Hillary Clinton is like a character from a Greek tragedy, cursed to remind everyone she meets of her most humiliating defeat. The twist is that she seems to be the only person who does not realize her situation.
Indeed, the most delusional public figure in the United States appears totally oblivious to the fact that her public appearances serve only to remind everyone that only she, with her horrifically terrible judgment and political instincts, could have lost a very winnable election to a former reality TV show host.
Clinton involved herself, for example, in running interference for accused sexual predator Harvey Weinstein, according to a Hollywood Reporter article this week previewing reporter Ronan Farrow’s new book, Catch and Kill. The really insane thing about this allegation is that Clinton and her cohort reportedly went to bat for Weinstein, whose rumored sexual predations were apparently well-known in elite circles, even after he had already lost much of his political clout and usefulness.
“Weinstein was already desperate. His threats were futile, so there’s no excuse for those who complied with his demands,” my Washington Examiner colleague Tiana Lowe notes.
Putting aside for a moment the immorality of squashing efforts to expose an accused monster, it was not even politically expedient or personally advantageous for Clinton to implicate herself in efforts to rescue the disgraced movie mogul. But she and her cohort reportedly tried anyway, probably because defending sexual predators is the only thing Clinton has ever been really passionate about.
There is also the matter of the two-time failed presidential candidate toying this week with the idea of running again against President Trump, asserting against all facts and reality that she would defeat him “again.”
“[It] truly is remarkable how obsessed he remains with me,” Clinton said Tuesday in an interview with PBS’ Judy Woodruff.
The former secretary of state’s remarks came in reference to what Trump said Tuesday morning on Twitter:
I think that Crooked Hillary Clinton should enter the race to try and steal it away from Uber Left Elizabeth Warren. Only one condition. The Crooked one must explain all of her high crimes and misdemeanors including how & why she deleted 33,000 Emails AFTER getting “C” Subpoena!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 8, 2019
Clinton casually dismissed his tweet during her interview with Woodruff.
“[M]aybe there does need to be a rematch,” Clinton said. “I mean, obviously, I can beat him again [emphasis added].”
Some newsrooms claim Clinton was merely joking when she said this. Perhaps. But we should also consider the possibility that Clinton repeatedly citing her popular vote total is not so much a “joke” as it is her having deluded herself into believing she essentially “won” the 2016 election because she performed well in a metric that has never decided U.S. presidential elections. Her campaign team, like literally every presidential campaign team before it, did not even aim to win the popular vote. It aimed to win the Electoral College. And it failed. Big time. Trump ended the 2016 election with 304 votes compared to Clinton’s 227. Yet here she is this week, reminding everyone again that she is somehow more delusional than even the president.
If you can believe it, Clinton’s remarks this week to Woodruff are not even the worst of her response to the president’s stupid tweet. Her official Twitter account responded with what her team must have thought was a sick burn.
“Don’t tempt me. Do your job,” her account responded.
Don’t tempt me. Do your job.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 8, 2019
As in: Don’t tempt me to jump into the 2020 Democratic primary and “steal it away from Uber Left Elizabeth Warren”?
Even Trump cannot be that lucky.
