Posted on 11/17/2017 10:57:19 AM PST by Kaslin
Those comments came during a discussion a New York Times reporter was having with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York for an upcoming podcast. Asked point-blank if she thought President Clinton should’ve resigned from office, the Times reported that Gillibrand “took a long pause” and conceded,“Yes, I think that is the appropriate response.”
Gillibrand went on to characterize today’s culture as somehow less permissable of this behavior then it was twenty years ago when Clinton was in office, hinting that President Trump should face the same fate.
https://www.mrctv.org/videos/abc-ignores-gillibrand-saying-clinton-shouldve-resigned
“Things have changed today, and I think under those circumstances there should be a very different reaction,” Ms. Gillibrand said. “And I think in light of this conversation, we should have a very different conversation about President Trump, and a very different conversation about allegations against him,” The Times reported.
Even the liberal paper called the comments “remarkable,” as Gillibrand is a top Clinton supporter, who also holds former Senator Hillary Clinton’s seat. Not only that, but Gillibrand had praised both Hillary and Bill Clinton just last year for their longstanding “support:”
In my adult life, politically, no one has inspired me to get off the sidelines and truly make a difference more than Hillary Clinton has,” Ms. Gillibrand said last year in an essay on why she was supporting Mrs. Clinton.
Ms. Gillibrand has also noted Mr. Clinton’s support for her own run for office. “I was lucky enough to receive guidance and mentorship from Hillary during that run, and was truly honored that President Bill Clinton campaigned for me in my first run for Congress in 2006,” she wrote in the same essay.
Instead of reporting the Democrat senator’s shocking admission, ABC’s morning news program, spent an entire report rehashing the sexual assault allegations against President Trump made during his campaign.
ABC's head anchor for GMA is no other than George Stephanopoulos, who initially served as Bill Clinton's communications director, before becoming a senior policy adviser to the president while he was in office.
While ABC avoided Gillibrand’s comments entirely, the other two networks did highlight them.
On NBC’s Today, Kasie Hunt read Gillibrand’s comments against Clinton and Trump with the chyron that read, “Gillibrand Takes On Clinton.”
CBS This Morning also gave a very brief report to her comments, while the on-screen text read, “Clinton’s Scandals.”
These comments didn't sit well with some Clinton supporters. Former Hillary Clinton adviser Philippe Reines lashed out at Gillibrand on Twitter, calling her a "hypocrite:"
Ken Starr spent $70 million on a consensual blowjob. Senate voted to keep POTUS WJC. But not enough for you @SenGillibrand? Over 20 yrs you took the Clintons’ endorsements, money, and seat. Hypocrite.
Interesting strategy for 2020 primaries. Best of luck.https://t.co/KIsnfY4WLT — Philippe Reines (@PhilippeReines) November 17, 2017
7 Times Hillary Clinton Threatened, Smeared and Targeted Women ByAmanda Prestigiacomo @amandapresto September 29, 2016
Here are seven of those instances:
1. Hillary smears Gennifer Flowers; calls her “trailer-trash.” In an ABC News interview in 1992, Hillary smears Gennifer Flowers, a women Bill would later admit to having an affair with, as “some failed cabaret singer who doesn’t even have much of a résumé to fall back on.” Hillary also referred to Flowers as “trailer trash.”
2. Hillary slams former White House intern Monica Lewinsky as a “narcissistic loony toon” after she had consensual relations with her husband in the Oval Office. CBS News reports: "According to the friend, Diane Blair -- a political science professor whose papers were donated to the University of Arkansas Special Collections library – Hillary Clinton credited Bill Clinton with trying to break away from Lewinsky, whom she called a 'narcissistic loony toon.'"
3. Hillary, defending an alleged rapist, smears his 12-year-old alleged rape victim, claiming the young girl had a "tendency to seek out older men." She also laughs on tape over the cunning way she had vital evidence dismissed, destroying the alleged rape victim's case.
“I have been informed that the complainant is emotionally unstable with a tendency to seek out older men and engage in fantasizing,” Hillary wrote in the affidavit about the 12-year-old girl.
Hillary is even captured on tape laughing at the fact that she got the only piece of evidence against her client dismissed: “He took a lie detector test. I had him take a polygraph, which he passed, which forever destroyed my faith in polygraphs,” Hillary says, audibly laughing.
The alleged rape victim told The Daily Beast what she would say to Hillary if she ever has the chance: "‘You took a case of mine in ’75, you lied on me… I realize the truth now, the heart of what you’ve done to me. And you are supposed to be for women? You call that [being] for women, what you done to me? And I hear you on tape laughing.'"
4. Hillary disparagingly refers to the numerous women her husband was involved with as “bimbos." In 1991, Mrs. Clinton called the onslaught of women accusing her husband of sexual misconduct or consensual infidelity as the “bimbo eruption.”
5. Hillary reportedly threatens Juanita Broaddrick, Bill's alleged rape victim, into silence at a political fundraiser after the accused rape.
According to Broaddrick, Hillary threatened her while knowing her husband had raped her:
Hillary sought out Broaddrick at the political fundraiser after Bill had raped her; she grabbed her hand and “thanked her” for “everything” she had done for Bill. Feeling frightened, Broaddrick says she tried to turn around and leave, but Hillary allegedly squeezed her hand tighter and wouldn't let her go.
Broaddrick told The Daily Wire that there was "no way" Hillary did not intend for that interaction to be construed as a threat.
“So many people have said since then that, ‘Maybe she just knew that you had been with him, maybe he hadn’t told her the complete description of what he’d done to you,’” she said. “I still feel like she knew.”
6. “I mean, I would crucify her,” Hillary says of Gennifer Flowers. Hillary "told Esquire magazine in 1992 that if she had the chance to cross-examine Flowers, 'I mean, I would crucify her,'" notes The Washington Post.
7. "We have to destroy her story," Hillary allegedly said of one woman state troopers sought out for her husband to have a sexual encounter with.
As noted by National Review: "When a rock groupie alleged that a state trooper approached her on Governor Clinton’s behalf, Hillary said 'we have to destroy her story.'
http://www.dailywire.com/news/9585/9-times-hillary-clinton-threatened-smeared-or-amanda-prestigiacomo
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