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Mrs.  Clinton Up to Her Neck in Birther Scandal

Trump_Clinton [1]The Clinton News Network is trying to whitewash Mrs. Clinton’s responsibility for starting and perpetuating the Birther movement, from CNN [2]:

On Friday, the former Washington bureau chief for McClatchy, James Asher, tweeted that in 2008, Clinton associate Sidney Blumenthal told him “in person” that Obama was born in Kenya. Blumenthal denied the claim to CNN’s Dan Merica, saying Trump “is the one who embraced and promoted the birther lie and bears the responsibility for it.”
CNN has attempted unsuccessfully to reach Asher for comment. He told his former employer, McClatchy, Friday that he met with Blumenthal in 2008, and that the newspaper chain dispatched a reporter to Kenya to investigate. Nothing came of it. He said there already had been stories published with the allegation before that meeting.
Some 2008 staffers told CNN that Blumenthal was not officially part of the Clinton campaign, and a CNN check of Federal Election Commission records shows no payment to Blumenthal from the campaign.

Balderdash.   The Clinton Criminal Clan is Sidney Blumenthal long running meal ticket.   He would not be spreading rumors about Mrs. Clinton’s primary obstacle, with Mrs. Clinton’s explicit knowledge and approval. A man of limited talents such as Blumenthal simply will not risk alienating his meal ticket, from from Politico [3]:

Yet Blumenthal’s financial and personal connections to the Clintons and their allies have emerged as subjects of intense scrutiny as Clinton seeks to gain momentum for her presidential campaign.

Blumenthal’s concurrent work for the foundation, the Brock groups and a pair of businesses seeking potentially lucrative contracts in Libya underscores the blurred lines between her State Department work and that of her family’s charitable and political enterprises.

Reminder to Mrs. Clinton, while you can put lipstick on a pig, but she is still a pig.