Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was born today in 1947, making her 69 years old. And in honor of this event, I am limiting coverage of Donald Trump to only one story today.
Ok, so that is just how the stories fell, but it sounds nicer the other way...
New York Times:
In a March 2015 interview, President Obama said that he had learned about Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state “the same time everybody else learned it, through news reports.”
But that assertion concerned aides of Mrs. Clinton, who knew that the president himself had received emails from the private address, according to a hacked email made public on Tuesday by WikiLeaks.
“We need to clean this up — he has emails from her — they do not say state.gov,” Cheryl D. Mills, a top aide, wrote to John D. Podesta, another senior adviser, on March 7, 2015.
Two days later, Mr. Obama’s spokesman, Josh Earnest, tried to clarify the president’s remarks, saying that he had, in fact, exchanged emails with Mrs. Clinton through her private account. But Mr. Earnest suggested that the president had no idea the emails could be a problem because he had relied on Mrs. Clinton to make sure that using a private account did not break any laws.
“The point that the president was making is not that he didn’t know Secretary Clinton’s email address — he did — but he was not aware of the details of how that email address and server had been set up, or how Secretary Clinton and her team were planning to comply with the Federal Records Act,” Mr. Earnest said on March 9.
...Neera Tanden, another adviser, traded several messages with Mr. Podesta on March 2, 2015, the day The New York Times first reported Mrs. Clinton’s use of the private email address.If I were sitting on a jury, after having viewed all of the evidence which has been made public around the email scandal, including the information above, I would vote "guilty". I would also throw in a conspiracy charge on top of it.
...Ms. Tanden also lamented the timing of the revelation and blamed Ms. Mills, a close Clinton confidante who had worked with her at the State Department, calling it a “Cheryl special.” She suggested that Ms. Mills and other members of Mrs. Clinton’s inner circle who knew about the private emails had probably hoped to keep them secret.
“Why didn’t they get this stuff out like 18 months ago? So crazy,” Ms. Tanden wrote. “Unbelievable,” Mr. Podesta responded.
Ms. Tanden wrote back: “i guess I know the answer. they wanted to get away with it.”
David Harsanyi said it best: "The thing is: once Trump is gone this will still be corruption."
So we know Hillary is corrupt, but what about her health?
Zero Hedge:
This email chain speaks for itself:
So Huma and John, is she perfect in her head now? Or is this just a Weekend at Bernie's scenario?
Ok, now it is time for some Trump...
CNN:
Donald Trump warned in an interview Tuesday that Hillary Clinton's policies as president to address the Syrian conflict would lead to World War III, arguing the Democratic nominee would draw the US into armed confrontation with Russia, Syria and Iran.While I am personally against any involvement in Syria (the U.S. has no interest in Syria whatsoever), at least Trump's approach makes sense. If we must be involved in Syria, why not toss an olive branch to Russia?
"What we should do is focus on ISIS. We should not be focusing on Syria," Trump told Reuters on Tuesday morning at his resort in Doral, Florida. "You're going to end up in World War III over Syria if we listen to Hillary Clinton."
The Republican nominee, who has called for a rapprochement with Russia in order to jointly combat ISIS, argued that his Democratic rival's calls for taking a more aggressive posture in Syria to bring the conflict there to an end and combat ISIS will only draw the US into a larger war. Trump's remarks come as he trails Clinton in most national and key battleground state polls just two weeks from Election Day.
Here is Clinton's view:
Clinton has called for establishing a no-fly zone over Syria to help bring the five-year civil war to an end, a proposal top Republicans in Congress have championed, which President Barack Obama and others have opposed due to the risk of entering into conflict with Russia. A US-enforced no-fly zone would mean the US could shoot down a Russian jet should it enter Syrian airspace.The most likely scenario under Clinton's plan is the Russians say no. Then her plan is toothless, unless she decides to do it anyway, in which case Trump is right. She would be risking World War III.
Clinton addressed those concerns in the final presidential debate, arguing that it would "save lives and hasten the end of the conflict," while cautioning that "this would not be done just on the first day."
"This would take a lot of negotiation and it would also take making it clear to the Russians and the Syrians that our purpose is to provide safe zones on the ground," Clinton said during the debate earlier this month. "I think we could strike a deal and make it very clear to the Russians and Syrians that this was something that we believe the best interests of the people on the ground in Syria. It would help us in the fight against ISIS."
Who is the recklessly dangerous candidate now?
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