The presidency of Ronald 'I Can't Recall My Lies' Reagan <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Ronald_Reagan> was marked by multiple scandals, resulting in the investigation, indictment, or conviction of over 138 administration officials, the largest number for any U.S. president <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States>.[1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_administration_scandals#cite_note-1>
On Saturday, October 29, 2016 at 8:25:13 AM UTC-5, Travis wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.wnd.com/2016/10/a-presidency-from-hell/ > A presidency from hell?Pat Buchanan: Clinton would take office with 2/3 > of nation believing she is untruthful > > Published: 22 hours ago > > > > Should Donald Trump surge from behind to win, he would likely bring in > with him both houses of Congress. > > Much of his agenda – tax cuts, deregulation, border security, deportation > of criminals here illegally, repeal of Obamacare, appointing justices like > Scalia, unleashing the energy industry – could be readily enacted. > > On new trade treaties with China and Mexico, Trump might need economic > nationalists in Bernie Sanders’ party to stand with him, as free-trade > Republicans stood by their K-Street contributors. > > Still, compatible agendas and GOP self-interest could transcend personal > animosities and make for a successful four years. > > But consider what a Hillary Clinton presidency would be like. > > She would enter office as the least-admired president in history, without > a vision or a mandate. She would take office with two-thirds of the nation > believing she is untruthful and untrustworthy. > > Reports of poor health and lack of stamina may be exaggerated. Yet she > moves like a woman her age. Unlike Ronald Reagan, her husband, Bill, and > President Obama, she is not a natural political athlete and lacks the > personal and rhetorical skills to move people to action. > > She makes few mistakes as a debater, but she is often shrill – when she is > not boring. Trump is right: Hillary Clinton is tough as a $2 steak. But > save for those close to her, she appears not to be a terribly likable > person. > > Still, such attributes, or the lack of them, do not assure a failed > presidency. James Polk, no charmer, was a one-term president, but a great > one, victorious in the Mexican War, annexing California and the Southwest, > negotiating a fair division of the Oregon territory with the British. > > Yet the hostility Clinton would face the day she takes office would almost > seem to ensure four years of pure hell. > > The reason: her credibility, or rather her transparent lack of it. > > Consider. Because the tapes revealed he did not tell the full truth about > when he learned about Watergate, Richard Nixon was forced to resign. > > In the Iran-Contra affair, Reagan faced potential impeachment charges, > until ex-security adviser John Poindexter testified that Reagan told the > truth when he said he had not known of the secret transfer of funds to the > Nicaraguan Contras. > > Bill Clinton was impeached – for lying. > > White House scandals, as Nixon said in Watergate, are almost always rooted > in mendacity – not the misdeed, but the cover-up, the lies, the perjury, > the obstruction of justice that follow. > > And here Hillary Clinton seems to have an almost insoluble problem. > > She has testified for hours to FBI agents investigating why and how her > server was set up and whether secret information passed through it. > > Forty times during her FBI interrogation, Clinton said she could not or > did not recall. This writer has friends who went to prison for telling a > grand jury, “I can’t recall.” > > After studying her testimony and the contents of her emails, FBI Director > James Comey virtually accused Clinton of lying. > > Moreover, thousands of emails were erased from her server, even after she > had reportedly been sent a subpoena from Congress to retain them. > > During her first two years as secretary of state, half of her outside > visitors were contributors to the Clinton Foundation. > > Yet there was not a single quid pro quo, Clinton tells us. > > Yesterday’s newspapers exploded with reports of how Bill Clinton aide Doug > Band raised money for the Clinton Foundation, and then hit up the same > corporate contributors to pay huge fees for Bill’s speeches. > > What were the corporations buying if not influence? What were the foreign > contributors buying, if not influence with an ex-president, and a secretary > of state and possible future president? > > Did none of the big donors receive any official favors? > > “There’s a lot of smoke and there’s no fire,” says Hillary Clinton. > > Perhaps, but there seems to be more smoke every day. > > If once or twice in her hours of testimony to the FBI, grand jury or > before Congress, Clinton were proven to have lied, her Justice Department > would be obligated to name a special prosecutor, as was Nixon’s. > > And, with the election over, the investigative reporters of the adversary > press, Pulitzers beckoning, would be cut loose to go after her. > > The Republican House is already gearing up for investigations that could > last deep into Clinton’s first term. > > There is a vast trove of public and sworn testimony from Hillary, about > the server, the emails, the erasures, the Clinton Foundation. Now, thanks > to WikiLeaks, there are tens of thousands of emails to sift through, and > perhaps tens of thousands more to come. > > What are the odds that not one contains information that contradicts her > sworn testimony? Rep. Jim Jordan contends that Clinton may already have > perjured herself. > > And as the full-court press would begin with her inauguration, Clinton > would have to deal with the Syrians, Russians, Taliban, North Koreans and > Xi Jinping in the South China Sea – and with Bill Clinton wandering around > the White House with nothing to do. > > This election is not over. 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