A decade after her stunning defeat, Hillary Clinton still appears consumed by President Donald Trump, using every available platform to relitigate the past and smear her longtime political rival.
In recent months, Clinton has resurfaced in interviews to warn Democrats about what she describes as the lingering influence of Trump supporters within the federal bureaucracy. According to RedState, she urged that the next Democrat president must purge any Trump holdovers, even in the smallest office in the government, to ensure the lefts agenda is not subverted, a revealing admission that Democrats view the permanent bureaucracy as a political tool rather than a neutral institution.
In that same discussion, Clinton inadvertently handed Republicans a potent line of attack, conceding that it would be very effective to hammer Democrats over the socialist extremism they have embraced. For a party that has lurched left on everything from spending to cultural issues, her warning sounded less like strategy and more like an acknowledgment of how vulnerable Democrats are with mainstream voters.
Now Clinton has inserted herself into the vaccine debate, and in doing so, she has revived one of the most brazen falsehoods of the COVID era. In a recent post, she declared, When it comes to your childrens health, listen to doctors. Not a president who once told Americans to inject bleach. The American Academy of Pediatrics immunization recommendations have not changed.
Her message, repeated in both text and video, was unmistakable: When it comes to your childrens health, listen to doctors. Not a president who once told Americans to inject bleach. The American Academy of Pediatrics immunization recommendations have not changed. The problem is that this oft-repeated claim about President Trump has been thoroughly debunked for years, and Clinton has no plausible excuse for pretending otherwise.
During the early days of the pandemic, Trump was reacting to a briefing about experimental treatments, including the use of ultraviolet light and disinfectants on surfaces to kill the virus. He mused aloud about whether such approaches could be adapted inside the body, clearly posing questions to medical experts about potential therapies rather than issuing instructions to the public. At no point did he ever tell Americans to inject bleach, a phrase concocted and amplified by his political opponents and a compliant media.
Clintons latest attack is therefore not just misleading; it is a calculated lie designed to undermine Trumps credibility while cloaking herself in the authority of medical organizations. If she insists voters should not believe Trump, it is fair to ask why anyone should believe her, given her long record of deceptionfrom the bleach-bit destruction of her private email server to her campaigns role in promoting the discredited Russia collusion narrative. As many critics quickly pointed out online, her history with bleach is far more literal than the fantasy she attributes to Trump.
Social media users seized on that irony, with one pointed response mocking her infamous email scandal: I thought bleach was for erasing electronics? Others speculated that her sudden flurry of public commentary, including on vaccines, signals something more ambitious than mere punditry.
Why is Hillary Clinton even talking about this? She's running, one commentator suggested, capturing a growing suspicion on the right that Clinton may be testing the waters yet again. At 78, she would be 80 on the campaign trail, and voters rejected her when she was younger and politically fresher, making any renewed presidential bid not only unlikely but, as some conservatives argue, downright delusional.
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