[4] After Shelton became aware that Clinton had been the criminal defense lawyer of the defendant in her case decades earlier, Shelton stated in 2007 that she herself bore no ill will toward Clinton for having had to act as her assailant's court-appointed criminal defence lawyer in the rape case, saying "I have to understand that she was representing Taylor ... Hillary was just doing her job.
The tapes were released in 2014 after Free Beacon reporters found them in the archives of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
"[5] Shelton said it was after hearing Clinton discussing the case in previously unpublished tapes that she decided to speak out publicly.
[5][8] During the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, Shelton was interviewed by The Daily Mail, a British tabloid, and set up a GoFundMe page to raise $10,000.
After The Washington Post published its fact-check of Shelton's claims, the GoFundMe site removed the text about polygraph tests and psychiatric examinations.