Trump legal defense attorney Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard law professor and self-described liberal Democrat, fired back at CNN on Monday after the left-wing network accused Dershowitz of making contradictory claims between the impeachment of President Donald Trump and former President Bill Clinton.
CNN highlighted an August 1998 interview with Dershowitz on CNN during the summer leading up to Clinton&#8217;s impeachment.
&#8220;It certainly doesn&#8217;t have to be a crime if you have somebody who completely corrupts the office of president and who abuses trust and who poses great danger to our liberty, you don&#8217;t need a technical crime,&#8221; Dershowitz said at the time. &#8220;We look at their acts of state. We look at how they conduct the foreign policy. We look at whether they try to subvert the Constitution.&#8221;
CNN <a href="https://outline.com/kHdrFT">reported</a>:
<blockquote>But on Sunday he told CNN&#8217;s Brianna Keilar on &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; that in his defense of Trump he would cite former Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Curtis in saying the framers of the Constitution intended for impeachable conduct to mean &#8220;criminal-like conduct.&#8221;
Dershowitz also asserted on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week&#8221; that both obstruction of Congress and abuse of power do not meet the constitutional criteria for impeachment.</blockquote>
Dershowitz quickly debunked CNN&#8217;s attempt to suggest that he made contradictory statements, telling MSNBC, &#8220;It&#8217;s the same argument. You need criminal-type behavior akin to treason and bribery. It doesn&#8217;t have to be a technical crime because at the time that the framers wrote the constitution there was no criminal code.&#8221;
Dershowitz fired back again on Twitter, writing, &#8220;There is no inconsistency between what I said during the Clinton impeachment and what I am saying now. I said then that there doesn’t have to be a &#8216;technical&#8217; crime. I have said now there must be &#8216;criminal-like&#8217; conduct, or conduct &#8216;akin to treason and bribery.'&#8221;
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There is no inconsistency between what I said during the Clinton impeachment and what I am saying now. I said then that there doesn’t have to be a “technical“ crime. I have said now there must be “criminal-like” conduct, or conduct “akin to treason and bribery.”
&mdash; Alan Dershowitz (@AlanDersh) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlanDersh/status/1219312502271438848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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During an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-law-professor-alan-dershowitz-democrats-impeachment-greatest-nightmare-founders-had">interview</a> on Sunday, Dershowitz pushed back on former Clinton official George Stephanopolous’ suggestion that the articles against Trump contained crimes.
“The articles of impeachment are two non-criminal actions, namely obstruction of Congress and abuse of power, and those &#8230; would have to be voted on by the Senate,&#8221; Dershowitz said.
“Let me press that, though,” Stephanopolous said. “Is it your position that President Trump should not be impeached even if all the evidence and arguments laid out by the House are accepted as fact?”
“That’s right,” Dershowitz responded. “When you have somebody who, for example, is indicted for a crime – let’s assume you have a lot of evidence – but the grand jury simply indicts for something that’s not a crime, and that’s what happened here, you have a lot of evidence, disputed evidence, that could go both ways, but the vote was to impeach on abuse of power, which is not within the constitutional criteria for impeachment, and obstruction of Congress.”
“Those are both the kinds of things that led Hamilton and Madison – talk about nightmare – to regard that as the greatest nightmare, number one, giving Congress too much power to allow the president to serve at the will of Congress,” Dershowitz continued. “And number two, as Hamilton put it, the greatest danger is turning impeachment into a question of who has the most votes in which House, and rather than having a consensus and a broad view of impeachable conduct.”

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Dershowitz Fires Back After CNN Claims He Made Contradictory Statements On Impeachment

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On Friday, The New York Times broke the news that President Trump has added three high-profile names to his impeachment team — and two of them happen to have been involved in the investigation that resulted in the only other presidential impeachment in the last 150 years.
Monica Lewinsky, the former White House intern whose relationship with then-President Clinton, around which that investigation revolved, responded to the news with a brief but memorable tweet. &#8220;[T]his is definitely an &#8216;are you f***ing kidding me?&#8217; kinda day,&#8221; she wrote.
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this is definitely an “are you fucking kidding me?” kinda day.
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Lewinsky — who was just 22 when Clinton, then 49, carried on a sexual relationship with her and has since gone on to become an anti-bullying activist — appears to have been responding to the news that former independent counsels Kenneth Starr and Robert Ray were joining Trump&#8217;s impeachment team, as <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/us/politics/trump-impeachment-lawyers-starr-dershowitz.html">reported</a> by the Times&#8217; Maggie Haberman Friday morning:
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President Trump plans on adding former independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr and the defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz to his legal team for his trial by the Senate, a person briefed on the plan said Friday.
Mr. Starr, whose investigation into President Bill Clinton’s sexual relationships led to his impeachment, will be joined by Robert Ray, who succeeded Mr. Starr as independent counsel and <a class="css-1g7m0tk" title="" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/12/us/the-starr-report-full-text-of-findings-sent-to-congress-part-two-of-thirteen.html">wrote the final report</a> on Mr. Clinton, the person said.
Rounding out the team will be Mr. Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School professor emeritus who became famous as a defense counsel for high-profile defendants like O.J. Simpson.
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Starr, Ray, and Dershowitz will join White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and Trump’s personal lawyer Jay Sekulow to represent the president in the Senate trial. In a statement Friday, the team specifically addressed Dershowitz&#8217;s role in the process.
“Professor Dershowitz will present oral arguments at the Senate trial to address the constitutional arguments against impeachment and removal,” the team announced in a statement reported by the Times. “While Professor Dershowitz is nonpartisan when it comes to the constitution — he opposed the impeachment of President Bill Clinton and voted for Hillary Clinton — he believes the issues at stake go to the heart of our enduring Constitution. He is participating in this impeachment trial to defend the integrity of the Constitution and to prevent the creation of a dangerous constitutional precedent.”
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A Republican-majority House passed two articles of impeachment against Clinton on Dec. 19, 1998, for perjury to a grand jury and obstruction of justice related to his affair with Lewinsky. The evidence brought against Clinton came largely from the report produced by Starr, then head of the Office of the Independent Counsel.
What would come to be known as the &#8220;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/12/us/the-starr-report-full-text-of-findings-sent-to-congress-part-two-of-thirteen.html">Starr Report</a>&#8221; presented “substantial and credible information that President Clinton criminally obstructed the judicial process, first in a sexual harassment lawsuit in which he was the defendant and then in a grand jury investigation.” The report detailed “the President’s efforts to get Ms. Lewinsky a job, Ms. Lewinsky’s subpoena in Jones v. Clinton, the role of Vernon Jordan, the President’s discussions with Ms. Lewinsky about her affidavit and deposition, the President’s deposition testimony in Jones, the President’s attempts to coach a potential witness in the harassment case, the President’s false and misleading statements to aides and to the American public after the Lewinsky story became public, and, finally, the President’s testimony before a federal grand jury.”
Ray, who succeeded Starr as head of the Independent Counsel in 1999, submitted the final report on the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal.
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Ahead of the rapidly approaching impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate, President Trump has reportedly added a few more key players to his impeachment team, among them two former independent counsels responsible for reports on the sex scandal that ultimately got Bill Clinton impeached, Kenneth Starr and Robert Ray, as well as prominent Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz.
The New York Times&#8217; Maggie Haberman first <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/us/politics/trump-impeachment-lawyers-starr-dershowitz.html">reported</a> on the additions of Starr, Ray, and Dershowitz Friday morning:
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President Trump plans on adding former independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr and the defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz to his legal team for his trial by the Senate, a person briefed on the plan said Friday.
Mr. Starr, whose investigation into President Bill Clinton’s sexual relationships led to his impeachment, will be joined by Robert Ray, who succeeded Mr. Starr as independent counsel and <a class="css-1g7m0tk" title="" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/12/us/the-starr-report-full-text-of-findings-sent-to-congress-part-two-of-thirteen.html">wrote the final report</a> on Mr. Clinton, the person said.
Rounding out the team will be Mr. Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School professor emeritus who became famous as a defense counsel for high-profile defendants like O.J. Simpson.
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The three will join White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and Trump&#8217;s personal lawyer Jay Sekulow to represent Trump in the trial.
In a statement reported by Haberman, Trump&#8217;s impeachment team detailed the role Dershowitz — a self-described liberal who has frequently defended Trump publicly since he took office — will play.
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“Professor Dershowitz will present oral arguments at the Senate trial to address the constitutional arguments against impeachment and removal,” the statement reads. “While Professor Dershowitz is nonpartisan when it comes to the constitution — he opposed the impeachment of President Bill Clinton and voted for Hillary Clinton — he believes the issues at stake go to the heart of our enduring Constitution. He is participating in this impeachment trial to defend the integrity of the Constitution and to prevent the creation of a dangerous constitutional precedent.”
Starr&#8217;s <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/12/us/the-starr-report-full-text-of-findings-sent-to-congress-part-two-of-thirteen.html">famous report</a> on Clinton&#8217;s sexual relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky presented &#8220;substantial and credible information that President Clinton criminally obstructed the judicial process, first in a sexual harassment lawsuit in which he was the defendant and then in a grand jury investigation.&#8221; The Starr Report&#8217;s findings ultimately led to the Republican-majority House passing two articles of impeachment against Clinton, for perjury to a grand jury and obstruction of justice, on both of which the president was acquitted in the Republican-led Senate.
Among the damaging information detailed in the Starr Report are &#8220;the President&#8217;s efforts to get Ms. Lewinsky a job, Ms. Lewinsky&#8217;s subpoena in Jones v. Clinton, the role of Vernon Jordan, the President&#8217;s discussions with Ms. Lewinsky about her affidavit and deposition, the President&#8217;s deposition testimony in Jones, the President&#8217;s attempts to coach a potential witness in the harassment case, the President&#8217;s false and misleading statements to aides and to the American public after the Lewinsky story became public, and, finally, the President&#8217;s testimony before a federal grand jury.&#8221;
Ray submitted the final report on the Lewinsky scandal after he took over as head of the Office of the Independent Counsel in 1999, a position he held until 2002.
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On Wednesday, The Sun (U.K.) released new photos of former President Bill Clinton in connection to now-deceased registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a &#8220;world exclusive.&#8221;
The photos purport to show Mr. Clinton with alleged Epstein madam Ghislaine Maxwell on board Epstein’s notorious private jet dubbed the &#8220;Lolita Express.&#8221;
Another image shows the former president with his arm around alleged &#8220;sex slave&#8221; Chauntae Davis, who is wearing a pilot hat she was allegedly ordered to wear to look professional, The Sun reported.
&#8220;Other never-seen-before images show Clinton traveling on the infamous Boeing 727 jet while playing cards and chomping on a cigar,&#8221; <a href="https://www.the-sun.com/news/us-news/224545/bill-clinton-jeffery-epsteins-ghislaine-maxwell-lolita-express/?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_campaign=sunustwitter&amp;utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1578496843">The Sun</a> reported.
“It’s clear that <a href="https://www.the-sun.com/who/jeffrey-epstein/">Epstein</a> was using this private jet and his wealth to get close to rich and powerful people,&#8221; Chauntae told the outlet.
“Looking back at these images now it raises a lot of questions about why <a href="https://www.the-sun.com/who/bill-clinton/">Bill Clinton</a> was using the plane and what perhaps Jeffrey may have been trying to accomplish by having him around,&#8221; she said.
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Chauntae, then 22 years old, &#8220;categorically denied that any improper behavior occurred around Clinton and that he was a &#8216;complete gentleman&#8217; the entire time,&#8221; the report said.
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“President Clinton knows nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein plead guilty to in Florida some years ago, or those with which he has previously been charged in New York,&#8221; a previously issued statement from Clinton said. “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 Clinton Foundation. Staff, supporters of the Foundation, and his Secret Service detail traveled on every leg or every trip.”
In August, it was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/there-sexual-picture-bill-clinton-jeffrey-epsteins-ryan-saavedra">reported</a> that Epstein allegedly had a “sexual picture” of former Mr. Clinton hanging in his Manhattan mansion.
“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,” 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>. “The painting was secretly snapped inside the pedophile’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.”
As noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/medical-examiner-hired-by-jeffrey-epsteins-family-says-evidence-points-toward-homicide">The Daily Wire</a>, &#8220;Epstein died by hanging in his jail cell back in August. He had just been transferred to a &#8216;special housing unit&#8217; within the Metropolitan Detention Center in New York City in order to provide him with greater protection. At the time, he was facing dozens of sex trafficking charges stemming from years spent allegedly shuttling young women between several of his massive homes, so that he and his friends could use them for sex.&#8221;
The death, which was quickly ruled a suicide, came two weeks after Epstein allegedly tried to hang himself the first time in jail.
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WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Bill Clinton poses with Epstein’s ‘pimp’ Ghislaine Maxwell and a sex slave on board private jet the ‘Lolita Express’ <a href="https://t.co/dxIyqDy953">https://t.co/dxIyqDy953</a>
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Americans have ranked former President Barack Obama and President Donald Trump equally in an annual “most admired man in the world” poll, according to a survey conducted by <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/273125/obama-trump-tie-admired-man-2019.aspx">Gallup</a> earlier this month. 
The survey, which asked Americans “What man that you have heard or read about, living today in any part of the world, do you admire most,” showed that respondents named both Obama and Trump as the most admired man 18% of the time. Respondents also had a similar answer for the most admired woman, with 10% naming former First Lady Michelle Obama and 5% naming First Lady Melania Trump. 
“Trump&#8217;s popularity grew enough this year to allow him to tie Barack Obama as the most admired man, but not to end Obama&#8217;s streak of 12 first-place finishes,” reads the report. “The results reflect the significant party divide in the U.S., with Republicans overwhelmingly naming Trump and Democrats Obama, and few other men garnering significant mention.”
“Meanwhile, Obama&#8217;s wife Michelle has been named as the most admired woman the past two years after 25 years that saw Hillary Clinton finish first 22 times,” the report continues. “In fact, Obama has had stronger finishes in the past two years than during her eight years as first lady, when no more than 8% of Americans named her.”
The report also features a new, but perhaps unsurprising arrival on the list: Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg. Although the activist is not even old enough to be surveyed, she tied with media mogul Oprah Winfrey and former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton for the most influential woman in the world, with each person receiving 3% support from respondents. Thunberg also out-ranked other popular choices, including Queen Elizabeth II, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who each received 2% support. 
Thunberg, who made headlines after traveling to the U.S. via boat to speak at the U.N. about climate, has become an odd fixation for left-wing pundits and voters alike. In fact, according to The Hill, people on the online dating website OKCupid have started mentioning Thunberg as a way to find and weed out potential partners. 
“One of the issues we’re hearing people care about is climate change,” Melissa Hobley, the chief marketing officer for OKCupid, told <a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/476213-okcupid-2019-was-the-year-greta-thunberg-helped-people-get">The Hill</a>. “They’re talking about Greta on their profiles. &#8230; I think people feel that supporting her or not shows how you feel about the issue and its impact.”
Time Magazine also awarded Thunberg its &#8220;Person of the Year&#8221; award, writing in an article that “her moral clarity” serves to inspire “other young people around the world.” President Trump, who was also a contender for the title, issued the following response to the announcement, drawing attention to Thunberg’s propensity to scold others for not doing enough. 
“So ridiculous. Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Greta, Chill!”
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So ridiculous. Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Greta, Chill! <a href="https://t.co/M8ZtS8okzE">https://t.co/M8ZtS8okzE</a>
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1205100602025545730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
According to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-gretathunberg/trump-mocks-teen-climate-activist-thunberg-chill-greta-chill-idUSKBN1YG1H1">Reuters</a>, Thunberg respondend by updating her Twitter bio to read the following: “A teenager working on her anger management problem. Currently chilling and watching a good old-fashioned movie with a friend.”

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Who Do Americans Most Admire? Presidents, First Ladies, And Greta Thunberg, Says Gallup.

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Every now and then the facts so glaringly clash with the Democratic narrative that even CNN is compelled to produce a report that actually exposes the side the network so clearly tries to promote.
On Friday, President Trump&#8217;s least favorite news network took an honest look at the impeachment rhetoric from the Democratic Party, particularly Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (NY), and had to admit that what he&#8217;s saying about the impending Senate impeachment trial against Trump sounds a lot different than what he was saying ahead of Bill Clinton&#8217;s trial back in 1999.
McConnell&#8217;s description of himself as &#8220;not an impartial juror&#8221; when it comes to conducting the impeachment trial has Schumer and his fellow Democrats calling the trial illegitimate before it has even begun. But, as <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/27/politics/chuck-schumer-impeachment-1999-kfile/index.html">CNN</a> highlights, &#8220;Schumer himself repeatedly expressed similar sentiments in the late 1990s when senators weighed the removal of President Bill Clinton.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m not an impartial juror,&#8221; McConnell said two weeks ago. &#8220;This is a political process. There is not anything judicial about it. Impeachment is a political decision.&#8221;
The assertion prompted denunciations from Democrats, including a righteous rebuke from Schumer, who claimed he was &#8220;utterly amazed&#8221; that McConnell would declare such a thing.
&#8220;Let the American people hear it loud and clear, the Republican leader said, proudly, &#8216;I&#8217;m not an impartial juror. I&#8217;m not impartial about this at all.&#8217; That is an astonishing admission of partisanship,&#8221; Schumer declared in response on the Senate floor, as<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/17/politics/mcconnell-impartial-juror-impeachment/index.html"> CNN</a> reported.
&#8220;The American people want Mitch McConnell to be an impartial juror in this situation,&#8221; said Schumer, insisting later, &#8220;I&#8217;m withholding any final decision until we hear all the evidence.&#8221;
The problem with Schumer&#8217;s supposed &#8220;amazement&#8221; at McConnell&#8217;s &#8220;astonishing&#8221; embrace of partiality is that Schumer himself proudly declared his own partiality back in 1998 and 1999 ahead of Clinton&#8217;s impeachment trial, which began in January of 1999. CNN reports:
<blockquote>But in several appearances on television in 1998 and 1999 reviewed by CNN&#8217;s KFile, Schumer noted that senators had previously formed opinions heading into the trial and that the Senate was &#8220;not like a jury box.&#8221; Schumer was elected to the Senate in 1998 after saying during his campaign that a vote for him would be a vote to not impeach Clinton.</blockquote>
CNN provides several quotes from Schumer at the time, including these comments he made on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;Larry King Live&#8221; in January 1999:
<blockquote>&#8220;We have a pre-opinion,&#8221; Schumer said, citing himself and two newly-elected Republican senators who had voted on impeachment in 1998 as members of the House of Representatives who said they would vote in the Senate. &#8220;This is not a criminal trial, but this is something that the Founding Fathers decided to put in a body that was susceptible to the whims of politics.&#8221;
&#8220;So therefore, anybody taking an oath tomorrow can have a pre-opinion; it&#8217;s not a jury box,&#8221; King asked Schumer.
&#8220;Many do,&#8221; Schumer responded. &#8220;And then they change. In fact, it&#8217;s also not like a jury box in the sense that people will call us and lobby us. You don&#8217;t have jurors called and lobbied and things like that. I mean, it&#8217;s quite different than a jury. And we&#8217;re also the judge.&#8221;</blockquote>
Schumer told the world in an <a href="http://movies2.nytimes.com/specials/starr/clinton/021299impeach-text-schumer.html">op-ed</a> in February 1999 announcing his official decision to acquit Clinton that he had made up his mind back in September. &#8220;I will be voting to acquit the President on both counts,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I had to make my decision in September as a member of the Judiciary Committee in the House, and while I was in the middle of the campaign.&#8221;
Asked for comment about the clashing statements, a spokesman for Schumer told CNN that this situation is different somehow because of the investigation into Clinton by independent counsel Kennith Starr.
&#8220;These quotes all came after the Starr investigation, which included testimony from key witnesses including President Clinton, had concluded and been made public for months and as Sen. Schumer was in the anomalous position of having already voted on impeachment in both the House Judiciary Committee and on the House floor,&#8221; said the spokesman. &#8220;As is reflected in these quotes, Schumer believed then and still believes now that all of the facts must be allowed to come out and then a decision can be made &#8212; in stark contrast to the Republicans today in both the House and Senate who have worked to prevent all the facts and evidence from coming out.&#8221;

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The oh-so-very conscientious Middle East historians at Vox, who once landed themselves in hot water barely three months after website launch with the <a href="https://freebeacon.com/blog/in-praise-of-vox-media-max-fisher-and-zack-beauchamp/">dissemination of laughable fake news</a> about a purported <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2014/07/17/voxs-motto-should-be-explaining-the-news-incorrectly-repeatedly/">land bridge</a> connecting the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-israel-must-destroy-hamas-once-and-all-josh-hammer">Hamas</a>-controlled Gaza Strip with the biblical Jewish heartland of Judea and Samaria (i.e., the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-yes-palestinian-state-far-more-dangerous-josh-hammer">&#8220;West Bank&#8221;</a>), are apparently <a href="https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2019/12/24/rashida-tlaib-would-no-doubt-be-very-pleased-with-voxs-inexcusably-dishonest-reporting-on-israel-and-israeli-jews/">up to it again</a>.
As highlighted by <a href="https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2019/12/24/rashida-tlaib-would-no-doubt-be-very-pleased-with-voxs-inexcusably-dishonest-reporting-on-israel-and-israeli-jews/">Twitchy</a>, Vox has written a piece about the post-Oslo Accords modern history of the city of Bethlehem that is, in the words of one venerable pro-Israel Twitter user, &#8220;<a href="https://twitter.com/AG_Conservative/status/1209497608122703872">inexcusably dishonest</a>.&#8221; And it is.
Seven years following 1993&#8217;s <a href="https://honestreporting.com/the-second-intifada-israeli-society-terrorized/">fateful</a> signing of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_I_Accord">Oslo I</a> between the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the late Palestinian-Arab unrepentant jihadist Yasser Arafat, Vox informs its readers, &#8220;tourism in Bethlehem &#8230; took a nosedive when the Israeli military invaded many of the West Bank’s major cities that were under Palestinian jurisdiction.&#8221; Vox continues: &#8220;As a political stalemate and expanding Israeli settlements led to the bloody Second Intifada, or uprising, the devastation and Israeli curfews kept tourists away; hotels closed and restaurants went out of business.&#8221;
This is not merely historical revisionism or tendentious distortion. It is an outright lie.
In reality, it was the terrorist Arafat who was singularly responsible for commencing the bloody Second Intifada — a four-plus-year sustained jihad during which over a thousand Israelis paid the ultimate price and thousands more were also wounded.
Although Arafat strategically waited to launch the Second Intifada until after then-Likud party prime minister candidate Ariel Sharon had the oh-so-shocking temerity to visit the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism, in September 2000, it is now commonly known that Arafat had been planning the civilizational jihad at least since he rejected then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak&#8217;s <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/bill-clinton-palestinians-were-offered-temple-mount-in-2000/">exceedingly generous</a> &#8220;two-state solution&#8221; offer (96% of Judea and Samaria) at the U.S.-hosted Camp David Summit two months prior. The U.S. government&#8217;s own <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-mitchell-report-may-2001">Mitchell Report</a> on the subject, overseen by former Sen. George Mitchell (D-ME), made this quite clear (emphasis added):
<blockquote>&#8230; [T]he immediate catalyst for the violence was the breakdown of the Camp David negotiations on July 25, 2000 and the &#8220;widespread appreciation in the international community of Palestinian responsibility for the impasse.&#8221; In this view, Palestinian violence was planned by the PA leadership, and was aimed at &#8220;provoking and incurring Palestinian casualties as a means of regaining the diplomatic initiative.&#8221; &#8230; The Sharon visit [to the Temple Mount] did not cause the &#8220;[Second] Intifada.&#8221;</blockquote>
Lest there be any doubt as to which party was to blame for the negotiation breakdown at Camp David in 2000, furthermore, let us defer to then-U.S. President <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/may/23/israel3">Bill Clinton</a>: &#8220;[Arafat] did not negotiate in good faith; indeed, he did not negotiate at all. He just kept saying no to every offer, never making any counterproposals of his own.&#8221;
In short, the unrepentant terrorist Arafat deliberately tanked the Camp David negotiations and used his own destruction of the possibility for a sustained peace as an excuse for launching a years-long bloody jihad to murder as many Israeli Jews as possible. Contra Vox&#8217;s despicable lying, all subsequent Israel Defense Forces (IDF) incursions into Palestinian-Arab strongholds in Judea and Samaria were in direct response to Arafat&#8217;s preplanned war. In short, it was Arafat&#8217;s deliberately beginning to kill Israeli civilians en masse that prompted the IDF&#8217;s military response.
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Vox apparently wants readers to think Israel invaded Bethlehem out of nowhere, and suggests the second intifada *followed* the invasion. 
Of course, that &quot;uprising&quot;—ie the murdering of Israeli civilians in cafes, buses, and markets—prompted the invasion of West Bank cities. <a href="https://t.co/lkMCaEvUho">pic.twitter.com/lkMCaEvUho</a>
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The Second Intifada was a uniquely harrowing time to live in Israel. Here is how Matti Friedman, who lived in Israel during part of the jihad, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/opinion/israel-election-netanyahu.html">described</a> it at The New York Times in September:
<blockquote>No single episode has shaped Israel’s population and politics like the wave of suicide bombings perpetrated by Palestinians in the first years of the 21st century. Much of what you see here in 2019 is the aftermath of that time, and every election since has been held in its shadow. The attacks, which killed hundreds of Israeli civilians, ended hopes for a negotiated peace and destroyed the left, which was in power when the wave began. Any sympathy that the Israeli majority had toward Palestinians evaporated. &#8230;
I remember standing at a bus stop when I heard a suicide bomber blow himself up and murder 11 people one street over, at Café Moment. My mother passed through the Nahariya train station right before a suicide bomber struck there, and my sister was in a cafeteria at the Hebrew University campus when Palestinians blew up a different cafeteria. I’ve got many more memories like that, all of them standard for the time.</blockquote>
There are a <a href="https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2019/12/24/rashida-tlaib-would-no-doubt-be-very-pleased-with-voxs-inexcusably-dishonest-reporting-on-israel-and-israeli-jews/">myriad other problems</a> with Vox&#8217;s duplicitous holiday season smear job about Israel and Bethlehem. But outright lying about how the Second Intifada started — in contravention of the U.S. government&#8217;s own review of the facts, no less — stands atop the sordid list of Vox&#8217;s falsehoods.
Of course, what else might we expect from the folks who once claimed Israel restricted Palestinian-Arab &#8220;traffic&#8221; on a &#8220;land bridge&#8221; connecting Gaza to Judea and Samaria? &#8220;Fake news&#8221; is very, very real.

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In a remarkable coincidence, Republican President Donald Trump is poised to be officially impeached by the Democrats in the House exactly 21 years after Democratic President Bill Clinton.
Then-President Clinton was impeached by the Republican-controlled House on Dec. 19, 1998 by a vote of 258-176. After two years of the Nancy Pelosi-led Democrats floating various rationales for impeaching Trump, they landed on alleged &#8220;obstruction of Congress&#8221; and &#8220;abuse of power&#8221; related to allegations that Trump attempted to &#8220;pressure&#8221; Ukraine into conducting investigations that might benefit him politically by temporarily withholding U.S. security aid. The date for the big vote has ended up being Dec. 18, 2o19.
While the dates for the House votes on impeachment for the two presidents are identical, the charges, of course, are very different. Clinton was impeached for lying under oath and obstruction of justice after Independent Counsel Ken Starr&#8217;s famous report finding the president lied about his sexual relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Trump is likewise being impeached for two alleged &#8220;high crimes and misdemeanors&#8221;: obstruction of Congress and abuse of power.
While the Democrat-controlled House is expected to vote to impeach Trump on the two articles on completely partisan lines &#8212; with opposition to the impeachment likely to be bipartisan &#8212; the Republican-controlled Senate is expected to clear him. Clinton, too, was ultimately acquitted by the Senate, which shut down the first article by a vote of 45-55 and 50-50 on the second.
So what to expect for Trump if the impeachment scenario plays out as expected? If Clinton&#8217;s post-impeachment performance is any indication, Trump will likely continue to see the positive trend that has begun since the beginning of the public impeachment hearings conducted by the House Democrats.
Post-impeachment, Clinton&#8217;s approval rating rose to its highest percentage of his presidency, 73%, in 1999, and he left office with a solid 65% approval, the highest for an outgoing president in decades.
Trump will undoubtedly never enjoy those high numbers, as he has consistently polled in the 40s in most polls, but recent trends suggest that he will continue to have solid enough support that he could be hard to beat in 2020.
<a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval-6179.html">Real Clear Politics</a>&#8216; average of the major national polls currently shows Trump at 44.5% approval and 51.9% disapproval, up from 41.6 and 55% in mid-October. The RCP average is one of the best numbers for Trump since he was first inaugurated. Emerson currently gives Trump a 46-49 split, Reuters/Ipsos 45-53, and <a href="https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/prez_track_dec18">Rasmussen</a>&#8216;s daily tracking poll shows Trump at 49-49:
<blockquote>The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 49% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-nine percent (49%) disapprove.
The latest figures include 38% who Strongly Approve of the job Trump is doing and 41% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -3.</blockquote>
Rasmussen&#8217;s tracking poll, which generally gives Trump more favorable numbers than other major pollsters, has consistently shown him earning similar approval ratings to Barack Obama at the same period in his presidency, and frequently better. Obama went on to easily win re-election.
Battleground state polls also show Trump trending in the right direction, including recent surveys of three key Rust Belt battleground states. As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/major-warning-signs-for-democrats-focus-group-shows-impeachment-helping-turn-obama-trump-swing-voters-into-full-maga">The Daily Wire</a> reported, a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/thanks-to-impeachment-trump-now-beating-all-democrats-in-three-key-battleground-states">Firehouse Strategies’ survey</a> of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania released last week found Trump surging ahead of all of the Democratic frontrunners in all three states.
<blockquote>The poll found that in Michigan, Trump now leads Joe Biden by 5 points (46-41), Elizabeth Warren by 9 points (47-38), Bernie Sanders by 6 points (48-42), Pete Buttigieg by 11 points (48-37), and Michael Bloomberg by 11 points (48-37). In Pennsylvania, Trump beats Biden by 5 points (46-41), Warren by 7 points (47-40), Sanders by 10 points (48-38), Buttigieg by 6 points (46-40), and Bloomberg by 4 points (45-41). It’s even worse for Democrats in Wisconsin, where Trump now leads Biden by 9 points (48-39), Warren by 13 points (50-37), Sanders by 13 points (51-38), Buttigieg by 11 points (49-38), and Bloomberg by 14 points (49-37).</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/major-warning-signs-for-democrats-focus-group-shows-impeachment-helping-turn-obama-trump-swing-voters-into-full-maga">‘Major Warning Signs’ For Democrats: Focus Group Shows Impeachment Helping Turn Obama/Trump Swing Voters Into Full MAGA</a>

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been making the rounds over the last few months selling various books she&#8217;s co-written and teasing a third presidential run, to the consternation of many of her fellow Democrats. The twice-failed candidate&#8217;s media tour landed her this week on famous talk radio host Howard Stern&#8217;s Sirius/XM program, where she was asked to go on the record about the decades-old rumors about her &#8220;lesbian affairs.&#8221;
The exchange, pointed out by <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/04/hillary-clinton-dismisses-lesbian-rumors-on-howard-stern-i-actually-like-men/">Breitbart</a> Wednesday, occurred during Stern and Clinton&#8217;s discussion about how she first began to date her future philandering husband, former President Bill Clinton. Hillary told Stern she had to break off another relationship in order to date Bill and made sure to underscore just how &#8220;very attractive&#8221; that boyfriend was.
The boyfriend she dumped for Bill was &#8220;a good guy&#8221; and &#8220;so handsome, really handsome,&#8221; like &#8220;a Greek god,&#8221; said Clinton.
She then dropped the comment that gave Stern his chance to go there on the lesbian rumors.
&#8220;Well, contrary to what you might hear, I actually like men,&#8221; said Hillary.
&#8220;Raise your right hand,&#8221; said Stern. &#8220;You’ve never had a lesbian affair.&#8221;
&#8220;Never, never, never!&#8221; said Clinton, laughing. &#8220;Never even been tempted.&#8221;
&#8220;I dated a lot of different people, and I liked a lot of them,&#8221; Hillary added, making clear that those &#8220;people&#8221; only included males. &#8220;I was pretty popular. I was ok popular … boys were not my problem.&#8221;
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Along with her continued teasing of yet another presidential run, given legs by flagging poll numbers and a fumbling campaign by frontrunner Joe Biden, Clinton and her husband have made headlines of late for some problematic connections.
On Tuesday, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-convicted-pedophile-used-in-mueller-investigation-indicted-for-funneling-millions-in-illegal-contributions-to-hillary-doj-says">George Nader</a> — a convicted pedophile who served as a witness to special counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s &#8220;Russia collusion&#8221; investigation because of his alleged contact with Trump advisers — was indicted by the Justice Department &#8220;on campaign finance charges for allegedly using straw donors to conceal contributions to Trump’s 2016 rival, Hillary Clinton,&#8221; <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/03/george-nader-mueller-indicted-campaign-finance-075046">Politico</a> reported Tuesday.
&#8220;Nader embarked on the scheme in a bid to gain influence in Clinton’s circle while reporting to a foreign official, according to the Justice Department,&#8221; the outlet reports. &#8220;Among his alleged co-conspirators is Ahmad &#8216;Andy&#8217; Khawaja, the CEO of a payments processing company, according to the Justice Department <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/california-ceo-and-seven-others-charged-multi-million-dollar-conduit-campaign-contribution" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">news release</a> announcing the unsealing of the indictment, which was made by a grand jury in the District of Columbia. Nader conspired with Khawaja to secretly fund $3.5 million in donations that were made in the name of Khawaja, his wife and his firm, Allied Wallet Inc., according to the indictment.&#8221;
&#8220;Khawaja <a href="https://variety.com/2016/biz/news/tim-kaine-hillary-clinton-hollywood-1201832746/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">co-hosted</a> an August 2016 fundraiser for Clinton alongside the likes of Univision owner Haim Saban, basketball legend Magic Johnson and movie mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg,&#8221; Politico explains. &#8220;Khawaja conspired with six others to conceal his excessive contributions, according to the indictment. Campaign finance records show that the others, who were also indicted, donated to Clinton and to various Democratic committees.&#8221;
The indictment was handed down on the same day that the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7748467/Bill-Hillary-Clinton-frequent-guests-Jeffrey-Epsteins-New-Mexico-ranch.html">The Daily Mail</a> detailed new claims about the alleged connections between the Clintons and another convicted pedophile: recently deceased accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
&#8220;Bill and Hillary Clinton stayed at Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious ‘baby-making ranch’ almost every year after they left the White House, according to the disgraced financier’s estate manager,” the outlet reports. &#8220;The former president was Epstein’s closest ‘celebrity mate’ and the Clintons, along with daughter Chelsea, visited Zorro Ranch ‘a whole bunch of times’, a former contractor who ran the IT system at the property told DailyMailTV in an exclusive interview.&#8221;

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A new report published on Tuesday alleges that former Democrat President Bill Clinton and two-time failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton visited the New Mexico ranch of convicted pedophile and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein nearly every year since Clinton left office at the end of his second term.
&#8220;Bill and Hillary Clinton stayed at Jeffrey Epstein&#8217;s notorious &#8216;baby-making ranch&#8217; almost every year after they left the White House, according to the disgraced financier&#8217;s estate manager,&#8221; The Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7748467/Bill-Hillary-Clinton-frequent-guests-Jeffrey-Epsteins-New-Mexico-ranch.html">reported</a>. &#8220;The former president was Epstein&#8217;s closest &#8216;celebrity mate&#8217; and the Clintons, along with daughter Chelsea, visited Zorro Ranch &#8216;a whole bunch of times&#8217;, a former contractor who ran the IT system at the property told DailyMailTV in an exclusive interview.&#8221;
The Daily Mail reported that the Clintons never stayed in the main mansion on the massive 10,000 acre property but did stay in one of the guest houses.
&#8220;This is all according to security expert Jared Kellogg, who was brought in by long-standing ranch manager Brice Gordon to improve security and set up a camera system at the main house and &#8216;cowboy village&#8217;,&#8221; The Daily Mail continued. &#8220;Kellogg said that at the time of his site walk of Epstein&#8217;s property, he had barely any knowledge of Epstein&#8217;s reputation but he said Gordon spent most of the time boasting about the Clintons&#8217; frequent appearance at the estate.&#8221;
Kellogg told The Daily Mail: &#8220;My access was very controlled. During the site walk, it was dictated where I could and couldn&#8217;t go. There were certain facilities I wasn&#8217;t allowed to go in, which was odd, as they were boarded up, and they looked like they could have big parties in them, but I didn&#8217;t think much of it. They wanted to put very, very limited camera coverage on the main house itself.&#8221;
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/31/business/jeffrey-epstein-eugenics.html">reported</a> over the summer that Epstein allegedly wanted to turn his ranch into a place where he would impregnate vast numbers of women in what the Times described as &#8220;transhumanism,&#8221; which &#8220;critics have likened transhumanism to a modern-day version of eugenics, the discredited field of improving the human race through controlled breeding.&#8221;
&#8220;Once, at a dinner at Mr. Epstein’s mansion on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Mr. Lanier said he talked to a scientist who told him that Mr. Epstein’s goal was to have 20 women at a time impregnated at his 33,000-square-foot Zorro Ranch in a tiny town outside Santa Fe. Mr. Lanier said the scientist identified herself as working at NASA, but he did not remember her name,&#8221; the Times reported. &#8220;According to Mr. Lanier, the NASA scientist said Mr. Epstein had based his idea for a baby ranch on accounts of the Repository for Germinal Choice, which was to be stocked with the sperm of Nobel laureates who wanted to strengthen the human gene pool.&#8221;
Epstein was arrested by federal law enforcement officials on sex trafficking charges in early July after returning to the United States and subsequently committed suicide in a New York City prison approximately a month later.
When asked for comment by The Daily Mail, the Clintons pointed to a statement that they released over the summer which &#8220;denied he had ever visited any of Epstein&#8217;s residences, apart from once at Epstein&#8217;s home in New York City.&#8221;

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New Connections Emerge Between The Clintons And Jeffrey Epstein: Report

The Clinton Foundation has been on a financial skid since Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election, a new report from the <a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/clinton-foundation-money-loss/">Washington Free Beacon shows</a>.
According to tax records filed on behalf of the Foundation for the last several years, the Clinton Foundation, which once touted itself as a massive global force for good, but often looked to be little more than a roundabout way of influencing the political priorities of its three leaders &#8212; Bill and Hillary Clinton and their daughter Chelsea &#8212; is now a mere shell of its former self, having lost around half of its value after Hillary Clinton failed to win the White House.
&#8220;The foundation reported total revenue of just $30.7 million, including $24.2 million worth of grants and contributions, a record low for the alleged &#8216;charity,'&#8221; the Free Beacon reports. &#8220;That figure was well short of the foundation&#8217;s total expenses for the year—$47.5 million— resulting in a net loss of $16.8 million.&#8221;
That makes 2018 the second year in a row that that the Clinton Foundation failed to meet its fundraising expectations: &#8220;The previous year, the Clinton Foundation reported a net loss of $16.1 million.&#8221;
Altogether, the Free Beacon says, that means the Clinton foundation has come up $30 million short since 2016.
The Clintons have been adamant that the Foundation isn&#8217;t necessarily a clearinghouse for off-the-books political giving (though, in fairness, it also serves as an employment opportunity for their daughter), but as the Free Beacon points out, the best fundraising years the Clinton Foundation just happened to be the same years Hillary Clinton served as Secretary of State, and the same years she was running a presidential campaign. Between 2008 and 2016, it seems, the Foundation&#8217;s fundraising was in the billions.
It likely does not help that the Federal government has since instituted an investigation into the internal workings of the Clinton Foundation &#8212; and specifically how money was spent and whether &#8220;donors to the foundation were improperly promised policy favors or special access to Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state in exchange for donations to the charity&#8217;s coffers, as well as whether tax-exempt funds were misused,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/05/politics/clinton-foundation-arkansas-probe/index.html">according to CNN</a>.
The claim isn&#8217;t merely part of a political witch hunt: someone with intimate knowlege of  the &#8220;charity&#8217;s&#8221; finances compiled a whistleblower report, <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/420131-feds-received-whistleblower-evidence-in-2017-alleging-clinton-foundation">according to the Hill</a>, which uncovered the investigation back in 2018, and that whistleblower attached more than 6,000 pages of evidence they felt indicated that the Clintons were using the Foundation as a way to encourage donor competiton and build income.
The submission reportedly contains an interview with  &#8220;the foundation’s longtime chief financial officer&#8221; where he says he was &#8220;unable to stop former President Clinton from &#8216;commingling&#8217; personal business and charitable activities inside the foundation.&#8221;
There&#8217;s some circumstantial evidence to indicate that the Clinton Foundation isn&#8217;t what it seems, as well. The Foundation, unlike other charitale stalwarts on the progressive end of the spectrum, does not have a multi-million dollar endowment and the Clintons aren&#8217;t one of the Foundation&#8217;s major donors. The &#8220;ongoing endowment&#8221; is barely $2.9 million, pennies compared to, say, the Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundation, and TIDES.
Most of its money, then comes from major donors, making it more likely that those who give to the Clintons&#8217; charity are engaging in a little &#8220;influence peddling&#8221; &#8212; and when the Clintons are out of &#8220;influence,&#8221; as they are right now, the Foundation&#8217;s donor base dries up.

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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

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.

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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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

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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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