Posted on 12/03/2020 8:08:49 PM PST by simpson96
Et tú, Doug Band?
In a stunning political and personal betrayal, Bill Clinton’s erstwhile consigliere has spilled his guts to Vanity Fair. It’s impossible to look away.
“Confessions of a Clintonworld Exile,” by its very existence, proves beyond a doubt that the Clintons have lost whatever waning political capital remained. Consider that, at the height of their powers, Clinton loyalists would sooner go to prison (as Susan McDougal did, 18 months served, eight months of those in solitary) rather than compromise the ever-comprised Clintons.
Bill must have done something very, very bad — worse than his usual self-dealing and pathological deceit — for Band, a surrogate son, to lash out like this.
As the piece opens, we meet the middle-aged Band in his Manhattan office, framed photos of Bill Clinton covering walls, tables — “virtually every surface,” Gabriel Sherman writes, “except for windows.” (There’s always something very “Sunset Boulevard” about the Clintons and their acolytes.)
“Bill Clinton was my life for almost 20 years,” Band says.
As we learn, he put up with a lot.
To be sure, Band also gained a lot; his role as Clinton’s gatekeeper made him a very wealthy man. In 2018, Band bought a $20 million Manhattan townhouse once owned by David Rockefeller.
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I don’t think Susan McDougal did anything out of loyalty - I think she did it because her husband died while in custody.
Who?
I have no interest in the Clintons unless it involves handcuffs and prison.
Uh oh.
I hope Mr. Band has his estate in order.
He’s probably not long for this world.
Calling the Clinton’s slimy is way too kind.
Doug band did not commit suicide.
Very strange that this is all coming out now.
There has to be a reason for Brand flapping this gums now. I can only imagine he is covering his behind in preparation of incoming Epstein explosions.
It seems that Socks is the only one in that family that was any good.
Imagine how this would be worded (nay has been worded) when a Trump advisor leaves and "tells all".
Sheesh, I should have gone into politics if I wanted to make 100 million dollars.
Democrat "journalists" just can't help themselves, can they? No matter how demonstrably immorally a Democrat behaves, including a series of interlinked Democrats like Bill, Hillary and the Obama who originated locked children in cages at the border, he just couldn't stop himself from projecting the same things that Democrats do onto a Republican president, but characterizing them as uniquely immoral in Trump's case. And it's not even a just representation of what was done to protect children from illegal immigration traffickers and sex traffickers by separating them until they could be processed.
This author thinks people woke up today to adopt his drek wholesale and have no memory whatsoever of what came before, and can't check their own damn facts on the internet? A pox on this ridiculous scribbler.
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