Dangerous Questions Dogging Hillary
For all the advice she had received about not looking too imperious and arrogant, at times Hillary Clinton could barely hide her disgust at having to defend her record as U.S. Secretary of State from such a miserable bunch of accusers.
On Thursday, in the most hotly anticipated Washington showdown for years, she was grilled for 11 hours by a Republican-dominated congressional committee investigating the 2012 killings by Islamic extremists of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Benghazi, Libya.
Millions of U.S. TV viewers watched agog. It wasn’t so much the answers to the tragedy they were interested in, although those are serious enough as Mrs Clinton is accused of failing to protect the four victims on her watch.
No, the real attention was focused on how Queen Hillary would respond to being hectored by a bunch of Republicans slavering to score political points and damage her standing in the polls.
She resisted the urge to throw anything and even managed the odd smile. But many Americans — even fellow Democrats — remain unconvinced by the famously slippery Hillary’s explanations, particularly over why she broke government rules by using a private email system rather than an official one during her time in office. And why she then deleted more than half of her 60,000 emails, falsely claiming they were all private.
Polls show 50 per cent of Americans do not buy her claim that it was an honest mistake.
Her opponents now see the email scandal as probably their last hope of stopping Hillary winning the Democratic presidential nomination after this week’s decision by Vice-President Joe Biden not to run against her.
They fear that if she has to fight it out with the even more polarising Donald Trump as Republican contender, the U.S. will most likely get another Clinton term at the White House.
There is no doubt that conservative knives are out for Hillary — and they don’t come much sharper than an explosive new book published this week which aims to expose her hypocrisy in claiming to be a champion for women.
In The Clintons’ War On Women, former senior Republican adviser Roger Stone — until recently a consultant on Donald Trump’s campaign — and historian Robert Morrow examine Mrs Clinton’s response to her priapic husband’s sexual conquests.
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