Posted on 09/29/2013 3:54:30 PM PDT by jazusamo
(CNSNews.com) - Former President Bill Clinton—who was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives for perjury and obstruction of justice and held in contempt of court by U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright for giving “intentionally false” testimony—claimed to his former staffer George Stephanopoulos on ABC News’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos” on Sunday that Sen. Ted Cruz made multiple false statements during his filibuster on the Senate floor last week.
“I listened to some of Sen. Cruz’s filibuster on the health-care bill and he just kept making all these claims that just aren’t so and everybody knows they’re not,” Clinton told his former aide.
Clinton did not specifically cite any false claim that he claims Cruz made on the Senate floor, nor did Stephanopoulos ask Clinton to give any examples of false statements by Cruz or in any way justify his assertion that Cruz had made such statements.
Clinton made the accusation against Cruz while explaining to Stephanopoulos why he thinks President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats should not give in to congressional Republicans on the question of delaying Obamacare.
“This is the House Republicans and the Tea Party people saying we don’t want to negotiate with the Democrats,” said Clinton. “We want to dictate over the Senate, over the House Democrats, over the Speaker of the House of our own party and over the president. We insist on dictating the course of the country.”
Stephanopoulos then asked: “So you’re saying you just have to stand up to that no matter what the consequences?”
“I do. I do,” said Clinton. “It’s terrible because all over the world people see like, you know---I listened to some of Sen. Cruz’s filibuster on the health-care bill and he just kept making all these claims that just aren’t so and everybody knows they’re not.”
Starting on Sept. 24 and running through noon on Sept. 25, Sen. Cruz held the Senate floor for 21 hours and 19 minutes to make the case to his colleagues and the country that Congress ought to use the continuing resolution needed to fund the government after midnight this Monday to defund the implementation of Obamacare.
Stephanopoulos worked on Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign and then as a senior adviser to Clinton during his first presidential term.
“I did NOT have sex with that woman, Mz. Lewinsky”!!! hahahahahhahahahhah!!! THE CLINTON”S are trash!!
Bill Clinton Accuses Ted Cruz of Making True Statements
BJ boy is accusing Cruz of falsehoods, yeah thats a laugher.
Yep, as biased as ABC is it’s still hard to believe Stephy would have BJ on his show and let him make accusations like this.
LOL! Thanks for your input.
Bill who?
Go run your corrupt foundation.
In exchange for an endorsement of Hillary and money/manpower for 2016?
An admitted liar calling a true patriot a liar....that’s just rich.
And if Hillary wins the presidency, we’d have 4/8 more years of Bill Clinton too.
Did he wag his finger at the camera when he said it? You know, to show he’s telling the truth.
But President Clinton accuses Senator Cruz of lying, and...
-PJ
“ABC sent one of Clinton’s old staffers to interview him? I bet it must have been real impartial.”
Yeah. George Streptococcus.
Agree; The Clinton like the Obamas have done permanent damage to this nation. In a perfect world they would be tried for crimes against America.
What is truly despicable are the media that trot these road apples out as if they had an once of credibilty.
But then again the media operates in a sewer, we should give them no notice.
Isn’t it amazing how many people around the Clintons have dropped dead?
Why should we believe the FINGER?
Wise FReepers educated me that the Chicago mob was able to intimidate Hillary over Arkancides. She couldn't use the vaunted private detective operation to expose the truth about Baraq. Mutually assured destruction...
I would not believe Bill Clinton if he said water is wet. He is the icon of the Left and they believe and worship every word that comes from his mouth.
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