Hillary Clinton Tweets Support For Marriage Equality At SCOTUS
Chris Wallace To CLINTON CASH Author: “You Don’t Have A Single Piece Of Evidence”
Fox News’ Chris Wallace tells the author of Clinton Cash that he doesn’t provide a “single piece of evidence” to back up his allegations that donors to the Clinton Foundation received favors from Hillary Clinton during her time as Secretary of State.
During an interview on Fox News Sunday, author Peter Schweizer suggested that Hillary Clinton approved a deal that eventually allowed the Russian government to control some U.S. uranium mines.
But Wallace pointed out that the book offers innuendo without any proof that Clinton ever took any action approving the sale of the mines.
“It’s not just the State Department,” Wallace explained. “It’s nine separate agencies… There is no hard evidence — and you don’t cite any in the book — that Hillary Clinton took direct action, was involved in any way in approving, as one nine agencies, the sale of the company.”
Schweizer argued that “any one of those agencies had veto power so she could have stopped the deal.”
“You don’t have a single piece of evidence that she was involved in this deal, that she sent a memo to the State Department person that was on this committee and said, ‘Hey, we want to approve the uranium sale,'” Wallace pressed.
“I am a journalist,” Schweizer insisted. “I don’t have access to government records. I certainly don’t have access to her emails, which it doesn’t seem like anybody does. But the fundamental question is, with this deal and with the others we cite in the book, is it coincidence in a pattern that we see repeated dozens of times where large Clinton supporters have business before the State Department, they make large payments and favorable actions are taken?”
“I don’t think that coincidences occur that frequently,” he added.
Now, when even Fox News (FOX NEWS!!!) says you don’t have any evidence to support your Hillary attack, you know it’s a sketchy kinda book.
Watch the exchange below:
Mitt Romney: “There’s Every Appearance That Hillary Clinton Was Bribed”
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Mitt Romney directly accuses Hillary Clinton of accepting bribes from Clinton Foundation donors.
“You know, I’ve got to tell you, I was stunned by it. I mean, it looks like bribery,” he said while appearing on the Hugh Hewitt Show. “I mean, there is every appearance that Hillary Clinton was bribed to grease the sale of, what, 20 percent of America’s uranium production to Russia, and then, it was covered up by lying about a meeting at her home with the principals, and by erasing emails.”
“And you know, I presume we might know for sure whether there was or was not bribery if she hadn’t wiped out thousands of emails. But this is a very, very serious series of facts, and it looks like bribery,” he added.
Mittens was referring to a Thursday New York Times story that alleged that investors in a uranium company donated to the Clinton Foundation before an inter-agency committee including Hillary Clinton’s State Department approved the sale of the company to the Russian nuclear agency.
It’s important to note that the committee is led by the Treasury Department, not the State Department where Clinton worked.
Clinton’s presidential campaign and her allies have pushed back against the allegations, saying there is no evidence to suggest a link between the donations and the approval.
“The decision to approve the sale of uranium never rose to Secretary Clinton’s level and was approved by at least half a dozen government agencies,” said Adrienne Watson, communications director for Correct the Record, a project of the pro-Clinton group American Bridge. “Mitt Romney should take a cue from Hillary Clinton and start talking about the real problems facing people across our country.”
CNN/ORC Poll: Jeb Bush With Early Lead For 2016 GOP Nomination
Results of the latest CNN/ORC poll gives Jeb Bush a slight lead among possible Republicans running for the 2016 presidential nod notching 17% support followed in the number two spot by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker at 12% and Sens. Rand Paul and Marco Rubio in 3rd and 4th respectively with 115.
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Meanwhile, on the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton continues to have a double digit lead over her closest competition, Vice-President Joe Biden. At 69% Hillary has seen a 7 point jump since she announced her run for the Dem nomination:
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In a hypothetical matchup, Sen. Marco Rubio fares best against Clinton losing to the former Secretary of State by 14 points, 55% to 41%.
Bush trails Clinton by 17 points, 56% to 39%.
Christie and Paul fall 19 points behind Clinton, each putting up 39% to Clinton’s 58%.
News Round-Up: April 18, 2015
News items you may have missed:
• At this point we all know to act right when sitting in the audience of a Patti LuPone performance. Well, everyone except this woman.
• Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the first gay protest. Bow in respect, please.
• Hollywood legend Rock Hudson’s former boyfriend recently spoke on how the couple kept their gay life secret.
• Jonathan Groff, star of HBO’s LOOKING, admits there was a time he was so closeted he couldn’t be in public with his boyfriend. Not even when he was nominated for a Tony Award.
• Jeb Bush and NJ Gov. Christ Christie want to raise the retirement age for Social Security
• Conan shows you how Hillary Clinton is just like the rest of us
Iowa: Gay Man Thanks Hillary Clinton For Her Support On Marriage Equality
Hillary Clinton’s campaign shares this clip of Mike Yowell having coffee this week with Hillary in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
“I was thrilled when you recently urged the Supreme Court to rule in favor of marriage equality. I was like ‘That’s our gal.'”
Hillary was my girl in 2008. And she’s my girl this election cycle.
Oral arguments on the issue of same-sex marriage at SCOTUS are scheduled for April 28th.
TIME 100: Hillary Clinton Gives Sen. Elizabeth Warren Her Due
Former U.S. Secretary of State and a 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton gives Sen. Elizabeth Warren her due for TIME’s 100 Most Influential People:
“It was always going to take a special kind of leader to pick up Ted Kennedy’s mantle as senior Senator from Massachusetts—champion of working families and scourge of special interests.
“Elizabeth Warren never lets us forget that the work of taming Wall Street’s irresponsible risk taking and reforming our financial system is far from finished. And she never hesitates to hold powerful people’s feet to the fire: bankers, lobbyists, senior government officials and, yes, even presidential aspirants.
“Elizabeth Warren’s journey from janitor’s daughter to Harvard professor to public watchdog to U.S. Senator has been driven by an unflagging determination to level the playing field for hardworking American families like the one she grew up with in Oklahoma. She fights so hard for others to share in the American Dream because she lived it herself.”
Hillary Clinton Hopes For Pro-Marriage Equality Ruling From SCOTUS
Hillary Clinton supports a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court granting the right of same-sex couples to marry across the nation, a campaign spokesperson said Wednesday.
Adrienne Elrod, spokesperson for Hillary for America, affirmed Clinton believes same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry in a statement to the Washington Blade.
“Hillary Clinton supports marriage equality and hopes the Supreme Court will come down on the side of same-sex couples being guaranteed that constitutional right,” Elrod said.
The response follows uncertainty about Clinton’s position on same-sex marriage after she talked about a state-by-state approach to the issue an interview with National Public Radio last year.
Christian Conservative Pundit Says Hillary Clinton Too Ugly To Be President
Just to give you a sample of how “ugly” it’s going to get in the 2016 presidential election, here’s an opening salvo from a conservative writer attacking Hillary Clinton.
“Christian” pundit Don Feder says, among other things, that Hillary is too ugly to be president. Check this:
Lyndon Baines Johnson was the last profoundly ugly candidate to be elected president, and he was a legacy of the martyred JFK. Voters don’t want a leader who looks frazzled or frumpy. We’re told that Lincoln was too homely to be elected president in an age of television and paparazzi. But Lincoln’s homely face had a dignity, a gravitas. If nothing else, we want a face that reassures us, not one that scares us, a la Night of the Living Alinskyites.
Conservatives might as well get in their licks in now. After Iowa, we won’t have Hillary to kick around any more.
I think when you look like Don Feder, you have nerve criticizing ANYONE’s looks.
Throughout his mean-spirited diatribe, Feder makes up quotes with no source or linkage. That should tell you everything you need to know about the man.
Just saying…
Gay Couple Featured in Hillary Video Invite Her To Their Wedding
Mediaite points up this interview on MSNBC of the gay couple featured in Hillary Clinton’s presidential announcement video.
The gay couple featured in Hillary Clinton‘s announcement video has officially invited her to their wedding. Jared Milrad and Nate Johnson showed up in the video, in which Clinton touts her campaign, and today they tweeted this out:
Thanks for inviting us to your big day @HillaryClinton. We’re returning the favor & inviting you to ours. #wedding pic.twitter.com/paMtBFLLUW
— Jared Milrad (@JaredMilrad) April 12, 2015The couple appeared on MSNBC and spoke with Alex Wagner today, talking about how much they appreciate Clinton’s support and how surprised they were to be in the video. They said they haven’t received any formal invitation yet, but wouldn’t mind if she brought a certain plus-one with her.