It’s pretty amazing to hear Hillary Clinton call the announcement of this reopened FBI investigation new emails unprecedented, especially after reading this:
WASHINGTON TIMES – Hillary Clinton said over the weekend that the FBI reopening her email server investigation 11 days before the presidential election was “unprecedented” and “deeply troubling.”
Yet the Clintons had no qualms in 1992 — when Bill Clinton was running for the Oval Office — when a GOP official was indicted four days from the general election, in what many saw as an effort to sway the presidential contest.
A special prosecutor raised new charges against Caspar W. Weinberger, who served as Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan, about the Iran-Contra probe. The charges appeared to contradict statements made by George H.W. Bush — who was running for re-election at the time — prompting Mr. Clinton to claim he was running against a “culture of corruption.”
“Mr. Clinton seized on today’s disclosure to challenge Mr. Bush’s ‘trust and character and judgment,’ ” The Times wrote in 1992.
“Secretary Weinberger’s note clearly shows that President Bush has not been telling the truth when he says he was out of the loop,” Mr. Clinton said at a news conference in Pittsburgh, before the election, The Times reported. “It demonstrates that President Bush knew and approved of President Reagan’s secret deal to swap arms for hostages.”
The indictment was later thrown out and many Republicans blame it for Mr. Bush’s loss that year.
And history repeats itself again. It’s just that this time it’s not happening to benefit Hillary or her husband, and that’s why it’s so scandalous.