Hillary Clinton’s Epstein testimony backfires – Latest News
What attainable function did it serve to tug Hillary Clinton into the House Oversight Committee’s listening to on Jeffrey Epstein different than to ask the Democrats to carry out the identical gratuitous stunt to Melania Trump in the future?
There are loads of causes to subpoena Clinton’s testimony, however asking her how she feels about pictures of her husband in a scorching tub with Ghislaine Maxwell and an unidentified lady shouldn’t be one.
Nor are lunatic questions on Pizzagate and UFOs.
Hillary’s function in launching Russiagate, in the meantime, went unexplored. How she should have laughed.
The nine-hour video of the Clintons’ testimony launched this week is embarrassing.
Somehow, Republicans like Lauren Boebert managed to make the loathed former first girl look rational and critical and allowed Bill to pose as a statesman who claimed he was testifying as a result of “I love my country,” quite than as a result of he and his spouse confronted attainable jail for contempt of Congress in the event that they didn’t adjust to the Oversight Committee’s subpoena.
The most clownish second within the Clinton depositions close to their Westchester home in Chappaqua final week got here virtually 4 hours into Hillary’s stint, due to Congresswoman Boebert, who had already disrupted proceedings by snapping an unauthorized photograph of the previous secretary of state and sending it to a pal to post on social media.
‘Humiliating’ transfer
That urged the deposition was much less about discovering the reality about Epstein on behalf of his victims than humiliating the Clintons for web clout.
Boebert dredged up the debunked “Pizzagate” conspiracy that claimed a pedophile ring linked to Hillary was working out of a Washington, DC, pizzeria.
Hillary performed her function completely, pursing her lips, obtrusive at Boebert with utter disdain, shaking her head in disbelief and laughing.
“Pizzagate was totally made up,” she stated.
“It was an outrageous allegation that ended up hurting a number of people . . . I can’t believe you’re even referencing it.”
Among all the real scandals during which the Clintons have been ensnared, Pizzagate has the least credibility.
It’s such a handy distraction that you just virtually surprise if the Clintons themselves had planted it.
Just as the Hunter Biden laptop computer, false tales and doctored pictures suggesting Hunter was a pedophile threatened to hijack real proof of corruption implicating Joe Biden.
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You’d suppose Republicans might need realized from their Monica Lewinsky debacle three many years in the past.
What was speculated to be an independent-counsel investigation of then-President Bill Clinton and his spouse over alleged financial improprieties involving a failed Arkansas real-estate development referred to as Whitewater when he was Arkansas governor 20 years earlier went proper off the rails.
No conclusive proof of wrongdoing by the Clintons was discovered, and Ken Starr’s ultimate report had virtually nothing to say about Whitewater.
But it lavishly explored President Clinton’s affair with 22-year-old White House intern Lewinsky, ruining her life.
No prurient element of the Oval Office intercourse scandal was left uncovered by the three dozen attorneys engaged on the $60 million investigation, full with descriptions of the “first penis” and DNA exams on Lewinsky’s quite modest blue costume.
Bubba’s infamy
On Aug. 17, 1998, simply 10 days after al Qaeda bombed US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 people, the president testified underneath oath in regards to the Lewinsky affair for 4 hours by way of closed-circuit video from the White House to a federal grand jury.
That was when he spoke the immortal phrases: “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.”
A couple of hours later, he gave a televised national tackle from the White House, admitting he had an “inappropriate” relationship with Lewinsky and uttered one other immortal quote: “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.”
An estimated 68 million Americans tuned in to watch his mortification, together with a huge world viewers.
It was entrance web page information from the Sydney Morning Herald to Le Monde.
It made a laughingstock of the presidency on the worldwide stage.
I’m going by way of all this historic historical past as a result of the end result was simply the identical because the Democrats’ witch hunt towards Donald Trump that backfired on his persecutors and is a large half of the explanation Trump sits within the Oval Office as we speak.
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The Lewinsky impeachment, equally, was an unmitigated catastrophe for Republicans.
The Senate acquitted Clinton after the House impeached him for mendacity underneath oath in regards to the affair, and his approval score soared to an all-time high of 73% within the Gallup ballot.
Republicans misplaced 5 seats in that yr’s midterm elections, together with the seat of Speaker Newt Gingrich.
It was dangerous for the nation, too, simply because the Democrats’ malicious impeachment of Trump in 2019 (he was acquitted, too) distracted the administration and paralyzed Congress during the essential period when COVID-19 began circulating.
Back in 1998 and 1999, the Clinton administration was coping with a quantity of critical national-security selections — on terrorism, Iraq, Russia and the struggle in Kosovo.
Three days after his grand jury testimony, Clinton in half-hearted fashion turned his consideration to the embassy bombings two weeks beforehand.
He ordered cruise missile strikes on a random aspirin manufacturing unit in Sudan and on an al Qaeda coaching camp in Afghanistan.
The strikes missed Osama bin Laden and solely boosted the terrorist’s status within the Islamist world and set the stage for 9/11 three years later.
Apart from that, the Lewinsky witch hunt additionally poisoned bipartisanship for the following three many years, and gave a inexperienced mild to Biden and Nancy Pelosi and friends to pursue Trump over essentially the most spurious allegations.
Fanning public outrage
Once you’ve hauled in a president to query him in regards to the form of his penis, all bets are off.
The present Epstein scandal, whereas infinitely more sinister than the Lewinsky affair, has positioned each Democrats and Republicans in a Mexican standoff, with all sides fanning public outrage and selectively trawling the recordsdata for gotchas to painting their opponents as pedophiles implicated in an elite pedophile community run by Epstein, with shadowy foreign-intelligence ties pulling the strings — particularly Mossad, of course. No conspiracy concept is full with out Jewish villains.
But regardless of their best superficial efforts and a complete lot of irresponsible rumors, they’ve come up empty on Trump and haven’t superior our data about Epstein’s actions past some suggestive pictures and the arrest of the UK’s disgraced former Prince Andrew over allegations he gave state secrets and techniques to Epstein in return for intercourse with underage ladies.
But no pedophile ring has been busted and doubtless by no means will likely be.
Nevertheless, if the Democrats regain workplace, anticipate Trump and First Lady Melania to be subpoenaed over Epstein in one other grubby tit-for-tat and doubtless one other impeachment of Trump to devour Congress.
There is a high price to weaponizing scandal that neither aspect of politics appears to take significantly.
