Why Hillary Clinton always seems to have an inbox full of scandal

 

 Washington DC

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They may blame it on ‘the vast right-wing conspiracy’ or on sunspots, but the scandals keep accumulating

[/audioplayer]To the trained eye something is up on the Clinton front. Of course, there are the stories, often one a day, that make her more newsworthy here in the United States than Ebola. There are the usual Clinton tales about her staffing problems, problems between competing fundraisers, her public appearances for hundreds of thousands of dollars, often at state universities where the money is tight. There are sightings of her having lunch, a latte, buying a book at a local bookstore. But now there are these other stories.

In the last several weeks there have been stories about the Clinton Foundation, rechristened the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, accepting millions of dollars in foreign donations from faraway governments during her tenure as Secretary of State. At least one donation was clearly athwart the Obama administration’s ethics standards. There are the stories about Bill Clinton hanging around with the billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein on his secluded isle and Bill and Hillary accepting at least one donation from Epstein after his arrest. Hillary was even ensnared a few weeks back in NBC anchorman Brian Williams’s bogus war stories about flying in a helicopter under enemy fire in Iraq. Hillary, we were reminded, had war stories of her own involving a landing under enemy fire in Bosnia and skedaddling across the tarmac ‘with our heads down’. The major networks ran tapes of her utterly peaceful landing back in 1996, looking as serene as the Queen might look at the Ottawa airport. Now come the reports that she conducted her State Department work between 2009 and 2013 on a private email account.