In handling and protecting a candidate, consultants have to know the truth—the full truth. Unless they do, the truth will come back to bite them and their candidate. You can’t defend a scandal if you don’t know what really happened. But Hillary will never ever tell her advisors the truth. It is likely she never admits the truth to herself. Denial is her way of life. It’s how she keeps going every day. She will not breech that wall of denial unless she is forced to do so. And no advisor, consultant, or handler has the clout or security to make her tell the truth.
So when we challenge Hillary, it will be like peeling an onion: Each time we disprove one layer of denial, another will take its place. Hillary’s denial strategy will blow up in her face. On the campaign trail, she will hang herself by lying and covering up. The key is to keep her under pressure.
Bernie Sanders’s basic mistake was not to raise any of these important issues. He based his campaign on his ideology and condemned Hillary for her dependence on special interest and Wall Street money. But Hillary’s scandals played no role in his effort. He never discussed them and famously dismissed her e-mails, saying that “nobody gives a damn about your e-mails.” In the Democratic primary, perhaps not. But in the general election, her blatant breach of the law and of national security ranks high on her list of negatives. Throughout the primary campaign, Hillary’s supporters and the entire Democratic establishment warned Bernie about his “tone” in attacking Hillary. And like the good liberal he is, Sanders did not go for the jugular.
But Donald Trump will. He won’t ignore the idiocy of her excuses. We’ve listened to her talking points about why she won’t release the transcripts of the paid speeches she’s made. We’ve heard her say she’ll do it when everyone else does and not before then. We’ve heard her say that everyone did it—other secretaries of state like Colin Powell and Madeline Albright and Henry Kissinger gave paid speeches. But Donald Trump will point out the flaw in her silly argument—that none of them were running for president and could do favors down the line.
That’s why people paid Hillary such exorbitant speaking fees—not because they wanted to hear her view of the world, but because they wanted to create an IOU. Donald will flatten her arguments and repeatedly point out why she is a flawed candidate.
Keep up the pressure. Make her make mistakes. Force her to dig herself deeper and deeper into lies and cover-ups. That’s how we keep Hillary out of the White House. And put Donald Trump in.
Notes
Preface
1 http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/06/18/trump_on_trade_we_dont_have_our_best_and_brightest_negotiating_for_us_were_getting_ripped_off_major_league.html
Introduction
1 Trump warns Hillary To Tread Carefully On Demeaning Women, CNN, January 18, 2016; http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/18/politics/donald-trump-bill-clinton-past/
2 Alana Goodman, Audio: Bill Clinton Privately Mocked Paula Jones as an Attention-Seeking “Floozy,” WND, January 6, 2016; http://freebeacon.com/politics/audio-bill-clinton-privately-mocked-paula-jones-as-an-attention-seeking-floozy/
3 Lenzner, Terry, The Investigator, Kindle Edition, p. 202; https://read.amazon.com/?asin=B00DMCV24G
4 Maxwekk Tani, Bernie Sanders Is Continuing To Escalate His Attacks On Hillary Clinton, Business Insider, May 2, 2016; http://www.businessinsider.com/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-indiana-polls-attacks-2016-5
5 $153 Million In Clintons Speaking Fees Documented. http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/05/politics/hillary-clinton-bill-clinton-paid-speeches/
Chapter 1. A Dozen Reasons Hillary Clinton Shouldn’t be President
1 https://sharylattkisson.com/8-major-warnings-before-benghazi-terrorist-attacks/
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid.
5 http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/melanie-hunter/more-600-benghazi-security-requests-never-reached-clintons-desk-reports
6 http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/12/08/spinning-up-as-speak-email-shows-pentagon-was-ready-to-roll-as-benghazi-attack.html
7 http://dailycaller.com/2015/12/08/new-clinton-email-shows-pentagon-had-forces-ready-during-benghazi-attack/
8 http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/10/22/rep_jim_jordan_vs_hillary_clinton_why_did_you_tell_egyptians_benghazi_was_a_terrorist_attack_but_not_the_american_people.html
9 Ibid.
10 http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/12/06/hillary-i-didnt-lie-to-benghazi-families-it-was-the-fog-of-war/
11 http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/27/poll-liar-tops-list-of-50-words-americans-used-to-describe-hillary-clinton/
12 http://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/article/323326
13 http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2015/10/04/hillary-clinton-dislikes-military-in-u
14 http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/15/us/hillary-clinton-says-she-once-tried-to-be-marine.html
15 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1581606/Hillary-Clinton-I-was-instrumental-in-Northern-Ireland-peace-process.html
16 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1581150/Nobel-winner-Hillary-Clintons-silly-Irish-peace-claims.html
17 See George Mitchell, Making Peace (New York: Penguin, 2012).
18 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/22/us/politics/22irish.html
19 http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2008/mar/25/hillary-clinton/video-shows-tarmac-welcome-no-snipers/
20 http://arkansasgopwing.blogspot.com/2016/02/hillary-lies-about-lying.html
21 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2014/06/05/hillary-clinton-on-iraq-vote-i-still-got-it-wrong-plain-and-simple/
22 http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/15/guess-who-voted-iraq-war-she-opposed-it-hillary-cl/
24 https://newrepublic.com/article/121879/hillary-clinton-should-take-blame-disastrous-libyan-intervention
25 Ibid.
26 Ibid.
27 Ibid.
28 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/06/hillary-clinton-arming-syrian-rebels-memoir
29 http://www.mediaite.com/online/donald-trump-bashes-libya-intervention-which-he-strongly-advocated-for-in-2011/
30 http://www.ibtimes.com/us-strategy-arm-syrian-moderate-opposition-has-failed-experts-say-1725801
31 Ibid.
32 Ibid.
33 http://freebeacon.com/blog/hillary-clinton-huma-abedin/
34 http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/259805/huma-abedin-security-breach-hillary-still-hiding-frontpagemagcom
35 Ibid.
36 http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/donald-trump-anthony-weiner-pervert-2016-election-213158
37 http://www.standwithus.com/news/article.asp?id=1757
38 http://www.nationalreview.com/article/312211/huma-abedins-muslim-brotherhood-ties-andrew-c-mccarthy
39 http://www.nbcnews.com/id/41337168/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/t/clinton-urges-transition-democratic-regime-egypt/#.VpGTis4-DVo
40 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/10/world/middleeast/coptic-christian-leader-criticizes-morsi-government.html?_r=0
41 http://www.breitbart.com/video/2013/07/04/flashback-clinton-pledges-support-for-morsi/
42 Ibid.
43 http://www.jihadwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/clinton-morsi.jpg
44 http://beforeitsnews.com/politics/2015/03/hillary-clinton-and-her-long-friendship-with-egypts-morsis-wife-2694332.html
45 http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/jun/17/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-change-position-same-sex-marriage/
46 Ibid.
47 Ibid.
48 Ibid.
49 http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2008/feb/25/barack-obama/clinton-has-changed-on-nafta/
50 Ibid.
51 http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/oct/13/hillary-clinton/what-hillary-clinton-really-said-about-tpp-and-gol/
52 Ibid.
53 http://www.opensecret
s.org/news/2015/05/hillary-clinton-morgan-stanley-and-tpp-a-free-trade-triumvirate/
54 Ibid.
55 http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/13/hillary-clinton-trans-pacific-partnership-debate
56 Ibid.
57 http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/257234-clinton-brings-in-most-big-pharma-money-of-2016-field
58 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzQxFtM9cfk
59 http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/oct/12/hillary-clinton-flip-flops-from-2008-positions-in-/?page=all
60 http://dailycaller.com/2015/04/16/hillary-clinton-flip-flops-on-drivers-licenses-for-illegal-immigrants/
61 Ibid.
62 http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/17/hillary-clinton-deport-the-illegal-children-back-to-central-america/
63 http://dailycaller.com/2015/12/26/in-apparent-flip-flop-hillary-now-says-shes-concerned-with-plan-to-deport-central-american-families-video/
64 Taming the Beast: Wall Street’s Imperfect Answers to Making Money
65 http://www.youbemom.com/forum/permalink/8154917/despite-31-trillion-to-1-odds-hillary-turned-1k-into-100k-trading-futu
66 http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB91266144592420000
67 http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/05/us/memo-places-hillary-clinton-at-core-of-travel-office-case.html
68 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/thomason012998.htm
69 www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/arkansas/castle/
70 http://nypost.com/2015/04/26/charity-watchdog-clinton-foundation-a-slush-fund/
71 Ibid.
72 Ibid.
73 Ibid.
74 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/12/22/charity-watchdog-removes-clinton-foundation-from-its-watch-list/
75 Ibid.
76 http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/04/25/timeline-timeline-bill-clintons-trip-to-kazakhstan-followed-by-windfall-for-clinton-foundation/
77 http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/h/henryakis115118.html
78 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQuSzFJGv3o
79 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-hillary-clinton-emails-20150731-story.html
80 Maureen Dowd, Liberties; Hillary’s Stocking Stuffer, The New York Times, December 24, 2000. http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/24/opinion/liberties-hillary-s-stocking-stuffer.html
81 Thomas B. Edsall, The Clintons Take Away $190.000 In Gifts. The Washington Post, January 21, 2001. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/01/21/clintons-take-away-190000-in-gifts/36773cf2-8120-4d58-b903-d76d39a6cc3f/
82 https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/06/27/chelsea-clinton-perfectly-explains-how-millennials-feel-about-money/
83 http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0615/morris060115.php3
84 http://rense.com/general31/surf.htm
85 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/07/us/politics/clinton-first-brother-is-wary-chatty-and-still-occasionally-attracting-attention.html
86 https://lorrab.wordpress.com/2015/04/03/roger-clinton-told-fbi-that-he-accepted-foreign-cash-for-president-bill-clinton/
87 http://articles.latimes.com/2002/mar/13/news/mn-32562
88 http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/251759-omalley-gop-raise-legitimate-clinton-email-questions
89 Christopher Marquis with Michael Moss, A Clinton In-Law Receives $400,000 For Two Pardons, The New York Times, February 21, 2001.
90 Justice Undone: Clemency Decisions in The Clinton White House, Second Report, of The House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform, Volume 1, 739-42, 765-773; https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CRPT-107hrpt454/html/CRPT-107hrpt454-vol1.htm
Chapter 2. How to Beat Hillary
1 http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/11/new-poll-shows-60-of-americans-think-hillary-clinton-is-untrustworthy-and-dishonest.html
2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OznoFCZdS8
3 http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2013/05/10-election-2012-minority-voter-turnout-frey
4 http://www.cbsnews.com/elections/2016/primaries/republican/michigan/exit/
5 http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2015/median-weekly-earnings-by-education-gender-race-and-ethnicity-in-2014.htm
6 http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/curtis-dubay/1-percenters-pay-24-percent-and-top-10-percent-pay-533-percent-all-federal
7 Ibid.
8 https://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2012/04/11/president-obama-speaks-buffett-rule
9 https://jackrasmus.com/2016/03/01/bill-clintons-dubious-economic-legacies/
10 https://ourfuture.org/fact_sheet/ten-years-bush-tax-cuts-benefiting-rich
11 https://eml.berkeley.edu/~saez/saez-UStopincomes-2014.pdf
12 https://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/acsbr10-19.pdf
Chapter 3. Use the Right Jab to Bring Out Our Base
1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=208t80uceSg
2 http://www.mediaite.com/tv/giuliani-hillary-could-be-considered-founding-member-of-isis/
3 http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/24/politics/rudy-giuliani-hillary-clinton-isis/
4 http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/14/mccain.king/
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid.
7 http://www.aei.org/publication/brennan-admits-isis-was-decimated-under-bush-but-has-grown-under-obama-by-as-much-as-4400-percent/
8 http://www.nhregister.com/article/NH/20151117/NEWS/151119588
9 http://www.barenakedislam.com/2016/03/29/has-the-cia-director-been-fired-by-obama-look-what-he-said/
10 http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/sep/07/barack-obama/what-obama-said-about-islamic-state-jv-team/
11 http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2015/12/20/parsing-hillary-clintons-we-now-finally-are-where-we-need-to-be-comment-on-isis/
12 http://www.nationalreview.com/article/427219/obama-still-convinced-his-isis-strategy-events-what-events-jonah-goldberg
13 http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/13/donald-trump-foreign-policy-doctrine-nation-building
14 http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/morsis-wife-threatens-to-publish-letters-from-hillary-clinton-exposing-special-relationship-between-muslim-brotherhood-and-obama-administration
15 http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/261283-ex-cia-chief-fear-for-environment-stays-us-hand-on-isis-oil-wells
16 http://www.ibtimes.com/hillary-clinton-flip-flopping-ground-troops-fight-isis-us-sends-troops-iraq-clinton-2206261
17 http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jul/9/donald-trump-id-bomb-hell-out-oil-fields/
18 http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/12/19/hillary-clinton-blames-donald-trump-video-for-next-terror-attack/
19 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_aid_to_Palestinians#Major_donors
20 http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/05/obama-rebuffed-by-netanyahu-on-land-for-peace-deal/1#.Vwab7M4-DVo
21 https://books.google.com/books?id=RlB1CAAAQBAJ&pg=PA263&lpg=PA263&dq=For+the+Israelis,+we+requested+that+they+freeze+all+settlement&source=bl&ots=FBj2WcbxlB&sig=NTy06FWyCBOW0tbgUUf7xTd8XPw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjs6pyYmeTLAhXCwxQKHbcOA7cQ6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=For%20the%20Israelis%2C%20we%20requested%20that%20they%20freeze%20all%20settlement&f=false
22 http://www.jns.org/latest-articles/2014/7/9/on-israeli-palestinian-conflict-hillary-clintons-hard-choices-offers-the-same-choices#.Vx7qGz-IQSA=
23 http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/03/20/a-complete-timeline-of-obamas-anti-israel-hatred/
24 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/25/world/middleeast/kerry-says-israel-may-deepen-its-isolation-by-opposing-iran-nuclear-accord.html?_r=0
25 http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz88097a18480.html
26 http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/pew-144000-us-muslims-say-suicide-bombings-civilian-targets-often-or
27 http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/28/poll-majority-now-support-trumps-muslim-travel-ban/
28 http://www.state.gov/j/ct/list/c14151.htm
29 http://www.wnd.com/2015/11/big-list-all-thes
e-terror-attacks-in-u-s-covered-up-by-feds/
30 http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/16/since-911-u-s-accepted-2-million-migrants-majority-muslim-nations/