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November Surprises

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Trial Balloon · Ep. 192: November Surprises

Jeffrey Epstein Said Bill Clinton Was ‘In His Pocket’

July 31, 2020 · 8:01 am ET · Leave a Comment

Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent accusers, told an attorney in newly-unsealed documents that Bill Clinton was a guest during a trip to Epstein’s private isle in the U.S. Virgin Islands and that Epstein joked to her about Clinton being in his pocket, the Daily Beast reports.

Said Giuffre: “You know, I remember asking Jeffrey what’s Bill Clinton doing here.”

Epstein laughed off her question and said, “Well, he owes me a favor.”

Clinton Legacy

‘I Would Have Done a Better Job’

July 3, 2020 · 11:13 am ET · Leave a Comment

The Hollywood Reporter speaks to Hillary Clinton:

“We wouldn’t have been able to stop the pandemic at our borders the way that Trump claimed in the beginning, but we sure could have done a better job saving lives, modeling better, more responsible behavior. I don’t think we necessarily should have had as deep an economic assault on livelihoods and jobs as we have. So I know I would have done a better job.”

Clinton Legacy

Linda Tripp Is Dead

April 8, 2020 · 3:38 pm ET · Leave a Comment

Linda Tripp, whose taped conversations with Monica Lewinsky nearly brought down the Clinton presidency, died today from pancreatic cancer, the Daily Mail reports.

Lewinsky tweeted a short time ago: “No matter the past, upon hearing that Linda Tripp is very seriously ill, I hope for her recovery. I can’t imagine how difficult this is for her family.”

Clinton Legacy

Impeachment, Then and Now

February 6, 2020 · 12:52 pm ET · Leave a Comment

“I want to say again how profoundly sorry I am for what I said and did… and for the great burden they have imposed.”

— Bill Clinton post-impeachment, February 1999.

“It was all bullshit.”

— Donald Trump post-impeachment, February 2020.

Clinton Legacy, White House

Clinton Refuses to Be Served with Gabbard Lawsuit

January 30, 2020 · 10:50 am ET · Leave a Comment

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s (D-HI) attorney told the New York Post that Hillary Clinton has now twice snubbed a process server attempting to deliver court papers for the congresswoman’s defamation lawsuit.

Clinton Legacy

Quote of the Day

January 26, 2020 · 9:16 am ET · Leave a Comment

“I feel terrible about the fact that Monica Lewinsky’s life was defined by it, unfairly I think. Over the years I watched her trying to get a normal life back again. But you gotta decide how to define normal.”

— Bill Clinton, discussing the scandal that caused him to be impeached in the forthcoming documentary Hillary.

Clinton Legacy

Tulsi Gabbard Sues Hillary Clinton

January 22, 2020 · 9:53 am ET · Leave a Comment

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) sued former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday for allegedly defaming her by suggesting the Hawaii congresswoman is a “Russian asset,” CNBC reports.

2020 Campaign, Clinton Legacy Hillary Clinton, Tulsi Gabbard

Photos Emerge of Bill Clinton on the ‘Lolita Express’

January 10, 2020 · 10:40 am ET · Leave a Comment

The New York Post and The Sun have published new photos of Bill Clinton on Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet, along with Ghislaine Maxwell, the woman accused of working as Epstein’s madam.

Clinton Legacy

Chelsea Clinton Made $9 Million from Board Position

January 6, 2020 · 9:41 am ET · Leave a Comment

Chelsea Clinton has made $9 million in compensation since 2011 for serving on the board of an Internet investment company, according to Barrons.

Clinton Legacy

Biden Once Called Clinton Impeachment a ‘Lynching’

October 22, 2019 · 8:09 pm ET · Leave a Comment

Joe Biden denounced President Trump’s comparison of the ongoing impeachment inquiry to a “lynching,” but in a 1998 interview, the then-senator from Delaware also invoked the term in reference to impeachment, calling it a “partisan lynching,” CNN reports.

Clinton Legacy

Toobin Regrets Playing Up Clinton Email Story

October 21, 2019 · 10:03 am ET · Leave a Comment

Jeffrey Toobin said he regretted the role he played in amplifying the coverage of Hillary Clinton’s private email server during the 2016 campaign after an investigation found “no persuasive evidence” of classified information being systematically or deliberately mishandled.

Tweeted Toobin: “Note the mostly buried news that State Dept closed Hillary Clinton email probe with this verdict: no big deal. As a journalist, I regret my role in blowing this story out of proportion.”

2016 Campaign, Clinton Legacy

Probe of Clinton Emails Comes Up Empty

October 19, 2019 · 8:02 am ET · Leave a Comment

Washington Post: “A multiyear State Department probe of emails that were sent to former secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s private computer server concluded there was no systemic or deliberate mishandling of classified information by department employees, according to a report submitted to Congress this month.”

“The report appears to represent a final and anticlimactic chapter in a controversy that overshadowed the 2016 presidential campaign and exposed Clinton to fierce criticism that she later cited as a major factor in her loss to President Trump.”

Clinton Legacy

Trump’s Impeachment Strategy Is Opposite of Clinton’s

October 1, 2019 · 9:23 am ET · Leave a Comment

David Frum: “Donald Trump may have no impeachment war room, but he does have an impeachment strategy. He deployed it this past weekend.”

“It’s the same strategy he brought to his presidential campaign, then to his presidency: all base, all the time. In 1998 and ’99, Bill Clinton directed his anti-impeachment messaging to voters who did not necessarily approve of him, but who feared impeachment as disruptive. Trump’s message is aimed only at his most all-in supporters, those who see him as a victim of plots and persecution by shadowy, unseen forces.”

“It’s as if the Trump campaign has read the Clinton playbook, and at every turn opted for the opposite.”

Clinton Legacy, White House

State Department Intensifies Clinton Email Probe

September 28, 2019 · 9:10 pm ET · Leave a Comment

“The Trump administration is investigating the email records of dozens of current and former senior State Department officials who sent messages to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email, reviving a politically toxic matter that overshadowed the 2016 election,” the Washington Post reports.

“As many as 130 officials have been contacted in recent weeks by State Department investigators — a list that includes senior officials who reported directly to Clinton as well as others in lower-level jobs whose emails were at some point relayed to her inbox… Those targeted were notified that emails they sent years ago have been retroactively classified and now constitute potential security violations.”

Clinton Legacy

Clinton’s White House Faced Impeachment With Discipline

September 27, 2019 · 3:35 pm ET · Leave a Comment

“The last time Congress tried to impeach a president, the White House chief of staff had one rule: No one who wasn’t working directly on impeachment, including the president himself, was ever allowed to talk about it,” the New York Times reports.

“Mr. Clinton’s aides had studied Watergate, and their takeaway was that the public believed President Richard M. Nixon was being buried by the scandal, in part, because he talked about it endlessly. So their approach was that the only way to survive and to keep his job approval rating up was to demonstrate that the White House was still working, and that Mr. Clinton was still doing the job he was elected to do for the people.”

“But the approach is unlikely to succeed with President Trump, someone less concerned with policy than he is with how things play in distinct, daily news cycles. He heads into what appears to be a rapidly unfurling impeachment inquiry unprepared temperamentally, and with a depleted staff, many of whom are shrugging off the seriousness of what the president faces.”

Clinton Legacy

But Her Emails…

September 12, 2019 · 6:30 am ET · Leave a Comment

“Hillary Clinton spent an hour yesterday reading her emails at my exhibition of all 62,000 pages of them in Venice. She is pictured here at a replica of the Oval Office Resolute Desk, stacked with her emails.”

Clinton Legacy

Is Bill Clinton Sidelined for Good?

August 27, 2019 · 10:11 am ET · Leave a Comment

Todd Purdum: “Clinton is not quite a full-on pariah in the modern Democratic Party—the one he did so much to reshape and rebuild. But some of his signature policies are the butt of attacks by the current crop of Democratic contenders, and the sitting president has floated the utterly unproven conspiracy theory that Clinton may have had something to do with the jailhouse death of Jeffrey Epstein, the serial sex trafficker whose company he once kept.”

“Clinton’s checkered past with women—his acknowledged infidelity and serious allegations of predation—left him sidelined as a surrogate in last year’s midterms, too toxic to raise money or stump for candidates in the #MeToo era. He is no longer the party’s reigning ‘Secretary of Explaining Stuff,’ as Barack Obama famously dubbed him. It seems more than likely that he won’t have a prime speaking slot at next summer’s Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee—if he appears at all.”

Clinton Legacy

Jeffrey Epstein Visited Clinton White House

July 25, 2019 · 6:50 am ET · Leave a Comment

A Daily Beast investigation has uncovered ties between Jeffrey Epstein and the Clinton administration that date back to the president’s earliest days in the White House, casting doubt on the oft-circulated narrative that the two only began associating after Clinton left office.

Meanwhile, the New York Post reports Epstein was found unconscious in his jail cell after a possible suicide attempt.

Clinton Legacy

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