Brett Arends: “Today I’m performing a public service on behalf of all the voters. I went back and re-read all the criticisms and attacks and best-selling ‘exposes’ leveled at Hillary Rodham Clinton over the past quarter century. And I’ve compiled a list of all her High Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
Why Does the Media Still Shield Chelsea Clinton?
Jack Shafer: “But at some point—early adulthood—the general immunity from critical coverage needs to end. The threshold for newsworthiness recedes, and the children of presidents become more like the siblings, cousins, uncles and parents of presidents. In other words, if one of President Obama’s daughters got busted for drunk driving, few would expect saturation coverage from the press. But, say, had Obama’s Boston aunt gotten arrested for drunk driving before she died in 2014, there would have been no reason for the press to turn a blind eye. Chelsea Clinton should be treated no more royally than the Nixon daughters, Susan Ford, Amy Carter, the Gore children, or the Bush and Reagan progeny.”
22 Clinton Emails Deemed ‘Top Secret’
“The Obama administration confirmed for the first time Friday that Hillary Clinton’s unsecured home server contained some of the U.S. government’s most closely guarded secrets, censoring 22 emails with material demanding one of the highest levels of classification,” the AP reports.
“The revelation comes just three days before the Iowa presidential nominating caucuses in which Clinton is a candidate.”
Where’s the Old Bill Clinton Magic?
New York Times: “It is still early enough in the race for Mr. Clinton to warm up. (And he can take some time to warm up.) A more subdued Bill Clinton may not be such a bad thing either, say some Democrats, who cringe as they recall the distraction of his piping-hot words about Barack Obama in the 2008 race.”
“Yet the Clinton of lore, the once-in-a generation political natural who fought back to win his party’s nomination in 1992 and came through in clutch moments with great speeches over the years, has yet to appear.”
Clinton Library to Release Trump Documents
“The Clinton Presidential Library plans to release later this year a trove of records relating to Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump and his business,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The documents, which must be released in early April unless the White House or Mr. Clinton’s office request an extension or claim executive privilege, could prompt further criticism from Republicans that Mr. Trump’s relationship with the Clintons in the decades before his presidential campaign was inappropriately cozy.”
Clinton Email Server Held Top Secret Information
“Emails from Hillary Clinton’s home server contained information classified at levels higher than previously known, including a level meant to protect some of the most sensitive U.S. intelligence,” according to a document obtained by NBC News.
“In a letter to lawmakers, the intelligence community’s internal watchdog says some of Clinton’s emails contained information classified Top Secret/Special Access Program, a secrecy designation that includes some of the most closely held U.S. intelligence matters.”
Bonus Quote of the Day
“If my husband had done some of the things Bill Clinton had done, I would have left him long ago.”
– Carly Fiorina, in an interview on Morning Joe.
During last night’s undercard debate, Fiorina said that “unlike another woman in this race, I actually love spending time with my husband.”
Clinton Seen As More Respectful of Women Than Trump
A new Fox News poll finds that more voters thinks Bill Clinton is respectful of women than Donald Trump, 50% to 37%.
Bonus Trump Quote of the Day
“Well, I don’t want to say it’s a threat. But it is a threat. She’s married to an abuser. A woman claimed rape, and all sorts of things. I mean, horrible things.”
— Donald Trump, in an interview on Meet the Press, about bringing former President Bill Clinton’s past into the 2016 race.
Hillary Clinton Says Focus on Bill’s Scandals Won’t Work
Hillary Clinton told CBS News that the Republican focus on her husband’s sex scandals is a “dead end” which hasn’t derailed her in the past and “won’t work again,”
Said Clinton: “it’s been fair game going back to the Republicans for some years, they can do it again if they want to, that can be their choice as how to go on in this campaign.”
Clinton Instructed Aide to Send Non-Secure Fax
In an email newly released by the State Department, Hillary Clinton directed an aide, if talking points could not be sent via fax through a secure line, to “turn into nonpaper” with “no identifying heading and send nonsecure,” BuzzFeed reports.
New Documents Show Blunt Bill Clinton
New York Times: “Fifteen years almost to the day since former President Bill Clinton left office, a newly released batch of documents from his library offers a fresh look at his later years in the White House even as his wife, Hillary Clinton, seeks to win the post for herself. The documents transcribed phone calls and meetings between Mr. Clinton and Tony Blair, then the British prime minister and perhaps Mr. Clinton’s best friend among foreign leaders.”
“With bracing bluntness and a smattering of R-rated language, the private conversations reveal a president sometimes unseen by the general public, one who veered from wonky discussions of the Northern Ireland peace process to serrated assessments of his American political opposition. Like a time capsule, the transcripts capture the priorities and perceptions of the moment that, judged with the harsh certainty of hindsight, look prescient or wildly off base.”
Trump Unloads on Clinton for Sex Scandals Again
“Donald Trump again assailed Bill and Hillary Clinton Thursday for the former president’s sexual indiscretions,” NBC News reports.
“An Instagram video posted by Trump’s campaign features images of intern Monica Lewinsky, disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner – a onetime political ally of the Clintons who resigned from Congress amid a sexting scandal – and criminally charged comedian Bill Cosby.”
Politico: Bill’s back, and so’s his baggage.
Will Clinton Sex Scandals Still Resonate?
“The ghosts of the 1990s have returned to confront Hillary Clinton, released from the vault by Donald Trump and revved up by a 21st-century version of the scandal machine that almost destroyed her husband’s presidency,” the Washington Post reports.
“This is a moment that her campaign has long expected. What remains to be seen is whether a reminder of allegations of sexual impropriety against Bill Clinton — which were deemed to have varying levels of credibility when they were first aired — can gain new traction in a different context.”
Trump Compares Bill Clinton to Bill Cosby
Donald Trump wants someone to ask Bill Clinton how he’s different from Bill Cosby, Politico reports.
Said Trump: “The whole Cosby thing is a weird deal, and he’s got himself some big problems, and you’d almost have to ask Bill Clinton that. It would be very interesting question to someday ask him. There certainly a lot of very strong charges against him, some pretty bad stuff.”
Clinton Brushes Off Talk of Sexual History
Asked by ABC News whether his sexual history was “fair game” in the campaign, Bill Clinton said “the Republicans have to decide who they want to nominate. I’m trying to tell the Democrats and the country why I think Hillary would be the best president.”
He added: “I think there’s always attempts to take the election away from the people.”
Trump Says Clinton is an ‘Abuser of Women’
Donald Trump called former President Bill Clinton “one of the great abusers of the world” and said women “don’t like Hillary Clinton,” The Hill reports.
Said Trump: “She’s hitting me really hard with the women card. She’s not going to win.”
He added that “nobody respects women more than Donald Trump.”
Speaking Fees Create Conflict for Clintons
More than two dozen companies and groups and one foreign government paid former President Bill Clinton a total of more than $8 million to give speeches around the time they also had matters before Hillary Clinton’s State Department, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis.
Fifteen of them also donated a total of between $5 million and $15 million to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the family’s charity, according to foundation disclosures.
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