From the grooveyard of forgotten favorites, a classic Clinton example of jiu-jitsu audacity:
Former President Bill Clinton has dismissed the notion that donors to the Clinton Foundation got special treatment during former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's tenure.
According to Politico, he believes that such allegations are driven by political motives.
Of course. Because the Clintons have never, are not, nor have they EVER been political themselves.
"Nobody even suggested it or thought about it or talked about it until the political season began, and somebody said, 'Well, what about this?'" Clinton said during an interview taped this week in Denver during a Clinton Global Initiative event, according to Politico.
In other words, La Clinton Nostra was happily and quietly running its global racket and could have continued doing so indefinitely, but Hillary just had to take another crack at the presidency, and that brought fresh public scrutiny upon their filthy corruption. Something that surprises neither of them yet their supreme entitlement sense compels them to be outraged about.
Clinton said that he hadn't been asked for anything by any donors and he does not know if any companies were seeking influence from his wife's position in the Obama administration.
Trademark Clinton word-parsing. Of course he wouldn't have been directly asked for anything by any Clinton Foundation donors. It was a "nod-nod wink-wink nudge-nudge" arrangement. Everybody involved knew the score - Hillary was Commissar of State and Bill was the rainmaker and conduit - and understood how the process worked. Direct, overt solicitation wasn't necessary precisely in order to provide the Clintons this rhetorical out.
Political opponents and investigative journalists have yet to uncover specific wrongdoing, although a recent book, Clinton Cash by Peter Schweizer, suggested there was "no direct evidence" but a pattern of transactions that would warrant a legal probe.
"I don't know. You never know what people's motives are, but in this case, I'm pretty sure that everybody that gave to Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake saw what they saw on television, were horrified and wanted to make a difference," he said, adding that he did not "think Hillary would know either," Politico reported.
Which means that they haven't talked to each other about it - because they don't have to. Again, to provide themselves with that finely honed and crafted rhetorical denial device, off of which they effortlessly pivot to demonize their accusers.
Hillary, of course, couldn't sell bottled water in the middle of the Sahara desert in July. Can Bill still put over this time-worn political tactic? Perhaps; I don't know how much he's "lost off his fastball" over the past fifteen years. But if I were Team Empress, I would absolutely make Mr. Bill the face of the Hillary campaign, and minimize her exposure as much as possible.
If this is to be the third Clinton term, why not lead with the one that won the first two?
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