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I'm guessing the mango moron's tweets in response to this will be something to the effect of he turned them down first and it's a failing school. "Hillary Clinton appointed chancellor of Queen’s University in Belfast"

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Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton has been appointed chancellor of Queen’s University in Belfast, a largely ceremonial role in which she is expected to serve through early 2025.

“It’s my great privilege to become @QUBelfast‘s 11th — and first female — chancellor,” Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, said in a tweet Thursday morning. “It’s a place I have great fondness for and have grown a strong relationship with over the years, and I’m proud to be an ambassador for its excellence.”

According to the university, the role includes three main duties: presiding at degree ceremonies, serving as an ambassador for the school and advising its leadership.

Stephen Prenter, the university’s pro-chancellor and chair of its governing body, welcomed the news of Clinton’s appointment.

“Secretary Clinton has made a considerable contribution to Northern Ireland and as an internationally recognised leader will be an incredible advocate for Queen’s and an inspirational role model for the Queen’s community,” he said in a statement.

Queen’s University has long-standing ties to Clinton and her husband, former president Bill Clinton.

The school awarded Hillary Clinton an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in October 2018 and has established a “Hillary Rodham Clinton Award for Peace and Reconciliation,” which the university describes as a full scholarship awarded each year to an “exceptional female student from the USA who wishes to pursue study in a field related to politics, conflict transformation or human rights.”

In 2011, it also established the William J. Clinton Leadership Institute, which offers courses for current and aspiring business leaders.

Northern Ireland featured prominently in Hillary Clinton’s time as first lady in the 1990s and later was part of her last overseas trip as secretary of state.

While Hillary Clinton did not play a direct role in fostering the 1998 Good Friday accord that eased the decades-long sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland, she has garnered awards for her work in helping to solidify support for the reconciliation effort.

 

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From Jennifer Rubin: "Hillary Clinton: The most exonerated politician ever"

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Hillary Clinton has a unique distinction: She has been exonerated twice after extensive federal investigations, the latest entirely unjustified and the result of a politicized Justice Department. President Trump of course was NOT exonerated in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation, which found 10 or so categories of conduct that but for the present policy of Justice Department guidelines would serve as the basis for obstruction-of-justice charges. If Trump is defeated in November he can still be criminally charged the moment he leaves office.

But back to Clinton. It may be hard to remember given then-FBI Director James B. Comey’s voluminous investigative report in the midst of the 2016 election, his testimony before Congress and his intrusion into the campaign 11 days before Election Day, but he found no basis she committed a crime. His subjective comments about poor judgment and negligence were entirely irrelevant (and frankly inappropriate for the FBI, which is charged with finding or not finding criminal conduct). The bottom line: Clinton committed no crimes.

That was not enough for Trump. Based on no new evidence but rather on an undisguised personal vendetta, Trump opened up another investigation. The Post reported:

John Huber, the U.S. attorney in Utah, was tapped in November 2017 by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to look into concerns raised by President Trump and his allies in Congress that the FBI had not fully pursued cases of possible corruption at the Clinton Foundation and during Clinton’s time as secretary of state, when the U.S. government decided not to block the sale of a company called Uranium One.

As a part of his review, Huber examined documents and conferred with federal law enforcement officials in Little Rock who were handling a meandering probe into the Clinton Foundation, people familiar with the matter said. Current and former officials said that Huber has largely finished and found nothing worth pursuing — though the assignment has not formally ended and no official notice has been sent to the Justice Department or to lawmakers, these people said.

The coverage of her exoneration has been minimal. The number of stories such as Clinton cleared in witch-hunt probe or Right-wing accusations debunked has been underwhelming. The legitimate media does not seem interested in asking Trump or other Republicans to acknowledge that their accusations were baseless. You would think legitimate media outlets at the very least would self-reflect on their coverage that often treated long-ago disproved accusations as still unsettled.

The hordes of right-wing media pundits and columnists will not fess up for pushing a blatantly false narrative. Because they are held to such a low standard by legitimate media outlets, the voices in the right-wing echo chamber pay no price for joining in the persecution of Trump’s nemesis.

“One of the most common tools of autocrats around the world is to use law enforcement as a weapon to go after political opponents,” explains Ian Bassin, executive director of the nonpartisan organization Protect Democracy, which has litigated against Trump’s unconstitutional actions. “That this misguided investigation has been brought to an end is a sign the walls of our system are still holding; that it was allowed to happen at all is a sign that Trump’s constant pounding at those walls is producing cracks." Bassin adds, “With a president who has boasted wrongly that he can do ‘whatever he wants’ with the Justice Department, we can’t afford to just hope that sanity prevails the next time — and there will be a next time.”

Former Clinton adviser (herself a victim of the WikiLeaks email hacks) and president of the Center for American Progress Neera Tanden says, “The full exoneration of Hillary has been a long time coming. But apparently, we have longer to wait for full accountability for the media’s coverage and entire lack of proportion of these ‘scandals.’” She added, “This isn’t academic as we already see signs of the same kind irresponsible coverage again in 2020. It’s ironic that institutions that demand accountability of others offer so little of it for their own mistakes.”

Let’s not forget the Justice Department itself went along with a baseless investigation. DOJ, as even Comey did, should have the decency to affirm publicly the absence of criminal conduct. However, this is the Trump Justice Department, so Clinton should not hold her breadth.

“It’s deeply concerning that DOJ may have been used as a political tool for the president-conducting yet another investigation into Hillary Clinton, absent predication,” says former federal prosecutor Joyce White Vance. “When the time comes to do the work necessary to restore and strengthen democratic institutions, defining DOJ’s independence from political interference in conducting criminal investigations will be a priority.”

Congress is unlikely to see fit to add this instance of abuse of power to the stack of additional offenses that might be the basis for future articles of impeachment. That does not mean Congress should shy away from oversight hearings in which this gross misuse of the apparatus of government was used for purely political purposes.

Simply put, Trump used the Justice Department to conduct a baseless investigation of a political opponent, and no one seems to have been held accountable. Legal analyst and professor Maya Wiley observes: “Targeting power of the state on a person you hate or just simply to distract is absolutely abuse of power and a danger to democracy.”

When the time comes under a future president for a housecleaning at the Justice Department and for referrals to state bar organizations, the Clinton investigation should be included. Lawyers have a responsibility to refuse to initiate or to conduct spurious investigations, as occurred with Trump’s inquest into Clinton. That said, at least Clinton can tout her two exonerations. Trump doesn’t have even one.

 

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Hillary does know how to troll TFG:

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On 2/11/2022 at 12:39 PM, GreyhoundFan said:

Hillary does know how to troll TFG:

She looks great! 

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So.damned.true: "'Hillary Clinton Derangement Syndrome' is worse than ever"

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(CNN)There's something infecting right-wing circles, and it's showing no sign of letting up: a fixation on Hillary Clinton that I'm calling"Hillary Clinton Derangement Syndrome," or "HDS" for short.

The symptoms of this persistent ailment include an unhealthy obsession with the former secretary of state -- from spreading lies about her past actions to blaming her for events with which she has no connection -- combined with an insatiable longing to see her run for president again in 2024.

A new HDS variant apparently emerged last week when special counsel John Durham, who has been investigating the origins of the FBI's Trump-Russia probe, filed a motion involving Michael Sussmann, a lawyer with ties to Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign who has been charged with lying to the FBI. (Sussmann has pleaded not guilty, and his case is headed for trial later this year.)

Durham's 13-page motion addressed a possible conflict of interest regarding Sussmann's legal counsel, but some on the right interpreted the document as revealing something more sinister about Clinton.

After seizing upon details about Sussman sharing internet data with the CIA in 2017, right-wing activists, Fox News reporters and former President Donald Trump himself all blasted out allegations that the Clinton campaign and its lawyers "worked to 'infiltrate' Trump Tower and White House servers," as former Trump administration aide Kash Patel told Fox News.

Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows tweeted, "They didn't just spy on Donald Trump's campaign. They spied on Donald Trump as sitting President of the United States." Trump claimed that the motion "provides indisputable evidence that my campaign and presidency were spied on by operatives paid by the Hillary Clinton Campaign." He added, "in a stronger period of time in our country, this crime would have been punishable by death."

These are all obvious cases of HDS, because the filing, in fact, proves no such thing. As various fact-checkers have confirmed, the allegations shared by right-leaning outlets aren't based on reality; the Durham motion doesn't even include the word "infiltrate." But a classic symptom of HDS is hallucinations about what Clinton is doing.

That would help explain GOP Sen. Ted Cruz's response on Saturday night to the news that Jean-Luc Brunel, an associate of Jeffrey Epstein, had been found dead in his Paris cell. The Texas senator retweeted the news story and then wrote, "Anyone know where Hillary was this weekend?" Cruz — like others infected with HDS — clearly feels compelled to mention Hillary Clinton whenever possible, even in regards to headlines that have nothing to do with her.

HDS is an insidious condition that also appears to make those who are infected hate Clinton while paradoxically craving to see more of her in the political sphere. This helps explain why so many of the same people who have attacked Clinton for decades are also obsessed with the idea of Clinton running for president in 2024. It doesn't matter that Clinton has not even hinted at another presidential campaign; apparently HDS causes some to see things the rest of us don't.

For example, GOP Rep. Jim Jordan appeared on Fox News last week to declare that Clinton's (non-existent) spying on Trump was "worse than we thought." And then, moments later, Jordan added that "Hillary Clinton looks like she's going to try to run and if it's a rematch between her and President Trump, I think President Trump wins in a landslide."

Add to that Fox News host Tucker Carlson declaring last week that Clinton may be gearing up for a run in 2024, saying, "We fully support Hillary Clinton as she runs for president." This is no laughing matter, as these people are evidently sick -- sick with HDS, that is.

Heartbreakingly, HDS is nothing new. It's been with us on a national scale since Clinton became First Lady in 1993 and metastasized from there. You could fill a medical encyclopedia with experts trying to understand who was "Patient Zero" for HDS, with past articles such as, "The dark depths of hatred for Hillary Clinton"; "Why do people dislike Hillary Clinton?"; and the simply put, "Why do they hate her?" There are even books on the topic, such as Michael D'Antonio's "The Hunting of Hillary: The Forty-Year Campaign to Destroy Hillary Clinton."

If only there were a vaccine for HDS, or an HDS rehabilitation center to help those suffering to overcome this derangement that appears to be eating away at their rationality. Perhaps we can organize an HDS telethon to raise funds to better research cures for this syndrome. (Hillary Clinton, it seems, is trying a different approach to eradicating HDS by threatening a defamation lawsuit.)

But even if there were a cure for HDS, I doubt all of those struggling would avail themselves of it. Some don't seem to understand that they have a problem. Whether it's for ratings or social clout, it appears some of those infected with HDS not only want Clinton to live rent-free in their heads, but desperately need for her to be there.

So Ted thinks she traveled to Paris, got into a prison undetected, and killed someone? Seriously? I have a lot of faith in Hillary's abilities, but I think that's beyond her.

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"As FBI probes Trump, Clinton says GOP ‘trying to make this about me again’"

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Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that the “right is trying to make this about me again,” as Republicans increasingly make comparisons between how she was not charged in a 2016 FBI investigation into her use of a private email server and the ongoing probe into former president Donald Trump’s handling of sensitive government documents.

“I can’t believe we’re still talking about this, but my emails…” Clinton tweeted. “The fact is that I had zero emails that were classified.”

She said in another tweet, “That’s right: ZERO.”

The string of tweets from the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee was a rare public response against Republican talking points. “I’m more tired of talking about this than anyone,” she wrote, “but here we are.” Clinton has in recent days been on a publicity tour to promote “Gutsy,” an Apple TV Plus show that she is making with her daughter, Chelsea.

As Republicans scrambled in recent weeks to defend Trump after FBI agents searched his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, finding highly sensitive documents, some have brought up Clinton as an example of sloppiness in dealing with government affairs that was ultimately not punished by the judicial system.

Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) said on Fox News last month that “if there’s a prosecution of Donald Trump for mishandling classified information after the Clinton debacle … there’ll be riots in the streets.”

“If they try to prosecute President Trump for mishandling classified information after Hillary Clinton set up a server in her basement,” Graham said, “there literally will be riots in the street. I worry about our country.”

Trump appeared to signal approval of the remarks by subsequently posting a video of the GOP senator’s Fox appearance. Graham did not immediately return a request for comment early Wednesday.

Days before the 2016 election, then-FBI Director James B. Comey announced a renewed investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server.

The FBI ultimately decided not to prosecute Clinton, and she said on Tuesday that “Comey admitted he was wrong after he claimed I had classified emails.”

Of the tens of thousands of emails that the FBI reviewed from her private server, 113 contained classified information, but many were not marked as such, and the ones that were marked were not marked clearly, Comey said in the summer of 2016. He also said in 2018 that while Clinton’s management of the emails was “more than just the ordinary mistake … it’s not criminal behavior.” (A subsequent State Department probe found that its employees did not deliberately mishandle classified emails found on Clinton’s server.)

A photo released by the Justice Department of documents found at Mar-a-Lago showed a handful of cover sheets marked “Top Secret/SCI.” SCI stands for “sensitive compartmented information,” meaning that access to the file is restricted to an even smaller subset of officials with the relevant security clearance.

Trump lawyer James Trusty said on Fox News that the Comey investigation “may not have been the most respectful precedent,” but that he would “take it in terms of the result.”

Trump’s situation was “not the stuff of an urgent, nuclear-based, espionage-type investigation.” Instead, it was “the stuff of an overdue library book,” Trusty said.

The Washington Post reported Tuesday that a document describing a foreign government’s military defenses — including its nuclear capabilities — was found during the FBI search last month.

 

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Hillary is trolling TFG again