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Hillary Is Right: Facts Don’t Matter

Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during
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Once again, the Clintons are mired in scandal because of everybody else. And once again, they’ll get away with it.

There are three phases to just about every Clinton scandal:

  1. “I didn’t do it.”
  2. “You can’t prove I did it.”
  3. “Here’s why it doesn’t matter that I did it.”

We’re now in Phase 3. Yet again.

Alyssa Canobbio, Washington Free Beacon:

During an interview with NPR‘s Ari Shapiro posted Wednesday, Hillary Clinton was asked about the findings from the Inspector General that there were emails on Clinton’s private server that were at a classification level higher than “top secret…”

“Nothing that this (the letter) says changes the fact that I never sent or received material marked classified,” Clinton said.

And nothing changes the fact that, under the law, the highly sensitive information she dishonestly and ineptly made available to America’s enemies didn’t need to be marked classified. Nothing changes the fact that she signed a document that proves she knows this. Nothing changes the fact that at this point, she has more excuses than pantsuits.

None of that matters, because you already know she’s a liar. It’s just a question of whether or not you think that’s important. Personally, I’m fed up with this deeply unpleasant, utterly phony, power-craving harridan lying to me for the past quarter of a century. But some people actually seem to like it.

I really have no idea if she’ll be held to account for this in any way. It seems unlikely, because it would require someone in the federal government in 2016 to be above corruption. It would require the media to hold her feet to the fire. Not just to bury the story on page A16 and say, “We covered it, wingnuts, now move along.” But if there’s one thing we’ve learned over the past 8 years, it’s that rules and laws are for the little people.

Anything’s possible, I suppose. It’ll really depend on whether Bernie hangs in there, won’t it? If it starts to look like he could actually get the nomination… Well, that would change things considerably. She might want to start lifting weights, just to be on the safe side. I hear it can be pretty tough on the yard.

Here’s the audio of the NPR interview, if you just can’t get enough of her soothing, mellifluous voice.

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