Hillary Clinton: “Funny Things That Happened In My Election… Will Not Happen Again”
[guest post by Dana]
This is from Hillary Clinton during an upcoming interview with Jane Pauley, which will air Sunday on CBS Sunday Morning. If this is the failed candidate cracking open the door to another run, what vanity to believe that America turns its lonely eyes to her, of all people:
“Look, there were many funny things that happened in my election that will not happen again,” she told interviewer Jane Pauley. “And I’m hoping that both the public and press understand the way Trump plays the game.”
Clinton went on to claim Donald Trump was an “illegitimate president.”
“I believe he understands that the many varying tactics they used – from voter suppression and voter purging to hacking to the false stories – he knows that there were just a bunch of different reasons why the election turned out like it did.”
Sure, go with that…
Clinton also, unsurprisingly, supports efforts to impeach President Trump:
“My view is that, given the latest revelation, which is such a blatant effort to use his presidential position to advance his personal and political interests, there should be an impeachment inquiry opened,” Clinton said. “And I think, sadly, there are a number of grounds. But this one is incredibly troubling.” She added, “The most outrageously false things were said about me in 2016, and unfortunately, enough people believed them. So, this is an effort to sow these falsehoods against Biden.”
If I cared enough, I’d like to hear Hillary address the outrageously truthful things that were said about her in 2016…
(Cross-posted at The Jury Talks Back.)
–Dana
It’s nice to start the morning with an eye-roll.
Dana (05f22b) — 9/27/2019 @ 7:52 amI agree with you… howvever, lemme add something else… anecdotally, the democrat supporters in my sphere are now voicing their opinions that HRC may be democrat’s last hope to beat Trump. (all you have to look at is how razor thin Trump’s win in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin)
Biden is damaged goods now…
Bernie/Warren is so far left, a not insignificant moderate democrats would be turned off.
Harris and others really don’t seem to have that presidential (gravitas) AND be able to pull together the extreme left and moderate democrats together. They’re telling me HRC is the only one would can do that.
I’m not sure I agree with that assessment, especially that Biden is damaged goods now…we’re still eons away from the 2020 elections.
But, that sure did pique my interest that democrat voters in the trenches are actually voicing this now.
Is anyone hearing this? Hillary Clinton Redux-Electric Bugaloo???
whembly (fd57f6) — 9/27/2019 @ 8:04 amI stopped paying attention to what she said a long time ago. The signal to noise ratio is just too steep. It wasn’t that she just blasted out a string of blatant falsehoods. It was that she’s so twisty that the work required to figure out the actual meaning of her statements wasn’t worth it.
Time123 (c9382b) — 9/27/2019 @ 8:04 amWanted to add, thank you for the post. My comment was not intended to criticize you for writing your post. Just a general dig at Hillary.
Time123 (c9382b) — 9/27/2019 @ 8:06 amHillary still believes the election was stolen from her by dirty Russian hackers. It wasn’t. She lost to Donald Trump. That ‘s her political legacy. She is the type of entitled creature who could actually lose to Donald F’n Trump. She needs to own it and go back to being a doting grandma.
Appalled (1a17de) — 9/27/2019 @ 8:07 amShe keeps reminding millions why they held their noses and voted Orange Man.
If anyone thinks we’d be better off if she’d won, think again.
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2 – Whemb
As ridiculous as reality has become, I can’t see it. The Left is jumping on the Fauxcahontas bandwagon and is now portraying her as the female Jesus/Einstein while at the same time shoveling dirt over or ignoring stuff like this:
F. Bill McMorris
@FBillMcMorris
Elizabeth Warren, who has said “no one should make a profit locking people up,” invested in private prisons
The next 14 months are going to be a combination of the Babylon Bee, a train wreck and Simple Jack.
harkin (dc1411) — 9/27/2019 @ 8:24 am_
2. whembly (fd57f6) — 9/27/2019 @ 8:04 am
I thnk people will forgive Joe Biden when he acknow;edges the fact that he made up that story that he told to the Council on Foreign Relations on January 23, 2018 about the press conference in Ukraine that was cancelled at the last minute.
Of course, Biden is trying to avoid having to do that. But if it gets looked into, it can on;y ene that way.
Sammy Finkelman (27cd2c) — 9/27/2019 @ 8:40 amThis is Hillary bidding for the job of senior stateswoman. Not more. Yet, anyway.
Sammy Finkelman (27cd2c) — 9/27/2019 @ 8:42 amI’m not at all convinced she could make it a close election, but Clinton would be a better choice than anybody in the Dem top 10 other than Biden or Klobuchar, IMO.
In terms of substance, I don’t think there’s much difference between her and Biden TBH.
Dave (1bb933) — 9/27/2019 @ 8:42 amGo. The F*ck. Away.
Hillary Clinton is the reason we have Trump. I do not want to see or hear from her again.
Leviticus (efada1) — 9/27/2019 @ 8:56 amTulsi….because they got -h-t else.
urbanleftbehind (438c6f) — 9/27/2019 @ 9:14 amThe Impeachment hearings should address the false things Trump said about Hillary? Why? Hillary addressed them during the campaign and the voters gave the verdict. Again, she’s such a liar. What “hacking”? What “voter suppression”? What “fraud”? There was none or the D’s were doing it too.
rcocean (1a839e) — 9/27/2019 @ 10:21 amHillary Clinton is the reason we have Trump
Not quite. The reason we have Trump is because every conservative since Ronald Reagan did not have a spine. Too afraid to stand up to the liberal establishment and all the nonsense that has been shoved down our throats. Hillary was merely the latest manifestation of the situation.
Bored Lawyer (998177) — 9/27/2019 @ 11:17 amShe’ll channel Geithner, blame it on Wealthfront…
Matador (39e0cd) — 9/27/2019 @ 11:29 amThe best way to get people to oppose impeachment: have Hillary Clinton come out in favor of it.
Patterico (d3d5c1) — 9/27/2019 @ 11:31 amBefore Man landed on the moon; before Watergate; before Woodstock— before many readers of this blog were aware– or even alive– there was Ms. Hillary bloviating to the public in the June 10, 1969 issue of LIFE magazine.
Neil Armstrong is dead; Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Nixon, too– and Woodstock 50 failed to reboot.
Even Goering recognized when to stop bombing Britain.
Go away, Hillary. For God’s sake, GO AWAY.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 9/27/2019 @ 11:38 amDoes she include winning 6 out of 6 coin flips in the Iowa primary? That was funny. I’ve never done that or seen that done.
Milwaukee (740399) — 9/27/2019 @ 11:46 amOT: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charts-americas-political-divide-1994-2017/
Pretty stark how far left the democrat party are these days. Notice the “Median Democrat” line…
whembly (fd57f6) — 9/27/2019 @ 12:08 pm“Here’s the deal, folks– this is the United States of America” and these twits are lousy marketers. The polls suggest tepid interest in impeachment by the public and trial by cable TeeVee hosts produces only heat, not light.
Initiating an ‘impeachment inquiry’ then seasoning it with buzz words like ‘cover up’ then recessing four days later for two weeks– even with selective, closed door committee hearings, subpoenas and more useless paper jockeying- doesn’t help the sales pitch, either– and suggests a lack of seriousness to a people busy living and working in the real world. It doesn’t do much to cultivate broader impeachment support. Two weeks is a ‘decade’ in today’s news cycles.
These twits need to go full bore with all public hearings– no more ‘closed door’ crap- cease the histrionics and do the calm, Howard Baker, just-the-facts- ‘what did the president know and when did he know it’ routine, remain in session and sell it, a la the Nixon model, not the Clinton model.
Can’t think of a better time for a Trump ‘ally’ overseas to give him a hand by moving troops into Hong Kong, or Syria– maybe unveil a new sub or just loft a biggie ICBM or two over Japan and make a splash in the vicinity of Kwajalein.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 9/27/2019 @ 12:08 pmHillary could’ve saved us from having a sex addled lush on the Supreme Court.
Munroe (53beca) — 9/27/2019 @ 12:40 pm13 – “Donald Trump is the reason we don’t have Hillary Clinton”
Fyp
Seriously though, there are many reasons we have Trump but one of the main reasons is that the liberal elites decided that the absolute surest way to elect Hillary was to push Trump into the spotlight in 2015 to fracture the Republican Party. Then they realized if they went whole hog and gave him maximum exposure (as opposed to Cruz, Perry, Jindal, Fiorina, Rubio etc.) he could actually win the nomination, a dream come true after which they would destroy him before the election.
Beware of what you wish for, the same thing I tell Republicans who think Trump will obliterate Warren.
I truly believe that Trump’s biggest asset going in to 2020 will be a HUGE number of voters basically not believing anything said by the media about him, assisted by all the “WE GOT HIM THIS TIME!!!!” non-stop clown car scandals they keep pushing in hopes to invalidate an election.
harkin (dc1411) — 9/27/2019 @ 12:43 pm_
harkin,
Funny, I was just thinking yesterday that Trump is likely to win based on voter anti-Trump fatigue, that people will simply be so tired of hearing media rants about him that their brains will turn off any time something negative comes up regarding him.
Soronel Haetir (e15932) — 9/27/2019 @ 1:13 pmClinton still unliked by half the democratic base and would split the biden vote in primaries.
lany (e2b3a2) — 9/27/2019 @ 1:13 pm@21. Believe there is something to your ‘we’ve got him this time’ perspective. Echoes every plot line chasing JR Ewing in nearly every episode of ‘Dallas‘– he was the fella “everybody loved to hate.” He lasted 12 seasons. Trump will do 8.
Prediction- at worse– if it goes that far: a Senate censure– so all azzes covered… then re-election.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 9/27/2019 @ 1:46 pmWhen I read “What Happened,” I realized (again), that she was literally the most unprincipled, and arrogant person to run for office since Aaron Burr.
There is not one person she does not blame for her loss. Not one American institution she would not try to reorder: ditching the Electoral College, and eviscerating Citizens United would be an appetizer.
I liked Bill. Voted for him twice (despite his awful nominations). But man, did we dodge a bullet when she lost.
Harcourt Fenton Mudd (0c349e) — 9/27/2019 @ 1:53 pmR.I.P. Joe Wilson
Let them eat ‘yellowcake.’
DCSCA (797bc0) — 9/27/2019 @ 1:59 pmOT: In August 2019, the intelligence community secretly eliminated a requirement that whistleblowers provide direct, first-hand knowledge of alleged wrongdoings.
This is a huge red flag. This can’t be construed as coincidental.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/27/intel-community-secretly-gutted-requirement-of-first-hand-whistleblower-knowledge/
whembly (fd57f6) — 9/27/2019 @ 2:16 pmred squaw, is still way beyond the ball, she whiffed at the question on foreign boards, maybe it’s too close to her daughters chairmanship of demos,
narciso (d1f714) — 9/27/2019 @ 3:06 pmThe “Rule” of law:
Felicity Huffman will do more time than Hillary Clinton ever did– or will.
“Lock her up! Lock her up!”
DCSCA (797bc0) — 9/27/2019 @ 3:26 pmone of theses days, we’ll find out what happened to that yellowcake,
narciso (d1f714) — 9/27/2019 @ 3:31 pmJoe Wilson, who along with his wife turned BS into a glam celebrity life of Washington, New York and Hollywood parties, even a movie!
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“red squaw, is still way beyond the ball, she whiffed at the question on foreign boards, maybe it’s too close to her daughters chairmanship of demos”
I would bet than less than 1% of voters care about Warren’s response to foreign boards. She’s got the media in her pocket and the scales weighing her and crazy Joe are not exactly swinging his way right now.
harkin (dc1411) — 9/27/2019 @ 5:04 pm_
I also wish she’d go very far away. But she was right, he was and is a threat to Democracy.
JRH (52aed3) — 9/27/2019 @ 5:18 pmI can’t help but wonder if the DNC servers (now copied in the Ukraine) retain any info about Terry McAuliffe and Global Crossing. Then Virginia Governor McAuliffe was, in the year of the DNC “hack” under investigation by the FBI and prosecutors from the Justice Department’s public integrity unit.
https://www.cnn.com/2016/05/23/politics/terry-mcauliffe-fbi-doj-federal-investigation-campaign-contributions/index.html
“Among the McAuliffe donations that drew the interest of the investigators was $120,000 from a Chinese businessman, Wang Wenliang, through his U.S. businesses. Wang was previously delegate to China’s National People’s Congress, the country’s ceremonial legislature.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/25/us/politics/terry-mcauliffe-wang-wenliang.html?ref=oembed
[In 2012] one of China’s largest agricultural importers sent representatives to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., hoping that meetings with elite party officials might yield business opportunities. The company, the Dandong Port Group, was particularly focused on the governors in attendance, according to an interview with Dandong’s general counsel broadcast by Chinese state television.
“If you really want to influence, let’s say, U.S.-China policy,” [Dandong’s spokesman] said, “it’s almost worth it to have emphasis and influence on the state level.” … [T]he company’s widening influence is coming under scrutiny by federal prosecutors, who are examining the relationship between Dandong’s wealthy and connected chairman, Wang Wenliang, and Gov. Terry McAuliffe of Virginia, a Democrat who was elected in 2013. … But the federal inquiry throws a cloud over Mr. McAuliffe at a critical time: He is a top fund-raiser for Hillary Clinton, a close confidant of her and her husband, and the governor of a swing state critical to her chances of becoming president.
The China – Democrat connection was publicized in May of 2016 and the “Russia” (?) Hack of the Democratic server was in June of that same year. It’s like the easiest way for the Russians to figure out what the Chinese were doing was to get the info from the US Democrats.
Anyhow, the DNC refused to turn over the servers to the FBI or DoJ — the same TLA’s investigating McAuliffe that year,. Surely the DNC didn’t fear the FBI? The DNC instead had the servers inspected by the Ukrainian company “Crowdstrike”. Who are the sole source of info about the Russian Hackers…
So Trump wants the Ukrainians to double-check Crowdstrike’s findings about what and who was dinking with the 2016 elections? And THAT brings on an impeachment action? Hmm.
Pouncer (df6448) — 9/27/2019 @ 5:24 pmShe’s not going to run again and no one is asking her to. I live in CA, bastion of the Deep Blue Dems, and I haven’t heard anyone at all wishing Hillary would jump back in. Not a single person.
Nic (896fdf) — 9/27/2019 @ 5:26 pmAnd Trump for all his many many faults is still a better President than she would ever be. More honest, too, since the people who would cover for Hillary have got their eye on Trump.
Kevin M (19357e) — 9/27/2019 @ 6:51 pm“…….. since the people who would cover for Hillary have got their eye on Trump.“
I’m glad they have their eye on Trump, I just wish they wouldn’t have to manufacture his ‘crimes’.
But have to admit their complete abandonment of ethics/professionalism has so far worked in his favor.
harkin (dc1411) — 9/27/2019 @ 7:43 pm_
Its the entire press corps, and they are not treated as the complicit tools they have always been.
Narciso (beeb9a) — 9/27/2019 @ 7:50 pmIt’s been Hillary’s obsession to be the first female elected as president since she was in college. She won’t be the first to run–that credit belongs to Virginia Woodhull, who ran on the Equal Rights Party in 1872. But the thought of Elizabeth Warren winning the Democratic nomination and possibly defeating Trump is too much for her to bare. That’s why she’s injecting herself into the equation at this time. But it’s a failed attempt. No one, and I’m talking about Democrats here, wants her ont he ticket.
Gawain's Ghost (b25cd1) — 9/27/2019 @ 10:26 pm*wants her on the ticket
Good grief, spelling mistakes, or actually typing misprints.
Gawain's Ghost (b25cd1) — 9/27/2019 @ 10:28 pmHillary C has managed to dodge a serious reckoning while Trump associates have been put through the wringer for much less. Mass email bleaching and Blackberry smashing is just a dramatic instance of her entitled and sketchy track record. That she gets away with this stuff is almost a given where she is concerned. Don’t even bring up obstruction-in-plain-sight… she did nothing wrong. She went down to Trump because her campaign didn’t cut it. She couldn’t even drag herself to Wisconsin. She was acting like a queen-in-waiting rather than a candidate who needed to work to get elected. But like most spurned doyennes the fault always lies elsewhere… with the Russians, with the deplorables, trolls, leaks and “funny things” that happened.
aidan maconachy (1bd227) — 9/28/2019 @ 2:35 amHillary who?
mg (8cbc69) — 9/28/2019 @ 3:27 am