{"id":2379095,"date":"2024-12-11T18:42:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T23:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-clinton-on-preemptive-pardon-for-hillary-she-didnt-do-anything-wrong-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-12-11T18:42:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T23:42:03","slug":"bill-clinton-on-preemptive-pardon-for-hillary-she-didnt-do-anything-wrong-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-clinton-on-preemptive-pardon-for-hillary-she-didnt-do-anything-wrong-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Clinton on \u2018preemptive pardon\u2019 for Hillary: \u2018She didn\u2019t do anything wrong\u2019 &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fbill-clinton-on-preemptive-pardon-for-hillary-she-didnt-do-anything-wrong-washington-examiner%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=2379095&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 class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Bill Clinton on &lsquo;preemptive pardon&rsquo; for Hillary: &lsquo;She didn&rsquo;t do anything wrong&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1909066\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/bill-clinton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Bill Clinton\">Bill Clinton<\/a> told <em>The View <\/em>on Wednesday that even though his wife, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hillary-clinton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Hillary Clinton\">Hillary Clinton<\/a>, &ldquo;didn&rsquo;t do anything wrong,&rdquo; he&rsquo;d be open to discussing a &ldquo;preemptive pardon&rdquo; for her with President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;Do you think it would be wise of President Biden to preemptively pardon any potential targets? What about your wife, Hillary Clinton?&rdquo; co-host Sunny Hostin asked. &ldquo;She apparently is on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kash-patel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Kash Patel\">Kash Patel<\/a>&rsquo;s list.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>President-elect Donald Trump recently nominated Kash Patel to be his director of the FBI. In Patel&rsquo;s book, <em>Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy,<\/em> he wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.documentcloud.org\/documents\/25450362\/patel-list.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"a list of the &ldquo;Executive Branch Deep State&rdquo;\">a list of the &ldquo;Executive Branch Deep State&rdquo;<\/a> in his appendix that included FBI Director Christopher Wray, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, President Joe Biden, former FBI Director James Comey, and former Obama administration Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share.php?id=2723992&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=10455&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=226f456e40bcc46add8c67d50ba02eed\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;ve got a problem with her because first, she didn&rsquo;t do anything wrong,&rdquo; Bill Clinton <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ImMeme0\/status\/1866920295996768360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"responded\">responded<\/a> to Hostin&rsquo;s question. &ldquo;Second, she followed the rules exactly as they were written. Third, Trump&rsquo;s State Department &mdash; Trump&rsquo;s State Department &mdash; found &mdash; remember how the emails were such a big issue in 2016? Trump&rsquo;s State Department found that Hillary sent and received exactly zero classified emails on her personal device. It was a made-up phony story.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So, you know, I guess if Kash Patel is determined to make one up, he could do it, but I think if President Biden wanted to talk to me about that, I will talk to him about it, but I don&rsquo;t think I should be giving public advice on the pardon power,&rdquo; the former president said.<\/p>\n<p>He <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheView\/status\/1866894352435282327\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"continued\">continued<\/a>, &ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s too &mdash; it&rsquo;s a very personal thing, but it is &mdash; I hope [Trump] won&rsquo;t do that. Trump, you know, most of us get out of this world ahead of where we&rsquo;d get if all we got was simple justice. And so it&rsquo;s normally a fool&rsquo;s ear and to spend a lot of time trying to get even.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Co-host Joy Behar asked whether a pardon would &ldquo;signal&rdquo; that his wife and others &ldquo;had actually done something wrong.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Not necessarily,&rdquo; the former president said.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to praise his wife&rsquo;s &ldquo;well-qualified&rdquo; credentials. Bill Clinton admitted that he thought Trump won the 2024 election <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/VigilantFox\/status\/1866882867667533953\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title='\"fair and square\"'>&ldquo;fair and square&rdquo;<\/a> but hinted that former FBI Director James Comey&rsquo;s investigation into his wife&rsquo;s emails shortly before the election may have interfered &ldquo;last minute&rdquo; with her chances in the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I also think it&rsquo;s important for everybody to just take a deep breath and say that, unlike in 2016, there was no outside influence, like the FBI director interfering at the last moment in violation of 70 years of policy and then change 5% overnight,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Clinton said this year&rsquo;s election showed that there were &ldquo;a lot of reasons why&rdquo; Trump won in November. The former president said that he currently sleeps well at night because he &ldquo;did everything&rdquo; possible to help Harris win despite her defeat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1909066\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1909066\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Clinton on \u2018preemptive pardon\u2019 for Hillary: \u2018She didn\u2019t do anything wrong\u2019 Former President Bill Clinton told The View on Wednesday that even though his wife, Hillary Clinton, \u201cdidn\u2019t do anything wrong,\u201d he\u2019d be open to discussing a \u201cpreemptive pardon\u201d for her with President Joe Biden. \u201cDo you think it would be wise of President<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2678,"featured_media":2379096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Bill-Clinton-2.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2379095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Bill-Clinton-2.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379095","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\/2678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2379095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2379096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2379095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2379095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2379095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}