She got 65 percent of the Latino vote, which is OK until you learn that Obama got 71 percent in 2012. insider, instead of a Hispanic for VP, helped her carry Virginia, but generated no intensity of support from Hispanics, who were targets of Trump's attacks and should've been Clinton's answer to President Obama's African-Americans. “They’re both bad,” voters were heard saying over and over.Ĭhoosing Sen. The refusal or inability of mainstream media to reveal Trump's falsehoods, distortions, racism, misogyny, sexual criminal conduct or just plain ignorance made those tantalized by Trump feel like there was no disgrace in what The Donald was putting out there. The president of CNN, Jeff Zucker, confessed, “We shouldn’t have put on as many rallies as we did.” “Stronger Together” was no match for "Build a Wall," "Ban Muslims," "Bring Back Jobs," "Beef Up The Military" and "Make America." (you know the rest).Įndless descriptions by every member of the news media every day of both candidates as highly disliked, minimized the multitude and severity of Trump’s egregious sins and misbehaviors, making them no more contemptible than Clinton’s emails.Ĭable TV, especially CNN, turned on their cameras at Trump rallies and walked away while he spewed lies and attacks without editorial comment. The Clinton candidacy lacked an urgent rationale. Meanwhile, Trump University, his boasting of sexual abuse on Access Hollywood, his documented falsehoods and pants-on-fire lies were treated as Trump-being-Trump by the news media. The non-partisan PolitiFact found 72 percent of Clinton’s claims to be true, while Trump’s were true just 14 percent of the time Clinton got a Pants-on-Fire rating for only 7 percent of claims, while Trump did for 57 percent. Assange’s leaks knee-capped Clinton every month. The never-ending email leaks were Assange’s revenge for Clinton’s attacking him for his reckless disregard of U.S. The WikiLeaks disclosures, engineered by Julian Assange, with an assist from Russian sources that probably were at least blessed by Trump pal President Vladimir Putin. His “ nevermind” several days later was ignored or wryly dismissed by the press, which for almost a year treated Clinton’s email server as a fatal character flaw. Let me count the ways the campaign of Hillary Clinton was taken down or collapsed of its own incompetence.įBI Director James Comey destroyed Clinton’s momentum just 11 days before the election, claiming the emails of disgraced ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner “might” be pertinent to the closed investigation on Clinton. (Matt Rourke/AP) This article is more than 5 years old. 9, as her husband, former President Bill Clinton, applauds behind her. Hillary Clinton gives her concession speech on Wednesday, Nov.
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