David French:
I can’t believe I’m typing these words, but the Washington Post has actually published a searing indictment of Hillary’s treatment of Bill Clinton’s mistresses. In a lengthy piece, it takes a look at Hillary’s responses to Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, and others. Some of the anecdotes are revealing – including this blast-from-the-past regarding Flowers:
“I think, by then [Bill’s presidential run], Hillary had a very good notion of Bill’s behavior,” said her longtime friend Nancy Pietrafesa. “Maybe she endured it, but I don’t think she condoned it.”
Nevertheless, Hillary Clinton dismissed an accusation made by Gennifer Flowers, the singer who sold her story to a supermarket tabloid after having previously denied an affair. In an ABC News interview, she called Flowers “some failed cabaret singer who doesn’t even have much of a résumé to fall back on.” She told Esquire magazine in 1992 that if she had the chance to cross-examine Flowers, “I mean, I would crucify her.”
Hillary’s remarks were not second-hand quotes from friends but rather quotes from actual news interviews. She was publicly vicious in her attacks against a woman who – it turns out – was telling the truth about an affair with her husband. And she was this vicious after she knew that Bill had been unfaithful in the past.
Then there’s this vignette, which reveals much about both Hillary and Bill: