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Former President Bill Clinton’s latest rehash of his wife’s 2016 defeat cast Russia, Russia, Russia, aside for a surprising new scapegoat.
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The extent to which the Russian collusion hoax has consumed the left can still be seen today with allegations and implications about President-elect Donald Trump and his allies’ supposed links to Russian President Vladimir Putin. But that was not where Clinton laid the blame for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s loss as he instead faulted “the mainstream media.”
During a portion of a recent interview with MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough that aired Monday, the former president was prompted with an excerpt from his own book, “Citizen: My Life After the White House,” about his lasting anger after 2016 and what he considered “the darkest election possible.”
To that he argued, “It’s easier for us to know what happened in 2016 in some ways than it is what happened in 2024.”
“Because in 2016, you had two highly unusual things. First of all, the mainstream media told the American people repeatedly that the biggest issue was Hillary’s emails,” asserted Clinton who contended, “It was ludicrous the extent to which people went to essentially fabricate a smear on her.”
“And I think they did it ’cause they thought they had to mention something bad about her if they said something bad about Trump,” he added.
While then-FBI Director James Comey had initially noted that he would not recommend charges in the investigation of the secretary’s use of a private email server only to then readdress the probe in the waning days of the election, it wasn’t remotely true to claim 1:1 negative coverage.
Media Research Center’s Newsbusters documented the increasing bias of the most recent presidential elections and, while 2024 and 2020 were worse than 2016, Hillary Clinton was said to have faced only 145 negative comments compared to 623 for Trump.
Still, Clinton appeared to insist that any negative account of the email scandal was unjust as he remarked, “Even the Trump State Department said she neither sent nor received a single solitary email on her personal device marked classified, one. And two, she followed the rules as they then existed. The rules were changed after she left office.”
The stories, he told Scarborough, were “written as if she had done something hideous.”
Meanwhile, the president worked overtime to diminish any positive story attributed to Trump as he credited former President Barack Obama for the successes of the Trump economy while lauding President Joe Biden for job creation readily attributed to the recovery of jobs lost due to the COVID response.
“There was no inflation, and people felt that,” he said of the first Trump administration before suggesting people only believed Trump was “economically successful before COVID hit.”
He also claimed Vice President Kamala Harris “had an almost impossible job” as she was “in effect, a stranger to people,” despite serving in the second highest office in the land, and, “People knew what they liked about Trump and what they didn’t. And about 54% of them were — would have happily voted for somebody else, but people didn’t feel that they knew about Harris.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn’t researching current events and their impacts, you’ll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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