“Protect and enrich.” This is a perfect encapsulation of the Clinton Foundation and the Obama book and television deals. Then there is the Biden family corruption, followed closely behind by similar abuses of power and office by the Warren and Sanders families, as Peter Schweizer described in his recent book “Profiles in Corruption.” These names just scratch the surface of government corruption.
The
critical element required is a pattern of criminal or racketeering
activity. This pattern is proved by showing two predicate crimes were
committed within ten years. The list of predicate
crimes is extensive and includes bribery, embezzlement,
fraud, theft, money laundering, and obstruction of justice.
The list of predicate crimes is extensive and includes bribery, embezzlement,
fraud, theft, money laundering, and obstruction of justice.
BIDEN: DEAD MAN WALKING.... Along side Hillary Clinton pushing Joe
over the edge and into the grave.
Joe Biden is as corrupt a politician as there ever was, who
absolutely is guilty and compromised by his efforts to enrich his ne'er-do-well
son, his brother, sister and daughter.
Hillary is also a narcissist of the worst order, the kind who
never takes responsibility for the havoc she has wrought on the lives of
others, let alone her country. She is in fact one of the most corrupt
politicians ever to prevail for so many years, to become fabulously wealthy for
her many deceits and crimes.
A Biden candidacy — what's the plan? There is always a plan
Why,
when Joe Biden's mental decline is so obvious, are so many former Obamaphiles
pledging their spurious support for the man? Something's up. It
is beyond clear that Biden is not up to the job. This fact cannot
escape the notice of Susan Rice, James Comey, John Brennan, et al., all those
conspirators who tried so treasonously hard to destroy Donald
Trump. They surely know better than most that Biden is a dead man
walking. So why the all-out campaign to support his
candidacy? Hmmm.
They
must have a plan. Is their plan to submarine Joe before the
convention, admit he is incapacitated, and put up a heretofore untested
candidate at a brokered convention? Or do they have a plan to
appoint a V.P. candidate they assume will become president in short
order? Perhaps, as Joel Gilbert
speculated here
yesterday, the plan is to install Hillary as the candidate to run against
President Trump in a last-ditch effort to derail his fabulously successful
presidency. They certainly have some devious scheme to replace Biden
by hook or crook, for his dementia cannot possibly have escaped their notice.
The
now available Hillary documentary for all to see is probably meant to prime the
public for her potential last-minute candidacy. It is not very
likely to be successful. She is the kind of harridan who makes
Elizabeth Warren seem kind and gentle! Hillary is also a
narcissist of the worst order, the kind who never takes responsibility for the
havoc she has wrought on the lives of others, let alone her
country. She is in fact one of the most corrupt politicians ever to
prevail for so many years, to become fabulously wealthy for her many deceits
and crimes. She has been a blight upon the U.S. since she gained
power as the wife of the governor of Arkansas. She spent forty years
covering up for her husband's crimes against women and has somehow lived to
tell no tales. Her fans are certifiable morons, susceptible to any and all
of the propaganda the left propels into the mainstream media. She
has yet to endorse Biden. To support his candidacy is to deny his
indisputable advancing dementia.
Credit
to the voters of South Carolina is due for sure: they understand the horror an
American-hating communist would perpetrate upon this great nation. A
Bernie Sanders presidency would be the end of America as
founded. Those who support him either are tragically ignorant of the
genocidal reality of socialism wherever tried or hate their own nation so
much they are willing to suffer the monstrous consequences of electing a
communist president.
Make
no mistake: Bernie Sanders intends to be a communist president if
elected. Like Castro, Maduro, Chávez, Lenin, and all the dictators
he so admires, he would be a tyrant. For nearly fifty years, he has
wanted to punish those who fend for themselves and succeed. A man
who admires Fidel Castro must never come to power in America. Never. Bless
those voters in South Carolina who know this.
Sadly,
Joe Biden was their only other choice. Chances are, those same
voters will vote for President Trump in November. They were savvy
enough to know that Sanders would be a disaster; they are shrewd enough to know
that Joe Biden is senile. Most of us of a certain age recognize
advancing senility when we see it because we have seen it ourselves; we know
the heartbreak. Joe is done. So what is their plan?
Whatever
it is, it cannot be good for the American people. The left never
considers the American people, never gives a thought to its
constituents. Leftists are always and only about power and their continued
access to the wealth that power provides for them. They are certain of
their own superiority, their due privilege to lead and control the rest of
us. The fact that Mike Bloomberg actually thought he could step in
and purchase the presidency with his billions is proof of the left's
mindset. His failure to succeed was delicious; the American people
cannot be bought. Some of them can be fooled for a while, but in the
end, their good sense prevails. That is how we elected the best
president in decades, Donald Trump. They will re-elect him in
November despite the left and left media's never-ending attempts to destroy his
presidency. When the history of the left's wholesale assault on
America, its founding principles and values from the 1960s on, is written, it
will prove that the nation was under constant assault by the anti-American
left. The left has successfully indoctrinated two generations of
university students to loathe their country. Leftists have
successfully made race, class, and sex the defining characteristics of every
person, who must be a designated member of a victim group or an oppressor. They
give no credence to the value of the individual or to any individual's
character. MLK is rolling over in his grave.
All
of those leftists coming out of the woodwork to support Joe Biden know only too
well that he is an intellectual lightweight, "wrong on every foreign
policy issue for forty years," (Robert Gates), a mean-spirited bastard who
delighted in destroying Robert Bork and humiliating the great Clarence
Thomas. He is as corrupt a politician as there ever was, who absolutely
is guilty and compromised by his efforts to enrich his ne'er-do-well son, his
brother, sister and daughter. The thought of this man even becoming
close to the presidency is abhorrent. Whatever his pseudo-supporters have in
mind, it is not good for the American people; not one bit. We will soon learn
what their plan is. Chances are it won't be pretty and chances are the American
people will not fall for it.
The Democratic Party Is
Wounded and Dangerous
Beware
the wounded animal. In pain and desperation, it will do violent
things. It seems to me no coincidence that Joe Biden's big win on
Super Tuesday was followed by Democratic senator Chuck Schumer threatening
conservative members of the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
Joe
Biden is hardly Lancelot to President Trump's dragon. The Democrats
and the Deep State needed a first-class warrior; instead, their best option is
a walking advertisement for Alzheimer's awareness. In his best days, Joe Biden
was the political equivalent of Jack McCall, shooting his adversaries in the
back. When he wasn't using his position of power for financial
gain or stealing other people's words, he was helping his family line their own
pockets. Today, he's a disoriented and stumbling shell of an
unimportant political hack who looks on in confusion while his wife does his
fighting for him. If you've ever wondered what happens to the
shriveled soul of a lifetime liar and Democratic swindler, just cast your eyes
upon Old Joe. He's a walking, talking effigy of Democratic
corruption and amorality. He's what the Democratic Party usually keeps
far off the main stage for the back-alley entertainment; now he's the main
event, but no amount of stick-prodding by Donna Brazile or Tom Perez is going
to turn Joe Biden into Fred Astaire. He's a freak-show carnival
attraction at best, amazing onlookers by his ability to occasionally jumble
audible words together into a sentence. The Democrats needed a man
who could command a movement; all they got was a man who can barely control his
own.
I'm
not saying President Trump's re-election is in the bag. Far from
it. We've never seen such an array of villains acting in concert to
take down an American president. The Democratic Party has most of
the permanent bureaucratic Deep State (as well as stealthy anti-Trump
Republicans), Wall Street, Russia, Iran, China, Venezuela, cosmopolitan Europe,
global warming doomsayers, the Middle East's worst terrorists, and domestic
Antifa terrorists here at home all actively working to dislodge President Trump
from the White House. In the past, the chiefs of our intelligence
agencies and clandestine services retired into relative obscurity, cognizant
that duty commanded their silent withdrawal into the pages of
history. After orchestrating a coup against the American president,
however, it is not unusual to see the former heads of Obama's CIA, FBI, and NSC
all tirelessly justifying their criminal acts on cable news each
night. The corporate news media and institutional government have
spent years trying to gin up enough hysteria in the nation that mock beheadings
of the president and ritual re-enactments of his assassination during summer
theater might lead the American people to clamor for the real thing.
So,
no, the 2020 election will not be over until all the votes have been counted on
November 3, and it becomes clear that we have successfully preserved Western
civilization for at least a little while longer from this most recent
manifestation of Vienna's bloody 1683 siege. All I am saying is that
Joe Biden was never meant to be the establishment's champion for resurrecting
their oligarchic power. They wanted a formidable presidential
nominee, someone who could check all the right identity politics boxes while
stringing words together that were substantively meaningless while singularly
inspiring. Instead, they're settling for a politician past his
expiration date who sounds less crème de la crème and more
soused in crème de menthe. The Democratic Party may depend on dead
voters to win elections, but running dead candidates is another thing
altogether.
So
just because the cable news anchors and Carville clones are all high-fiving
each other and cheering for managing to narrowly prevent a communist disciple
of Stalin and Castro from sewing up the Democratic nomination for president by
the beginning of March, don't forget how disappointed they are at
heart. If Biden goes on to clinch the nomination, the Democratic
Party will have managed to take all the aloof, plain, manila-folder blandness
of John Kerry and combine it with the alertness and energy of a nursing home
after pill rounds. This is the one whom the commentariat is
celebrating right now, the guy Obama and the gang blocked from running in 2016
because they felt him not quite up for the challenge when he was four years
younger. The vice president during the slowest economic recovery
since the Great Depression, the wordsmith who marveled at Obama for being
strangely "articulate" for a black guy, and the obtrusive
shoulder-rubber whose chief political instinct was to sniff the hair of the
wives and daughters of White House officials and visiting
dignitaries. Imagine being in such dire straits because the previous
Democratic president so hollowed out the party's future by losing over a
thousand elected officials across the country during his time in office that
the last, great hope to beat President Trump this year is just hoping to make
it to bed each afternoon before saying something so inappropriate or illogical
or ridiculous that Red Bernie becomes the Democrat's Dear Leader by
default. For every minute of his few wakeful hours, his handlers
have to be on constant guard against the possibility that a voice in Biden's
head will scream, "Oh, look, a young child with wonderful-smelling
hair." "Comeback Joe"? More like
"Come back, Joe!"
The
Democrats and the Deep State have spent the last four years constructing the
greatest wag-the-dog spectacle America's ever seen in an attempt to cover up
the malfeasance and criminality of the last administration, while preventing
the current one from achieving too many victories. Considering that Brennan
and Comey are still free and Obama and Hillary are still smiling, they've been
remarkably successful. But the Mueller obfuscation and Schiff circus
are behind us, the dance music of delay is dying down, and the Democrats' and
Deep State's ability to keep pushing back their day of reckoning is coming to
an end. If they don't win in 2020, they cannot keep justice at bay,
regardless of how stacked in their favor it has always been in the
past. And standing in the gap as their last-ditch prospect to save
them from President Trump's re-election and spare them from long delayed
judgment is none other than Corn Pop's archenemy. The one
"reasonable" Democrat in the race who has already burnished his
"moderate" credentials by fully embracing Bernie's Green New Deal,
Warren's Medicare for All, and Beto's door-to-door gun
confiscation. Nothing says "electable centrist Democrat"
like "D'oh!" Biden's full tilt toward Marxist
socialism. No wonder Chuck Schumer sounds like some injured animal
in the forest, lashing out at tree branches all around him. That's
what small, weak, dying creatures do when they know the end is near.
Secretary Hillary Clinton and the Deep State: A RICO Criminal
Conspiracy
We who elected President
Trump understood our elected officials and the Deep State were sandbagging Trump and self-dealing
public funds. It was no secret that President Trump is no angel,
unpresidential, blunt, and crude, and a disruptor. Trump was hired to drain the
swamp.
I watched this kabuki theater unfold over the
last several years. Through my eyes as a shopworn gumshoe, I will explain what
is happening. My investigative curiosity was first piqued by the ATF Fast and
Furious scandal and continues through the recent House impeachment show trial.
There is a common element running through all of these cons —
the actions of an organized crime conspiracy. A group of people
either acting alone or in concert with others committed crimes with a common
purpose - a criminal enterprise as described in
"CRIMINAL RICO: 18 USC. §§1961-1968 A
Manual For Federal Prosecutors."
The players acted
together – in the usurpation of power, the abuse of power by public officials,
bribery, thefts by fraud including federal funds, money laundering, perjury and
the obstruction of justice, the violations of fundamental of civil rights,
aided and abetted in the commission of these crimes and or to conceal these
crimes. Criminals will lie and can't keep their lies straight. Their methods
and behaviors are the same, whether engaging in street crimes or elaborate
white-collar financial schemes. The only difference is when more money is
involved, the perps are more adept in concealing, covering up their sins, and
hiding where the money went. Many of these scandals are well known to the American
Thinker readers. I will focus my comments on Hillary's home brew
sever and the Clinton Foundation as an example of how RICO can be used to
prosecute the players.
FBI Director James Comey
indicted Hillary Clinton for her home brew server at his press conference.
Comey then egregiously concluded that there was no evidence of criminal intent
purportedly “required” to prosecute. Comey bastardized the Federal Espionage Act in absolving
Hillary Clinton. FBI's investigation of Clinton's emails was low-balled. There
was never a real search for the truth. The outcome was preordained. My jaw
dropped wide open. I knew the fix was in. FBI Director Comey lied to the people
with a straight face. Why?
The chance meeting of
Bill Clinton and AG Loretta Lynch on the airport tarmac was no mere
coincidence. This chat was not about the grandkids. Bill Clinton was there to
convey a specific message to Lynch that there would be no indictment of
Hillary. Hillary Clinton's email case must tank. This would have
constituted bribery, if AG Lynch was assured she would continue as AG in
Clinton Administration. This meeting took place only weeks before Comey's press
conference dumping Hillary Clinton's email case.
The Deep State needed
Hillary Clinton to win the 2016 presidential election, or the dike holding back
the truth would burst. Trump, the disruptor, was an immediate threat to both
the Republicans, Democrats, and the Deep State. If the truth were
laid bare, it would expose the Obama Administration, Hillary Clinton, the
Senate and House, and many executive departments for these abuses of power,
corruption, bribery, frauds, and thefts of public funds.
High-level government
officials and the Deep State committed many serious felonies either in
furtherance of or to conceal the crimes committed in the pay to play scam.
In exchange for favorable consideration by Secretary Clinton, those who
benefited would donate to the Clinton Foundation. The FBI
started and stopped investigations into the Clinton Foundation at least twice
as reported by the Washington Post. Peter Schweizer's book, Clinton Cash, is the most damning. Dinesh D'Souza slammed the
Foundation in the National Review, as did The Federalist.
The status of the investigation of the Foundation
by US Attorney John Huber's is unknown. Rudy Giuliani said there was enough to
pursue "Clinton Inc" as
racketeering under RICO. The Foundation and its affiliated nonprofits require a real
investigation with an in-depth forensic audit to determine where the money
went. In financial crimes investigation, the prime rule is "follow the
money, honey." Illicit nonprofits have many ways to divert funds by
inflating salaries, expenses, and money laundering.
Illegal nonprofit schemes
are difficult to prosecute without hard evidence and the testimony of insiders.
The motive of Hillary Clinton's use of the home brew server was to conceal
emails from FOIA requests that would provide the hard evidence. Hillary Clinton
destroyed the data on her server and cell phones with the knowledge of the FBI.
It took years for Judicial Watch and others to pry
and recover some of these damning emails from the foot-dragging executive
departments that were complicit and knew what was going on.
RICO initially was used
to target mob families. RICO is also a useful tool to fight white collar
conspiracies. They both have the same hierarchy of low-level crooks led by the
top players, linked together with a common purpose. RICO has tools to squeeze
the low-level operatives to gather evidence to prosecute, jail, and seize
assets of the conspirators. The critical element required is a pattern
of criminal or racketeering activity. This pattern is proved by showing
two predicate crimes were committed within ten years. The list of predicate crimes is extensive and
includes bribery, embezzlement, fraud, theft, money laundering, and obstruction
of justice. The typical five-year statute of limitations for most federal
felonies is extended to ten years from the last criminal act or acts committed
to conceal the conspiracy, i.e., lying under oath and similar actions to
obstruct justice. The prison sentences are steep. The effect is to cut off the
head of the organization and not just the low-level players.
The criminal activity
extends back to the ATF's Fast and Furious program through the House
impeachment show trial to cover up the illegal acts of the Obama
Administration, Hillary Clinton, the Department of State, the DOJ, the FBI, and
the CIA. A telltale sign that the DOJ under US Attorney General Barr is
willing to play hardball and may use RICO, came when he spoke to the Federalist
Society: "Barr accuses liberal 'resistance' of
trying to 'sabotage' Trump." AG Barr said this, "shows FBI launched Trump campaign
investigation on the 'thinnest of suspicions." AG Barr is the new sheriff in town,
he wears a badge, has guns and will travel, can impanel grand juries, indict
and arrest people, and is not limited in his jurisdiction, like DOJ IG
Horowitz.
The collective actions of
the Deep State are and were a silent coup to delegitimize a Presidential
candidate. Once elected to impede and resist the duly elected President. The
President's law enforcement and intel agencies were corrupted at the highest
level and went rogue.
Organized crime can't
exist without corrupt law enforcement. As I wrote in a letter to President
Trump earlier this year:
. . . I believe you
understand the gravity of the situation and of its importance to the very
survival of our Country as we know it. If the people involved are not held
accountable for their actions, we will be no different than some Third World
Banana Republic.
Failure to act will
destroy our founding principle of the Rule of Law as stated by President John
Adams, "We Are a Nation of Laws, Not of Men" and we cannot allow a
two-tiered justice system to prevail.
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political science CSUF, M. Adm. University of Cal, Riverside. Facebook at Ron
T. Cop.
“Our entire crony
capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy
approaching par with third-world hell-holes. This is the way a great
country is raided by its elite.” ---- Karen McQuillan AMERICAN THINKER.com
Peter Schweizer, author of “Secret Empires: How the American
Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends,”
It’s About Corruption – Replacing
a Failed and Corrupt Political Establishment
American presidents have their famous
speeches, remembered long after they leave office. JFK said: “Ask not what
your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” Ronald
Reagan stood at the Brandenburg Gate and told Mikhail Gorbachev to: “Tear
down this wall.”
Some speeches are memorable in other ways.
George W. Bush, days after 9/11, ironically announced that: “Islam is
peace.” Barack Obama proclaimed himself the messiah: “This was the moment
when the rise of the oceans began to slow, and our planet began to heal.”
President Trump has certainly given strong
speeches, such as at the recent March for Life. But he may be remembered more
for his raucous rallies and hilarious tweets. Yet one speech has flown under
the radar.
On Oct. 13, 2016, just weeks before
the election, Trump spoke at a campaign rally in Florida. Leading up to the election,
he was holding several rallies each day, giving numerous speeches, but this
seemingly random speech stands out.
The enigmatic Q group refers to it as the
speech that got Donald Trump elected. As it was one of many pre-election
speeches he gave and at a Florida rally, it may have only been heard by a
fraction of Trump voters before the election, but it certainly encapsulates his
philosophy, both before and after the election, toward government corruption.
The speech explains the resistance by the
Washington, D.C. ruling class to Trump’s candidacy, election, and presidency.
Trump attacked the foundation of deep state power, wealth, and corruption.
Trump was indeed an “existential threat” to the cabal.
Before even being elected, and years
before Joe Biden decided to run for president, Donald Trump was focused on
corruption. Not to influence his reelection, as House Democrats accuse, since he
wasn’t even president yet. But because rooting out corruption was part of his
plan to make America great again.
Everything that followed his election,
from the Russian collusion accusations, White House leaks, special counsel
investigation, and now impeachment, is a reaction to the ideas Trump explains
in this 6-minute speech. Watch it here or read the transcript.
The opening lines are prescient, becoming
painfully obvious now almost four years after he laid out the scale of
corruption.
Our movement is about replacing a failed
and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you,
the American People. There is nothing the political
establishment will not do, and no lie they will
not tell, to hold on to their prestige and power at your expense.
The Washington establishment, and the financial
and media corporations that fund it, exists for only one reason: to protect and
enrich itself.
The establishment has trillions of dollars at
stake in this election. As an example, just one single trade deal they’d like
to pass, involves trillions of dollars controlled by many countries,
corporations and lobbyists.
For those who control the levers of power in
Washington, and for the global special interests they partner with, our
campaign represents an existential threat.
“Protect
and enrich.” This is a perfect encapsulation of the Clinton Foundation and
the Obama book and television deals. Then there is the Biden family corruption,
followed closely behind by similar abuses of power and office by the Warren and
Sanders families, as Peter Schweizer described in his recent book “Profiles in
Corruption.” These names just scratch the surface of government
corruption.
Candidate
Trump then went on to say:
It’s a global power structure that is responsible
for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our
country of its wealth, and put that money into the pockets of a handful of
large corporations and political entities.
This
is money given to corrupt foreign countries, disguised as aid, only to be
returned to the political elite by hiring their unqualified family members for
do-nothing jobs, as in Hunter Biden, or funneling these U.S. taxpayer dollars
back into political foundations, consultancies, or campaign contributions.
Once
upon a time, journalists investigated such corruption. Now they ignore it,
aiding and abetting the deception. As Trump said in his speech:
The corporate media in our country is no longer
involved in journalism. They are a political special interest, no different
than any lobbyist or other financial entity with an agenda.
Speak
up against the cabal and you will be destroyed, or even commit suicide. Trump
went on:
The establishment and their media enablers wield
control over this nation through means that are well known. Anyone who challenges
their control is deemed a sexist, a racist, a xenophobe and morally deformed.
They will attack you, they will slander you, they will seek to destroy your
career and reputation. And they will lie, lie and lie even more.
It’s
amazing that Trump predicted exactly what happened a few days ago when
“Republican political strategist” Rick Wilson called the group of “you”
mentioned above, “credulous boomer rubes” with CNN hack Don Lemon laughing so
hard he almost fell off his chair.
President
Trump has been impeached for drawing back the curtain on deep state
malfeasance. Before handing over millions of hard earned U.S. taxpayer dollars
to Ukraine, the most corrupt country in Europe,
he wanted to know the money was necessary and going where promised, rather than
into the pockets of oligarchs and U.S. politician grifters.
He
acted as he was required to under the “Treaty with
Ukraine on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters,” ratified in 2000,
15 years before Trump announced his run for president. He was doing his job,
fulfilling his Constitutional oath of office. His reward for pouring roach
killer in the nest of Democrat crooks and knaves was impeachment and a
concerted effort by Democrats, the media, and nasty NeverTrump Republicans, all
heads on the same toxic hydra, to overturn the last election and rig the next
one.
It’s
not about Trump enriching himself, despite what Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler
say, it’s for the country. Again, from the famous speech:
I didn’t need to do this. I built a great
company, and I had wonderful life. I could have enjoyed the benefits of years
of successful business for myself and my family, instead of going through this
absolute horror show of lies, deceptions and malicious attacks. I’m doing it
because this country has given me so much, and I feel strongly it was my turn
to give back.
It’s
all about corruption, exposing it, rooting it out, and destroying it. Those who
are the most threatened are those who scream the loudest. Given the Democrat
and media apoplexy, Trump must be getting closer to the truth.
He
ended his speech by throwing down the gauntlet:
We will vote to put this corrupt government
cartel out of business. We will remove from our politics the special interests
who have betrayed our workers, our borders, our freedoms, and our sovereign
rights as a nation. We will end the politics of profit, we will end the rule of
special interests, we will put a stop to the raiding of our country – and the
disenfranchisement of our people.
It’s
not about abuse of power or obstruction of Congress. It’s not about quid
pro quo or bribery. It’s simply a new sheriff in town, bringing law
and order to drain a swamp of greed and corruption. It’s President Trump doing
exactly what he said he would do if elected, making America great again.
He
is doing what past presidents have talked about and promised, but then either
looked the other way or became active participants in the graft. And those
milking the system are petrified over exposure and their long overdue
reckoning.
Brian
C. Joondeph, M.D., is a Denver-based physician and freelance writer whose
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Hillary Clinton Endorses Joe Biden for President
Former Secretary of State and 2016 candidate Hillary Clinton endorsed presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden for president, coming days after former President Barack Obama did the same.
“I am thrilled to be part of your campaign—to not only endorse you but to help highlight a lot of the issues that are at stake,” she said during a virtual town hall on the impact of COVID-19 on women.
Clinton for months said that she would back the eventual Democratic nominee. The endorsement may give a boost to Biden, who has struggled to stay relevant amid the pandemic, but it will also give President Donald Trump and Republicans a new angle to attack.
“There is no greater concentration of Democrat establishment than Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton together,” Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale wrote in a statement on Tuesday. “President Trump beat her once and now he’ll beat her chosen candidate.”
It comes days after Obama, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) all endorsed Biden earlier this month. Sanders bowed out of the race earlier in April before endorsing Biden, after he took losses in several key states, including most of the Super Tuesday nominating contests.
Today's News Updates
Clinton, meanwhile, has made few comments on candidates during the Democratic presidential primary fight, although she offered critical words against Sanders, whom she had faced in 2016 during the primary. She also made a veiled critical comment about Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), who filed a lawsuit against her in January.
“I’m just watching and hoping that we nominate whoever is the strongest candidate to take out the current incumbent,” Clinton also told an ABC News interviewer in March. “That’s the only thing that really matters at the end of the day.”
During Super Tuesday, she praised Biden, 77, and said that “he has the experience” to be president, while criticizing Sanders.
“He was in Congress for years. He had one senator support him. Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done,” Clinton said in the documentary months before that. “He was a career politician. It’s all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it.”
When she was asked about those comments in early March, Clinton said “that was my authentic opinion then” adding: “It’s my authentic opinion now.”
Four years ago, Biden had considered running against Clinton and later said that the former first lady failed to reach many middle-class voters. Clinton also admitted that she wanted to run against Biden in 2019.
Other top Democrats, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, former Vice President Al Gore, and Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington have recently thrown their weight behind Biden in recent days.
Clinton made the comments during a live-streamed meeting with Biden. The former vice president has been relegated to holding online events after announcing that he would suspend holding in-person rallies amid the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) pandemic.
Biden has also been dogged by an
allegation from a former staffer, Tara
Reade, who claimed then-Sen. Biden
sexually assaulted her in the early
1990s. The former vice president has
remained silent on the matter, and no
one in the media has asked him a direct
question about her, although his
campaign has categorically denied
Reade’s claims.
allegation from a former staffer, Tara
Reade, who claimed then-Sen. Biden
sexually assaulted her in the early
1990s. The former vice president has
remained silent on the matter, and no
one in the media has asked him a direct
question about her, although his
campaign has categorically denied
Reade’s claims.
Reade’s claims gained more weight after a “Larry King Live” clip from 1993 resurfaced, appearing to include Reade’s mother alluding to problems that her daughter faced while she worked for Biden.
“What is clear about this claim: it is untrue. This absolutely did not happen,” a campaign spokesperson told news outlets earlier this month.
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