The right-wing media has a new fake Hillary Clinton scandal

[BlueWavePsych]

It’s 27 days until the election, Biden leads by double digits in many polls, and Trump and his allies are focusing their fire on … Hillary Clinton.

The fake scandal they’re now trying to gin up involves yet another appalling abuse of power by the Trump administration. But the fact that they’re doing it now shows something else: Their remarkable failure to get people to hate Biden. Despite the fact that Biden has weaknesses many believed would make him a disastrous nominee, the mask he assiduously wears in public might as well be made of Teflon.

This time it involves a Russian intelligence assessment from that year, in which the Kremlin judged that Clinton was trying to get the American public to believe that Trump and Russia were in cahoots. Which, of course, she was: Clinton talked often in public about how Trump would be Vladimir Putin’s “puppet.” And for good reason: They were indeed in cahoots, at least in their shambling, incompetent way, whether you think it rose to the level of a criminal conspiracy or not.

To believe that this constitutes some sort of new scandal or proves that the FBI should never have investigated the Russian attack on American democracy, you’d have to be a Russian agent (like, say, the one to whom Trump’s campaign chairman was passing confidential information) or a blithering idiot.

The attack on her is substantively ludicrous. But as a means of getting Trump reelected — and make no mistake, everything Republicans do right now is to achieve that end — it’s positively bonkers. As hard as it is to believe, they seem to actually be sitting around in Trump campaign headquarters saying, “Once we get everyone focused on Hillary, the election will be in the bag!”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/07/right-wing-media-has-new-fake-hillary-clinton-scandal/

Drumpf and Repuke party have really lost it. Carry on.

[42bambi]

1. I smell desperation and I like it!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Diversion designed to keep hardcore base intact: they were promised arrests 4 years ago of H, O,etc

[chriscan64]

3. "That Jimmy Carter has been out to get me for decades!"

"Hubert Humphrey was no angel either, so vote for me!"

[Buckeye_Democrat]

4. Lol! Her name also resulted in the loudest boos...

... at the recent Trump rally in Dayton (Vandalia) OH.

Biden's name, not nearly as much.

So now they're trying to make it about her again.

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. i AM CONCERNED because when, not if, Barr arrests or indicts or IMPLIES any of my leaders

are guilty of anything, I am not sure I can just sit here.

I think that will be it, for me.

I think that will require a response.

[johnp3907]

6. IMPEACH HILLARY!!!

[Newest Reality]

7. Damn!

That's a really big shovel they have. Keep digging!

[liberalmuse]

8. They will never let her go.

She lives rent free in their heads 24x7 and has since the 1990's when some of them were obsessed with her even then. It's really weird. They need to create a god to worship and a devil to demonize. These people constantly feel the need to glom onto weird characters like Trump, Joe the Plummer, Palin and a slew of other vapid twits.