Hillary Clinton is firmly rejecting the idea that accusations against her husband are anything like the sexual misconduct allegations against new Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh or President Donald Trump.
The former secretary of state, who is joining with her husband for a joint speaking tour where tickets are going for up to $700 each, referenced independent counsel Kenneth Starr’s investigation during the 1990s that led to impeachment.
She called it an ‘intense’ and ‘partisan probe’ that distinguished it from allegations against Trump and Kavanaugh, who sat as the newest Supreme Court justice Tuesday after weathering sexual assault allegations from high school and college.
Bill Clinton ‘really believes that Democrats have to be tougher and have to stand up to the bullying and the intimidation, so I think he’ll have things to say about his own experience and how it applies here,’ Clinton told CNN’s, Christiane Amanpour.
Hillary Clinton is firmly rejecting comparisons between allegations her husband has faced and sexual misconduct allegations against new Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh or President Donald Trump
‘I will certainly have a lot to say about what’s going on in the world today based on not only my secretary of state years but my travel, and my book, What Happened, which came out in paperback,’ Clinton said, where she writes ‘about these threats to democracy.’
That prompted a follow-up from the veteran CNN journalist, who noted the tour would prompt questions about what the Clintons went through, the 1998 impeachment, and ‘allegations of sexual harassment.’ She asked whether the situations were similar or different.
Bill Clinton withstood impeachment in 1998, following revelations of his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. He gave a deposition as president in the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit
‘There’s a very significant difference. And that is the intense, long-lasting partisan investigation that was conducted in the 90s,’ Clinton responded while nodding her head repeatedly.
‘If, you know, the Republicans, starting with President Trump on down want a comparison, they should welcome such an investigation themselves,’ Clinton said.
President Donald Trump went back to blasting Hillary Clinton’s political skills Tuesday after she called him out for his scorched-earth speech and apology ‘on behalf of our nation’ to Brett Kavanaugh at a swearing-in ceremony for the new Supreme Court justice.
At the Monday evening ceremony, attended by the other justices, Trump pronounced Kavanaugh ‘innocent’ and slammed critics who hammered the president’s nominee with sexual assault charges during a brutal confirmation fight.
Clinton called it a ‘political rally’ that ‘undermined’ the integrity of the court.
Responding to the comment from his former 2016 rival, Trump said: ‘I guess that’s why she lost. She doesn’t get it. She never did.’
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