If one could stack chutzpah, Hillary Clinton’s pile would rival Mount Everest.
According to The Western Journal, the Democrat who lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump immediately seized on the FBI raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate to line her pockets.
On Tuesday, she tweeted a photo of herself, obviously taken long ago, wearing a baseball cap that said “But her emails.”
The reference was to the FBI’s investigation of Clinton’s private email server. She kept the unit in her New York home while she served as U.S. secretary of State. The FBI investigated whether Clinton violated federal law by sending classified information through the server.
Former FBI Director James Comey eventually recommended that the Justice Department drop the case. Comey said she was “extremely careless” by using the server and suggested that she likely broke the law, but added, “no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.”
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In her tweet on Tuesday morning, Clinton said, “Every ‘But her emails’ hat or shirt sold helps @onwardtogether partners defend democracy, build a progressive bench, and fight for our values. Just saying!”
About two hours later she announced the hats had been sold out but would soon be restocked. She also promoted other merchandise, such as T-shirts.
The tone-deaf tackiness of Clinton’s tweets is as on-brand as it is ironic.
While Clinton sought to gloat over the FBI’s raid on Trump, it was her campaign in 2016 that used the FBI to attempt to undermine democracy and topple a duly elected president.
Clinton’s campaign hired a Democratic law firm that, in turn, brokered a private intelligence firm that used a former British spy to dig up dirt on Trump and claim the Republican had colluded with Russian operatives.
That spy, Christopher Steele, used discredited Russian contacts to create a phony dossier of Trump’s involvement in Russia.
That document was then used by the FBI to investigate Trump, including spying on his home and campaign office, and then continuing to probe the president after he took office, even though investigators knew it was made up.
In March 2022, the Federal Election Commission announced it was fining Clinton’s 2016 campaign as well as the Democratic National Committee for masking payments directed to a private intelligence firm through a renowned Democratic law firm.
Those payments to Fusion GPS funded the so-called Steele dossier, the report compiled by Christopher Steele, a former British spy, who turned to Russian intelligence spooks for dirt on Donald Trump’s campaign.
The FEC issued a ruling last week that found “probable cause” that both the Clinton campaign and the DNC violated federal election law by referring the opposition research project to “legal and compliance consulting” in campaign finance reports.
Overall, Clinton and the DNC paid more than $1 million to Fusion GPS for the dossier. Steele’s report, once it became public, was heralded by the liberal media and Democrats as proof that Trump was a pawn for the Kremlin.
The left relentlessly claimed that Trump was beholden to Russian interests who helped him cheat to defeat Clinton in 2016. Steele’s “intelligence” field years of never-ending assertions that Trump was an illegitimate president.
Then, the bottom fell out. It was revealed that the whole thing was concocted.
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Last November, The Nation, one of the nation’s most left-wing publications, write a lengthy, detailed history of the dossier’s journey through the political system, and its use by the media, Democratic pols and the FBI to discredit Trump.
“While the media and political promotion of the Steele dossier was contemptible, its embrace by the FBI is an even bigger scandal. Rather than dismiss Steele’s work as a political hit job, the FBI used it as source material,” The Nation noted.
The Nation noted that when the FBI finally arrested Steele’s source, it turned out he was not even in Russia, but a Russian national who lived in Washington, D.C.
Recounting the madness it visited upon the left, The Nation remarked that the dossier actually helped Trump. As Steele’s “absurdities” and “inventions” fed “the fictitious Trump-Russia plot,” The Nation commented, the report also presented the 45th president with “the enduring gift of a conspiracy-crazed opposition” that would not relinquish its grip on the hoax no matter the strength of the evidence of Trump’s exoneration.
That was driven by the actions of Clinton and the DNC.
In a letter announcing its decision, the FEC notes that both the Clinton campaign and the DNC did not “concede” to the agency’s allegations that they violated federal law, but agreed to no longer contest the matter.
Accordingly, the Clinton campaign was fined $8,000 and the DNC $105,000. The FEC also consented to dropping pursuit of further allegations of wrongdoing by the heavy-hitting Democratic law firm that facilitated the scandal, Perkins Coie, as well as Fusion GPS or Christopher Steele.
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