Hillary Clinton vs. The Huge Lie - by Tina Brown
James Comey may have cleared Clinton’s ‘new’ emails, but voters in a recent poll still, somehow, see Trump—who’s created an alternate reality with his falsehoods—as more honest.
TINA BROWN
11.06.16 10:35 PM ET
James Comey’s “never mind! nothing to see here!” reversal may have been a relief to some of us, but how many more jerkarounds in this demolition derby of a campaign can America stand?
Just as we were getting used to the idea that our FBI director is a saboteur, he turns out to be a ninny. Not exactly the stalwart, upstanding, unflappable Gary Cooper figure we’d like to have running our secret police, is he? He seems as much as a panic artist as the elderly lady who accosted me the other day in the changing room of the gym. She fixed her steamy bifocals upon me and moaned, “The gap’s closing! What are we going to doooo?”
The Comey reprieve is yet another whiplash moment sent to discombobulate us in this year’s political nightmare. I find the small things now aggravate me as much as the large. And they keep coming. There was an incident on Friday that sent me further over the top than even the Donald Trump pussy grab uproar. I mean, for something to truly shock, it has to be a character surprise. So to learn that Trump talks as boorishly in semi-private as he does in public was hardly a mask-off moment.
No, what did it for me was a less reported incident on Friday, when John Sununu got a great big laugh at a Trump rally in Atkinson, New Hampshire. “Do you think Bill was referring to Hillary,” the former New Hampshire governor asked the crowd, “when he said, ‘I did not have sex with that woman’?”
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