HILLARY CLINTON, DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE. One of the great moments in lack of self-awareness occurred last week when former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton appeared on a podcast produced by a Democratic group called Defending Democracy on Democracy Docket. Clinton was interviewed by the Democratic lawfare warrior Marc Elias, more on that later, and spent much of the 45-minute session complaining about former President Donald Trump, the man who defeated her in the 2016 election. At one point, Clinton said Trump deeply admires Vladimir Putin because “Putin does what Trump would like to do.” Among the things Clinton said Trump would like to do is “imprison his opposition.”

At that very moment, Trump was sitting in a Manhattan courtroom, facing a maximum of 136 years in prison on charges of falsifying bookkeeping records of an entirely legal nondisclosure agreement he reached with a porn actress, Stormy Daniels, during the 2016 campaign. Trump, the de facto 2024 Republican presidential nominee, is being prosecuted by elected Democratic Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, with opening arguments against Trump handled by a former high-ranking Biden Justice Department official who joined Bragg’s office to assist in prosecuting the man running against President Joe Biden this year.