Posted on 09/13/2017 1:52:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In an appearance on ABC’s The View Wednesday, Hillary Clinton was more circumspect in describing the possibility of Trump campaign collusion with Russia than she was a day before. On Tuesday in an interview published by USA Today, Clinton said “I’m convinced of it” when asked about collusion. Today, Clinton said, “There’s a lot of smoke and whether or not there’s fire, we need to figure it out.”
Asked if President Trump would remain in office for his full term, Hillary replied, “I don’t know and I don’t think anybody does know.” She continued, “I think that there is a lot to investigate and I’m personally very grateful that somebody of the stature of Robert Mueller would be there conducting this investigation.”
Hillary then resorted to suggesting collusion happened without saying outright she believed it. “There’s just too many connections to be called just coincidences. There just are,” Clinton said. “You know some of it is financial entanglements and some of it is hunting for negative information about me and some of it is calling people and trying to hide the connections and the meetings and the calls and all of it,” she said.
“There’s a lot of smoke and whether or not there’s fire, we need to figure it out,” Clinton concluded.
What’s missing from all of this is the apparent confidence in the outcome which Hillary expressed Tuesday when she said she was “convinced” it happened. As I wrote yesterday, there is no proof on which to base such a claim at this point. Unless Clinton wants to reveal a back-channel source of information, she’s just guessing. And that doesn’t seem like a terribly responsible thing to do about such an important issue.
Hillary goes on to say that even putting the question of collusion aside, it’s clear Russia wanted to influence the election. “Whether or not they had willing or unwitting help from the Trump team, they interfered and they did so to help him and hurt me and they did so to destabilize our democracy and they have not stopped,” Clinton said.
Let’s slow down a bit here. Willing help from the Trump team to Russia would be the kind of collusion Hillary just finished saying hasn’t been proven. Then she offers another category, “unwitting help,” i.e. help that someone didn’t offer intentionally. But what does that mean in this case? The Trump team was trying to win the election. So in some sense, Hillary’s “unwitting help” formulation could apply to the entire Trump campaign, i.e. their efforts unwittingly helped Russian efforts to defeat Hillary.
Maybe Hillary has a more specific idea in mind but as presented here the idea is so broad as to be meaningless. Either the Trump campaign willing helped Russia, as Hillary and Democrats have been suggesting for months, or they didn’t. And as Hillary admits she doesn’t know which is the case.
Here’s the portion of the interview in which Hillary discusses Russia. If you stick with this clip she also talks about her marriage to Bill and why she stood by her man.
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She should run again. With Bernie as Veep.
If they had locked her up on day 1, the only time we would hear from her would be at her parole hearing.
“There’s a lot of smoke...”
Yes, there is...eminating from..her!
Yeah and you guys are blowing it.
Can’t she just DIE already?!
The only smoke is the smoke Hitlery is blowing out her a$$.
Did the old bats on the “Screw” ask their heroine about Uranium One sales to Russia that Hitlery brokered (and the $145 million donation to her “foundation”?)
Who killed Seth Rich and why?
Probably because she knows she and her people are up to their necks in brown, smelly stuff that attracts flies concerning Russian collusion and connections and influence.
This is great. We are seeing the self destruction of one of our most hated persons. Even democrats want her to just go away!
Speaking of a lot of smoke, what’s the Clinton body count up to now?
I wonder if for these recent appearances, she is being handled by her people a lot like John Gill was in the TOS episode “Patterns of Force”, where her appearances are even more strictly controlled and coached and probably lots of drugs involved to cover up her very likely serious health issues?
Shouldn’t this liar/hag/criminal/traitor be in prison?
Hillary is just working the crowd to try and stay out of prison.
There’s a lot of smoke?
Should be. Her pants are on fire, the dirty liar.
The time is waaaaay overdue to lock this traitorous beoch up....once and for all.
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