Any woman who reports an assault should be heard and believed.” In Sommers’ opinion, this rhetoric seems to contrast with Clinton’s past actions regarding sexual assault allegations against her husband. Watch the full video below: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4198344/hillary-clinton-sexual-assault/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4198344/hillary-clinton-sexual-assault/"},"headline":"Christina Hoff Sommers: Is Hillary Clinton a Reformer or Hypocrite?","datePublished":"2016-02-04T15:35:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T14:32:29.238Z","description":"The American Enterprise Institute scholar says Clinton is not applying her own policies to herself","url":"https://time.com/4198344/hillary-clinton-sexual-assault/","keywords":["Hillary Clinton","gender","politics"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4198344/hillary-clinton-sexual-assault/","name":"Christina Hoff Sommers: Is Hillary Clinton a Reformer or Hypocrite?"}}]}] ```