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Bill Clinton blames ‘mainstream media’ coverage of emails for 2016 Hillary Clinton loss
The Hill ^ | 12/09/2024 | Lauren Irwin

Posted on 12/09/2024 12:32:47 PM PST by simpson96

Former President Clinton blamed the “mainstream media” coverage of Hillary Clinton’s email controversy for her 2016 presidential loss.

During an interview with MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough on “Morning Joe” that aired Monday, the former president discussed an excerpt from his recent book, “Citizen,” published in November.

In the book, he detailed the rage he felt after his wife, the former Secretary of State, lost to President-elect Trump in the 2016 election, and how he believes the media blew the email scandal out of proportion.

“It’s easier for us to know what happened in 2016 in some ways than it is what happened in 2024 … because in 2016, you had two highly unusual things,” former President Clinton began, in a clip highlighted by Mediaite.

“First of all, the mainstream media told the American people repeatedly that the biggest issue was Hillary’s emails. That’s what they said,” he continued.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


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To: newfreep

21 posted on 12/09/2024 12:57:04 PM PST by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: FrankRizzo890

How dare the Press report that I broke the law!..............


22 posted on 12/09/2024 12:57:36 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: simpson96

The sack toss in the limo didn’t help either.


23 posted on 12/09/2024 12:59:32 PM PST by alrea
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To: simpson96

Not that she’s an insufferable lying unqualified b**** with a trail of bodies in her ample wake.


24 posted on 12/09/2024 1:02:05 PM PST by katana
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To: simpson96

When the voters 🗳 discovered that she received the questions in advance in several 😳 debates, she was finished. We definitively and empirically knew that she was a cheat, a liar, and a fraud.


25 posted on 12/09/2024 1:12:36 PM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: simpson96

For Bill, ANY reporting of Liberal law breaking is ‘over reporting’


26 posted on 12/09/2024 1:16:54 PM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: simpson96

For the love of God, will the Clintons ever just shut up and retire? I can’t think of any more tiresome politicians in American history


27 posted on 12/09/2024 1:51:42 PM PST by irishjuggler
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To: simpson96

Being carried into an SUV unable to walk did it.
Bill has no idea America is done with the Clintons forever.


28 posted on 12/09/2024 2:19:58 PM PST by Zathras
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

29 posted on 12/09/2024 2:23:44 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: simpson96
...by buy the book.
30 posted on 12/09/2024 2:44:52 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Sacajaweau

“She lost for the same reason that Kamala did...not likeable and cold as ice.”

Plus a record of zero accomplishments as a senator and as VP.


31 posted on 12/09/2024 3:13:57 PM PST by riverdawg
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To: simpson96
I thought it was racist frogs and the Ruzzians this whole time.


32 posted on 12/09/2024 3:24:43 PM PST by OldHarbor
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To: simpson96

“It’s always a one-way street, with blinders on, for the Clintons.”

Obama was always deceitful, while Billary, Inc. is just a pair of frauds, speaking fraudulent ideas. Obama knows he’s lying, while Billary, Inc. believes what they say. By the by, they taught Biden the high art of high political influence peddling married to money laundering.


33 posted on 12/09/2024 3:40:01 PM PST by Wuli
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To: simpson96

Bill Clinton you are retired from politics so GO AWAY


34 posted on 12/09/2024 4:28:05 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: simpson96

Is the author talking about the fact Hillary! deliberately violated federal law by hosting a private server with which to send and receive official communications, or the fact the hundreds of such emails contained classified information up to TS//SCI and TS//SAP/SAR levels, or was it because she demanded (and got) 30,000 emails that were under a Congressional preservation order to be wiped, “like with a cloth”?

Any one of those would get any of us peasants thrown in jail.


35 posted on 12/09/2024 4:45:32 PM PST by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: simpson96

Still a junk yard dog..both of them. No pedigree


36 posted on 12/09/2024 4:48:03 PM PST by Just mythoughts (Psalm 2. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?)
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To: ChronicMA

That’s exactly right.

He’s mad that she got caught. He’s perfectly OK with the crimes and ethics violations she did.

Sociopaths. Both of them.


37 posted on 12/09/2024 4:54:30 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: simpson96
In the book, he detailed the rage he felt after his wife, the former Secretary of State, lost to President-elect Trump in the 2016 election, and how he believes the media blew the email scandal out of proportion.

Did Clinton yell, scream and stomp his feet? Are there pictures? Videos?

38 posted on 12/09/2024 7:47:06 PM PST by GOPJ (Will Lara Trump become the first woman President of the United States? She'd be great....)
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To: simpson96

The likability factor played a big part in that loss. Hillary is simply not likable and comes off as a shrew.

Plus, I think people had Obama-fatigue. Trump offered new, fresh leadership.


39 posted on 12/09/2024 7:53:10 PM PST by Allegra (Deplorable garbage)
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To: simpson96

Yeah that’s the ticket, it’s not that she’s a totally unlikeable Harpy that broke the law and on top of it also got Americans killed…can you say Benghazi? It’s all because some media accurately reported on her private email server and destruction of the emails that she lost.

Hey Crooked Willy, where’s all the Haiti charity money?


40 posted on 12/10/2024 7:42:01 AM PST by Mastador1
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