Baghdad Bob was more trustworthy.
Posted on 04/24/2015 1:34:56 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
You might think that the White House would have something of substance to say about the repeated violations of a memorandum of understanding between the administration and the Clinton Foundation that prohibited it from accepting donations from foreign governments while Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state. Wrong!
When pressed by ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl on Friday about whether the White House was concerned by the Clinton Foundation’s various indiscretions, or even its failure to disclose foreign donations including those from Uranium One, White House Press Sec. Josh Earnest seemed to suggest that they were not (h/t Washington Free Beacon):
Earnest repeated a claim made by Clinton’s campaign team that no evidence exists to prove that foreign donations influenced the former secretary’s decision making while she served as America’s chief diplomat. This claim is supported by the fact that the evidence that might have supported this contention was destroyed weeks ago.
“I’ve been in a position where there have been other, to put it mildly, conservative authors that have launched – written books based on what they purport to be serious allegations against the President of the United States,” Earnest averred. “And I’m often in the position of responding to those incidents and trying to defend the president from accusations that are not rooted or accompanied by any evidence.”
“My point is, that’s what’s happening to Secretary Clinton,” he continued. Probed again over the impropriety of the Clinton Foundations failure to abide by the administration’s disclosure requirements, Earnest deferred to Clinton’s team.
As for the claim from Team Hillary that no incontrovertible evidence exists that proves the myriad foreign donations the Clinton Foundation accepted while the former secretary served in Foggy Bottom resulted in any favoritism, Guy Benson insisted that the Clinton’s no longer deserve the benefit of the doubt.
Just this week, the Clintons confessed that the foundation misreported tens of millions of dollars in donations from foreign sources and would need to refile their taxes as a result. Moreover, The New York Times caught the Clintons in an outright lie when they produced photographic evidence of a meeting between Foundation officials and Central Asian energy company representatives that both parties flat out denied ever occurred. As for that evidence of corruption, perhaps it was in those 30,000 plus emails the former secretary deemed of no public value and summarily deleted.
“It is not unreasonable to infer that perhaps some of the concrete evidence of quid pro quo corruption Clinton loyalists are demanding doesn’t exist anymore because Clinton loyalists actively destroyed said evidence,” Benson wrote. “Between the smell test, the facts laid out by several news outlets, the lack of required disclosures of foreign donations, the very shady tax “errors,” the Chappaqua meeting lie, and Hillary’s eradicated paper trail, the Clintons have not earned the benefit of the doubt on any of this. Quite the opposite.”
Merely dismissing this latest scandal because it originated in a book written by a conservative journalist will not make The New York Times story disappear. It should terrify loyal Democrats that, more than 24 hours after this story broke, this their best defense of Clinton’s behavior.
the black pot calling the kettle white
Hillary Clinton has been telling America that she is the most qualified
candidate for president based on her “record,” which she says includes her
eight years in the White House as First Lady - or “co-president” - and
her seven years in the Senate. Here is a reminder of what that record
includes:
- As First Lady, Hillary assumed authority over Health Care Reform, a
process that cost the taxpayers over $13 million. She told both Bill
Bradley and Pat Moynahan, key votes needed to pass her legislation, that
she would “demonize “anyone who opposed it. But it was opposed; she
couldn’t even get it to a vote in a Congress controlled by her own party.
(And in the next election, her party lost control of both the House and
Senate.)
- Hillary assumed authority over selecting a female Attorney General.
Her first two recommendations (Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood) were forced to
withdraw their names from consideration, and then she chose Janet Reno.
Janet Reno has since been described by Bill himself as “my worst mistake.”
- Hillary recommended Lani Guanier for head of the Civil Rights
Commission. When Guanier’s radical views became known, her name had to be
withdrawn.
- Hillary recommended her former law partners, Web Hubbell, Vince Foster,
and William Kennedy for positions in the Justice Department, White House
staff, and the Treasury, respectively. Hubbell was later
imprisoned, Foster committed suicide, and Kennedy was forced to resign.
- Hillary also recommended a close friend of the Clintons, Craig
Livingstone, for the position of director of White House security. When
Livingstone was investigated for the improper access of up to 900 FBI
files of Clinton enemies (Filegate) and the widespread use of drugs by
White House staff, both Hillary and her husband denied knowing him. (FBI
agent Dennis Sculimbrene Confirmed in a Senate Judiciary Committee in 1996
both the drug use and Hillary’s involvement in hiring Livingstone. After
that, the FBI closed its White House Liaison Office, after serving seven
presidents for over thirty years.)
- In order to open “slots” in the White House for her friends the Harry
Thomasons (to whom millions of dollars in travel contracts could be
awarded), Hillary had the entire staff of the White House Travel Office
fired; they were reported to the FBI for “gross mismanagement” and their
reputations ruined. After a thirty-month investigation, only one, Billy
Dale, was charged with a crime - mixing personal money with White House
funds when he cashed checks. The jury acquitted him in less than two
hours.
—— Another of Hillary’s assumed duties was directing the “bimbo eruption
squad” and scandal defense:
—— She urged her husband not to settle the Paula Jones lawsuit.
—— She refused to release the Whitewater documents, which led to the
appointment of Ken Starr as Special Prosecutor. After $80 million dollars
of taxpayer money was spent, Starr’s investigation led to Monica
Lewinsky, which led to Bill lying about and later admitting his affairs.
—— Then they had to settle with Paula Jones after all.
—— And Bill lost his law license for lying to the grand jury.
—— And Bill was impeached by the House.
—— And Hillary almost got herself indicted for perjury and obstruction
of justice (she avoided it mostly because she repeated, “I do not recall,”
“I have no recollection,” and “I don’t know” 56 times under oath).
- Hillary accepted the traditional First Lady’s role of decorator of the
White House at Christmas, but in a unique Hillary way. In 1994, for
example, The First Lady’s Tree in the Blue Room (the focal point each
year) was Decorated with drug paraphernalia, sex toys, and pornographic
ornaments, all personally approved by Hillary as the invited artists’
depictions of the theme, “The Twelve Days of Christmas.”
- Hillary wrote “It Takes a Village,” demonstrating her Socialist
viewpoint.
- Hillary decided to seek election to the Senate in a state she had never
lived in. Her husband pardoned FALN terrorists in order to get Latino
support and the New Square Hassidim to get Jewish support. Hillary also
had Bill pardon her brother’s clients, for a small fee, to get financial
support.
- Then Hillary left the White House, but later had to return $200,000 in
White House furniture, china, and artwork she had stolen.
- In the campaign for the Senate, Hillary played the “woman card” by
portraying her opponent (Lazio) as a bully picking on her.
- Hillary’s husband further protected her by asking the National Archives
to withhold from the public until 2012 many records of their time in the
White House, including much of Hillary’s correspondence and her
calendars. (There are ongoing lawsuits to force the release of those
records.)
- As the junior Senator from New York , Hillary has passed no major
legislation. She has deferred to the senior Senator (Schumer) to tend to
the needs of New Yorkers, even on the hot issue of medical problems of
workers involved in the cleanup of Ground Zero after 9/11.
- Hillary’s one notable vote, supporting the plan to invade Iraq, she
has since disavowed.
But liberal ones can?
Or should we just not trust anything written by anyone?
Oh.
Conservative authors can’t be trusted, but lying grifters enriching themselves by selling uranium to Russia can be?
Makes sense coming from the White Mosque.
This greatly suggests that some of the payoff
from Putin and the other criminal treasons
went directly to the White Mosque,
to either the First Impostor’s or Val-the-Puppeteer’s
bank accounts. In an America where Law exists,
(in an alternate universe)
there would be indictments under RICO.
“But liberal ones can?”
Of course!
The conservative authors are basically knuckle-dragging, ignorant, un-nuanced, bible-thumping, gun-loving, Christian morons while liberals are absolutely brilliant, intelligent, all-knowing, trustworthy, honest, and above all, loyal to the revolution. See? Ya know?
/s/
IMHO
Get the allegations about the Dowager Queen out in the open way before the election( New York Slimes) and then mock the messenger and not the facts to rehabilitate this truly despicable person(MSM.
NY Slimes goal all along)
Excellent compilation. There will be more to add after Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich is published May 5.
Book is available at a significant pre-pub discount now at Amazon, where it is already #1 on their bestseller list:)
Baghdad Bob was more trustworthy.
Looks like they all got their talking points. First this Seth Meyers, now the White House.
Liberals care about none of that. They think it is fine for the Clintons to break the law and get away with it because it sticks it to conservatives.
Funny since the reports have come from the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, those darn Conservative papers how dare they say anything naughty about Hitlary
“I have investigated myself and found no evidence of wrong doing.”
The patented Eric Holder method.
So the question remains, will the Chicago Mob give Hillary a free pass to the nomination?
Only if they get their payoff from the Clinton Family Foundation.
Recently, Kristin Powers on Fox News Sunday seemed to put forth the notion that conservatives can’t legitimately criticize Hillary because they don’t like Hillary. Even if Hillary is guilty as charged, the impurity of the Republicans’ motives is so much more in the wrong that whatever they say is invalid. I kid you not.
The White House can’t be trusted.
She certainly isn’t lacking for money.
And I suspect the deal would let the Chicago bunch select the VP with a “wink-wink” to Hillary’s failing health.
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