{"id":1765122,"date":"2022-12-06T16:32:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T21:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1765122"},"modified":"2022-12-06T16:33:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T21:33:06","slug":"biden-white-house-takes-page-out-of-clinton-playbook-for-hunter-scandal-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-white-house-takes-page-out-of-clinton-playbook-for-hunter-scandal-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden White House Takes Page Out Of Clinton Playbook For Hunter Scandal Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-white-house-takes-page-out-of-clinton-playbook-for-hunter-scandal-defense%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1765122&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The White House on Monday played down a batch of newly released Twitter emails that reveal internal discussions about suppressing stories on Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop as \u201cold news.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk\u2019s release of the \u201cTwitter Files\u201d has stoked conservatives, who see collusion between Democrats and social media platforms to suppress stories leading up to the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>But White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/press-briefings\/2022\/12\/05\/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-december-5-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dismissed<\/a> the files, calling them nothing more than a distraction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, look, we see this as a \u2014 an interesting or a coincidence, if I may, that he would so haphazardly \u2014 Twitter would so haphazardly push this distraction that is a \u2014 that is full of old news, if you think about it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd at the same time, Twitter is facing very real and very serious questions about the rising volume of anger, hate, and antisemitism on their platform, and how they\u2019re letting it happen. And, you know, the president said last week: More leaders need to speak out and reject this. And it\u2019s very alarming and very dangerous,\u201d Jean-Pierre said.<\/p>\n<p>The reporter followed up, asking: \u201cIs it the White House view that decisions at Twitter were made appropriately in terms of decisions to censor this reporting ahead of the election?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Pierre got her dander up. \u201cLet me \u2014 you see \u2014 you mischaracterize, actually, what I \u2014 what I actually said, and took it out of context when you asked your question.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, when I answered the question \u2014 and I already \u2014 I actually already addressed this \u2014 about how the White House and the administration is seeing what\u2019s happening on Twitter, we were \u2014 we follow also what\u2019s going on just like you guys are reporting it, just like you guys are seeing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>This is an old trick crafted by former President Bill Clinton \u2014 and perfected by his wife, Hillary.<\/p>\n<p>As scandal after scandal popped up during President Clinton\u2019s two terms, the White House would deflect and distract. First, they\u2019d assign the scandal to a blue-ribbon commission, then say they couldn\u2019t comment while the investigation was ongoing. They\u2019d drag out the probe, release a fraction of the documents requested by investigators, and when finally forced to answer questions, they\u2019d say, \u201cWhat, that old thing!?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hillary Clinton ran the play to perfection with the attack in Benghazi on September 11, 2012. What was clearly a terrorist attack was at first characterized by Clinton as a protest spontaneously inspired by protests at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo over a YouTube video.<\/p>\n<p>She knew that wasn\u2019t true. In a phone call with the Egyptian Prime Minister Hesham Qandil the day after the attack, the then-Secretary of State <a href=\"https:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/2016\/06\/the-benghazi-timeline-clinton-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>, \u201cwe know the attack in Libya had nothing to do with the film. It was a planned attack, not a protest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But she never said that publicly. The massive scandal was occurring just two months before the presidential election, so then-President Barack Obama and his minions sought to bury the real story.<\/p>\n<p>Obama and Clinton dragged their feet for the next six weeks, prompting a furious Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) to say on October 28, \u201cthis is either a massive cover-up or incompetence,\u201d and suggested that it was a scandal worse than Watergate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that there were tapes, recordings inside the consulate during this fight \u2026 So the president went on various shows, despite what he said in the Rose Garden, about terrorist acts, he went on several programs, including The View, including Letterman, including before the UN where he continued to refer, days later, many days later, to this as a spontaneous demonstration because of a hateful video. We know that is patently false. What did the president know? When did he know it?\u201d McCain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-3460_162-57541807\/face-the-nation-transcripts-october-28-2012-mccain-and-emanuel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> on CBS\u2019 \u201cFace the Nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Obama won re-election, and he would eventually claim he immediately called the Benghazi attack \u201can act of terrorism\u201d (The Washington Post\u2019s fact checker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/fact-checker\/post\/obamas-claim-he-called-benghazi-an-act-of-terrorism\/2013\/05\/13\/7b65b83e-bc14-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dubbed<\/a> that \u201crevisionist history\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>But Clinton played the game even better. She was scheduled to testify before Congress on December 20 about the attack, but days before that, it was reported that she had become dehydrated from the flu, fainted, and sustained a concussion. Her testimony was postponed.<\/p>\n<p>After announcing she would step down as Secretary of State, she finally testified on January 23, 2013. She uttered this classic passage: \u201cWith all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided that they\u2019d, they go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What, that old thing? Asked and answered. The Biden White House has learned well.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House on Monday played down a batch of newly released Twitter emails that reveal internal discussions about suppressing stories on Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop as \u201cold news.\u201d Elon Musk\u2019s release of the \u201cTwitter Files\u201d has stoked conservatives, who see collusion between Democrats and social media platforms to suppress stories leading up to the 2020 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":1765125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1765122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1765122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1765125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1765122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1765122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1765122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}