After refusing a subpoena to seem earlier than the Home Oversight Committee and solely after it grew to become clear the committee that features a number of Democrat members would vote to carry them in contempt of Congress, Invoice and Hillary Clinton introduced they might give sworn depositions regarding what they know concerning the convicted intercourse offender, the late Jeffrey Epstein.
The Clintons might be put beneath oath as is the same old observe with such depositions. Given their file of shading the reality and telling outright lies, why would anybody consider what they are saying?
Listed below are just some examples of what’s identified concerning the two of them.
First, Invoice. Who can neglect that scene within the White Home after the story broke about Monica Lewinsky? With Hillary standing by her man, Clinton pointed his index finger for emphasis and stated: “I didn’t have sexual relations with that girl, Ms. Lewinsky.”
That assertion got here whereas Clinton was being investigated for perjury, resulting in his impeachment by the Home however acquittal within the Senate. He later admitted the assertion was false. His many defenders, together with Cupboard members, made excuses for him, solely to be humiliated when the reality emerged.
Throughout his Aug. 17, 1998, grand jury testimony concerning the Lewinsky scandal, Clinton engaged in a parsing of phrases that made me giggle. In videotape testimony Clinton was requested to justify his earlier declare that there was no sexual relationship between himself and Lewinsky. Clinton responded: “It is dependent upon what the that means of the phrase ‘is’ is.” This was the form of stuff that earned him the title “Slick Willie.”
Bear in mind Paula Jones, Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey and others who accused Clinton of rape, sexual harassment and different inappropriate conduct? Clinton denied all the fees whereas his supporters tried to smear the ladies. James Carville famously stated: “Drag a $100 invoice by way of a trailer park and there’s no telling what you will discover.”
“Bimbo eruptions” was a phrase coined by Betsey Wright, a deputy chair of Clinton’s 1992 presidential marketing campaign. Its function was to assault Clinton’s feminine accusers. Hillary Clinton joined within the effort. A lot for feminine solidarity.
There’s loads extra on the checklist of lies informed by Invoice Clinton courting again to his time as Arkansas lawyer common and governor, however let’s transfer on to Hillary.
Throughout her 2008 presidential marketing campaign, First woman Hillary Clinton claimed she landed in Tuzla, Bosnia, in 1996 “beneath sniper hearth” and needed to “run with our heads down.” Video footage and information studies revealed she was greeted on the tarmac by a bunch of officers and an 8-year-old lady, with no fast signal of sniper hearth. She later acknowledged she “misspoke” and that it was a “false reminiscence.”
Then there was the enterprise about her emails on authorities and personal servers whereas she was secretary of state. Throughout and after her time in that workplace Hillary Clinton made a number of claims concerning her use of a personal e-mail server for official enterprise, a lot of which have been contradicted by an FBI investigation. “I by no means obtained nor despatched any materials that was marked as labeled,” she testified. However the FBI investigation discovered 110 emails in 52 chains contained labeled data after they have been despatched or obtained, some on the highest ranges, even when they weren’t explicitly marked as such on the time they have been despatched on her server. Then-FBI Director James Comey referred to as her dealing with of labeled data “extraordinarily careless.”
House doesn’t allow itemizing extra of their lies and dissembling however anybody can discover them with a Google search. If the Clintons lie once more or parse phrases earlier than the Home Oversight Committee will there be penalties? That’s one thing the Clintons have largely prevented all through their public careers and personal lives.
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