Remember when the Monica Lewinsky scandal was just a “vast right-wing conspiracy?”
Nearly 20 years later, it doesn’t look like the Clintons have gotten any better at taking responsibility for their actions.
Even as federal investigators begin to close in on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s potentially illegal email practices, former President Bill Clinton is saying it’s the Republicans and the media’s fault that there is controversy surrounding his wife.
On Friday, the Obama administration discovered a chain of emails that Hillary Rodham Clinton failed to turn over when she provided what she said was the full record of her work-related correspondence as secretary of state, officials told The Associated Press. Their existence challenges her claim that she has handed over the entirety of her work emails from the account.
Bill Clinton likened the email controversy to questions over the Whitewater land deal that he faced during his 1992 presidential campaign, a scandal he continues to insist was not his fault.
Saying the furor over the private email server was more politics than substance, Clinton also argued that his wife will bounce back from a decline in the polls. The former president added that the news media also played an inappropriate role in his wife’s troubles.
“You know, at the beginning of the year, she was the most admired person in public life,” Clinton said. “What happened?”
Bill Clinton is considered one of the Democratic party’s most effective messengers. But as he showed in 2008, with remarks about then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama that angered black voters in South Carolina, he can also be an undisciplined campaigner.
“I love my husband, and you know, he does get upset when I am attacked,” Hillary Clinton said Sunday in an interview with NBC’s “Meet The Press.”
Republicans have raised questions about thousands of emails that she has deleted on grounds that they were private in nature, as well as other messages that have surfaced independently of Hillary Clinton and the State Department.
The Associated Press contributed to this report
Justin Wachin says
Vote for Hillary and get two criminal Clintons in the White House.
Let’s not forget that Bill and Hillary are both lawyers. They should have known better. There is only one person to blame for Hillary’s email scandal–Hillary. She acquired the email service, she communicated government business through the server and she was the one who deleted the email from the server in direct violation of the request that she hand her email over to investigators.
Bill Clinton was impeached because he lied about an affair. Hillary may find the email side issue will end her hopes of becoming president.
Andi says
This statement meaning he admits she broke the law. Smart man. Wow.
Constitutionalist says
Title 18 in the US Code is called “Crimes and Criminal Procedure.” If you google section 2071(i think), you’ll find that not only is Hitlery guilty of a felony, she’s required to give up any gov’t position she now has, and is forever barred from any further “service” on the public dime. For life.
Do i expect her to be prosecuted? No; far too many criminal oathbreakers in gov’t circles seem to hold on to their cushy jobs with impunity these days. Do i HOPE she’ll be prosecuted, fined and jailed? You bet!
Phil Sargent says
Bill asks, What happened? …….About 40 years of lies, cheating and deception, and maybe a few murders also…That’s what happened Bill…Now suck it up!
Marlene Langert says
Ya know, Bill, I had more respect for you, but not much, when you just kept cheating on your wife, As cold as she seems, I could almost, but not quite understand. But now with all your lies and twists for her, I have lost the tiny bit of respect I did have for you. Thelying that both of you do is much worse than the cheating. I think most people would agree to that. You used to be charming, but now you are a cheating, liar for whom nobody has much respect and they have none whatsoever for your wife.
Robert says
How true and we should also keep an eye on the Clinton foundation, No doubt there is some shady crap going on there also.
John Sisk says
George Clooney gave $5 billion that he raised from all over America for Haitan Relief. Less than #100,00 was spent on lavish trips to Haiti by Bill Clinton.
The rest is still in the Clinton Foundation and their excuise was that the country was unstable. What a rip off and no one is charging Clooney or the Clintons for embelezing this money.
I have notified several at Fox News and other News Services and no one will do anything.
Stephen J. Koach says
This murderous hag belongs in jail. Why does Larry Nichols continue to say that he was a “hitman” for bill and hill for over 10 years. There is no statute on Murder. Where are the cops? Lying pieces of garbage. The only upside to this whole episode may be that the Clinton crime family may fight back with the truth about the identity thief in the White House. How would the twisted media treat the story from their favorite rapist?
Steve says
bill Clinton 10 days before he left office flew over to china and just gave them all our military technology. Now, years later china has grown their military 10 fold, now thanks to bill Clinton, they have stealth planes, stealth Air Craft Carriers, stealth submarines with the information America had built with the propulsion system that made it stealth in the first place. FOR THIS THEY RECEIVED OVER 100 MILLION DOLLARS FROM CHINA IN CHARITABLE FORM, SO THEY CAN COLLECT 90% OF IT AS A SALARY. THE CLINTONS ARE ROTTEN TO THE CORE AND STINK TO HIGH HEAVENS
Anne says
Remember that Bill Clinton was impeached for lying under oath, so why shouldn’t he blame someone else for his wife’s problems? One wonders if he was behind her using a private email account for State Department Business, I also wonder how much money went into his “quote non-profit” because of her being Secretary of State.
Kevin Beck says
Slick Willy? More like Sick Willy.
When will the nation catch on to the evil that these two people represent? Everything about them is, “Let’s blame our enemies for what we did wrong.” And the lamestream press keeps repeating the lies on continuous loops.
It’s time to leave these Hillbillies back in the cabin.
John Sisk says
Bill Clinton accepted the $5 Billion dollars that George Clooney raised for Haitian Relief to administer. He spent less than $100,00 on lavish trips to Haiti and still has the funds in the Clinton Foundation. All Non-Profit group that applied for funding to work in Haiti never received any funds,
Bill Clinton has actually embezzled the funds and his excuse was that Haiti was to unstable. Why is the funds still in his foundation and why is he not in jail.
Numerous times I have notified Fox News and others and they will not take ang action or report this criminal act.
AL DAHM says
Hillary and Bubba Clinton are the Bonnie and Clyde of American Politics. They should be in jail, not in the White House !
The colossal stupidity of the American electorate and the Democratic Party leaders is mind-boggling. They not only chose to nominate Hill to run, they made her the leader of the pack. I’m quickly losing faith in our political System.
We need to do everything we can to support Bernie !!!
AL D. – VT
MTZ says
The mainstream media is bought and paid for by the “SECRET SOCIETY” WHO ARE BENT ON HAVING THEIR NEW WORLD ORDER. RESEARCH THEIR AGENDA AND WEEP, BUT THE DUMB DEMOCRATS ARE DEAF AND BLIND TO IT BECAUSE OF THE MONEY POURING IN . FOLLOW THE SOFT MONEY CONTRIBUTION TO ANY POLITICIAN AND YOU WILL KNOW WHO IS YANKING THEIR CHAIN. To get rid of their influence in our government, is to vote for an OUTSIDER, BETTER YET ONE WHO CAN FUND HIS OWN CAMPAIGN AND NOT BE BEHOLDEN TO LOBBYISTS. HE WON’T EVEN TAKE A SALARY, THAT’LL SAVE US SOME MONEY. GO TRUMP GO….