Former Clinton Ally: Hillary Berated Vince Foster Before His Suicide

A former ally of the Clintons said in his final interview that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton berated White House deputy counsel Vince Foster before he committed suicide.

The Washington Free Beacon reports that Jim McDougal, whose corrupt real estate business’s accounts were handled by Clinton’s Rose Law Firm, conducted a series interviews with the Boston Globe’s Curtis Wilkie while in jail for fraud about the Clintons’ inner circle. McDougal had been a friend of former President Bill Clinton’s from 1968 and was a close ally of theirs until the 1990s when the Whitewater scandal plagued the Clintons.

Image above: Jim McDougal, 17 Jan 1996 (AP/Spencer Tirey)

McDougal said that Foster “was clearly depressed” as he sought to defend the Clintons during the scandal.

“He was starting conversation talking about aging, eyesight going, asked me to sign something,” McDougal said. “Then Vince Foster committed suicide. He had so much of their shit on his head, and Hillary was riding him every minute.”

McDougal said that the former First Lady was a “pain in the ass” with “a hard, difficult personality.”

The Free Beacon highlights an earlier report that said that FBI investigators concluded that Hillary Clinton had “triggered” Foster’s suicide “because she publicly embarrassed him in front of others” at a White House meeting.

As The Daily Wire reported in May, Foster suffered from chronic anxiety and depression that severely worsened when he worked for the Clinton administration, especially when he worked tirelessly to defend the Clintons during the Travelgate scandal. William Kennedy, whom Foster was mentoring, had been punished for his role in the Travel Office firings, causing Foster to be consumed with guilt. Foster was also obsessing about being exposed to charges for misleading congressional investigators. Eventually, Foster shot himself in the mouth with a revolver.

Despite the conspiracy theories surrounding Foster’s death – which real estate mogul Donald Trump revived in a recent interview – all evidence points to Foster’s death as a suicide. But, as National Review’s Stanley Kurtz wrote, “Vince Foster’s suicide may have been a direct result of Hillary’s attempt to evade responsibility for her own decisions.”

McDougal’s interview and the FBI report not only seem to confirm this, but suggest that Clinton’s overbearing personality was another aspect of the situation that caused Foster to snap.

Image above: Vince Foster (AP/White House)