Former President Bill Clinton advised President Donald Trump on Thursday that as someone who has been through his own impeachment proceedings while in the Oval Office, he should just focusing on working for the American people.
&#8220;My message [to Trump] would be, you got hired to do a job. You don&#8217;t get the days back you blow off,&#8221; Clinton told CNN&#8217;s Chief Washington Correspondent Jake Tapper. &#8220;Every day is an opportunity to make something good happen.&#8221;
&#8220;And I would say, I have got lawyers and staff people handling this impeachment inquiry and they should just have at it,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Meanwhile, I am going to work for the American people, that&#8217;s what I would do.&#8221;
Clinton&#8217;s remarks arose as news of a school shooting was happening at the time in Santa Clarita, California. As the former president talked to Tapper, the incident was still occurring and few details had been released by authorities, including who the shooter was, the motivation behind the spree, or how the firearm in question was obtained.
Clinton further suggested that despite the ongoing impeachment inquiry, Trump needs to work with Congress to enact a slew of strict gun control legislations, including an assault weapons ban, an ammunition clip limit, and universal background checks.
&#8220;I mean, I think what happens is that [Trump] did indicate that he might go along with this, and then the gun lobby got ahold of him and pulled him back,&#8221; Clinton said. &#8220;But at some point, you know, denial is no longer an option. And the Congress is basically in denial of the consequences of doing nothing, or at least the people who are opposed to it. And the easiest thing to do, and they don&#8217;t want to pass.&#8221;
Clinton is notably one of only two presidents in American history who have been impeached by the United States House of Representatives. He was impeached in December 1998 on charges of lying under oath and obstruction of justice, stemming from a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against him, but ultimately acquitted by the Senate on both charges.
More than a century prior, former President Andrew Johnson was also impeached over charges of violating the Tenure of Office Act by removing his Secretary of War. He, too. was reprieved by the Senate.
House Democrats announced in September that they would be moving forward with an impeachment inquiry after a whistleblower&#8217;s testimony accused Trump of asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden for using his position as vice president to remove a Ukrainian prosecutor who was looking into his son&#8217;s business dealings.
The reports were not confirmed at the time of the announcement, and it was not until a day later that the White House released a transcript of Trump&#8217;s exchange with Zelensky. After the transcript was made public, many have argued that it fails to show the direct quid pro quo agreement initially alleged.
The full House voted on a resolution in October outlining how the House Intelligence Committee will proceed with the hearings and gather evidence before turning over the process to the House Judiciary Committee to craft the articles of impeachment. The measure passed largely along party lines, 232-196, with only two Democrats defecting on the vote.

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Bill Clinton Gives Trump Some Impeachment Advice: Do Your Job

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In rather surreal, yet apparently sincere, comments, former President Bill Clinton, one of the few U.S. presidents to undergo an impeachment hearing in the nation&#8217;s history, offered advice to President Donald Trump on Thursday about how to handle the process.
&#8220;My message would be, look, you got hired to do a job,&#8221; Clinton told CNN in a phone interview Thursday, as reported by <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/470520-bill-clinton-advises-trump-to-ignore-impeachment-you-got-hired-to-do">The Hill</a>. &#8220;You don&#8217;t get the days back you blow off. Every day is an opportunity to make something good happen. And I would say, &#8216;I&#8217;ve got lawyers and staff people handling this impeachment inquiry, and they should just have at it.&#8217; Meanwhile, I&#8217;m going to work for the American people. That&#8217;s what I would do.&#8221;
Only five presidents have ever been the subject of some form of impeachment proceedings. The first was James Buchanan, who was investigated by a congressional committee for corruption charges in 1860. Ultimately, the committee determined that while his was the most corrupt administration in America&#8217;s history, Buchanan did nothing that merited impeachment. The first impeachment hearing in the House took place just eight years later, when the House impeached Andrew Johnson for violating the Tenure of Office Act. He was acquitted in the Senate. The second impeachment hearing was conducted over a century later, in 1974, when Richard Nixon famously resigned before the House completed the process.
A decade and a half later, Clinton was ultimately acquitted in the Senate after the House impeached him for obstruction of justice and perjury involving his claim that he &#8220;did not have sexual relations&#8221; with Monica Lewinsky, a 22-year-old White House intern. Here&#8217;s how <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/13/us/president-s-acquittal-overview-clinton-acquitted-decisively-no-majority-for.html">The New York Times</a> reported the moment in its overview of Clinton&#8217;s acquittal:
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It then split 50-50 on a second article accusing Mr. Clinton of obstruction of justice in concealing his affair with Monica S. Lewinsky. Five Republicans broke ranks on the obstruction-of-justice charge. No Democrats voted to convict on either charge, and it would have taken a dozen of them, and all 55 Republicans, to reach the two-thirds majority of 67 senators required for conviction.
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The official impeachment inquiry of Trump began on Wednesday, with the Democrat-controlled committee calling two of their key witnesses, acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor Jr. and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian affairs George Kent, to present their testimonies first. One of the criticisms of their testimonies leveled by Republicans — and even acknowledged over at Trump&#8217;s least favorite network, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-cnn-legal-analyst-admits-democrats-problem-with-impeachment-inquiry">CNN</a> — is that neither of the two officials had any direct contact with Trump, making their testimony at-best second-hand.
While Clinton has advised Trump to let his lawyers and staff worry about the inquiry, Trump has continued to hammer the &#8220;sham&#8221; inquiry online. “Neither one of the Democrat star witnesses at the Impeachment hearings could point out an impeachable offense. That’s the result!&#8221; Trump <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1194990643338268672">tweeted</a> Thursday, citing Fox Business Network&#8217;s &#8220;Varney &amp; Co.&#8221; That was one of several impeachment-related tweets from Trump that day.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-ratcliffe-to-impeachment-witness-here-are-all-the-times-ukraines-president-said-there-was-no-quid-pro-quo">WATCH: Impeachment Witness Asked About All The Times Ukraine’s President Said There Was ‘No Quid Pro Quo’</a>

Bill Clinton Offers Advice To Trump On Handling Impeachment

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Since James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas revealed a video showing that ABC News killed the Jeffrey Epstein story three years ago, ABC News has issued a statement in its own defense. The statement was released by an ABC executive wearing a raincoat and nothing else and was delivered to several female members of the press when he opened the raincoat to reveal that he was holding the statement in his hand and didn’t need to open the raincoat but just thought the ladies would get a kick out of seeing the very special thing he was hiding inside.
The statement reads, “We at ABC News are committed to the highest level of journalism we can achieve without exposing Democrats who rape little girls. In this case, any serious student of journalism will understand that this story came to us while Hillary Clinton was running for president, and it was far more important that we protect Bill Clinton from being accused of statutory rape, than that we protect young women from being enslaved and abused by a predator linked to every powerful man on earth, including the royal family — speaking of which, Duchess Kate Middleton is sporting an all new collegiate look this winter and we’ll be leading with that story instead of this one because, after all, we’re ABC News.
&#8220;And while it’s true we may have covered up for a monster, leaving his victims to suffer at his hands, while the rich and powerful used them at will for their own pleasure, it’s not like we didn’t report on other incidents of sexual predation, like that time we reported how Brett Kavanaugh left a trail of murdered women wherever he spread his reign of terror according to anonymous sources who had even more anonymous sources living inside their heads who also told them about the Martian invasion, which we’ll be reporting on instead of this because, after all, we’re ABC News.
&#8220;The important thing is that eventually the guilty were punished because, after all, Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/medias-janitor-cnns-stelter-defends-abc-over-epstein-scandal">‘MEDIA’S JANITOR’: CNN’s Stelter Defends ABC Over Epstein Scandal</a>

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ABC News Kills Story About How ABC News Killed Story [Satire]

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A leaked video from inside ABC News, exclusively obtained by James O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s Project Veritas, shows anchor Amy Robach talking for several minutes on a hot mic claiming that the network had a bombshell story on convicted child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein several years ago, but that the network killed the story.
In the leaked footage, Robach was reportedly talking on set to her producer, who is not seen in the video, about how she had the story on Epstein for three years but was not able to run it at ABC News. Robach stated:
<blockquote>I&#8217;ve had the story for three years. I&#8217;ve had this interview with Virginia Roberts. We would not put it on the air. First of all, I was told who&#8217;s Jeffrey Epstein, no one knows who that is, this is a stupid story. Then the Palace found out that we had her whole allegations about Prince Andrew and threatened us a million different ways. We were so afraid we wouldn&#8217;t be able to interview Kate and Will, that also quashed the story. And then Alan Dershowitz was also implicated in it because of the planes. She told me everything. She had pictures, she had everything. She was in hiding for 12 years. We convinced her to come out. We convinced her to talk to us. It was unbelievable what we had, Clinton, we had everything. [emphasis added]
I tried for three years to get it on to no avail and now it&#8217;s all coming out and it&#8217;s like these new relevant revelations and I freaking had all of it. I&#8217;m so pissed right now, like every day I get more and more pissed because I&#8217;m just like, oh my god, what we had was unreal. Other women backing it up. Brad Edwards the attorney three years ago saying like, &#8216;there will come a day for we will realize Jeffrey Epstein was the most prolific pedophile this country has ever known.&#8217; I had it all three years ago.</blockquote>
It is not perfectly clear what exactly Robach meant when she said she had &#8220;Clinton&#8221; but it almost certainly is in reference to former President Bill Clinton&#8217;s connections to Epstein, which have long been documented.
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BREAKING: <a href="https://twitter.com/abcnews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@abcnews</a> anchor <a href="https://twitter.com/arobach?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@arobach</a> caught on &#8216;hot mic&#8217; in August disgustedly exposing networks decision to strategically spike bombshell investigation into Jefferey Esptein over THREE YEARS AGO.
Says what she had was &#8220;unbelievable&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EpsteinCoverup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#EpsteinCoverup</a>: <a href="https://t.co/HagfLpwKDn">https://t.co/HagfLpwKDn</a> <a href="https://t.co/fPvJc3JCCQ">pic.twitter.com/fPvJc3JCCQ</a>
— James O&#8217;Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1191716801178034180?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
In July, investigative journalist Conchita Sarnoff told Fox News’ Shannon Bream that there were &#8220;underage girls&#8221; on Epstein’s plane when Clinton traveled on it, including times in which he allegedly traveled without his Secret Service detail.
&#8220;I have read too much information and I have spoken to too many people on the inside,&#8221; Sarnoff said. &#8220;I actually attempted to interview Clinton but he did not agree to do so and I know from the pilot logs and these are pilot logs that you know were written by different pilots and at different times, that Clinton went, he was a guest of Epstein’s 27 times.&#8221;
&#8220;Many of those times Clinton had his Secret Service with him and many times he did not,&#8221; Sarnoff continued. &#8220;Almost every time that Clinton’s name is on the pilot logs there are underage girls there are initials and there are names of many many girls on that private plane.&#8221;
&#8220;Are you saying the former president is not telling the truth?&#8221; Bream asked Sarnoff.
&#8220;Yes, I’m saying, sadly, that he is not telling the truth,&#8221; Sarnoff responded.

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BOMBSHELL: ABC News Killed Epstein-Clinton Story, Says Anchor In Hot Mic Video

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Even though the President of the United States is supposed to appoint Supreme Court Justices based on their judicial philosophy and not their politics, President Bill Clinton admitted this past week that he chose Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg due to her steadfast commitment to upholding abortion.
Speaking at Georgetown University Law School on Wednesday, the president said that protecting Roe v. Wade played a significant role in his selection of Ginsburg to the Supreme Court.
“There is one thing that we did discuss, and I feel I should tell you, because it will illustrate why I thought I should appoint her,” Clinton said, as reported by <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-bill-clinton-reveals-abortion-conversation-ruth-bader/story?id=66633389" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-bill-clinton-reveals-abortion-conversation-ruth-bader/story?id%3D66633389&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1572659356526000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHbfjKDGG8AXX0CsQVdzJJFRzGfHw">ABC News</a>. &#8220;Abortion was a big issue in 1992 — the right to choose, I was one of the first pro-choice Democrats to run since Roe v. Wade, who actually benefited from Roe v. Wade. Now, she didn&#8217;t have to say anything about this. She knew this perfectly well that I was under a lot of pressure to make sure I appointed someone who is Simon-pure, which I had said was important.&#8221;
As noted by ABC News, almost no president has ever admitted to asking a potential Supreme Court nominee on how they would rule on an issue like abortion. In fact, when Justice Gorsuch was asked about such a meeting during his confirmation process, he said that would have &#8220;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2017/03/21/politics/scotus-hearing-neil-gorsuch-roe-v-wade/index.html">walked out the door</a>&#8221; if President Trump pressed him to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Former President Clinton said he inquired with Ginsburg about the issue of abortion and admitted that his pick was &#8220;clearly pro-choice&#8221; after nominating her.
&#8220;I asked her the question and she talked about it just as if it was any other issue, no effect, this is what I think, this is why I think it. And she made a heck of a case,&#8221; Clinton said.
<a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/is-bill-clinton-saying-that-justice-ginsburg-lied-to-the-senate/">National Review</a> noted that Bill Clinton’s frank admission about how he selected Ginsburg suggests she may have lied during the U.S. Senate confirmation hearing when she said it was inappropriate for anyone to ask how a judicial nominee would rule on a specific case.
&#8220;It is inappropriate, in my judgment, to seek from any nominee for judicial office assurance on how that individual would rule in a future case,&#8221; she said. &#8220;That judgment was shared by those involved in the process of selecting me. No such person discussed with me any specific case, legal issue or question in a manner that could reasonably be interpreted as seeking any express or implied assurances concerning my position on such case, issue, or question.&#8221;
Ginsburg&#8217;s pro-abortion record on the Supreme Court is well-documented and often goes beyond legal jurisprudence and into ideological statements about sexism and gender politics, such as when <a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2014/07/31/ruth-bader-ginsburg-accuses-pro-hobby-lobby-scotus-judges-of-being-sexist/">she accused her male peers</a> of sexism in the Hobby Lobby ruling.
&#8220;Do you believe that the five male justices truly understood the ramifications of their decision?&#8221; Katie Couric asked Ginsburg in light of the ruling.
&#8220;I would have to say no,&#8221; she replied. &#8220;But justices continue to think and can change. I am ever hopeful that if the court has a blind spot today, its eyes will be open tomorrow.&#8221;

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Delivers Remarks At Georgetown Law

Bill Clinton Admits He Chose Ruth Bader Ginsburg Due To Her Abortion Stance

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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow, who recently released the blockbuster book &#8220;Catch and Kill,&#8221; said during an interview on Friday that an investigation  into &#8220;credible&#8221; rape accusations that have been made against former Democrat President Bill Clinton is long &#8220;overdue.&#8221;
Appearing on HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Real Time With Bill Maher,&#8221; Maher <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/ronan-farrow-bill-clinton-juanita-broaddrick">asked</a> Farrow, &#8220;Could Bill Clinton, if he had done what he did in 1998, survive today — or would his own party have thrown him under the bus?&#8221;
&#8220;I think that it is very important to interject that Bill Clinton is a different conversation,&#8221; Farrow responded to Maher. &#8220;He has been credibly accused of rape. That has nothing to do with gray areas. I think that the Juanita Broaddrick claim has been overdue for revisiting.&#8221;
Late last year, as wildly salacious and completely unsubstantiated claims were leveled against then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Broaddrick called for an FBI investigation into the multiple allegations of sexual assault made against Clinton.
&#8220;Again, I request the FBI investigate my credible rape allegations against Bill Clinton, in the hope that his &#8216;perks&#8217;, as a Former Pres, can be stripped,&#8221; Broaddrick tweeted. &#8220;It totals millions each year from mine and your tax dollar to support a rapist.&#8221;
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Again, I request the FBI investigate my credible rape allegations against Bill Clinton, in the hope that his “perks”, as a Former Pres, can be stripped. It totals millions each year from mine and your tax dollar to support a rapist.
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) <a href="https://twitter.com/atensnut/status/1046075631027580929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 29, 2018</a></blockquote>
&#8220;I further demand an FBI investigation into the sexual assault allegations against Bill Clinton by @kathleenwilley and Leslie Millwee @Astroluvr And many others,&#8221; Broaddrick continued. &#8220;WE deserve to be heard too.&#8221;
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I further demand an FBI investigation into the sexual assault allegations against Bill Clinton by <a href="https://twitter.com/kathleenwilley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kathleenwilley</a> and Leslie Millwee <a href="https://twitter.com/Astroluvr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Astroluvr</a> And many others. WE deserve to be heard too.
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) <a href="https://twitter.com/atensnut/status/1046084987924230145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 29, 2018</a></blockquote>
In an interview with Fox News, Broaddrick slammed Democrats for not believing her and not supporting her over the trauma she experienced in the attack.
“It’s not politically advantageous for them to circle around me and support me,” Broaddrick told Fox News. “These are the same people that refused to read my deposition with Ken Starr back in 1999. Not one Democrat would read it. Schumer, Feinstein, Durbin — they completely turned their backs on me.”
Recounting the horrifying incident, Broaddrick laid out the details to Fox News of what she claims happened when Clinton allegedly attacked her.
“It scared me to death. After the rape, after he left my room, I thought someone was going to come in to get rid of my body. That’s how I felt,” Broaddrick said. “My lip was swollen twice the size, I couldn’t even cover it up with makeup for three or four days.”
“After it was done, he coldly looked at me and said ‘you’d better put some ice on that.’ I’ll never forget it,” Broaddrick said. “I have so many witnesses. The lady that was traveling with me found me 30 minutes after the rape, and then I have five other people I told.”
Farrow&#8217;s comments about the former president on HBO  are not the only comments that he has made about the Clintons in recent months or in his new book.
Farrow revealed that two-time failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had tried to pressure him into not publishing the bombshell sexual allegations made against Harvey Weinstein.
&#8220;Weinstein also attempted to leverage his long-term relationship with Hillary Clinton to pressure Farrow, he writes,&#8221; The Hollywood Reporter <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/ronan-farrow-book-how-harvey-weinstein-may-have-leveraged-matt-lauer-1246149">reported</a> last month. &#8220;In summer 2017, while Farrow was trying to lock down an interview with Clinton for his foreign policy book — while also still working on the Weinstein story — he received a call from Clinton&#8217;s publicist, Nick Merrill, who told him that the &#8216;big story&#8217; Farrow was working on was a &#8216;concern for us.'&#8221;
&#8220;She attempted to withdraw from an interview that she had committed to for a foreign policy book that I was working on, for which I interviewed every other living secretary of state,&#8221; Farrow <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/ronan-farrow-hillary-clinton-harvey-weinstein-nbc">told</a> Fox News in an interview. &#8220;And, before doing so, her staff raised concerns about the fact that I was working on this story about one of her most significant donors &#8212; a big bundler of Hollywood money.&#8221;

Ronan Farrow: Bill Clinton &#8216;Credibly Accused&#8217; Of Rape, Investigation Long &#8216;Overdue&#8217;

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Pop singer-songwriter Carly Simon, reminiscing about her life in an interview with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/oct/31/carly-simon-on-turning-down-donald-trump-i-thought-he-was-kind-of-repulsive">The Guardian</a>, said she found former President Bill Clinton has “charisma” and “lights up the room with his energy” while when she met Donald Trump in the past he was “all over me like ugly on an ape,” adding, “I thought he was kind of repulsive.”
Simon said of Clinton, “When he’s interested in a subject and he’s talking about it to a woman, there’s a different energy that comes across. He has ‘the glint’ and he can’t help himself. It’s charisma. His face changes. He doesn’t look the same. His energy comes through the expressions of his mouth and his eyes. He lights up a room with his energy.”
Simon mourned the fact that the revelations of the #MeToo movement had relegated Bill Clinton to the sidelines, saying,  “That’s so sad because, to me, he’s a tremendous asset and he’s such a charismatic and brilliant, brilliant man, and whatever lesson he had to learn, he learned it. It was of a particular time where there was a hairline of a difference between then and now. He didn’t do himself proud, but that’s passed, that’s over with, and now let his brilliance shine through.”
Simon recalled meeting Trump at a luncheon for Benazir Bhutto, the late prime minister of Pakistan. She recalled:
<blockquote>When I came into the room, there was Trump and a whole bunch of New York dignitaries. Trump wasn’t paying any attention to me at all. Why would he? Benazir Bhutto summoned me and asked me to go into the bedroom with her and so I went and we sat on the bed and she held my hands and said: “I just love your music.” We talked about different songs that were her favorites and it maybe lasted three minutes.
When I went out of the bedroom, obviously I had all of a sudden become important through the eyes of Donald Trump. So he was very anxious to meet me and invited me to Mar-a-Lago and was all over me like ugly on an ape.</blockquote>
Simon said she rejected Trump’s supposed advances, adding “because I thought he was kind of repulsive.”
Speaking of her hit “You’re So Vain” and applying it to Trump, Simon opined, “He is so vain, that’s for sure, and not in the best possible way. He doesn’t bring humor to the word. In the song, hopefully, the person could wink at himself in the mirror because he got the joke. I don’t think there’s much interest outside himself. What will happen with a narcissist is that they’re interested in themselves and anything that’s an extension of themselves, perhaps their children, but he’s not interested in the philosophy of great thinkers. I suspect.&#8221;
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Simon consented for her song &#8220;You&#8217;re So Vain&#8221; to be used for the first time for a political ad. The ad even started with the caption, &#8220;For the first time ever, Carly Simon is allowing the use of her song &#8216;You&#8217;re So Vain&#8217; for political purposes.&#8221;
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2017 Tribeca Film Festival &#8211; &#8220;Clive Davis: The Soundtrack Of Our Lives&#8221; World Premiere &#8211; Opening Night

Carly Simon: Bill Clinton ‘Lights Up The Room,’ Trump Was ‘All Over Me Like Ugly On An Ape’

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It was a rather innocuous throwaway line, but it was enough to make some ears perk up and further fuel speculation about the prospect of &#8220;Hillary 2020.&#8221;
At an event at Georgetown University Law School on Wednesday, former President Bill Clinton — sitting next to former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and progressive icon Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — uttered the phrase &#8220;she may or may not run &#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;She may or may not run for anything, but I’m never running for president again,&#8221; said the would-be First Gentleman, as reported by <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/10/31/bill_clinton_on_hillary_she_may_or_may_not_run.html">RealClearPolitics.</a>
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“She may or not ever run for anything, but I can’t legally run for President again.” &#8211; Bill Clinton leaving the door open on <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HillaryClinton</a> running for President in 2020. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StillWithHer?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StillWithHer</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Hillary2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Hillary2020</a> <a href="https://t.co/gDrmcR0ax1">pic.twitter.com/gDrmcR0ax1</a>
&mdash; Joel McAuliffe (@JdMcAuliffe) <a href="https://twitter.com/JdMcAuliffe/status/1189699446776446977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 31, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The comment follows a series of equivocal statements by Hillary and her camp suggesting that she is seriously considering a third presidential run. One of the more recent statements about yet another Clinton presidential campaign that turned heads came from longtime Clinton advisor Philippe Reines during an interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson two weeks ago.
&#8220;So, I’m assuming what I just said and what we’re hearing is true, that if she thought she was the best position to beat Donald Trump, she would get in the race,&#8221; said Carlson, as reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-hillary-clinton-adviser-adds-more-fuel-to-fire-that-clinton-will-run-in-2020">The Daily Wire</a>.
“You know, she ran for president because she thought she would be the best president,” said Reines. “If she still thought that now, if she thought she had the best odds of beating Donald Trump — I think she would think about it long and hard.”
“She’s not — she hasn’t foreclosed the possibility, I guess,” Carlson replied.
&#8220;No, she has not,&#8221; said Reines.
&#8220;She really likes a lot of the people running. She knows them well. She thought about some of them for her vice presidency,&#8221; Reines said later. &#8220;But there might be a reason that she’d be the best person, not only to beat Donald Trump, but to govern after Donald Trump, which is a part we don’t talk about much.  And, look, you can make fun of her all you want, but 65 million people voted for her and that’s second more to anyone except Barack Obama.&#8221;
A recent report by <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/22/us/politics/democratic-candidates-2020.html">The New York Times</a> likewise has helped stoke speculation that Clinton may end up jumping in the race. &#8220;Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Bloomberg have both told people privately in recent weeks that if they thought they could win, they would consider entering the primary — but that they were skeptical there would be an opening, according to Democrats who have spoken with them,&#8221; The Times reported two weeks ago.
&#8220;Democrats who have recently spoken with Mrs. Clinton say she shares the same concerns other party elites have about the field — worried about Mr. Biden’s durability, Ms. Warren’s liberal politics and unsure of who else can emerge to take on Mr. Trump,&#8221; the Times reported.
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/anxiety-rises-among-democrats-worried-about-partys-prospects-in-2020/2019/10/22/b9c015d4-f4d9-11e9-8cf0-4cc99f74d127_story.html">The Washington Post</a> reported similar comments from Clinton insiders. &#8220;Hillary Clinton, according to two people close to her, has not ruled out jumping in herself, a sign that she is hearing similar dissatisfaction,&#8221; the Post reported.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/impeachment-witness-told-congress-he-warned-about-biden-ukraine-problem-in-2015-got-shut-down-by-bidens-office">Impeachment Witness Tells Congress He Warned About Biden-Ukraine Problem In 2015, Got Shut Down By Biden’s Office</a>

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WATCH: Bill Clinton Throws Some More Fuel On The ‘Hillary 2020’ Fire

Elizabeth Warren

Hillary Clinton

Joe Biden

Tucker Carlson

Apparently a president asking a foreign leader for help in an upcoming election dates back to at least 2000, when former President Bill Clinton asked then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair for help resolving a dispute involving British Airways, USAIR and American Airlines.
As Tucker Carlson <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/bill-clinton-tony-blair-donald-trump-campaign">reported on Fox News</a>, Clinton’s request came on February 8, 2000, as the political race was heating up and Clinton knew Vice President Al Gore would be running to succeed him.
Carlson commented, “You’ve heard endlessly on cable news that it is unprecedented the president would seek political gain from a conversation with a foreign leader. Well, turns out, it has happened before. Back in 2000, President Bill Clinton had a conversation with Tony Blair of the U.K. and asked him to intercede in a dispute between British Airways and two carriers. The president, at the time, was much more direct than President Trump was in his conversation.”
The relevant portion of the conversation, as reflected in declassified documents from the <a href="https://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/show/48779">Clinton Digital Library</a>, followed a discussion the two men were having about Ireland. The exchange went like this:
<blockquote>Clinton: No. No. I think about this more than anything else, besides he screw-ups in the Middle East. Let me ask you something on a much more mundane issue. Yesterday, I met with some cabinet members and Rodney Slater said we put some more ideas down to resolve the airport dispute we have with British Airways, USAir and American Airlines.  Would you take another look at that and see if we can get it done?
Blair:  I&#8217;m not completely familiar with that.
Clinton:  I know you&#8217;re up to your ears in other things but we&#8217;ve been dealing with this for years and it&#8217;s sort of a big deal here.  Rodney told me he put some more stuff down on the table.  In a political season, it would be big over here to get this open sore resolved.  If you could have somebody take a look at it.  I have never seen him more agitated about anything.  He is just trying to get it resolved.
Blair: Sure, I will have a look.</blockquote>
Carlson asked, “Now, is this a big deal? Not really. Is it nakedly political? Is it an attempt to use a foreign country to influence the outcome of an election in a presidential year? Yes, it is, obviously. Incidentally, it didn’t take long for us to find that, we only had to dig through old Clinton transcripts for about 15 minutes&#8230; there are probably a lot more examples, and if we find them we will bring them to you.”
<a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-03-16-mn-469-story.html">The Los Angeles Times</a> reported in March 1993, roughly two months after Clinton had been inaugurated, “The Clinton Administration, overriding the objections of the nation’s largest airlines, agreed Monday to let British Airways acquire nearly 20% of USAir and begin sharing transatlantic routes and airplanes with the financially ailing carrier. Besides the $300 million that British Airways already has paid to acquire 19.9% of USAir, the London-based airline plans to invest another $450 million, contingent on Congress lifting limitations on the foreign ownership of U.S. airlines … The decision exposes the limitations the Clinton Administration faces as it seeks to open up restricted overseas markets to domestic airlines. In fact, the Administration’s decision Monday left domestic airlines without any additional access to London’s highly restricted Heathrow Airport and boosted British Airway’s competitive position across the busy North Atlantic.”
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US President Bill Clinton (R) and British Prime Mi

FLASHBACK: Bill Clinton Asked British PM Tony Blair For Help During ‘Political Season’

A new report states that the Democratic Party, supported by the Bill Clinton White House, launched an effort prior to the 1996 election to inundate radio talk shows with thousands of callers who posed as ordinary listeners but in reality were operatives who pushed the Democrats’ talking points.
The Washington Free Beacon’s Yuichrio Kakutani, in a <a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/dems-secretly-fielded-thousands-of-activists-to-manipulate-media-clinton-library-docs-show/">comprehensive report</a>, notes that evidence of the Democrats’ secret plan, titled the Talk Radio Initiative (TRI), was gleaned from documents from the Clinton Presidential Library. The plan was triggered by the overwhelming victory the GOP won in the 1994 congressional elections, gaining control of the House of Representatives for the first time since 1954. An internal report by the Democratic National Committee stated of the plans for TRI, &#8220;Democrats have largely ignored talk radio, and only since the last election, have we paid attention to how we can win back the airwaves and the discussion. We have now put our frustration into action.&#8221;
Michigan Democrats created a TRI guide which stated, &#8220;Volunteers must be able to keep the project confidential so as not to create the image of a &#8216;Democratic conspiracy&#8217; to infiltrate Detroit area talk radio shows. Democratic performance in the 1996 elections will no doubt be affected by the success or failure of this initiative … If you are afraid that producers are beginning to recognize your name and are weary of allowing you on the air, use an alias. For example, be Carol today, Sue tomorrow, and Debbie on Friday!&#8221;
More instructions for TRI operatives included, &#8220;Sound dumb. Even though you may have indicated a difference of opinion with the host, appear to present an opportunity for him to demolish you with his &#8216;superior&#8217; intelligence.&#8221;
Radio host Lars Larson recalled to the Beacon, &#8220;You would get calls, an hour apart, from different people with different voices and different names, but they would talk the same lines. So close that you knew that this was not a coincidence. It was the same language on the same subject and the same arguments … They seemed to come in waves. You would start getting seminar calls on Monday and Tuesday and you say ‘we are going to start getting these all week long,&#8217; as though someone has just put out the word that this is a point that needs to be pushed.&#8221;
Kakutani notes, &#8220;The materials revealed that Democrats systematically trained more than 4,000 operatives in at least 23 states to lie about their identities, deflect difficult questions from hosts, and plant pro-Democrat messages on the radio waves.&#8221;
Evidence of the Clinton White House’s involvement: TRI Director Jon-Christopher Bua allegedly wrote a memo to White House Deputy Chief of Staff Harold Ickes in April 1996 which stated, &#8220;My office is now coordinating closely with talk radio shops in the White House, Federal Departments and Agencies, the House, the Senate, and [the] ones I have helped set up in the State Parties.&#8221; Ickes reportedly sent the memo to President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, and Chief of Staff Leon Panetta, among others.
Rush Limbaugh, who was the giant of radio show hosts and the arch-foe of the Clintons, <a href="https://news.iheart.com/featured/rush-limbaugh/content/2019-09-10-pn-rush-limbaugh-bill-clinton-couldnt-abide-criticism-by-one-radio-show-trump-has-entire-media-against-him/">commented on Tuesday</a> about the evidence of the initiative the Democrats had launched. He recalled:
<blockquote>The point is this. Back in &#8217;92, &#8217;93, this show was it, folks. CNN was out there, but they were all on Clinton&#8217;s side. There wasn&#8217;t Fox News. There wasn&#8217;t the blogosphere yet. And Bill Clinton went nuts with one radio show, a three-hour radio show, that&#8217;s all the opposition he had, he went nuts about it.
He called KMOX in St. Louis from Air Force One to complain about this program and how there was no Truth Detector after it. There was nobody to set the record straight. Here&#8217;s the note. &#8220;My name is blah, blah. I&#8217;m a reporter for the blah, blah. We&#8217;re working on a story regarding a confidential document that we uncovered from the Clinton library detailing White House involvement with the effort to train callers to call into conservative talk shows around the country. I know this is something Rush has always suspected, that he used to be identify these trained callers –&#8221; That&#8217;s right. They were seminars callers.
Here&#8217;s my point. Bill Clinton went crazy &#8212; well, that may be a bit of a &#8212; Bill Clinton was totally bamboozled by one three-hour radio show. Blaming me for the Oklahoma City bombing, anything he could talk about. One radio show. And then, of course, there became more as Clinton&#8217;s term began.</blockquote>

The Clintons At Inauguration 1997

Report: Democrats, Supported By Clinton White House, Trained Thousands Of Operatives To Infiltrate Radio Talk Shows

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Rush Limbaugh

On Thursday&#8217;s episode of &#8220;The Andrew Klavan Show,&#8221; Klavan talks about why the elite, like wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein, always seem to be the subject of conspiracy theories. Video and partial transcript below:
Here is the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/autopsy-finds-broken-bones-in-jeffrey-epsteins-neck-deepening-questions-around-his-death/2019/08/14/d09ac934-bdd9-11e9-b873-63ace636af08_story.html?noredirect=on">Washington Post</a> — I&#8217;m sorry, I can&#8217;t quote a more reliable source, but this one sounds like a reliable story [on Epstein&#8217;s autopsy] &#8230; I trust the [medical examiner] who&#8217;s doing this, the lady who&#8217;s doing this. And also I know Epstein&#8217;s lawyer has a very talented and generally well-regarded doctor watching this.
<blockquote>An autopsy found that financier Jeffrey Epstein sustained multiple breaks in his neck bones, according to two people familiar with the findings, deepening the mystery about the circumstances around his death.
Among the bones broken in Epstein&#8217;s neck was the hyoid bone, which in men is near the Adam&#8217;s apple. Such breaks can occur in those who hang themselves particularly if they&#8217;re older, according to forensics experts and studies on the subject, but they are more common in victims of homicide by strangulation, the experts said.
The details are the first findings to emerge from the autopsy of Epstein, a convicted sex offender…</blockquote>
You know, the thing about this is the word &#8230; &#8220;strangled&#8221; himself — he hanged himself by tying a bedsheet to the upper part of a bunk and then basically kneeling down and strangling himself. Hard to imagine that breaks a bone, right? It&#8217;s a soft cloth and you&#8217;re not — it&#8217;s not like dropping off a ladder or dropping through a trap door like when you&#8217;re being hanged. So if these findings pan out, if this story pans out, again, it&#8217;s just really suspicious. You don&#8217;t need to be a conspiracy theorist to think, wait what the hell is going on?
There was another story recently from CBS News. On the morning of Jeffrey Epstein&#8217;s death, there was shouting and shrieking from his jail cell. So I mean, all we need here is video of Bill Clinton, like running down the hallway and escaping, and suddenly Donald Trump is going to sound a lot more perspicacious than he did when he basically tweeted this.
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From <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/congress-rushes-to-respond-to-jeffrey-epstein-death-before-conspiracies-take-over">The Daily Beast</a>, yet another story. I&#8217;ve got to read these stories because this is just the stuff that&#8217;s been piling up. I didn&#8217;t cover this yesterday, and this is the stuff that&#8217;s piling up (formatting adjusted):
<blockquote>Members of Congress, furious over Jeffrey Epstein’s death in federal custody, are set on getting to the bottom of it before the many conspiracy theories swirling around the accused serial sex offender’s demise completely overshadow the facts. They are, obviously, running far behind. By the time the Democratic and Republican leaders of the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to the Federal Bureau of Prisons on Monday demanding answers about the circumstances of Epstein’s apparent suicide, the country already had two full days to marinate in President Trump’s retweet of a conspiracy theory that former President Bill Clinton was somehow to blame.</blockquote>
So it&#8217;s all President Trump&#8217;s fault. Listen, it doesn&#8217;t take President Trump to see a conspiracy here. Again, we&#8217;re talking about a media that gave us the Russian collusion conspiracy. All this time, there was simply no evidence — zero evidence — that Donald Trump was in some kind of coordinated relationship with Russians to throw the election. All the evidence now — really all of it — is on the other side, that it was Barack Obama and his spy organizations that were colluding and conspiring against him. Andrew C. McCarthy has a new book out about this called &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252">Ball of Collusion</a>.&#8221; We&#8217;re trying to get him on the line for today, hopefully he&#8217;ll be here later in the show.
But you know when you talk about this stuff &#8230; this story about sexual abuse of young people, and I know I&#8217;ve talked about this a lot, but I think about it a lot. As I said, it&#8217;s part of the plot of &#8220;Another Kingdom: Part 3,&#8221; which will be starting as a podcast in September. And it&#8217;s part of the plot because I think it is at the core of the kind of corruption that&#8217;s going on among our elites. We have an elite that has lost its idea that there is some kind of religious meaning to life. We have an elite that is so separated from the rank-and-file of Americans that they think it&#8217;s perfectly fine to run a scam to throw a president out because they don&#8217;t like him — because he&#8217;s not one of them. We have this elite that has lost its way, and [that is] one of the things that people do when they are so powerful that no one can touch them — that no one wants to touch them.
&#8230; The press is in their pocket because the press is part of them. The press is the elite, right? Where the press reporters used to be working class guys who just loved taking down the powerful, no matter who they were, now when that happens, the upper-middle management — who has control over the editorial — they kill those stories. That&#8217;s why Sharyl Attkisson isn&#8217;t at CBS anymore. That&#8217;s why there were no stories about Obama abusing his power. &#8230;
When you have that, young people are going to get abused. Because, as Roman Polanski said after he raped and drugged and sodomized a little girl, he said, &#8220;What&#8217;s the problem? We all like young girls.&#8221; Well, yes we do, we all are attracted to young girls. That doesn&#8217;t make it right. I know this is such a tough thing for elites to understand. I mean I remember Woody Allen, when he was in that scandal going off with Mia Farrow’s adopted child. He said, &#8220;Well the heart wants what it wants.&#8221; Well, screw your heart and what it wants. We all know — I mean, all you have to do is go back to Aristotle who says all ethics— all ethics — goes against our desires. That&#8217;s what ethics are. That&#8217;s what morality is. But once you get so powerful — once you lose the plot of religious life and metaphysics — you stop thinking about that stuff, and it just seems right. Those girls are there, they&#8217;re attractive, you want them. Why shouldn&#8217;t you have them? And the heart wants what you what it wants. I&#8217;ve got the money. I&#8217;ve got the little island where nobody can find me. I&#8217;ve got the private jet. Why not?
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A Conversation With President Bill Clinton

KLAVAN: Conspiracies Thrive Because The Elite Is Corrupt

Andrew Klavan

Media Bias

On Monday, author and New York Times columnist James B. Stewart <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-interview.html">published</a> his recollections of an interview he had with registered sex offender and multimillionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein in August of 2018, about a year before Epstein&#8217;s apparent suicide at Manhattan&#8217;s Metropolitan Correction Center on Saturday morning.
According to Stewart, Epstein compared homosexuality and pedophilia, suggesting the taboo regarding the latter should be abolished as it has with the former (at least in the United States, generally).
&#8220;[Epstein] said that criminalizing sex with teenage girls was a cultural aberration and that at times in history it was perfectly acceptable. He pointed out that homosexuality had long been considered a crime and was still punishable by death in some parts of the world,&#8221; the Times columnist wrote.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a disgusting comparison made by a disgusting man,&#8221; LGBT outlet <a href="https://www.queerty.com/jeffrey-epsteins-chilling-remarks-homosexuality-shortly-death-will-make-cringe-20190814?utm_campaign=wp-to-twitter&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_source=twitter">Queerty</a> reacted to the apparent Epstein remarks. &#8220;Being gay and being a pedophile are nothing alike.&#8221;
Clearly unbothered by his connections to girls and young women, Stewart said a young female, whom he pegged to be in her late teens or perhaps 20 years old, opened the door for him at Epstein&#8217;s New York City residence at the time of the interview. &#8220;Given Mr. Epstein&#8217;s past, this struck me as far too close to the line,&#8221; Stewart noted. &#8220;Why would Mr. Epstein want a reporter&#8217;s first impression to be that of a young woman opening his door?&#8221;
The registered sex offender also emphasized his connections to the rich and powerful, from former President Bill Clinton, to director Woody Allen, to Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Mohammed bin Salman.
&#8220;Before we left the room he took me to a wall covered with framed photographs,&#8221; Stewart recalled of Epstein. &#8220;He pointed to a full-length shot of a man in traditional Arab dress. &#8216;That&#8217;s M.B.S.,&#8217; he said, referring to Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. The crown prince had visited him many times, and they spoke often, Mr. Epstein said.&#8221;
The Times columnist added: &#8220;Behind him was a table covered with more photographs. I noticed one of Mr. Epstein with former President Bill Clinton, and another of him with the director Woody Allen. Displaying photos of celebrities who had been caught up in sex scandals of their own also struck me as odd.&#8221;
Stewart said Epstein asked him to join him for a dinner with Allen about a week after the interview had passed. &#8220;I said I&#8217;d be out of town,&#8221; Stewart said. Then, weeks after that, Epstein asked him to a dinner with anti-Trump author Michael Wolff and former adviser to President Donald Trump Steve Bannon. Stewart, again, declined. &#8220;I don’t know if these dinners actually happened,&#8221; he noted. &#8220;Mr. Bannon has said he didn&#8217;t attend. Mr. Wolff and a spokeswoman for Mr. Allen didn&#8217;t respond to requests for comment on Monday.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50640/there-sexual-picture-bill-clinton-jeffrey-epsteins-ryan-saavedra">There Is A ‘Sexual Picture’ Of Bill Clinton In Jeffrey Epstein’s Mansion, Report Says</a>

Epstein Compared Homosexuality To Pedophilia In Interview Before His Death

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Convicted pedophile and alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein reportedly had a &#8220;sexual picture&#8221; of former Democrat President Bill Clinton hanging in his Manhattan mansion, according to the Daily Mail.
&#8220;The picture depicting the former president apparently lounging on a chair in the Oval Office, wearing red heels and posing suggestively in a blue dress redolent of Monica Lewinsky was in a room off the stairway of the Upper East Side townhouse,&#8221; The Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7353967/Did-Jeffrey-Epstein-portrait-Bill-Clinton-blue-dress-red-heels-NYC-mansion.html">reported</a>. &#8220;The painting was secretly snapped inside the pedophile&#8217;s lavish $56 million home in October 2012, four years after Epstein completed his sweetheart deal for prostitution of a minor and seven years before he was accused of running a sex trafficking ring of underage girls.&#8221;
The woman that provided the Daily Mail with the photograph, who asked to remain anonymous, told the publication: &#8220;It was absolutely Bill Clinton. It was shocking — it was definitely a painting of him. It was a very provocative, sexual picture. He was wearing heels, a blue dress and his hand was in a weird position.&#8221;
The Daily Mail&#8217;s David Martosko tweeted: &#8220;Hey! I know just what the Jeffrey Epstein story needs: a portrait hanging in his Manhattan mansion, depicting @BillClinton wearing @MonicaLewinsky&#8217;s blue dress in the Oval Office. &#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Hey! I know just what the Jeffrey Epstein story needs: a portrait hanging in his Manhattan mansion, depicting <a href="https://twitter.com/BillClinton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BillClinton</a> wearing <a href="https://twitter.com/MonicaLewinsky?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MonicaLewinsky</a>&#8216;s blue dress in the Oval Office. <a href="https://t.co/z4Jd3i2mPV">https://t.co/z4Jd3i2mPV</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/MailOnline?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MailOnline</a>
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A 2015 <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2922773/Newly-released-flight-logs-reveal-time-trips-Bill-Clinton-Harvard-law-professor-Alan-Dershowitz-took-pedophile-Jeffrey-Epstein-s-Lolita-Express-private-jet-anonymous-women.html">report</a> from the Daily Mail states that Clinton &#8220;vacationed on Epstein&#8217;s private island during the years when the sex crimes where thought to have occurred,&#8221; adding that Clinton &#8220;appears to have flown on Epstein&#8217;s flight with several curious women including a young actress who used to work in soft-core porn.&#8221;
Following Epstein&#8217;s arrest earlier this month, Clinton released the following <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/49322/underage-girls-epsteins-plane-when-clinton-flew-it-ryan-saavedra">statement</a>:
<blockquote>President Clinton knows nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to in Florida some years ago, or those with which he has been recently charged in New York. In 2002 and 2003, President Clinton took a total of four trips on Jeffrey Epstein’s airplane: one to Europe, one to Asia, and two to Africa, which included stops in connection with the work of the Clinton Foundation. Staff, supporters of the foundation, and his Secret Service detail traveled on every leg of every trip. He had one meeting with Epstein in his Harlem office in 2002, and around the same time made one brief visit to Epstein’s New York apartment with a staff member and his security detail. He’s not spoken to Epstein in well over a decade, and he has never been to Little St. James Island, Epstein’s ranch in New Mexico, or his residence in Florida.</blockquote>
However, a Fox News report contradicted Clinton&#8217;s claims as the network found that Clinton had interacted with Epstein at least a decade before he claimed to. Fox News <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/49366/new-records-contradict-clintons-timeline-ryan-saavedra">reported</a>:
<blockquote>But according to a story published back in March 1995 by the Palm Beach Post, then-President Clinton attended a “three-hour dinner” at the time with a “very select group of people” at the Palm Beach home of business magnate Ron Perelman. The diverse group included Epstein — as well as singer Jimmy Buffet, actor Don Johnson, then-co-chairman of the Democratic National Committee Don Fowler and others.</blockquote>
Investigative journalist Conchita Sarnoff, who originally broke the Epstein story a decade ago, told Fox News last month that Clinton was lying about connections to Epstein.
&#8220;I have read too much information and I have spoken to too many people on the inside,&#8221; Sarnoff said. &#8220;I actually attempted to interview Clinton but he did not agree to do so and I know from the pilot logs and these are pilot logs that you know were written by different pilots and at different times, that Clinton went, he was a guest of Epstein&#8217;s 27 times.&#8221;
&#8220;Many of those times Clinton had his Secret Service with him and many times he did not,&#8221; Sarnoff continued. &#8220;Almost every time that Clinton&#8217;s name is on the pilot logs there are underage girls there are initials and there are names of many many girls on that private plane.&#8221;
Later, when asked if Clinton was lying, Sarnoff said, &#8220;Yes, I&#8217;m saying, sadly, that he is not telling the truth.&#8221;

There Is A ‘Sexual Picture’ Of Bill Clinton In Jeffrey Epstein’s Mansion, Report Says

Comedian Terrence K. Williams said in video posted Tuesday that he has been inundated with death threats and is scared for his life after President Donald Trump <a href="https://twitter.com/w_terrence/status/1160256105399967744">retweeted a video</a> he created connecting former Secretary of State Hillary and former President Bill Clinton to the apparent suicide of registered sex offender and multimillionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein.
&#8220;THEY ARE COMING AFTER ME!&#8221; Williams, who often creates politically-natured content, captioned his video. &#8220;After [Donald Trump] Retweeted me I received threats &amp; now Facebook is after me. I&#8217;m worried about my safety.&#8221;
He asked his followers to retweet his video and use the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ProtectTerrenceKWilliams?src=hashtag_click">#ProtectTerrenceKWilliams</a> hashtag on social media.
&#8220;I need everybody to listen and pay attention, ever since President Trump has retweeted me, people have been sending death threats, threatening me every single day, telling me I better watch my back,&#8221; Williams started the video, which was split screen: one side featuring Williams and the other side scrolling through alleged threats sent to the comedian. One of the threats said, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to f*** your house slave a** when I see you.&#8221; Another email, with the subject line &#8220;Jeffrey Epstein&#8217;s Murder&#8221; read, &#8220;You&#8217;re next.&#8221;
Back in February, Williams noted, he was involved in a serious car accident, where he <a href="https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/terrence-williams-car-accident/">reportedly</a> fractured his neck. &#8220;I do not want to be hurt again. These people need to tone down these death threats,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;And now Facebook is after me,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Facebook has sent out their fact-checkers to fact-check my page. They are telling my followers that my page is fake news, that my content is fake news. I am a comedian. How can you fact-check a joke? I have never in my life heard about somebody fact-checking a joke. … They are trying to shut me down.&#8221;
Williams ended the video by assuring his viewers that he is &#8220;not suicidal,&#8221; and if something happens to him, it was &#8220;somebody on the Left.&#8221;
&#8220;If anything happens to me, y&#8217;all,&#8221; he said, &#8220;just know, somebody on the Left did it, somebody that doesn&#8217;t like Trump did it, okay? Just know that. And I just wanna let y&#8217;all know, right now, I am not suicidal. I have not been having suicidal thoughts. I have not been thinking about committing suicide, or hurting others. So if they say Terrence has committed suicide one day, just know that is fake news, just know that is a lie, because I am not suicidal. But these people are threatening me and Facebook is coming after me, trying to shut down my page, telling people to go to my page to report anything that they feel is fake news; they are trying to shut me down.&#8221;
In a statement to The Daily Wire, Williams said: &#8220;I never received deaths or had to watch my back in my entire life until I announced my support for President Trump. My first time being called the N-Word was by a white liberal.&#8221;
&#8220;I thought it was okay as an American citizen to support the President Of the United States of America,&#8221; he added.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">THEY ARE COMING AFTER ME!
After <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> Retweeted me I received threats &amp; 
now Facebook is after me.
I’m worried about my safety.
PLEASE HELP get my story to the Top! Please RT or comment using hashtag 
<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ProtectTerrenceKWilliams?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ProtectTerrenceKWilliams</a> 
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— Terrence K. Williams (@w_terrence) <a href="https://twitter.com/w_terrence/status/1161358157668651008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Trump was asked by the press on Tuesday about sharing Williams&#8217; video connecting the Clintons to Epstein&#8217;s apparent suicide.
&#8220;The retweet — which is what it was, just a retweet — was from somebody that&#8217;s a very respected conservative pundit, so I think that was fine,&#8221; Trump said, <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/13/trump-clinton-epstein-conspiracy-theory-1460646">according</a> to Politico.
&#8220;I know [Bill Clinton] was on [Epstein&#8217;s] plane 27 times, and he said he was on the plane four times,&#8221; the president continued. &#8220;But when they checked the plane logs, Bill Clinton — who was a very good friend of Epstein — he was on the plane about 27 or 28 times. So why did he say four times?&#8221;
&#8220;The question you have to ask is, did Bill Clinton go to the island?&#8221; Trump relayed to the press, referencing Epstein&#8217;s so-called &#8220;pedophile island.&#8221;
&#8220;Because Epstein had an island. That was not a good place, as I understand it, and I was never there. So you have to ask, did Bill Clinton go to the island? That&#8217;s the question. If you find that out, you’re going to know a lot,&#8221; he added.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">President Trump just spoke about me when asked about retweeting my video. Thank you <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> for the kind words. They are going crazy over a retweet because they have nothing else to complain about since the Russia HOAX is over!
I can’t wait to meet you Mr. President <a href="https://t.co/borlqCjuf4">pic.twitter.com/borlqCjuf4</a>
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In a statement last month, Clinton spokesman Angel Ureña denied that Mr. Clinton ever went to such a place.
&#8220;President Clinton knows nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to in Florida some years ago, or those with which he has been recently charged in New York. He&#8217;s not spoken to Epstein in well over a decade, and has never been to Little St. James Island, Epstein&#8217;s ranch in New Mexico, or his residence in Florida,&#8221; the statement said, as <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/13/trump-clinton-epstein-conspiracy-theory-1460646">noted</a> by Politico.

Comedian Says He’s Getting Death Threats After Trump Retweeted His Video Connecting Clintons To Epstein Death

On Monday&#8217;s episode of &#8220;The Andrew Klavan Show,&#8221; Klavan discusses the Left&#8217;s double standard when it comes to conspiracies. Video and partial transcript below:
A lot of the stories in the press today were saying things like, &#8220;Well, this case is not over.&#8221; I will bet money this case is over. They will never find another witness like Epstein, who has the proof. Now anybody can make any accusation — against anybody — from now on. And there&#8217;s nobody around to say that did or didn&#8217;t happen. From now on it&#8217;s all going to be he said, she said. Maybe they can get this [gal] Ghislaine Maxwell. Maybe they can go after her, that&#8217;s what some of the people are suggesting.
But who else? Who else is going to have the evidence? How are they going to construct the evidence they need to get these people? People so powerful, whose lawyers are so good. This case is over, this guy. I&#8217;m telling you; I will be shocked if anybody pays the price for this. And so now everybody starts to say, &#8220;Oh the conspiracy theories, instant conspiracy theories.&#8221; Everybody is going to have a conspiracy theory, and of course President Trump, you know, he&#8217;s got to be there. He retweeted something that said, &#8220;The Bill Clinton Body Count.&#8221;
Michael Knowles is going to come on and talk about &#8220;The Bill Clinton Body Count&#8221; because it is a funny story. But Donald Trump, who you know, one of the things about Trump is that he has no sense that he&#8217;s now President of the United States with special responsibilities. That sense has grown on him a little bit, but he&#8217;s still doing [it]. It&#8217;s one thing for a billionaire playboy to be tweeting out about Barack Obama&#8217;s birth certificate. It is another thing for a presidential candidate to be saying that Ted Cruz&#8217;s father killed Kennedy or whatever crazy stuff that was really bad. But now you&#8217;re President of the United States … .
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He has this moral power, this moral voice now that he doesn&#8217;t actually take into account, when he tweets something like this. I sincerely doubt that this was a murder committed by Bill Clinton&#8217;s agents, but he tweeted that around. But here&#8217;s the thing, Jake Tapper went after him. Play the piece of Jake Tapper excoriating the president for this.
<blockquote>TAPPER: This is of course, not the first time that President Trump has chosen to use his amplified voice to spread conspiracies. He lied about President Obama&#8217;s birthplace. He suggested Ted Cruz&#8217;s father might&#8217;ve been involved in the JFK assassination. He lied that he saw American Muslims in New Jersey, on TV celebrating 9/11, when there is no such tape.</blockquote>
Fair enough. Fair enough. But Jake Tapper is part of the problem, and I don&#8217;t mean to pick him out personally. He is in a corrupt business. He is in a business that now lies every day. They are in the business of lies, many of them are lies by omission, but they&#8217;re still lies. So, he is now the representative of a business that legitimizes what Trump does because there are so many lies opposed to him … .
You want to talk about a conspiracy theory, talk about Russian collusion. Two years of Russian collusion, you know that montage — I don&#8217;t have it setup now — but that montage of like the end is near, the walls are closing in, this is the beginning of the end, this is the end of the Trump presidency. Two and a half years, and The New York Times just as responsible. Every single one of those [people] on CNN. Jake Tapper is on CNN. So, when you talk about the president using his powerful voice, his massive platform, to put forward, to retweeting a conspiracy theory. Fair enough. But you&#8217;re in a business that did that every day, every single day … . The press are continually still saying that Donald Trump said that there were &#8220;fine people&#8221; among the neo-Nazis, which he did not say, which he clarified he wasn&#8217;t saying, when he said the words &#8220;fine people.&#8221; They&#8217;re still selling that; they&#8217;re still selling that lie.
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KLAVAN: Media Demonizes Trump’s Conspiracy Theory After Peddling One For Two Years

Democratic Party

Trump Administration

On Monday&#8217;s episode of &#8220;The Ben Shapiro Show,&#8221; Shapiro discusses how negligence in the jail where billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein was being held likely contributed to his death rather than some sort of assassination attempt, as many have theorized. Video and partial transcript below:
MSNBC&#8217;s Joy Reid actually suggested that Attorney General William Barr might be covering up Epstein&#8217;s death at Trump&#8217;s behest because Trump of course is friends with Jeffrey Epstein.
<blockquote>REID: The investigation of Epstein&#8217;s death now falls into the hands of William Barr, Donald Trump&#8217;s consigliere and attorney general, who refused to recuse himself on the Epstein case despite his association with a law firm once involved with Epstein, [and] whose father once hired Jeffrey Epstein as a teacher — with neither experience nor degree. And, whose prime directive is to protect Donald Trump no matter what.</blockquote>
Okay, so there she is putting out her own conspiracy theory. Then, President Trump in his own inimitable fashion decided, &#8220;You know what&#8217;d be a a great idea? I&#8217;m going to retweet whatever I feel like, and I feel like retweeting a wild conspiracy theory.&#8221; So he retweeted a tweet from a guy named Terrance Williams on Twitter and the tweet says: &#8220;Died of SUICIDE on 24/7 SUICIDE WATCH ? Yeah right! How does that happen#JefferyEpstein had information on Bill Clinton &amp; now he&#8217;s dead[.] I see #TrumpBodyCount trending but we know who did this! [Retweet] if you&#8217;re not Surprised#EpsteinSuicide #ClintonBodyCount #ClintonCrimeFamily.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">Died of SUICIDE on 24/7 SUICIDE WATCH ? Yeah right! How does that happen<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JefferyEpstein?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#JefferyEpstein</a> had information on Bill Clinton &amp; now he’s dead
I see <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpBodyCount?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TrumpBodyCount</a> trending but we know who did this!
RT if you’re not Surprised<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EpsteinSuicide?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#EpsteinSuicide</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ClintonBodyCount?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ClintonBodyCount</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ClintonCrimeFamily?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ClintonCrimeFamily</a> <a href="https://t.co/Y9tGAWaAxX">pic.twitter.com/Y9tGAWaAxX</a>
— Terrence K. Williams (@w_terrence) <a href="https://twitter.com/w_terrence/status/1160256105399967744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 10, 2019</a></blockquote>
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And then he released a little video discussing why he thought that the Clintons had murdered Jeffrey Epstein.
Now, this has been a longstanding meme on the right, that the Clintons routinely murder their political opponents. Not a lot of evidence to suggest that that is true despite widespread speculation about characters, including Vince Foster, for example. President Trump tweeted that out, and that was awkward. Here&#8217;s a little bit of that Terrance Williams video in which he talks about all of this.
<blockquote>WILLIAMS: Shaking my head. I&#8217;m not surprised. I told ya’ll last month this was gonna happen but didn&#8217;t nobody want to listen to me. But then guess what. Next month he dead. And you know what, all the liberals were calling me a conspiracy theorist saying that, &#8220;Terrence, you coming out with crazy conspiracies and you need to be banned from Twitter.&#8221; And then guess what. The man really ended up dead. And you know what he had. He had information on the Clintons and the man ended up dead.</blockquote>
Okay that&#8217;s enough. So Trump actually retweeted that. Now, number one: this wasn&#8217;t the Clintons because, as we will see, this is wild incompetence by jail officers which, frankly, is not all that uncommon. I mean, it is an unfortunate truth of life that human beings are wildly incompetent generally. And it is also another unfortunate truth that treatment in American prisons — [I mean], it depends on the prison but many prisons are horribly run. The guards don&#8217;t do their jobs to the apex of their abilities. They feel like they&#8217;re dealing with criminals and therefore they sort of slack off a bit. That&#8217;s not an indictment of all prison officers by any measure — a lot of prison officers, probably the vast majority of prison officers, do their job with honor and diligence. But there are going to be some who do not, obviously. And this one falls under Hanlon&#8217;s Razor: Never attribute to malevolence that which you can attribute to human stupidity.
And while this all looks very suspicious — because obviously Epstein was the most watched federal prisoner in America — still, I am much more inclined to chalk this up to prison guards didn&#8217;t do their job, than Bill and Hillary Clinton sneaked somebody into Jeffrey Epstein&#8217;s cell to kill him. I mean, the lady couldn&#8217;t even find Wisconsin on a map. I don&#8217;t think that this has to do with Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton deciding that it&#8217;s time for Jeffrey Epstein to be offed. Why wouldn&#8217;t they off him before he was arrested? I mean, the whole thing doesn&#8217;t make any sense. And, as it turns out, there&#8217;s lots of evidence of incompetence here.
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Apparently, according to <a href="https://apnews.com/b609668da05c4ac5bbc9aa50c9e6b6d2">The Associated Press</a>, &#8220;guards on Jeffrey Epstein&#8217;s unit were working extreme overtime shifts to make up for staffing shortages the morning of his apparent suicide, a person familiar with the jail&#8217;s operations told The Associated Press. The person said that the Metropolitan Correctional Center&#8217;s Special Housing Unit was staffed with one guard working a fifth straight day of overtime and another who was working mandatory overtime. The person wasn&#8217;t authorized to discuss jail operations publicly and spoke Sunday on the condition of anonymity. Epstein&#8217;s abrupt death cuts short a criminal prosecution that could have pulled back the curtain on the inner workings of a high-flying financier with connections to celebrities and presidents &#8230; &#8221;
The jail staff failed to follow protocols leading up to Epstein&#8217;s death, according to a report from The New York Times, deepening the fallout from what led to his apparent suicide. New York Times reports that &#8220;Epstein was supposed to have been checked by the two guards in the protective housing unit every 30 minutes&#8221; [and that] he was alone in his cell just eleven days after he&#8217;d been taken off suicide watch.
That was not supposed to happen. He was supposed to have somebody else in the cell with him. The procedure of him being checked every 30 minutes was not followed that night. Because Epstein may have tried to commit suicide three weeks earlier — obviously, that other inmate was supposed to be in there. But the jail [had] recently transferred his cellmate and allowed Epstein to be housed alone, a decision that also violated the jail&#8217;s procedures.
Attorney General William Barr was fighting mad about that today as well. He suggested that there could be prosecution on the table for negligence for some of the people who are associated with all of this. In addition, according to the UK Daily Mail, every 15 minutes guards are required to make another check on prisoners who are on suicide watch. The decision to remove Epstein from suicide watch has both baffled former wardens and veterans of the federal prison system alike. As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50516/walsh-conspiracy-theories-about-epsteins-death-are-matt-walsh">Matt Walsh</a> of Daily Wire pointed out, suicide watch is not supposed to be taken quite so literally. You&#8217;re not actually supposed to watch while the person commits suicide. So, well done everybody.
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SHAPIRO: Epstein Died Because Of Incompetence, Not Conspiracy

In a report published Monday in The New York Times, <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/the-day-jeffrey-epstein-told-me-he-had-dirt-on-powerful-people/ar-AAFI7k5">James B. Stewart</a> describes the day &#8220;exactly a year ago&#8221; that he visited the &#8220;cavernous Manhattan mansion&#8221; of Jeffrey Epstein for a 90-minute conversation with the disgraced billionaire, who was found dead in his high-security jail cell on Saturday after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50543/breaking-new-details-emerge-about-jeffrey-epsteins-ryan-saavedra">hanging himself</a>.
&#8220;The overriding impression I took away from our roughly 90-minute conversation was that Mr. Epstein knew an astonishing number of rich, famous and powerful people, and had photos to prove it,&#8221; Stewart writes. &#8220;He also claimed to know a great deal about these people, some of it potentially damaging or embarrassing, including details about their supposed sexual proclivities and recreational drug use.&#8221;
Stewart adds, &#8220;So one of my first thoughts on hearing of Mr. Epstein&#8217;s suicide was that many prominent men and at least a few women must be breathing sighs of relief that whatever Mr. Epstein knew, he has taken it with him.&#8221;
Stewart says that during their conversation, the convicted sex offender &#8220;made no secret of his own scandalous past — he&#8217;d pleaded guilty to state charges of soliciting prostitution from underage girls and was a registered sex offender — and acknowledged to me that he was a pariah in polite society.&#8221;
But he also seemed &#8220;unapologetic,&#8221; suggesting that his notorious status &#8220;was what made so many people willing to confide in him,&#8221; Stewart writes. &#8220;Everyone, he suggested, has secrets and, he added, compared with his own, they seemed innocuous.&#8221; For this reason, people would often confide in him, he told Stewart suggestively.
While Epstein was &#8220;reticent&#8221; about discussing what Stewart had actually visited to discuss with him, his work with Tesla, Epstein &#8220;was more at ease discussing his interest in young women.&#8221;
&#8220;He said that criminalizing sex with teenage girls was a cultural aberration and that at times in history it was perfectly acceptable,&#8221; Stewart writes. &#8220;He pointed out that homosexuality had long been considered a crime and was still punishable by death in some parts of the world.&#8221;
Among the details Stewart notes about his visit with Epstein at the mansion — one of the locations where investigators say the financier brought in underage girls as part of a sex trafficking ring he ran for years — is a couple of notable pictures among others Epstein displayed on a table in a large room at the rear of his house that apparently served as an office.
&#8220;I noticed one of Mr. Epstein with former President Bill Clinton, and another of him with the director Woody Allen,&#8221; writes Stewart. &#8220;Displaying photos of celebrities who had been caught up in sex scandals of their own also struck me as odd.&#8221;
Stewart also notes that Epstein called him about a week after the interview and asked if he&#8217;d like to join him for dinner that weekend with Allen. Stewart declined, saying he&#8217;d be out of town.
Months later, Epstein contacted Stewart to ask him, almost &#8220;plaintive[ly]&#8221; if he&#8217;d be interested in being his biographer, but Stewart declined. &#8220;That was the last I heard from him. After his arrest and suicide, I&#8217;m left to wonder: What might he have told me?&#8221; he writes. (<a href="https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/the-day-jeffrey-epstein-told-me-he-had-dirt-on-powerful-people/ar-AAFI7k5">Read the full article here</a>.)
Epstein&#8217;s death was initially reported by authorities as an &#8220;apparent suicide,&#8221; but the strange circumstances surrounding it and all the &#8220;powerful people&#8221; implicated in his case unsurprisingly sparked conspiracy theories. Despite having apparently attempted suicide a few weeks earlier, Epstein was taken off suicide watch; his cellmate was also transferred, leaving him alone and unmonitored. Along with the official autopsy, the financier&#8217;s representatives paid for an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50511/autopsy-jeffrey-epstein-has-been-completed-amanda-prestigiacomo">independent autopsy</a> by celebrity pathologist Michael Baden.
Authorities <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50543/breaking-new-details-emerge-about-jeffrey-epsteins-ryan-saavedra">announced</a> Monday that they&#8217;ve concluded Epstein did indeed kill himself by making a makeshift noose with a bedsheet he tied over the top bunk and kneeling toward the floor.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/49880/report-bill-clinton-had-contact-epstein-far-james-barrett">Report: Bill Clinton Had Contact With Epstein Far Earlier Than He Said In Statement</a>

NYT Columnist: Epstein Told Me He Had Major Dirt On Powerful People

New York Times

The following is satirical.
Jeffrey Epstein has committed suicide in prison, if you get my meaning. The billionaire pimp who supplied underage girls to some of the most powerful and dangerous former presidents from Arkansas in the country was found dead in his cell, where he had been under round-the-clock suicide watch and yet still managed to smuggle in a gun and shoot himself twice in the back of the head. Video footage of the suicide was pixilated and unwatchable, but acting prison warden Sidney Blumenthal told sniggering reporters that Epstein left a suicide note, saying, “I am taking my own life with no help from anyone especially not any old friend who has been wrongly accused of having banged every 15-year-old he could lay his hands on just because he visited my private orgy island which he never did. Because I no longer wanted to be a burden to such a fine individual by causing him to live in fear of dying in prison if I told all the untrue things I know about him, I am shooting myself twice because the first bullet didn’t do the trick. Love, Jeff.”
Former President Bill Clinton had earlier denied any wrongdoing in the Epstein case, saying, “I did not have sex with all those women, depending on what the meaning of ‘not’ is. Jeffrey is just a good friend, and it will be a terrible thing when he commits suicide.” On hearing of Epstein’s death, however, Clinton did release a statement, saying, “On a beautiful, beautiful day such as this, I just want to focus on the pure miracle of being alive and able to go anywhere I please without a worry in the world.”
Prison authorities say they will investigate Epstein’s death until people forget the whole thing and then release an implausible statement on a Friday night when no one’s paying attention — and then use the phrase “conspiracy theory” a lot whenever anyone guesses the truth. Vince Foster was unavailable for comment.

Jeffrey Epstein Dies In Totally Non-Clinton Related Absolute Suicide [Satire]

The new season of FX&#8217;s &#8220;American Crime Story&#8221; about the Bill Clinton sex scandal will be arriving just on the eve of the 2020 election, and the new revelation is that Monica Lewinsky is producing it.
According to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/monica-lewinsky-produced-impeachment-set-as-next-american-crime-story-at-fx-1229819">The Hollywood Reporter</a>, FX announced at the Television Critics Association&#8217;s summer press tour that Monica Lewinsky will be on board to help produce the multi-episode miniseries about the tumultuous period during Clinton&#8217;s presidency in which the Republican-controlled House impeached him for lying under oath about having a sexual affair with the White House intern. Titled, &#8220;Impeachment: American Crime Story,&#8221; the story will be based on Jeffrey Toobin&#8217;s best-selling book, &#8220;A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President.&#8221;
Producer Ryan Murphy told THR back <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/ryan-murphy-american-crime-story-future-scrapping-monica-lewinsky-season-1099146">in April 2018</a> that he originally approached Lewinsky to produce the show. &#8220;I told her, &#8216;Nobody should tell your story but you, and it&#8217;s kind of gross if they do,'&#8221; he said. &#8216;If you want to produce it with me, I would love that; but you should be the producer and you should make all the godd*** money.'&#8221;
FX CEO John Landgraf said Tuesday in a press release that season three will provide a &#8220;relevant, nuanced&#8221; approach to a polarizing subject in the same way season one did with &#8220;The People vs. OJ Simpson.&#8221;
&#8220;FX’s &#8216;American Crime Story&#8217; franchise has become a cultural touchstone, providing greater context for stories that deserve greater understanding like the O.J. Simpson trial and saga, and Andrew Cunanan’s tragic crime spree which concluded with the assassination of Gianni Versace,&#8221; Landgraf said. &#8220;This franchise re-examines some of the most complicated, polarizing stories in recent history in a way that is relevant, nuanced and entertaining. &#8216;Impeachment: American Crime Story&#8217; will likewise explore the overlooked dimensions of the women who found themselves caught up in the scandal and political war that cast a long shadow over the Clinton presidency.&#8221;
Whether or not the show provides an actual nuanced approach to the story remains to be seen. Back in 2017, when Ryan Murphy first announced the Monica Lewinsky-produced season, he emphasized that it will focus on how Republicans used the scandal as a political tool to impeach Clinton.
&#8220;It’s a very interesting book,&#8221; Murphy <a href="http://www.eonline.com/news/829216/ryan-murphy-confirms-american-crime-story-will-take-on-monica-lewinsky-and-sarah-paulson-is-attached" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">said</a> about the source material. &#8220;It’s not really about Hillary Clinton. That book is about the rise of a certain segment of a right-ring group of people who despised the Clintons and used three women, Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky and Linda Tripp to try and tear him down. The Toobin book is amazing. And there are a lot of bizarre crimes within that book that you can highlight.&#8221;
FX, however, has been taking some flak on social media for choosing to air the show just weeks before the 2020 election; the critics argue that it will give President Trump ample ability to shift the conversation back on the Clintons.
&#8220;Airing this during the final six weeks of the 2020 election is an abysmal idea. I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing it, and I hope FX reconsiders the timing,&#8221; said journalist Mark Harris. &#8220;There is nothing that Trump would like more than to turn the homestretch of 2020 into a revisitation of the Clintons. Don&#8217;t do this. It&#8217;s a disservice to our fragile political system and to the talented people involved in this show.&#8221;
Landgraf defended the decision to air the episode at that time in the name of artistic integrity and nuance. &#8220;Let me just say something about the current environment,&#8221; Landgraf said. &#8220;This certainty that says we can’t have conversations, we can’t make art, we can’t have nuance, that I won’t even wait to pronounce judgment, is toxic in the media environment. I believe very, very strongly in what we’re making. I’ve read it, I think it’s great.&#8221;
&#8220;I don’t believe it’s going to decide who’s the next president of the United States,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;That’s a little hysterical, from my standpoint, somebody saying that’s going to affect the next presidential election.&#8221;

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Monica Lewinsky Will Produce The Next ‘American Crime Story’ About Clinton Sex Scandal

2020 Election

Hollywood

Hollywood Reporter

During Wednesday night&#8217;s Democratic primary debate, presidential hopeful Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) ripped an applause line from former President George W. Bush and said the first thing she&#8217;d do if she were elected president would be to &#8220;Clorox the Oval Office.&#8221;
&#8220;So the first thing that I’m going to do when I’m president, is I&#8217;m going to Clorox the Oval Office,&#8221; said Gillibrand, earning cheers from the crowd.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Kirsten Gillibrand’s first task as president? “I’m going to Clorox the oval office.” <a href="https://t.co/kt4XTSPDVx">https://t.co/kt4XTSPDVx</a> <a href="https://t.co/YpuI8AXxkQ">pic.twitter.com/YpuI8AXxkQ</a>
— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) <a href="https://twitter.com/THR/status/1156752142989873157?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Gillibrand&#8217;s laugh line is rooted in the narrative that President Donald Trump is a sexual predator, which has been time and again echoed by elected Democrats. In December 2017, for example, the New York senator called for Trump to resign from office due to accusations of sexual misconduct leveled against him. &#8220;President Trump has committed assault, according to these women, and those are very credible allegations of misconduct and criminal activity, and he should be fully investigated and he should resign,&#8221; she <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/11/politics/trump-resign-gillibrand-sexual-assault/index.html">told</a> CNN&#8217;s Christiane Amanpour.
However, Gillibrand has a history of aligning herself with men accused of sexual misconduct in an effort to advance her career, deflating her &#8220;Clorox&#8221; rip against Trump.
The Daily Wire&#8217;s Ashe Schow, for instance, highlighted the politician&#8217;s ties to both former President Bill Clinton and Hollywood producer and Democrat mega-donor Harvey Weinstein, both of whom have been accused chronic sexual misconduct.
&#8220;&#8216;The first thing I would do is Clorox the Oval Office,'&#8221; Schow mockingly quoted the presidential hopeful. &#8220;Also Gillibrand,&#8221; she added, captioning photos of the senator smiling next to both men.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Kirsten Gillibrand: “The first thing I would do is Clorox the Oval Office.”
Also Gillibrand: <a href="https://t.co/XgsItyXx0W">pic.twitter.com/XgsItyXx0W</a>
— Ashe Schow (@AsheSchow) <a href="https://twitter.com/AsheSchow/status/1156742931220295680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich pointed out, &#8220;Gillibrand says she will Clorox the Oval Office. Where was she [when] Bill Clinton left office? Oh, using him and Hillary to fundraise and win elections.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Gillibrand says she will Clorox the Oval Office. Where was she was Bill Clinton left office? Oh, using him and Hillary to fundraise and win elections.
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) <a href="https://twitter.com/KatiePavlich/status/1156742474066538496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In 2017, Gillibrand finally said Mr. Clinton should have resigned after his infamous sex scandal with then-intern Monica Lewinsky. She made the statement against the former president about a month before she called on Trump to resign from office; the convenient timing of her belated condemnation did not go unnoticed by critics.
But just a year prior, in 2016, Gillibrand was using Mr. Clinton to help her political career. As previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/23698/gillibrand-says-bill-clinton-should-have-resigned-hank-berrien">highlighted</a> by The Daily Wire, Gillibrand gushed over Mr. Clinton while campaigning for the Senate: &#8220;I was lucky enough to receive guidance and mentorship from Hillary during that run, and was truly honored that President Bill Clinton campaigned for me in my first run for Congress in 2006,&#8221; she said.
Here are other tweets documenting Gillibrand&#8217;s reliance on Clinton:
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Today, I&#8217;m honored to be traveling around <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NY?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NY</a> w/Pres. <a href="https://twitter.com/BillClinton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BillClinton</a> campaigning for <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HillaryClinton</a>, letting New Yorkers know why <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ImWithHer?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ImWithHer</a>!
— Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenGillibrand/status/721406996059197440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 16, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">As <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DemsInPhilly?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DemsInPhilly</a> gather to nominate our next Pres. <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HillaryClinton</a>, kicked off <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DNCinPHL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DNCinPHL</a> w/former Pres. <a href="https://twitter.com/BillClinton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BillClinton</a> <a href="https://t.co/nZ1uE18oRp">pic.twitter.com/nZ1uE18oRp</a>
— Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenGillibrand/status/757692344326033410?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 25, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">What an amazing event in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Albany?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Albany</a> this AM rallying the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NYSDRC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NYSDRC</a> for <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HillaryClinton</a> w/<a href="https://twitter.com/BillClinton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@billclinton</a> &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NYGovCuomo</a>! <a href="https://t.co/qDXxiiwBlL">pic.twitter.com/qDXxiiwBlL</a>
— Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenGillibrand/status/721380194771202048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 16, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">.<a href="https://twitter.com/BillClinton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BillClinton</a> &amp; I stopped for coffee in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Pulaski?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Pulaski</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NY?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NY</a>, spoke w/New Yorkers about why we support <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HillaryClinton</a>! <a href="https://t.co/YJ0V8n067a">pic.twitter.com/YJ0V8n067a</a>
— Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenGillibrand/status/721442699367354368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 16, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Had a great time on Saturday campaigning around <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NY?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NY</a> for <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HillaryClinton</a> w/President <a href="https://twitter.com/BillClinton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BillClinton</a>! <a href="https://t.co/QC1hTqx3tw">https://t.co/QC1hTqx3tw</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ImWithHer?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ImWithHer</a>
— Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenGillibrand/status/722128820501942273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 18, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">What a beautiful <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DNCinPHL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DNCinPHL</a> speech by <a href="https://twitter.com/BillClinton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BillClinton</a> tonight on the <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HillaryClinton</a> he has known for 45 years. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DemsInPhilly?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DemsInPhilly</a>
— Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenGillibrand/status/758135523370110977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Gillibrand had also aligned herself with alleged serial sexual predator Weinstein, taking thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from the producer and appearing alongside the donor at the Time 100 Gala in April 2014.
As <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/10/20/gillibrand-weinstein-another-predator-protected-powerful-industry/784987001/">noted</a> by USA Today in October 2017, Gillibrand later &#8220;donated $11,800 of Weinstein&#8217;s political contributions to the anti-sexual violence organization RAINN.&#8221;

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