How a lot religion ought to one put within the veracity of Invoice Clinton when he testified final week in a deposition that he did “nothing fallacious” in his relationship with convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein? I suppose it is dependent upon the that means of “nothing” and “fallacious.” How a lot religion ought to one place in Hillary Clinton’s veracity when she testified she “by no means met” Epstein, when he visited the White Home 17 instances?
In her deposition, Hillary Clinton mentioned: “As I acknowledged in my sworn declaration on January 13, I had no thought about their legal actions. I don’t recall ever encountering Mr. Epstein. I by no means flew on his aircraft or visited his island, properties or workplaces. I’ve nothing so as to add to that.”
Discover the acquainted “I don’t recall.” Maybe she ought to take a look at footage launched final December by Home Democrats that features a {photograph} taken in 2002 of her, husband Invoice and Epstein at what seems to be a social occasion. They seem jovial and properly acquainted.
In January 2001, on his ultimate day in workplace, President Clinton reached an settlement to keep away from indictment for perjury and obstruction of justice relating to the Monica Lewinsky investigation. He accepted a five-year suspension of his Arkansas legislation license, paid a tremendous and admitted to a breach {of professional} conduct. He didn’t earn the moniker “Slick Willie” for nothing.
Take a look at these sizzling tub and different footage that present Invoice within the firm of girls and women, not his spouse. One is on his lap in a non-public aircraft, the opposite reveals him in a pool with Ghislaine Maxwell and a younger girl whose face has been blacked out. This isn’t what was referred to as “regular conduct” for a married man.
Simply as banks take a look at one’s credit standing earlier than deciding whether or not a borrower is an effective threat, the Clintons’ credibility ranking also needs to be examined. Google “record of lies advised by Invoice and Hillary Clinton.” These don’t embrace the dissembling and “I don’t recall.” Itemizing all of them may require a full newspaper web page. Take a look at Benghazi, the bleached laptop recordsdata, and a lot extra.
Listed below are just some to jog reminiscences: Hillary didn’t land beneath sniper fireplace in Iraq as she mentioned, nor was she named after Sir Edmund Hillary, as she has claimed. ( Sir Hillary climbed Mt. Everest after she was born.) New York Occasions columnist William Safire wrote in 1996: “Drip by drip, like Whitewater torture, the case is being made that she is compelled to mislead, and to ensnare her subordinates and mates in an internet of deceit.”
Safire continued: “Bear in mind the story she advised about learning The Wall Road Journal to elucidate her 10,000 p.c revenue in 1979 commodity buying and selling? We now know that was a lie advised to show apart accusations that because the governor’s spouse she profited corruptly, her account being run by a lawyer for state poultry pursuits by a disreputable dealer. She lied for good motive: To confess in any other case could be to admit taking, and paying taxes on, what some suppose amounted to a $100,000 bribe.”
As for Invoice Clinton, the place to begin (there is no such thing as a finish)? Sexual assault costs date again to a minimum of when he was governor of Arkansas. He denied all of them, as did his many enablers who have been made to look silly when the reality got here out about a few of them. Up till then we have been advised we should imagine girls when it got here to such accusations, however for Democrats that apparently utilized solely when Republicans have been accused of inappropriate misconduct.
As an English Literature main in school, I first encountered this line from Sir Walter Scott: “Oh, what a tangled net we weave, when first we apply to deceive!” That might function an epitaph for each Clintons.
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