Going down: Hillary Clinton has already lost

Hillary Clinton is illegitimate. Whether or not she wins in November, Clinton has forfeited the political credibility and moral authority to be our next president.

Polls now show Donald Trump is surging; Clinton is plummeting. A major reason for her decline is the utter derision and disdain she recently displayed against Middle America.

At a lavish $2,400-a-plate LGBT fundraiser, Hillary said that one-half of Trump’s supporters can be placed into a “basket of deplorables.” Clinton smeared them as “racists, sexists, xenophobic, homophobic and Islamophobic.” In other words, she called a quarter of the country bigoted scum, who — according to her — are “irredeemable.”

She also insulted the other half of Trump’s backers, saying they are driven by “economic anxiety.” According to Hillary, these voters are the “forgotten” ones, pitiful losers who feel the government and the economy have abandoned them. Hence, Clinton divided Trump’s supporters into two categories: Closet white supremacists or the pathetic economically downtrodden. Ultimately, she simply expressed liberals’ hatred and contempt of middle- and working-class Americans — what Richard Nixon termed the Silent Majority.

Her anti-American bigotry may play well in progressive circles. But her comments have shattered her ability to be the next commander-in-chief.

Then-candidate Barack Obama in 2008 famously disparaged rural voters in Pennsylvania as those who “bitterly cling” to their Bibles, guns or “antipathy” to “immigrants.” His comments were pernicious (and false). Yet, they didn’t go anywhere near as far as Hillary’s “deplorables” comments.

She has done something unprecedented: openly revile and vilify half of the country. She has crossed the Rubicon. She cannot possibly unify or lead America after publicly demonstrating such outright contempt and disgust with 50 percent of Americans.

Think about it: What leader — outside of a dictatorial demagogue — could possibly govern a nation, half of whose citizens are loathed? Moreover, those very citizens — the “deplorables” — will not respect or pay allegiance to a regime and a leader who says they are not only “irredeemable” but not even a “part of America.” They will be rendered exiles in their own land, a relentless target of government abuse and harassment.

If Hillary wins, she will preside over a deeply fractured and alienated country. She will lack the ability — even the very legitimacy — to govern. Under her tenure, America will continue to slowly break-up — morally, culturally and politically. The center will not be able to hold.

Moreover, she is Nixon in pant suits. Watergate eventually destroyed him. Clinton’s rampant criminal behavior will destroy her as well. There is one over-riding truth about Hillary: She is a political gangster, a Balkan-style oligarch who belongs in prison. Leave aside Clinton’s scandals regarding her personal server and emails, which compromised top secret classified information and violated numerous laws.

The deeper crime was the reason why she set-up a personal email system: to turn the Clinton Foundation into a secret slush fund to enrich her (and Bill) to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. Since the Clinton Foundation was created the Clintons have amassed nearly $240 million in personal wealth. This grotesque amount is only what we know; the real figure could — and probably is — much higher.

In other words, she engaged in a massive criminal enterprise involving selling access, bribery, influence-peddling and corruption, in which she pimped out vital national security interests and even positions within the State Department to major Foundation donors.

It was a classic “pay-to-play” scheme. The Russians, Saudis, Gulf Arabs, Chinese, the Muslim Brotherhood — practically every U.S. enemy benefited from it.

When former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich engaged in pay-to-play, trying to sell a Senate seat, he got 14 years in prison. His crimes pale in comparison to Hillary’s. Yet, she still walks free — for now.

If Clinton somehow manages to grind out a victor in November, these facts will not disappear.

Liberals are supporting a criminal and a traitor. She sold her country out for power and money. This may fly with the morally bankrupt progressive Left. But it will not — and should not — with Middle America.

Jeffrey T. Kuhner is a columnist at WorldTribune.com and the host of “The Kuhner Report” weekdays 12-3 pm EST on WRKO AM-680 in Boston.

Leave aside Clinton’s scandals regarding her personal server and emails, which compromised top secret classified information and violated numerous laws. The deeper crime was the reason why she set-up a personal email system: to turn the Clinton Foundation into a secret slush fund to enrich her (and Bill) to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. Since the Clinton Foundation was created the Clintons have amassed nearly $240 million in personal wealth. This grotesque amount is only what we know; the real figure could — and probably is — much higher. In other words, she engaged in a massive criminal enterprise involving selling access, bribery, influence-peddling and corruption, in which she pimped out vital national security interests and even positions within the State Department to major Foundation donors.
It was a classic “pay-to-play” scheme. The Russians, Saudis, Gulf Arabs, Chinese, the Muslim Brotherhood — practically every U.S. enemy benefited from it.

I, and many of us, have been saying all year that the "why" of the personal email system is the most important issue. Means, motive, opportunity. What was the motive? An insane jones about personal privacy? Or, a real practical need to keep prying eyes away from Foundation business?
Yes, their personal wealth might "only" be $240 million, but the Foundation had $450 million in assets as of Dec. 2014, and for the last year and a half, I'd bet it's raked in at least that much again, as it looked like Hillary would get elected. While they can't touch and hold that money in exactly the same way as their personal money, they control it. It sends them and their cronies all around the world in first-class comfort. The minimal amount they have to donate doesn't even deplete it very much, as the accrued funds also earn tax-free income.

She is corrupt beyond belief, and it has made her rich.

Preach it, fellow FReeper!
The Constitution directs us to be extremely suspicious:
Article 1 Section 9: No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state
Obama nominated Hillary Clinton to be SoS during his honeymoon period in ’09, with a filibuster-proof Senate and a strong majority in the House. Under those circumstances Hillary was able to get the Senate to confirm her, even when the Senators knew about the Foundation. But the House of Representatives was not asked to vote to allow her to remain a principal in the Foundation, which was soliciting and accepting money from foreign governments, while she was in federal office. For that matter, AFAIK the Foundation existed before her nomination to SoS, while Hillary was a NYS senator and therefore already "holding [an] office of profit or trust under” the US.
Clearly Hillary was in violation of Article I Section 1 from the first acceptance of foreign government money by the Clinton Foundation until the day she left office as SoS.
It is not even necessary to prove that the Foundation is a scam. Hillary was under obligation to prove that it was a legitimate, even necessary, charitable work. To Congress, in advance. In advance of each and every acceptance of material benefit from a foreign government. She didn’t, and she must divest herself of any interest in it.
For starters.

Okay but, that doesn't mean she "has already lost"; if, by some miracle of Divine intervention, she fails to finish her term, she or her heirs will get away with her ill-gotten fortune intact. Anything less than a felony conviction means she won. If she wins in November, it's America who's already lost.

Moreover, she is Nixon in pant suits. Watergate eventually destroyed him. Clinton’s rampant criminal behavior will destroy her as well.

Hah. Nice thought but, the media, Hollywood and Congress had a lot to do with Nixon's fall. NONE of them will turn on HilLIARy to the extent they skewered Nixon.

“Dirty political tricks is one thing—that’s how he picked up the nickname “Sid Vicious”—but assuming that knowledge extends to advice on international operations of State seems like a big stretch. It seems reckless and stupid.”

Look here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3472324/posts?page=23#23

“BACKSTORY Longtime Clinton crony, Sid Blumenthal was the conniving Clintons’ bagman-—a $325,000 employee of the Clinton Foundation, he had numerous paid side interests——promoting any number of foreign deals and schemes in which he had a financial interest.....many of which were predicated on the toppling of Libya’s Khadaffi.

Blumenthal was ambidextrous-—chronically emailing Hillary Libya foreign policy messages w/ one hand....his other hand firmly in the State Dept cookie jar.

In one confidential e-mail to Clinton, Blumenthal was clearly colluding w/ onetime Amb Joe Wilson (Valerie Plame’s hubby) to help himself to the tax dollars in the State Dept cookie jar. “

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