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Bill USA

(6,436 posts)
Tue May 17, 2016, 05:38 PM May 2016

Clinton Cash Crushed By Facts As Author Admits He Has No Evidence Of Clinton Crimes

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/04/26/clinton-cash-crushed-facts-author-admits-evidence-clinton-crimes.html


Stephanopoulos asked Schweizer for hard evidence, and the author immediately tried to change the subject. The This Week host kept asking the author for a smoking gun, and all he could provide was a “pattern of behavior.”

It became very clear during this interview that there is no evidence that would merit a criminal investigation. Schweizer could not produce the smoking gun because there is no smoking gun.

Schweizer’s attempts to connect the Clinton Cash allegations and the McDonnell and Menendez cases were flimsy and did not hold up to the gentlest of inspections. In Gov. McDonnell’s case, there was evidence the governor promoted the donor’s company as a result of illegal gifts and loans. Sen. Menendez was charged because federal prosecutors believe that a case can be made that the senator used his position to intervene in Medicaid billing disputes in exchange for campaign contributions.

Schweizer’s argument that the three cases are equal is simply not true. There is no evidence that any donors to The Clinton Foundation received special treatment from former Sec. of State Clinton, which is why the mainstream press is not pushing the Clinton Cash scandal.

One of the main allegations in Schweizer’s congressional insider trading book had to be retracted after his claim that Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) committed insider trading was found to be factually incorrect and wrong.

The Washington Post and New York Times harmed their own credibility by attaching themselves to partisan conspiracy theory book that doesn’t measure up to the basic standards of journalism.

The Clinton Cash scandal will live on the ozone of right-wing conspiracy theories and conservative media, but there is no evidence to support these claims. ABC News can’t find it. The New York Times can’t find it. The Washington Post can’t find it.

By the end of the interview, Schweizer sounded like a conspiracy theorist, and it was clear that Clinton Cash is the latest in a long line of empty and time wasting right-wing conspiracies.

Clinton Cash has been crushed by the facts.



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Clinton Cash Crushed By Facts As Author Admits He Has No Evidence Of Clinton Crimes (Original Post) Bill USA May 2016 OP
this type of made up stories have been thrown at the clintons for decades. It's a shame MariaThinks May 2016 #1
some 'progressives' have only been concerned with public policy debates for 1 or 2 years. Their Bill USA May 2016 #2
They are all starting to look as pathetic as Gowdy. Nt NCTraveler May 2016 #3

MariaThinks

(2,495 posts)
1. this type of made up stories have been thrown at the clintons for decades. It's a shame
Tue May 17, 2016, 06:04 PM
May 2016

some progressives don't understand that they are falling into the trap laid by the right wing conspiracy

Bill USA

(6,436 posts)
2. some 'progressives' have only been concerned with public policy debates for 1 or 2 years. Their
Wed May 18, 2016, 07:01 PM
May 2016

very limited knowledge and experience makes them easy victims of disinformation from the GOP and other sources. The relentless pseudo-scandal barrage of the Clintons by the GOP began when many were in grade school.









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