“Willing suspension of disbelief” is what you do when you watch a movie or read a book. It means allowing yourself to pretend to believe in what you know is a fantasy. It’s a pretty standard phrase, not ebonic at all.
What Hillary meant was that she’d have to use that technique in order to believe Petraeus’s ‘fantasy’ or ‘lie.’ Rather ironic, considering the source.
BTW, doesn’t PETRAEUS mean “The Rock”? If so, how apt!
“willing suspension of disbelief”
I didn’t know nothing about that being a ‘standard’ phrase’- thanks for the head’s up!