When Bill and Hillary were on the rise, Brock was at the Capital bar, "plotting a campaign of dirty tricks," as he put it in his speech. That a drink shared between Lindsey, Rutherford, and Brock seemed normal enough highlights just how much - how drastically - Brock's orientation to the Clintons has shifted since the '90s. With Brock this time were staffers from Correct the Record, a group he founded last year to respond to attacks on Clinton as she decides whether to run for president. The night before, Brock met Lindsey and Skip Rutherford, the dean of the Clinton School, for the first time at the Capital Hotel, the bar where he once worked stories. "Obviously, I share his enthusiasm for Secretary Clinton." "He said all the right things, I thought," he said in a brief interview after the speech. Lindsey, whose office overlooks the main floor of the Clinton School where Brock delivered his speech, remembers those times as painful - a fact he acknowledged on Tuesday.īut like most friends of the Clintons today, Lindsey now sees Brock differently. Lindsey, a close friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton and the chairman of their family foundation, was one of about 200 people who came to the Clinton School of Public Service on Tuesday afternoon to see David Brock's return to Little Rock.īack in the state for the first time in 19 years, the 51-year-old Brock delivered a speech about his conversion from a fierce Clinton antagonist to a central player in the bid to put Hillary Clinton back in the White House.Īs a former counsel to the Clinton administration, Lindsey lived through the scandals Brock helped ignite two decades ago in the pages of the conservative magazine, the American Spectator. Alone on the second-floor balcony, his whicker chair turned to face the podium below, Bruce Lindsey watched the strange homecoming of an old political adversary. įlorida Republican spars with Chuck Todd over Trump stance on debt ceilingīlack conservatives want Tim Scott to ditch ‘colorblind’ messaging with. Winner of Mike Lindell’s $5M election fraud contest asks a federal court to. What El Niño means for the 2023 hurricane season Senate Republican: ‘I don’t think Trump can win a general election’Ĭongressional Democrats beg Biden to nullify their existence īiden says he thinks he has authority to use 14th Amendment on debt ceiling NAACP issues travel warning in Florida: the state ‘has become hostile to. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. They’ll let polluters trash our environment and let Donald Trump trash our democracy,” she said. They’ll make it harder for people to vote but easier for big corporations to bust unions. “They’ll ban books but do nothing about guns. “Nothing on child care, nothing on paid leave, nothing to help working moms and dads get by and get ahead.” “Republicans will claim they’re on the side of parents and family values, but they will do nothing for actual parents or families,” Clinton said. Not the slogans that only matter on Twitter.”Ĭlinton also countered Republican messaging, taking aim at the GOP’s midterm messaging on education, parents, voting rights and guns. Focus on the solutions that matter to voters. “Don’t let the extremes of any or either side throw us off course. However, Clinton warned Democrats not to pay attention to both extreme ends of the political spectrum. And as an aside, they’re getting awfully close to actual malice in their attacks,” she continued. “So now, his accountants have fired him and investigations draw closer to him, and right on cue the noise machine gets turned up doesn’t it? Fox leads the charge with accusations against me, counting on their audience to fall for it again. It’s funny, the more trouble Trump gets into, the wilder the charges and conspiracy theories about me seem to get,” Clinton said. “By the way, they’ve been coming after me again lately, in case you might have noticed. Right-wing media outlets, including Fox, have covered the story extensively. This week, Durham accused Michael Sussman, an attorney for Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign who was charged with lying to the FBI, and his allies of exploiting government databases in an effort to gather information on Trump. The former secretary of State and presidential nominee went on to allude to Fox News’s coverage of Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. Whether it’s by the latest culture war nonsense or some new right-wing lie on Fox or Facebook,” Clinton told the crowd in New York City. Hillary Clinton slammed former President Trump, the GOP and Fox News while speaking at New York Democratic Convention on Thursday.
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