Epstein Secrets

," the senior official said. "I would guess that President Clinton views that as a compliment." Spiegel Was Yasser

n "Game Change," their account of the 2008 race. "He thought that Obama might actually believe that Reagan's tenure had been superior to his own." Bill Clinton's attacks hurt Hillary as much as they did Obama. The Times denounced Clinton's fairy-tale comment as a "bizarre and rambling attack" and as exemplif

More than anyone, he pushed Hillary to take the job of Secretary of State. "President Clinton was a big supporter of the idea," an intimate of the Clintons told me. "He advocated very strongly for it and arguably was the tie-breaking reason she took the job." For one thing, having his spouse in that po

ke you wonder if maybe it was a personal beef with the Clintons, but really it runs much deeper." Former Representative Anthony Weiner, whose wife, Huma Abedin, is a top aide to Hillary Clinton, expressed surprise that the = has conceded this ground. "Swing voters volunteer that under Clinton we had a big

nd cheating without really meeting. And then I took one look at Weiner’s wife and realized that this had absolutely noth- ing to do with the fellow. Huma Abedin might have creamy olive skin, beautiful brown eyes and long dark hair, but you don’t need to put her in a pantsuit and slap a head- band on her tress

as “an argumenta- tive, perpetually homy middle-aged map.” : But Weiner’s Goyaesque grotesquerie eams him another name: the “Rosemary’s Baby” of the Clintons. Bill nd Hillary Clinton transf ormed the way we look at sex scandals. They plowed through the: ridicule, refused to slink away in'shame like Gary H

menta- tive, perpetually homy middle-aged map.” : But Weiner’s Goyaesque grotesquerie eams him another name: the “Rosemary’s Baby” of the Clintons. Bill nd Hillary Clinton transf ormed the way we look at sex scandals. They plowed through the: ridicule, refused to slink away in'shame like Gary Hart, said it was old news,

hame like Gary Hart, said it was old news, and argued that if Hillary "didn’t object, why should voters? Poppy Bush thought Amerigans would reject Bill Clinton ii 1992 because of his lascivious ways, but he learned that vot- efs are more concerned with how their ‘<own lives will be changed than they are w

White House about her own exasperation with Holbrooke (a position she didn’t advertise after his death), Obama’s treatment of the envoy rankled both Clintons. “I never could understand people who didn’t appreciate him,” Bill Clinton said in his eulogy at Holbrooke’s Kennedy Center memorial service. This wa

rtime to soothe Bibi. “She’s indispensable—the only one trusted on all sides [of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict],” says Sandy Berger, who served as Bill Clinton’s National Security Council adviser. Most conspicuously, Hillary has championed what has come to be known as “civil society.” In practice that means m

tioner will refer to her in fractured English as “President Clinton.” In Asia, this can be especially mortifying for