Report: Hillary Keeping Bill off the Campaign Trail to Limit Talk of His Affairs
Fearing that the taint of sexual scandals would overshadow any positive impact, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton reportedly is minimizing the role of former President Bill Clinton in her campaign.
According to the Daily Mail, author Joe Conasaon, who wrote the new book Man of the World: The Further Endeavors of Bill Clinton, said the issue is not merely whether Republican nominee Donald Trump might mine the Clintons’ past for juicy tidbits, but what might surface about Bill Clinton’s more recent activity.
“Much more troubling to Hillary and her closest associates was the constant chatter concerning her husband’s alleged extramarital romances,” he wrote.
“If he appeared anywhere with an attractive and unattached woman, even in a group photo leaving a restaurant, her name would be ‘linked’ to him in tabloid columns, as occurred regularly for a while with Belinda Stronach, a divorced Canadian heiress in her forties who held a seat in Parliament,” Conason wrote.
There was fire behind the smoke, Conason noted, referring to Julie Tauber McMahon, who was dubbed “the energizer” because of her frequent private meetings with Bill Clinton.
Conason also names actress Gina Gershon as a rumored Clinton paramour, a claim Gershon has denied.
As for Trump, who said after Monday’s debate he had planned to bring up Bill Clinton’s affairs but then thought better of it, a comment he made this week suggests Clinton’s past may be front and center in the coming days.
The Clinton's are the real predators…https://t.co/Fr0gFtZVVz
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 26, 2016
“The American people have had it with years and decades of Clinton corruption and scandal,” Trump said in New Hampshire on Thursday. “And impeachment for lying. … Remember that?”
Trump’s reference was to the scandal caused by Bill Clinton’s affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
“The American people have had it with years and decades of Clinton corruption and scandal,” Trump said in New Hampshire on Thursday. “And impeachment for lying. … Remember that?”
Trump’s reference was to the scandal caused by Bill Clinton’s affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. (For more from the author of “Report: Hillary Keeping Bill off the Campaign Trail to Limit Talk of His Affairs” please click HERE)
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