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In reply to the discussion: Remember the enormous outrage when Hillary said there was a "vast right-wing conspiracy"? [View all]Budi
(15,325 posts)He was threatened of political & personal ruin.
This is a decent recall from Wiki:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vast_right-wing_conspiracy
On January 27, 1998, Hillary Clinton appeared on NBC's The Today Show, in an interview with Matt Lauer.
Lauer: You have said, I understand, to some close friends, that this is the last great battle, and that one side or the other is going down here.
Clinton: Well, I don't know if I've been that dramatic. That would sound like a good line from a movie. But I do believe that this is a battle. I mean, look at the very people who are involved in thisthey have popped up in other settings. This isthe great story here for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president.
Clinton elaborated by decrying the tactics "and the kind of intense political agenda at work here". Bob Woodward recounts in his book The Agenda (1994) that the then-first lady claimed that when her husband was making his decision to run for the presidency in 1991, he reported receiving "a direct threat from someone in the Bush White House, warning that if he ran, the Republicans would go after him. 'We will do everything we can to destroy you personally,' she recalled that the Bush White House man had said."[1]
The wiki page has a lot I's forgotten or wasn't aware of.
It was Bill Clinton's own AG Janet Reno who appointed Ken Starr to investigate & once he was started, he never stopped.
Ken Starr's appt was the kiss of death, opening the door to the likes of Roger Stone, the DiGenova's, Ann Coulter, Kellyann Conway & the warning from those in GHW's circle indeed then proceded to destroy the Clintons for the rest of their lives, because Bill Clinton didn't just run against GHW, he defeated him.
Steve Bannon, Breitbart, Roger Stone etc. Yes there really was a RW Conspiracy and it's followed the Clintons thru this day.