Here's another wonderful gem from Christine O'Donnell's past as a frequent guest on TV shows. Back in 1996, when then-Speaker Newt Gingrich's finances were being investigated, O'Donnell complained that people were on a witch hunt to find anything to get Gingrich, instead of paying attention to serious ethics scandals -- like putting Bill Clinton on trial for the supposed murder of Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster.
Back in the 1990s, a favorite right-wing conspiracy theory was the accusation that the Clintons had arranged the murder of Foster, a former law partner of Hillary Clinton, in the midst of the Whitewater investigations. Multiple investigations, including the work of Clinton-hunting independent counsel Kenneth Starr, have all concluded that Foster committed suicide. However, O'Donnell was squarely in the conspiracy camp back then.
During an appearance on C-Span -- the same interview previously highlighted by the Huffington Post, in which O'Donnell discussed the need to crack down on lewd pop culture -- O'Donnell complained about the ethics investigations of Gingrich.
"I think it's very interesting that President Clinton has come on a lot more charges and a lot more serious charges than what Newt Gingrich is being charged on, yet we're not making as big of an issue, we're not forcing that he go to trial," said O'Donnell. "We're not giving people like Paula Jones a fair trial, we're not giving the case of Vincent Foster a fair trial -- when there is a lot more empirical evidence that Clinton is involved in wrongdoing."
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