When the FBI comes knocking, what will Hillary do? (Vanity)

I’m retired in Florida now, but one of the former junior partners from my firm in Washington is writing a book on the legal history and implications of the Bill Clinton impeachment proceedings. When viewed under a microscope, in light of the current Clinton investigations, it sheds a clear light on exactly what Hillary will do when and if the FBI come knocking with a grand jury indictment for her arrest.

In the process of writing the book, Kevin has interviewed a number of people who were very involved in the matter, both from the government side and from the Clinton side. One very remarkable, and almost universally overlooked fact has come out.

Most Americans were first exposed to Monicagate on a Tuesday morning. Actually, the Washington Post had the entire story, with all facts verified, but had spiked it on the previous Friday. Jackie Judd from ABC news was also working the story and she had it all; names, dates, times, places, and even the voicemail recordings on Monday. But, news executives being the weenies they are, they refused to run the story in the ABC World News Tonight program on Monday.

So “someone” at ABC-TV who had faith in the story leaked some of the details at about 9 PM Eastern time to a California newspaper. That California newspaper then began to ask questions that started floating around Washington. The ABC reporters and produces were then able to go screaming to “the Suits,” the bureaucrats who run television and television news and tell them that the story was about to break nationally and if they didn’t get it on the air they would be badly beaten.

With that, ABC broke into “Nightline” about 11:45 Eastern time and of course it’s saturated the next day’s morning shows. 9 AM did not arrive without it being public knowledge in every barbershop, taxicab, and watercooler.

Backtracking to the previous weekend, the Clintons held a meeting with their top advisers to discuss the story. They all knew it was true, and quite frankly nothing new. It was simply a repetition of Bill’s conduct with multiple dozens of women since his Attorney General of Arkansas days.

There were a number of very smart people at that weekend crisis meeting. The best of them, including the ones who are skilled at public relations and media communications said, that if the story broke, it would be critically important that Bill Clinton say absolutely nothing about the story, to refuse comment on it entirely at first.

But then about 36 hours after the story broke, the White House press office would let it leak that Clinton asked for 10 minutes of national television time starting at 8 PM the next evening. There would be no indication as to what he was going to say, just that it was going to be an important message for every American. Since everyone knew that we were not at war and probably not about to be, nor was there a hurricane offshore, everyone just assumed it was about Monica.

The plan was that Bill would go on national television and with that “I’ve been a bad boy, but I’ll try to be better” hangdog persona he could turn on at will and confess to the nation that, he had in fact had an inappropriate relationship with “a young woman”. But he would immediately go on to say that it was not her fault in any way, that the fault was his entirely, and that no one else other than him was to blame for his conduct. (I’ve been a bad, bad boy)

He was then to continue that he had embarrassed himself, worse than that he had embarrassed his family, and even worse than that, he had embarrassed every American by his conduct. And again, all the fault was his and he is searching in his soul for why he would’ve been so foolish.

Tthen, after a dramatic pause, and with great emphasis he would ask for forgiveness, “if you can find it in your hearts to give it”, that he was seeking counseling along with their forgiveness, yada yada yada yada yada.

He would end with a statement something along the lines of “as I leave you tonight I pray for peace throughout the world…… And ask you to keep me in your prayers as well.”

The next day, the news would portray him as a “statesman,” fully accepting responsibility for his own faults, a true and honest man, and all the other BS that the Clinton media machine could generate.

It of course would be absolutely the one and only hot topic on the Sunday news shows, but by the following Monday would have become “old news.”

Within two weeks, the national mood would be “well, you know old Bill……”

This course of action would have followed the long-proven best way to deal with any negative publicity, because, despite anyone’s fondest hope, the facts always come out you must always:

Everybody was signed on to the plan…. until Hillary got involved. She viewed it as corrupt lawyers always do. She didn’t care what was right or wrong. She only cared about what she thought she could get away with. She wanted to do anything and everything she could do to delay and defuse the situation. She didn’t care about the embarrassment this was creating for Bill, she was worried about her own future. The lawyer in her couldn’t understand that by telling all, telling himself, and telling it today, Clinton would’ve turned even her, Hillary, with sympathetic character, that poor little old cheated-on woman.

No, she had to view it as the Saul Alinsky-trained lawyer she is. She decreed that they would deny, deny, deny, delay, delay, delay, attack everyone else involved, blame the Republicans and do everything else they could until the public mind simply got tired of the situation.

I won’t go into the details here but literally tens of thousands of lawyers hours were expended by the Clinton defense team to ensure that justice was not done. Little of it had to do with whether or not Bill had actually sodomized Miss Lewinsky. The focus was turned on us as “the evildoers, with our puritanical ways and desires to hurt Bill (and Hillary) in any way we could.”

Hillary could never accept the fact that by a simple explanation of the obvious, the whole thing would go away in less than two weeks. Certainly some people would’ve remembered forever, especially conservatives, but it would’ve been at most a minor sidelight in the history of the Clinton presidency.

The reason the Monicagate story became the disaster it did for the United States was solely and completely Hillary’s decision to fight it in every unscrupulous way she could.

So if she is indicted, or even not indicted but subject to a damaging report by the FBI regarding her emails, and more importantly fraud within the Clinton Global Initiative (the Clinton Foundation) that personally brought Bill and Hillary tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars in ill begotten gains, the course that she will take is obvious.

Sid Blumenthal will have a prepared statement claiming the charges are completely unfounded, baseless and purely vindictive charges, brought about by the vast right-wing conspiracy or whatever else they want to call us this year, and the only reason it’s being brought now is to tear down a wonderful woman, etc. etc. etc.

There will be some calls from within the Democratic Party for her to step aside, but there is absolutely no legal requirement that she do so. And remember, for the Clintons, it’s not what’s right or wrong, it’s what the law will let them get away with. The talking heads of television will be split 50-50 down the middle, some saying she has to get out of the race but the louder ones saying that “only Hillary, only a woman as strong as Hillary, can carry on in the face of these obviously uncalled for assaults” and words to that effect.

And so, as the weeks go by, the story will become less and less important, and people will move on to other things, just as they did in Monicagate. Her percentage of victory at the Democratic National Convention might be less, but the cheering pantsuit sycophants (oh, Huma!!!) would love her even if she got caught shooting Santa Claus on Christmas Eve.

Remember, with a defendant in a situation like this, her attorneys can delay, delay and delay a case like this for at least 18 months. Of course immediately after the election, or even before, Obama could pardon her. As bizarre as it may seem, and this is uncharted legal territory, most constitutional attorneys agreed that, if elected, she just might be able to pardon herself, or at least get away with it, if she was inaugurated next January.

And so my conservative friends, be prepared for……. God knows what! But whatever you do, don’t assume, just because honorable people such as ourselves would completely drop out of a political race if we were indicted, don’t expect that Hillary would feel any compulsion to do so.

She thinks God put her on this earth, (well not really God, because socialists can’t believe in God) but something put her on this earth to destroy the horrible, evil United States and turn the entire world into one huge socialist globe, with all of us peasants, singing Kum Ba Ya….. While she and Huma and the rest of the cabal live in the lap of taxpayer-funded, power-mad luxury and debauchery.

And just think, if she was elected after being indicted or even the subject of a non-indicting negative FBI report, can you imagine even for a moment how she would unleash her wrath on all of us?

I can tell you this, In any “contest” between Bill and Hillary, she wins every time. She just wears him down relentlessly.

Her core “lawyer mind’ says that anything you can get away with was Ok from the start.

Some shrinks we played golf with said his multiple dozen extramarital partners where either a deal wherein he got to play around with women... and so did she, or it was his NIGYYSOB way of “getting back” at her for being a ball breaker.

Remember, they both knew what they were getting into. When they were married, he was sleeping around with about 6 or 7 other women, all beautiful, about half of them married. A former network news reporter/anchor who learned her TV reporting skills in Little Rock has never made it a secret that her first child is Bill’s. Hillary was coke bottle bottom glasses, no make up, dungaree sack dress wearing dog.

The Hillary you see now has had at least 3 major plastic surgical procedures, plus a few minot “tune ups.”

So true.... but remember, that “political” decision may not necessarily be in her favor.

She hates him. He “stole” her 2008 presidency. Obama does not want Hillary in some ways because she would not give him a good launching point for his “legacy.”

Obama would much prefer a Biden/Warren ticket.

Time will tell.

This is not arkansas. The national spotlight is on her and Obama and the FBI.

I don’t believe Obama will let her be indicted. If she is indicted she will not be the candidate. The only reason she will be indicted is if hue wants her out and has someone waiting. Elizabeth Warren could step up and say look, I’m new, not part of all the crap campaigns you are tired of. I can be your president. The left will flock to her. I don’t have a feel for independents and Warren. But if Trump is not the republican candidate there could be a few million votes up for grabs and Warren will lie her way in.

This is not [A]rkansas.

Multiple laws were broken in the travel office scandal, in the improper use of FBI files, in the failure to respond to subpoenas from the office of the Independent Counsel, and in the Paula Jones lawsuit.

None of those things happened in Arkansas. You are being naive.

I am familiar with the travel office scandal and Hillary lied and said they were doing drugs and that;’s why they were fired.

I though you meant the original making of money.

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