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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumClinton 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.htmlStephanopoulos 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.
Schweizers 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. McDonnells case, there was evidence the governor promoted the donors 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.
Schweizers 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 Schweizers 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 doesnt 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 cant find it. The New York Times cant find it. The Washington Post cant 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.
[font size="3"] But just like the Birther Bugs, the Clinton Cash McCarthyist campaign will go on and on.. regardless of any factual reality
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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
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this type of made up stories have been thrown at the clintons for decades. It's a shame
MariaThinks
May 2016
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MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)1. this type of made up stories have been thrown at the clintons for decades. It's a shame
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
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.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)3. They are all starting to look as pathetic as Gowdy. Nt