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Former President Bill Clinton, on ABC's "The View" on Thursday, said he didn't have concerns about former President Joe Biden's mental sharpness amid a slate of reports that allege a decline in Biden's acuity during the 2024 campaign and at the end of his presidency. "Well, I think you have to pay attention to them," Clinton said when asked about the accounts. "But all I can say is whenever I was around him, his mind was clear, his judgment was good and he was on top of his brief." Clinton went on to question decisions made by the White House...

President Bill Clinton criticized President Trump's actions attacking the rule of law, and predicted that the president would pay a price among those who believe his actions are un-American. "We've never seen anything like this before in my lifetime – somebody that says, 'Whatever I want should be the law of the land. It's my way or the highway.' And most Americans don't agree with that," Clinton said in an interview with "CBS Sunday Morning." "But I like to think that he's paid a price for this, you know, name-calling and throwing his weight around … I think it's made...

PRESIDENT CLINTON: Good evening. Earlier today, I ordered America's armed forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq. They are joined by British forces. Their mission is to attack Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors. Their purpose is to protect the national interest of the United States, and indeed the interests of people throughout the Middle East and around the world. Saddam Hussein must not be allowed to threaten his neighbors or the world with nuclear arms, poison gas or biological weapons. I want to explain why I have decided,...

Former President Bill Clinton has been hospitalized after developing a fever, a spokesperson said Monday. Clinton, 78, was admitted to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C., Monday afternoon "for testing and observation after developing a fever," his deputy chief of staff, Angel Ureña, said in a statement. "He remains in good spirits and deeply appreciates the excellent care he is receiving," the statement continued. Clinton has had several health issues over the past two decades, mostly related to heart problems. He had a quadruple bypass surgery in September 2004 and two coronary stents placed in his heart in February...

Former President Bill Clinton said Wednesday on ABC’s “The View” that he was open to discussing a potential preemptive pardon for his wife Hillary Clinton with President Joe Biden. Co-host Sunny Hostin said, “Do you think it would be wise of President Biden to preemptively pardon any potential targets? What about your wife, Hillary Clinton? She apparently is on Kash Patel’s list.” Clinton said, “They’ve got a problem with her because first, she didn’t do anything wrong. Second, she followed the rules exactly as they were written. Third, Trump’s State Department — Trump’s State Department — found — remember how...

Former President Bill Clinton relitigated the e-mail scandal of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (snip) with MSNBC host Joe Scarborough. SCARBOROUGH: I want to read from something that you wrote in the book about the 2016 election. This whole thing is hard for me to write. I couldn't sleep for two years after the election. I was so angry. I wasn't fit to be around. I apologize to all those who endured my outbursts, rage, which lasted for years, and bothered or bored people who thought it was pointless to rehash things that couldn't be changed. In this chapter,...

Bill Clinton: Young Americans shocked to learn Arafat turned down Palestinian stateIf 'you walk away from once in a lifetime peace opportunities, you can't complain 25 years later when the doors aren't all still open,' says former US presidentBy ToI Staff 5 December 2024, 7:51 pmFormer US president Bill Clinton on Wednesday said young people in America today "can't believe" that late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat walked away from a Palestinian state during peace negotiations with Israel under his mediation as president..."All [young people in America] know that a lot more Palestinians have been killed than Israelis. And I tell...

Former President Bill Clinton revealed he “couldn’t sleep for two years” and was prone to “outbursts of rage” after his wife Hillary Clinton lost to GOP rival Donald Trump in 2016, acknowledging in a memoir released earlier this month that he “wasn’t fit to be around.” “The whole thing is hard for me to write,” Clinton, wrote in “Citizen: My Life After The White House,” according to the Daily Mail. “I couldn’t sleep for two years after the election. I was so angry, I wasn’t fit to be around.”

Former President Clinton said in an interview that aired Sunday that he believes the U.S. is set to have a woman-led executive branch “pretty soon.” “I still think we’ll have a … female president pretty soon,” Clinton said in an interview on “CBS News Sunday Morning” with the outlet’s Tracy Smith. Vice President Harris, who recently lost her bid for the White House to President-elect Trump, would have been the first woman, Black woman and person of South Asian descent to secure the presidency if she had won. Clinton’s wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, also would have been...

Former President Bill Clinton spoke with a raspy voice and said he may be unable to attend future Democratic conventions in a Wednesday night speech to delegates — as stunned viewers noted his hands trembling during his remarks.

On this day in 1998, President Bill Clinton settled a sexual harassment lawsuit by making an $850,000 payment. The settlement with Paula Jones, reached without the suit going to trial, heaped fuel on Clinton’s impeachment proceedings by the Republican-controlled House. (He was acquitted in a subsequent Senate trial and completed his term in office.) In the aftermath of the settlement payment, most of which went to Jones’ attorneys, Robert S. Bennett, Clinton’s attorney, maintained that Jones’ claim was baseless, and that Clinton agreed to settle only to end the lawsuit and move on.

Another Clinton advisor is dead. Mark Middleton, Bill Clinton’s special advisor from Little Rock, Arkansas who connected the former president to deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein died at the age of 59 in early May. At first, no details of Middleton’s death were disclosed, however, the case was blown wide open after a FOIA request by Radar Online revealed the former advisor was found hanging from a tree with a shotgun blast to his chest. Mr. Middleton was found hanging from a tree with a shotgun blast to his chest and an extension cord wrapped around his neck 30 miles from...

On Tuesday morning, former First Lady Hillary Clinton said not getting a divorce from former President Bill Clinton was the "gustiest thing" she's ever done, personally. Publicly and politically, she said the gutsiest thing she's done is run for president. "I think the gutsiest thing I’ve ever done ... Personally, make the decision to stay in my marriage. Publicly, politically, run for president," Clinton said at an event for her latest book. She co-wrote The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience with her daughter, Chelsea.

"That's the sexual assaulter she should be talking about in the White House." Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski fired back at Hillary Clinton on Saturday after Clinton called President Donald Trump “a sexual assaulter.” Clinton, who for five days had kept silent on the scandal that enveloped Harvey Weinstein, a Hollywood executive and big-time donor to her own campaigns, spoke about Weinstein and Trump during a BBC interview. “This kind of behavior cannot be tolerated anywhere, whether it’s in entertainment, politics — after all, we have someone admitting to being a sexual assaulter in the Oval Office — there...

Sources say Bill Clinton is in rough shape. . Sources close to the Clinton family say that Slick Willy, 40th President of the United States and perpetual cheater, will be lucky to make it through the end of the week. The Clinton family, including extended relatives and members of the Rodham clan, have been filing into Little Rock all week where Bill is reportedly bedridden at the residence attached to his presidential library. The fact that they’re booking rooms and sticking around most likely means they’re expecting to have to stay for a funeral. The Clintons have said that they...

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Security grabbed the man as the hosts nervously laughed off the interruption. Host Tucker Carlson mentioned the man obviously does not like Bill Clinton. The hosts were doing a segment about an event that raises money for shelter pets. “Everything is fine on Fox & Friends because we are surrounded by dogs and if there’s anything that calms the human heart, it’s a canine,” said Tucker.

Since launching her bid for president, Hillary Clinton has been a vocal critic of for-profit schools, pledging in speeches across the country to “crack down on predatory schools” and help students drowning in student loan debt. “If they load students up with debt for programs that don’t lead to good paying jobs, students and taxpayers should not be the only ones left holding the bag,” said Clinton in a campaign speech in New Hampshire. […] … Over five years, former president Bill Clinton earned $17.6 million from the world’s largest for-profit education company, Laureate Education, Inc. In his role as...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Loretta Lynch is expressing regret that she sat down with Bill Clinton while his wife is under federal criminal investigation, a chance encounter she acknowledges "cast a shadow" on the public's perception of a case bound to influence the presidential campaign. "I certainly wouldn't do it again," Lynch said of the meeting.

‘It is just too much to ignore,’ blasts Washington insider of Hillary’s husband.It’s Bill Clinton’s most outrageous sex scandal yet! Anti-corruption campaigners are demanding a fraud investigation into nearly $3 million in grants arranged by his charity and the federal government to a company co-owned by a beautiful divorcee identified by RadarOnline.com as his alleged “on-off” secret mistress. The ex-President’s Clinton Global Initiative — run by the charitable foundation he heads with presidential hopeful Hillary and their daughter Chelsea — pledged a staggering $2 million to an obscure Nebraska private company, Energy Pioneer Solutions. The company’s co-owners notably include Julie...