Posted on 04/18/2017 1:56:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Before his sexting allegations helped sink Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, Anthony Weiner was almost asked by the former secretary of state’s campaign to play the role of Donald Trump in debate preparations.
Married to Clinton top aide Huma Abedin, Weiner was known for delivering a populist message in blunt language - making him an appropriate doppelgänger for Trump. Ultimately, the job went to campaign spokesman Philippe Reines.
The campaign tidbit was revealed in Amie Parnes and Jonathan Allen’s new account of Clinton’s ill-fated bid for the White House, “Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign.”
Weiner’s first sext scandal cost him his seat in Congress, the second tanked his New York City mayoral campaign and the third ensnared Clinton.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation seized a laptop that Abedin and Weiner shared, uncovering e-mails between Abedin and Clinton that were not previously examined as part of the agency’s probe of the former secretary of state’s use of a private server.
FBI Director James Comey announced the news at the end of October, dealing her a severe blow days before the presidential vote.
Read more: http://forward.com/fast-forward/369290/anthony-weiner-came-this-close-to-playing-trump-in-hillary-debate-prep/
I don’t believe it.
Beginning to think that book is satire.
Ah yeah. This is the book that claims Obama begged and pleased with Hillary to concede on election night.
Instead she got drunk, cussed everyone out, and trashed the hotel room.
Truth or fiction? Who cares? The results are wonderful!
Hillary: Look we all know Trump is a dirty lying sleezebag. pervert who has the hot's for his daughter.
Bill: He is lying, loud mouthed oboxious jerk. What we need a real twerp with a big mouth. Can you think of anyone?
Huma: Well, Anthony's available.
Bill/Hillary: B I N G O !!!
Wiener missed it by a head.
Just goes to show how perverted and sick that whole campaign was and the whole 'Rat party was - and still is!.
We were very fortunate that they finally paid for their stupidity in last year's election.
The book on the Clinton campaign referred to in the article might be worth a read for a few laughs.
Anthony Weiner Came This Close To Playing With "Humpin' Hillary" Debate Prop
It's like one of those EMT manikins only a lot bigger ... and lumpier.
I agree with your comments JusticeSeeker93.
When listening to Rush today, I heard him came up with a premise I hadn’t heard before. At first I wasn’t completely sold on it, but as the day wore on, it’s making more sense.
He stated that the Democrat Party ceased being the titular head of the Leftist movement in the United States a few years back.
He thinks it is now the media that is the driving force of Leftist ideology in the United States. Along those lines, I might be convinced that our Universities are now aiding in that more than the Democrat party is.
There is a Leftist movement, and I think the Democrat party goosed it to the point it left them in the dust.
One only need to look at old stalwarts like Diane Feinstein, and how she was treated at her town hall, to see it. The rank and file destroyed her.
She and the other Democrats backed the radical Left to the point, the radical Left passed her/them by.
Soros, the MSM, the Universities, the BLM movement, the Soros paid shill rioters, these are the moving forces of the Leftist movement these days. The Democrats are lost in space searching for relevancy.
Trump also stated that he thinks these entities as well as the Democrats are probably guilty of treason these days. They refuse to recognized federal authority. They don’t think Trump is a valid president. They don’t think his policies are valid. They don’t think his appointees are valid. Look at the Sanctuary City, States, Churches etc., to see evidence of this.
Those are some pretty heavy thoughts.
I think he’s on to something.
The thought that liberals are just useful tools to real leftists is not new. Liberals (maybe including now the Dem bigwigs) are the most gullible people on earth. They have no core so they fall for every leftist trick, they NEVER pull out common sense, logic, or Occam’s razor to run ideas by.
Now they have been told to clamor for something as useless as the President’s tax returns, and they perform so well.
Leftists are the world’s bully bosses, and liberals are those dumb yes men agreeing with them out of fear and ignorance.
Thanks for the mention, bouncing that off my post.
I appreciate it.
What a change in fortunes, the Democrats of about eight years ago, and now.
I can remember when they were preparing our eulogy not too long ago.
I don’t either. He didn’t get his mayoral run “tanked.” He was Never going to win it. He needed a campaign to pour that leftover $4.3M in congressional campaign money to spend.
I’d bet that wad of cash was split up 12 ways from Sunday in all kinds of ‘consulting,’ ‘costs,’ fees, hotels, apartments and the like. This is just one example of the possibilities:
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