The Clinton Chronicles
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Actually, Trump should issue the pardon as soon as he gets into office and have her (and by extention Bill) permanently labeled as "damaged" goods that needs protection.
Ouch! Hillary Clinton LOST MORE ELECTORS Than Any US Politician in Last 100 Years
Jim Hoft Dec 20th, 2016 9:57 am 238 Comments
Democrats were hoping yesterday’s Electoral Vote would end with electors rejecting Republican Donald Trump in droves.
It didn’t work out that way.
in fact Hillary Clinton lost more electors than Donald J. Trump.
Trump lost two electors: One to Ron Paul and one to Governor John Kasich.
Hillary Clinton lost Five electors.
The Final Count:
8 Clinton defectors
4 WA (successful)
1 HI (successful)
1 MN (attempted)
1 ME (attempted)
1 CO (attempted)
2 Trump defectors
TX (successful)
In fact Hillary Clinton lost more electors than any politician in the last 100 years.
Not since 1912 has a candidate lost more electors.
Hillary Clinton lost more electors than any US politician in the last 100 years.
Here’s the list:
2004 – Anonymous (Democrat, Minnesota)
2000 – Barbara Lett-Simmons (Democrat, District of Columbia)
1988 – Margaret Leach (Democrat, West Virginia)
1976 – Mike Padden (Republican, Washington)
1972 – Roger L. MacBride (Republican, Virginia)
1968 – Dr. Lloyd W. Bailey (Republican, North Carolina)
1960 – Henry D. Irwin (Republican, Oklahoma)
1956 – W.F. Turner (Democrat, Alabama)
1948 – Preston Parks (Democrat, Tennessee)
1912 – Eight Republican Electors
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/12/hillary-clinton-lost-electors-us-politician-last-100-years/
Jim Hoft Dec 20th, 2016 9:57 am 238 Comments
Democrats were hoping yesterday’s Electoral Vote would end with electors rejecting Republican Donald Trump in droves.
It didn’t work out that way.
in fact Hillary Clinton lost more electors than Donald J. Trump.
Trump lost two electors: One to Ron Paul and one to Governor John Kasich.
Hillary Clinton lost Five electors.
The Final Count:
8 Clinton defectors
4 WA (successful)
1 HI (successful)
1 MN (attempted)
1 ME (attempted)
1 CO (attempted)
2 Trump defectors
TX (successful)
In fact Hillary Clinton lost more electors than any politician in the last 100 years.
Not since 1912 has a candidate lost more electors.
Hillary Clinton lost more electors than any US politician in the last 100 years.
Here’s the list:
2004 – Anonymous (Democrat, Minnesota)
2000 – Barbara Lett-Simmons (Democrat, District of Columbia)
1988 – Margaret Leach (Democrat, West Virginia)
1976 – Mike Padden (Republican, Washington)
1972 – Roger L. MacBride (Republican, Virginia)
1968 – Dr. Lloyd W. Bailey (Republican, North Carolina)
1960 – Henry D. Irwin (Republican, Oklahoma)
1956 – W.F. Turner (Democrat, Alabama)
1948 – Preston Parks (Democrat, Tennessee)
1912 – Eight Republican Electors
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/12/hillary-clinton-lost-electors-us-politician-last-100-years/
REGRETS
Bill Clinton, Who May Have Cost Hillary the Election, Passes the Buck to James Comey
Anthony Weiner and the FBI were only in the picture because she felt the rules did not apply to her. She might still have won had her husband not felt the same.
MICHAEL DALY
12.21.16 1:15 AM ET
Former President Bill Clinton is quick to apportion blame for his wife’s defeat.
“James Comey cost her the election,” Clinton was quoted telling a group of holiday shoppers during an impromptu chat in a Westchester County bookshop last week.
But he has yet to place any blame at all on an otherwise great man with a great fault who bears considerably more responsibility for Hillary Clinton’s loss.
That man is Bill Clinton himself. His great fault is one he shares with his wife; they too often act as if rules that apply to you or me do not apply to them.
In blaming Comey, Bill Clinton noted that “we were seven points up” before the FBI director made it known via a letter to Congress that the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails had been reopened.
Bill Clinton did not add that Comey had felt obliged to make the reopening public because he had previously felt obliged to make the initial closing of the investigation public.
And the reason Comey had made the initial closing public was that the rules do in fact apply to everybody.
One rule holds that the husband of the target of a criminal investigation should not seek to meet privately with the law enforcement official ultimately in charge of that same investigation, no matter how innocent the talk.
That did not stop Bill Clinton from striding across the tarmac to have a friendly chat with Attorney General Loretta Lynch when their planes happened to be parked near each other at the executive terminal at Sky Harbor airport in Phoenix on June 27.
“I did see President Clinton at the Phoenix airport as he was leaving, and he spoke to myself and my husband on the plane,” Lynch told the press afterward. “Our conversation was a great deal about grandchildren. It was primarily social and about our travels, and he mentioned golf he played in Phoenix.”
Word of the encounter nonetheless left Comey in an untenable situation. He had essentially come to the end of the investigation. The usual protocol called for him then to refer the findings to Department of Justice and let the prosecutors make the official determination.
What was anything but usual was that the top prosecutor had just been sitting on a plane with Bill Clinton. And for Lynch now to announce that Hillary Clinton had been cleared would call into question the integrity of all involved, including Comey and the FBI.
Had he been looking to make it easy on himself and hard on Hillary, Comey could have simply said that there was sufficient probable cause to proceed with a criminal case. He would have needed only to point to the nearly two dozen secret emails that had passed through her server.
But, in the words of one former FBI agent, Comey is “a unicorn in Washington; somebody who actually has ethics.” And he had come to the conclusion that while Hillary’s conduct had been egregiously careless, it lacked the intent necessary to support criminal charges.
Comey decided that he had to present the results directly to the public along with an explanation to dispel the appearance of impropriety as much as was possible. He did just that, making clear that he felt Hillary Clinton had been reckless and irresponsible, and that she had shown terrible judgment.
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“We cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts,” Comey said. “Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.”
What Comey could not have foreseen was that Anthony Weiner would get caught in another sexting scandal… and that this time it would involve a 15-year-old… and that FBI agents would end up securing a search warrant for the former congressman’s computer… and that its hard drive would prove to contain thousands of emails between his wife, Huma Amedin, and Hillary Clinton via the former secretary of State’s server.
These emails clearly had nothing to do with the Weiner sex crime investigation. But there was a possibility that they might pertain to the now-closed Hillary Clinton investigation.
Comey could hardly have just ignored the emails, even if he had been so inclined, which he most definitely was not. The only way he could check them was to reopen the investigation and secure a search warrant.
As has been noted in The Daily Beast, one problem for Comey was that the very agents who had been less than happy to see all their work on the Hillary case apparently come to naught when the case was closed in July would almost certainly be put back on it when it was revived. And one of those agents would be all but sure to tip off the press. There would no doubt have been talk of a cover-up on Hillary Clinton’s behalf.
Comey apparently decided that the only thing for him to do was announce that the investigation had been reopened the very way that he had earlier announced that it had been closed.
The result was the letter a fortnight before the election that Bill Clinton now blames for his wife’s defeat. He is right to say that Comey’s subsequent letter clearing Hillary Clinton on the Sunday before Election Day was too late to undo the damage.
But Bill Clinton fails to note that he himself is the one who made the initial letter—and therefore the others—necessary. Comey would never have felt obliged to go public in the first place had the great man with the great fault not decided that he was above a rule such as should have kept him from striding across the tarmac and boarding Lynch’s plane.
On her part, Lynch has accepted at least a modicum of responsibly for how it all played out.
“Well, I do regret sitting down and having a conversation with him, because it did give people concern,” she said on CNN on Sunday.
A reminder of how it might have played out came on Thursday with the unsealing of the FBI affidavit that accompanied the search warrant application for Weiner’s computer when the investigation was reopened.
The section of the sworn document headed “PROBABLE CAUSE FOR SEARCH” notes that of the 30,490 emails in Hillary Clinton’s server that were reviewed by the State Department, 2,115 were found to contain information that is presently classified. The affidavit reports that 65 of them were classified Secret and 22 classified Top Secret.
“The Secret level is significant because it means that the unauthorized disclosure of those emails could result in serious damage to national security,” the affidavit says. “The Top Secret level is significant because it means that the unauthorized disclosure of those emails could result in exceptionally grave damage to national security.”
That would certainly seem to have been enough probable cause for Comey if he had decided that a criminal case was warranted. He could have ended Hillary Clinton’s campaign back in July if he had been interested in changing the course of the election.
She got in trouble in the first place because she felt that the rules did not apply to her. She might still have won had her husband not felt the same.
And now we will all get a lesson of a whole other, unprecedented kind about what happens when rules do not apply in the person of Donald Trump.
Bill Clinton, Who May Have Cost Hillary the Election, Passes the Buck to James Comey
Anthony Weiner and the FBI were only in the picture because she felt the rules did not apply to her. She might still have won had her husband not felt the same.
MICHAEL DALY
12.21.16 1:15 AM ET
Former President Bill Clinton is quick to apportion blame for his wife’s defeat.
“James Comey cost her the election,” Clinton was quoted telling a group of holiday shoppers during an impromptu chat in a Westchester County bookshop last week.
But he has yet to place any blame at all on an otherwise great man with a great fault who bears considerably more responsibility for Hillary Clinton’s loss.
That man is Bill Clinton himself. His great fault is one he shares with his wife; they too often act as if rules that apply to you or me do not apply to them.
In blaming Comey, Bill Clinton noted that “we were seven points up” before the FBI director made it known via a letter to Congress that the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails had been reopened.
Bill Clinton did not add that Comey had felt obliged to make the reopening public because he had previously felt obliged to make the initial closing of the investigation public.
And the reason Comey had made the initial closing public was that the rules do in fact apply to everybody.
One rule holds that the husband of the target of a criminal investigation should not seek to meet privately with the law enforcement official ultimately in charge of that same investigation, no matter how innocent the talk.
That did not stop Bill Clinton from striding across the tarmac to have a friendly chat with Attorney General Loretta Lynch when their planes happened to be parked near each other at the executive terminal at Sky Harbor airport in Phoenix on June 27.
“I did see President Clinton at the Phoenix airport as he was leaving, and he spoke to myself and my husband on the plane,” Lynch told the press afterward. “Our conversation was a great deal about grandchildren. It was primarily social and about our travels, and he mentioned golf he played in Phoenix.”
Word of the encounter nonetheless left Comey in an untenable situation. He had essentially come to the end of the investigation. The usual protocol called for him then to refer the findings to Department of Justice and let the prosecutors make the official determination.
What was anything but usual was that the top prosecutor had just been sitting on a plane with Bill Clinton. And for Lynch now to announce that Hillary Clinton had been cleared would call into question the integrity of all involved, including Comey and the FBI.
Had he been looking to make it easy on himself and hard on Hillary, Comey could have simply said that there was sufficient probable cause to proceed with a criminal case. He would have needed only to point to the nearly two dozen secret emails that had passed through her server.
But, in the words of one former FBI agent, Comey is “a unicorn in Washington; somebody who actually has ethics.” And he had come to the conclusion that while Hillary’s conduct had been egregiously careless, it lacked the intent necessary to support criminal charges.
Comey decided that he had to present the results directly to the public along with an explanation to dispel the appearance of impropriety as much as was possible. He did just that, making clear that he felt Hillary Clinton had been reckless and irresponsible, and that she had shown terrible judgment.
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“We cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts,” Comey said. “Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.”
What Comey could not have foreseen was that Anthony Weiner would get caught in another sexting scandal… and that this time it would involve a 15-year-old… and that FBI agents would end up securing a search warrant for the former congressman’s computer… and that its hard drive would prove to contain thousands of emails between his wife, Huma Amedin, and Hillary Clinton via the former secretary of State’s server.
These emails clearly had nothing to do with the Weiner sex crime investigation. But there was a possibility that they might pertain to the now-closed Hillary Clinton investigation.
Comey could hardly have just ignored the emails, even if he had been so inclined, which he most definitely was not. The only way he could check them was to reopen the investigation and secure a search warrant.
As has been noted in The Daily Beast, one problem for Comey was that the very agents who had been less than happy to see all their work on the Hillary case apparently come to naught when the case was closed in July would almost certainly be put back on it when it was revived. And one of those agents would be all but sure to tip off the press. There would no doubt have been talk of a cover-up on Hillary Clinton’s behalf.
Comey apparently decided that the only thing for him to do was announce that the investigation had been reopened the very way that he had earlier announced that it had been closed.
The result was the letter a fortnight before the election that Bill Clinton now blames for his wife’s defeat. He is right to say that Comey’s subsequent letter clearing Hillary Clinton on the Sunday before Election Day was too late to undo the damage.
But Bill Clinton fails to note that he himself is the one who made the initial letter—and therefore the others—necessary. Comey would never have felt obliged to go public in the first place had the great man with the great fault not decided that he was above a rule such as should have kept him from striding across the tarmac and boarding Lynch’s plane.
On her part, Lynch has accepted at least a modicum of responsibly for how it all played out.
“Well, I do regret sitting down and having a conversation with him, because it did give people concern,” she said on CNN on Sunday.
A reminder of how it might have played out came on Thursday with the unsealing of the FBI affidavit that accompanied the search warrant application for Weiner’s computer when the investigation was reopened.
The section of the sworn document headed “PROBABLE CAUSE FOR SEARCH” notes that of the 30,490 emails in Hillary Clinton’s server that were reviewed by the State Department, 2,115 were found to contain information that is presently classified. The affidavit reports that 65 of them were classified Secret and 22 classified Top Secret.
“The Secret level is significant because it means that the unauthorized disclosure of those emails could result in serious damage to national security,” the affidavit says. “The Top Secret level is significant because it means that the unauthorized disclosure of those emails could result in exceptionally grave damage to national security.”
That would certainly seem to have been enough probable cause for Comey if he had decided that a criminal case was warranted. He could have ended Hillary Clinton’s campaign back in July if he had been interested in changing the course of the election.
She got in trouble in the first place because she felt that the rules did not apply to her. She might still have won had her husband not felt the same.
And now we will all get a lesson of a whole other, unprecedented kind about what happens when rules do not apply in the person of Donald Trump.
Why Isn’t Hillary Clinton in Jail?
4/3/2017 12:07:00 AM - Katie Kieffer
She feels safe enough to “come out of the woods,” exactly the time for a Trump administration special prosecutor to launch a broadside.
Mentally strong people don’t need five months to overcome setbacks. Thomas Edison famously said: “I have not failed 10,000 times. … I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.” Instead of dwelling on setbacks, true leaders are resilient and persistent. Their passion for their mission—or goal—is independent of external circumstances.
Hillary says she’s been licking her wounds in the woods since November. Why can’t she pull herself together?
On the campaign trail, Trump promised supporters he would “lock her up” for what he considered to be criminal activity. He even told Clinton to her face: “If I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation. Because there have never been so many lies, so much deception.” If he were president, he added: “You’d be in jail.”
I realize the Trump and Clinton families have a history of amity, including the public friendship of Trump’s eldest daughter Ivanka and Hillary’s daughter Chelsea. Which may explain why Trump has withdrawn his campaign promise to prosecute her, telling New York Times reporters she already “suffered greatly.”
Hear me out: The most loving act President Trump can do for Clinton is give her the professional and institutional help that will uphold justice—and prevent her from further hurting herself or others.
Borderline Personality Disorder
Nearly nine in 10 Americans did not find Hillary to be “honest and trustworthy” going into the 2016 presidential election. While we can’t assess Clinton’s mental state, we do know that uncontrollable lying (mythomania) is common among individuals suffering from borderline personality disorder (BPD).
Individuals with BPD may also sustain romantic relationships solely for utility (think Hillary’s choice to cling to an unloving and unfaithful man in order to climb the political ladder). Another BPD trait can be difficulty with interpersonal relationships (think WikiLeaks revelations that Clinton staffers advised her to develop a sense of humor and learn to smile).
President Trump will keep his campaign promise—while still doing right by Chelsea—if he helps Hillary get the mental help she needs in an appropriate establishment. Meanwhile, Clinton will do propitiation for her unlawful deeds that endangered our country’s national security and President Trump will send the message that no one is above the law in America.
The Woman Who Sold 20% of U.S. Uranium to Russia
Ever heard of the Uranium One deal? If not, don’t beat yourself up. It’s not like the media let you know about it.
It’s amazing to see President Trump get pummeled by the press for alleged conversations with Russia about alleged inappropriate topics when we know—for sure—that, as Secretary of State, Clinton brokered a deal on behalf of the Obama administration that released control of at least 20%, and up to 50%, of American uranium production to the Kremlin.
Wyoming was home to one of Uranium One’s biggest uranium mine holdings. Clinton’s deal, negotiated via the Committee for Foreign Investment in the United States, ensured that Wyoming uranium is now being exported and Uranium One changed from a public company to a private corporation in which Russian President Vladimir Putin’s company ARMZ owns 100% of the stock.
Uranium, when enriched, can be used to create nuclear weapons. It also can be used to power atomic energy plants. No worries.
Inventory Count
Hillary is innocent until proven guilty. That said, President Trump could fill a warehouse with files of evidence on her misdeeds for which he would be warranted in enlisting the aid of a special prosecutor.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions agreed to recuse himself from any Clinton-related probes. But Sessions could appoint someone else to investigate Clinton for these reasons:
Email Scandal: Why did she use a private, non-secure email address and server to send and receive classified information while Secretary of State? Why do WikiLeaks emails indicate that Hillary’s husband, Bill Clinton, colluded with former Attorney General Loretta Lynch on the results of the DOJ’s probe into her private server use when they met on June 29, 2016?
Sept. 11, 2012 Benghazi Terror Attack: Why did Clinton mislead Americans as to the cause of American death? (She blamed an obscure online video, even though virtually no one in Libya—or anywhere in the world—watched the video.) Why was she unprepared for and unhelpful during the attack? What role may her proposal to smuggle arms to Syrian rebels have had in this attack?
Uranium One: Why did Clinton broker a deal that gave the Kremlin ownership of 20-to-50% of American uranium production, while the Clintons and Clinton Foundation purportedly profited to the tune of $130 million?
Campaign Crookedness: What was Clinton’s role in fixing the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination in her favor over Sen. Bernie Sanders? Why did she receive help from CNN commentator Donna Brazile on presidential debate questions?
Whitewater: What really happened in the Whitewater scandal?
And that’s not even a complete list of Hillary’s alleged crimes. Bottom line, President Trump should pursue his campaign promise to investigate Hillary. He may feel she’s suffered greatly, but the American people have suffered far more. Besides, she appears to need serious psychological aid. She will only hurt herself and others by “coming out of the woods” to resume her old ways.
Who knows, Hillary Clinton might look great in orange pantsuits.
https://townhall.com/columnists/katiekieffer/2017/04/03/why-isnt-hillary-clinton-in-jail-n2307710
4/3/2017 12:07:00 AM - Katie Kieffer
She feels safe enough to “come out of the woods,” exactly the time for a Trump administration special prosecutor to launch a broadside.
Mentally strong people don’t need five months to overcome setbacks. Thomas Edison famously said: “I have not failed 10,000 times. … I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.” Instead of dwelling on setbacks, true leaders are resilient and persistent. Their passion for their mission—or goal—is independent of external circumstances.
Hillary says she’s been licking her wounds in the woods since November. Why can’t she pull herself together?
On the campaign trail, Trump promised supporters he would “lock her up” for what he considered to be criminal activity. He even told Clinton to her face: “If I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation. Because there have never been so many lies, so much deception.” If he were president, he added: “You’d be in jail.”
I realize the Trump and Clinton families have a history of amity, including the public friendship of Trump’s eldest daughter Ivanka and Hillary’s daughter Chelsea. Which may explain why Trump has withdrawn his campaign promise to prosecute her, telling New York Times reporters she already “suffered greatly.”
Hear me out: The most loving act President Trump can do for Clinton is give her the professional and institutional help that will uphold justice—and prevent her from further hurting herself or others.
Borderline Personality Disorder
Nearly nine in 10 Americans did not find Hillary to be “honest and trustworthy” going into the 2016 presidential election. While we can’t assess Clinton’s mental state, we do know that uncontrollable lying (mythomania) is common among individuals suffering from borderline personality disorder (BPD).
Individuals with BPD may also sustain romantic relationships solely for utility (think Hillary’s choice to cling to an unloving and unfaithful man in order to climb the political ladder). Another BPD trait can be difficulty with interpersonal relationships (think WikiLeaks revelations that Clinton staffers advised her to develop a sense of humor and learn to smile).
President Trump will keep his campaign promise—while still doing right by Chelsea—if he helps Hillary get the mental help she needs in an appropriate establishment. Meanwhile, Clinton will do propitiation for her unlawful deeds that endangered our country’s national security and President Trump will send the message that no one is above the law in America.
The Woman Who Sold 20% of U.S. Uranium to Russia
Ever heard of the Uranium One deal? If not, don’t beat yourself up. It’s not like the media let you know about it.
It’s amazing to see President Trump get pummeled by the press for alleged conversations with Russia about alleged inappropriate topics when we know—for sure—that, as Secretary of State, Clinton brokered a deal on behalf of the Obama administration that released control of at least 20%, and up to 50%, of American uranium production to the Kremlin.
Wyoming was home to one of Uranium One’s biggest uranium mine holdings. Clinton’s deal, negotiated via the Committee for Foreign Investment in the United States, ensured that Wyoming uranium is now being exported and Uranium One changed from a public company to a private corporation in which Russian President Vladimir Putin’s company ARMZ owns 100% of the stock.
Uranium, when enriched, can be used to create nuclear weapons. It also can be used to power atomic energy plants. No worries.
Inventory Count
Hillary is innocent until proven guilty. That said, President Trump could fill a warehouse with files of evidence on her misdeeds for which he would be warranted in enlisting the aid of a special prosecutor.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions agreed to recuse himself from any Clinton-related probes. But Sessions could appoint someone else to investigate Clinton for these reasons:
Email Scandal: Why did she use a private, non-secure email address and server to send and receive classified information while Secretary of State? Why do WikiLeaks emails indicate that Hillary’s husband, Bill Clinton, colluded with former Attorney General Loretta Lynch on the results of the DOJ’s probe into her private server use when they met on June 29, 2016?
Sept. 11, 2012 Benghazi Terror Attack: Why did Clinton mislead Americans as to the cause of American death? (She blamed an obscure online video, even though virtually no one in Libya—or anywhere in the world—watched the video.) Why was she unprepared for and unhelpful during the attack? What role may her proposal to smuggle arms to Syrian rebels have had in this attack?
Uranium One: Why did Clinton broker a deal that gave the Kremlin ownership of 20-to-50% of American uranium production, while the Clintons and Clinton Foundation purportedly profited to the tune of $130 million?
Campaign Crookedness: What was Clinton’s role in fixing the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination in her favor over Sen. Bernie Sanders? Why did she receive help from CNN commentator Donna Brazile on presidential debate questions?
Whitewater: What really happened in the Whitewater scandal?
And that’s not even a complete list of Hillary’s alleged crimes. Bottom line, President Trump should pursue his campaign promise to investigate Hillary. He may feel she’s suffered greatly, but the American people have suffered far more. Besides, she appears to need serious psychological aid. She will only hurt herself and others by “coming out of the woods” to resume her old ways.
Who knows, Hillary Clinton might look great in orange pantsuits.
https://townhall.com/columnists/katiekieffer/2017/04/03/why-isnt-hillary-clinton-in-jail-n2307710