I heard part of Hillary Clinton's phone interview with Anderson Cooper on CNN tonight. It was astounding just how dumb Hillary thinks the average American is. It is also astounding just how poor a candidate she is. This is the first time that Hillary has actually taken questions from someone who is nominally a reporter in over three weeks. Because of that, she has a lot of things about which she might be questioned. The interview was short, however, and Hillary just covered a few points. Even those, however, we poorly done. Here are the main takeaways:
1. Hillary says that while she was secretary of state, she was not influenced at all by who gave donations to the Clinton Foundation. She says that Trump's charges about that are "ridiculous". She actually said that there's a lot of smoke about the subject, but there's "no fire". But here's the problem: the charges are not coming from Trump. The proof of just how much those Clinton donations influenced Hillary while she was secretary of state comes from an analysis of Clinton's official schedules done by two reporters at the AP. First, the AP had to fight for three years to get copies of Clinton's schedules even though they are supposed to be public documents. Then the reporters analyzed the schedules and found that more than one half of all of her meetings with private individuals were with donors to the foundation. It's like 89 out of 170 meetings were with donors. That's not a coincidence. It's a lot more than smoke; it's major flames of fire.
2. Cooper ignored the biggest question about the foundation and Hillary stayed away from it too. It is illegal for foreigners to contribute to American politicians and also illegal for those politicians to accept contributions from foreigners. Of those meetings with foundation donors, about half were with foreigners. When those foreigners gave money to the foundation in order to get a meeting with Clinton, it was an illegal act by both the donor and by Clinton herself. This will be a big problem for Hillary going forward.
3. Hillary actually spent time on the phone with Anderson Cooper talking about the "shocking" news that many of Donald Trump's businesses have debts. Trump is mainly in the real estate development business. All real estate businesses have debt. Hillary's statement is like saying that she's shocked to find out that the guy who sells hot dogs from the stand at the baseball stadium has hot dogs. It's a major part of the business. Hillary was just trying to confuse voters with yet another phony story and to run out the clock on her short time with Anderson Cooper.
1. Hillary says that while she was secretary of state, she was not influenced at all by who gave donations to the Clinton Foundation. She says that Trump's charges about that are "ridiculous". She actually said that there's a lot of smoke about the subject, but there's "no fire". But here's the problem: the charges are not coming from Trump. The proof of just how much those Clinton donations influenced Hillary while she was secretary of state comes from an analysis of Clinton's official schedules done by two reporters at the AP. First, the AP had to fight for three years to get copies of Clinton's schedules even though they are supposed to be public documents. Then the reporters analyzed the schedules and found that more than one half of all of her meetings with private individuals were with donors to the foundation. It's like 89 out of 170 meetings were with donors. That's not a coincidence. It's a lot more than smoke; it's major flames of fire.
2. Cooper ignored the biggest question about the foundation and Hillary stayed away from it too. It is illegal for foreigners to contribute to American politicians and also illegal for those politicians to accept contributions from foreigners. Of those meetings with foundation donors, about half were with foreigners. When those foreigners gave money to the foundation in order to get a meeting with Clinton, it was an illegal act by both the donor and by Clinton herself. This will be a big problem for Hillary going forward.
3. Hillary actually spent time on the phone with Anderson Cooper talking about the "shocking" news that many of Donald Trump's businesses have debts. Trump is mainly in the real estate development business. All real estate businesses have debt. Hillary's statement is like saying that she's shocked to find out that the guy who sells hot dogs from the stand at the baseball stadium has hot dogs. It's a major part of the business. Hillary was just trying to confuse voters with yet another phony story and to run out the clock on her short time with Anderson Cooper.
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