2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forum7 Hillary Clinton quotes on the Internet that are complete fakes:
"I will get the NRA shut down for good if I become president. If we can ban handguns, we will do it." -- Hillary Clinton, interview with the Des Moines Register, Aug. 8, 2015:
This quote is a fabrication.
PolitiFact Iowa -- a partnership between PolitiFact and the Des Moines Register -- gave it a Pants on Fire rating. "Clinton was never quoted in the Register making that statement, and it appears she has not made such a statement anywhere else," PolitiFact Iowa wrote.
"Yeah, I got him off. So what? Who cares? We get the evidence thrown out, so he walked. (Laughs) I mean, sure, we knew he did it. (Laughs) But it didn't matter." -- Hillary Clinton, audio recording from 1982 discussing a child rapist she defended when she was a criminal defense attorney in Arkansas.
Neither the recorded excerpts that were posted online nor the articles written about the release of the tapes mentioned the quote offered in the meme. Though some may second-guess Clintons decision to take the case or her "casual" pose in the interview, the quote in the meme is much more dismissive in tone than anything she actually said in the interview.
"I don't give a f*** about them. Get them out of here and get them away from me." -- Hillary Clinton, talking about Secret Service agents, in First Family Detail by Ron Kessler.
The posts that offered this quote cited as their source a 1996 book by former FBI agent Gary Aldrich, Unlimited Access. The book, among other things, accused President Bill Clinton sneaking out of the White House for trysts at a nearby hotel. It was greeted with wide skepticism and fierce denials by the Clinton family and other officials.
"Maybe Mr. Stevens should have contacted me if he wanted to live, if he wanted security. He should have thought about that." -- Hillary Clinton, Benghazi hearings, October 2015
Clinton did not say anything so snarky about the late U.S. Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, during her testimony before the House Benghazi committee in October 2015. Stevens was one of four Americans to die in the terrorist attack on a U.S. complex in Benghazi, Libya, in September 2012. Critics have charged that Clinton bears responsibility for their deaths.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/mar/23/hillary-clinton-quotes-Internet-complete/
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LAS14
(13,783 posts)... is that the people who believe this stuff won't read this post.
HumanityExperiment
(1,442 posts)This is why voters are turning away from HRC, she can't be trusted, voters hate political expediency and pols that embrace it like HRC does...