Bill y Hillary Clinton, curtidos en mil batallas, se preparan para otra pelea en Washington – Chicago Tribune
By STEVEN SLOAN
WASHINGTON (AP) — For some of his conservative critics, it’s an escalation that could eventually happen. Your resistance was a useless result. And now, before another epic battle, we have enhanced our considerable political skills to try to deal with the situation in front of our lawyers.
For Bill and Hillary Clinton, 90 years ago.
Clinton was planning to testify from Young and Old during a House investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, as part of a story about Republicans after it became clear that Congress — with the help of some Democrats — disagrees with their declaration of desacato if they refuse to cooperate. For the pareja, the culmination of several battles, takes place from greater Pelée to Washington. And, like so many people before, it’s another mix of questionable decisions, inappropriate sexual conduct, dinner and power.
During his 1992 campaign, Bill Clinton presented his candidacy as “two for the price of one man,” anticipating a sightless presidential marriage, with a number of professional qualifications rivaling the requirements. In recent years, this alliance helped Clinton commit repeated outbursts, including some who had destroyed many other relationships. When her political career came to an end, she was on the rise when she was elected to the United States Senate from New York; He later served as Secretary of State before becoming a Democratic presidential candidate in 2016.
For anyone it’s been a long time since Clinton, this moment is a record of how la pareja — shouted in Vietnam War- and Watergate-era politics — has never been the crowning jewel of a cultural battle. And in the case of Epstein, who was unpredictable in everyone, Clinton saw his appearance in the explosion of the moment.
“It’s kind of a sad code, but appropriate for an extraordinary political life,” said David Maraniss, who wrote biographies of Bill Clinton.
There were no irregularities regarding the part of the two men respecting Epstein, a convicted sex offender who committed suicide in the prison in 2019 while hoping for a sex trafficking crime.
But Epstein had videos with Bill Clinton over the years and visited Casa Blanca several times during the 1990s, according to visitor logs. After Clinton abandoned cargo, Epstein participated in his philanthropic activities, and the ex-president flew on his private plane several times.
“In traveling on Epstein’s plane, we did not resort to the years of subsequent interrogations,” Bill Clinton wrote in his 2024 recollections. “He will never have known him.”
Bill Clinton’s videos with Epstein
It is true that the Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee issued subpoenas for Clinton. During these months, Bill Clinton, 79, and Hillary Clinton, 78, largely ignored the public affair, but this action was most difficult to sustain in December, when the ex-president appeared extensively in the first period of the Epstein archives.
Between the miles of public documents, some photos show him on a private plane, including one with a woman — cuyo rostro está tapado — sent to your location who rolled him with her arm. Another appearance in a swimming pool with Epstein’s big data confidante, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell and another person with the occult chart. Another image depicted Bill Clinton in a jacuzzi with a woman, also with the censored person.
Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Kentucky, threatened to declare Clinton in defeat if he did not participate in the citations, a historical medicine that was never required to express a comparator before Congress. Between his first term and his second term, Donald Trump invoked this precedent to request a subpoena from the committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the United States Capitol.
Once Bill Clinton’s photos were decontextualized, they turned their political promise into a state marked by their personal indiscretions.
The 1992 campaign, which represented the emerging supremacy of the baby boom generation, was the same thing that seemed to contain rumors of a fling with Gennifer Flowers. Her presidency, defined largely for economic prosperity, came to the point of collapse when she was on political trial in 1998 for outright lying and preventing justice from refusing to have sex with Monica Lewinsky.
On each occasion, many Republicans believed they had to get closer to the deciding factor against Clinton. But each time, the pareja found the way to exit the shelter.
Asa Hutchinson, the former Arkansas Republican congressman who was one of the House fiscal experts during Clinton’s political trial, described his colleague as “a smart lawyer and a brilliant communicator.”
The Clinton Handbook: Contracting with Dureza
As he emerged from the crisis, he repeated a pattern: Clinton vehemently rejected the accusations and discredited women who came forward with denunciations. Demonize the Republican Party and want to focus the public’s attention on the most favorable themes, such as the economic boon of the time.
Bill Clinton, who celebrated voters’ declaration of “feeling his pain”, always thought about maintaining the connection with the public. So there are some of the highest approval ratings of your presidency during the investigation and the impeachment process, when almost 10 adults in the United States approve of the way of working.
Hillary Clinton also neutralized Republicans who had an opportunity in her handling of a 2012 attack on a compound in Libya that struck four states. In 2015, he emerged from an 11-hour televised congressional hearing with Serena appearing. Including the Republican chairman of the committee that investigated the attack and said he wasn’t sure it would reveal anything new about a reason many in his party were considering an escándalo.
That experience was influenced by the way Clinton testified this week. Hillary particularly insisted that the process be celebrated in public, instead of at the gate leading to the plane.
“We are not keen on what we observe,” he told the BBC according to his principles.
Bill’s communications strategy took a tougher tone, evoking the political “war room” popularized during the 1992 campaign to respond to negative news.
A statement accused Comer of “mentioning in every appearance he has this week.” Other Republican Reps. Scott Perry, of Pensilvania, and Andy Biggs, of Arizona, received a “hypocrisy bonus for the day,” saying Oversight Committee members defied the Jan. 6 panel’s quotes.
In addition, Clinton published a four-page charter directed at commerce on social media and, in a desperate manner, he was sparing his assessment of a process that, according to him, is “literally designed to end in our imprisonment.”
Just when we intended to focus attention on the 1990s, the mission stopped at Casa Blanca by dismantling institutions, imposing a harsh migration campaign, and allowing all people to participate in the ascension of the Capitol.
Conservative attacks on Clinton
Clinton’s rise to power paralleled the explosion of radio as a political force, with Rush Limbaugh using his newspaper program as a platform to constantly escape to Casa Blanca. Today, conservative podcasters like Benny Johnson have occupied Limbaugh’s space and been exultant when the House committee decided to do so by declaring au pareja en desacato.
“You think maybe Donald Trump made his promise earlier, which we all had 10 years ago, that Hillary Clinton came to the casting call?,” Johnson said last month.
But also, certain dynamics have been modified.
It is unconditional that Clinton received the Democratic bank of Congress by eroding along with the legislature of the new generation of legislators: the new Democrats voted with the Republicans in committee to push the resolution of desacato. Trump, who has been scrutinized by his own victory against Epstein and may feel uncomfortable by the precedent of forcing a president to testify, expressed unusual concern from Clinton.
In statements to NBC News television, it was said that “someone was attacking Bill Clinton.” He described Hillary Clinton as a “very capable woman.”
Including Hutchinson, who helped advocate Clinton’s political power, expressed sympathy for the couple.
“It is frustrating and disappointing that President Clinton and Secretary Clinton wanted to go through this ordeal of research research,” he said. “It’s difficult for them.”
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This story was translated into English by an AP editor with the help of a generative artificial intelligence tool.
