The Hillary blame list - FORTY-ONE and counting

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[h=1]James Comey, Matt Lauer, Netflix, Putin, fathers, husbands, male bosses and boyfriends: Meet the Hillary blame list - FORTY-ONE and counting (but there's one absentee)[/h]

• Donald Trump has accused Hillary Clinton of blaming everyone but herself for her election loss
• Clinton has said she is accountable - but since Trump's shock November 8 victory has produced a laundry list of who she also blames
• Now the list is 41- strong and counting

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Hillary Clinton is being accused of blaming everyone but herself for her loss to Donald Trump - including by the president himself.
Trump tweeted on Wednesday night that Crooked Hillary Clinton blames everybody (and every thing) but herself for her election loss. She lost the debates and lost her direction!'

Now just how many people, organizations, bodies and concepts she has blamed can be revealed - 41 and counting.
It covers grudges large and small: as well as her much-mentioned bete noire James Comey, Clinton has found time to cast up grievances against everyone from Bernie Sanders 'bros' to Democratic documentary makers - as well as women's male bosses, and husbands, fathers and boyfriends.
And given that she has only just started a promotional blitz for What Happened, her memoir of losing, that list could keep growing.

Enemy number one: Clinton has repeatedly named James Comey as the reason she lost


JAMES COMEY
Clinton is furious that Comey, then the FBI director, publicly revealed the re-opening of the secret email server investigation just before election day - and has said so time after time after time.
She told the Today show on Wednesday:
'The role that he played historically was determinative.'
She added: 'I was just dumbfounded. I thought what is he doing? It stopped my momentum, it drove voters from me.
'This was not necessary. He could have called me up, he could have called others involved up and said, 'Hey can we look at this new stuff just to make sure it's stuff we've seen?''
'Independent observers such as Nate Silver say, yes, but for that intervention I could have won. That was the most important factor.


THE FBI
Comey's entire organization does not escape her wrath.
'The FBI wasn't the Federal Bureau of Ifs or Innuendoes. Its job was to find out the facts,' she writes in What Happened.

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Grudge match: Clinton says Vladimir Putin was out to get her - and did


VLADIMIR PUTIN
'There's no doubt in my mind that Putin wanted me to lose and wanted Trump to win,' she told USA Today on Monday.
It was hardly a new theme. As early as December the New York Times obtained audio in which she told her donors: 'Putin publicly blamed me for the outpouring of outrage by his own people, and that is the direct line between what he said back then and what he did in this election.'



THE RUSSIANS
Putin's entire apparatus gets a name-check. In May she told the Codecon convention how '1,000 Russian agents' had filled Facebook with 'fake news'.
She told NPR 'my path toward November was being disrupted with Russians'.


WIKILEAKS
The 'transparency website' is consistently ranked along with Comey by Clinton at the top of her blame list.
She told NPR on Tuesday: 'Unfortunately the Comey letter, aided to great measure by the Russian WikiLeaks, raised all those doubts again.'
And she writes of its founder Julian Assange in What Happened: 'In my view, Assange is a hypocrite who deserves to be held accountable for his actions.'



LOW INFORMATION VOTERS
'You put yourself in the position of a low information voter, and all of a sudden your Facebook feed, your Twitter account is saying, 'Oh my gosh, Hillary Clinton is running a child trafficking operation in Washington with John Podesta.',' she told the Codecon convention in May.
'Well you don't believe it but this has been such an unbelievable election, you kind of go, 'Oh maybe I better look into that.''



THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE
'We have an electoral college problem. It's an anachronism,' she told Vox.


ANTI-AMERICAN FORCES
'I think it's important that we learn the real lessons from this last campaign because the forces that we are up against are not just interested in influencing our elections and our politics, they're going after our economy and they're going after our unity as a nation,' she told Codecon in May.
'What is hard for people to really accept - although now after the election there's greater understanding - is that there are forces in our country - put the Russians to one side - who have been fighting rear guard actions for as long as I've been alive because my life coincided with the Civil Rights movement, with the women's rights movement, with anti-war protesting, with the impeachment.

 

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EVERYONE WHO ASSUMED SHE WOULD WIN
'I was the victim of a very broad assumption that I was going to win,' she told the Codecon convention.



BAD POLLING NUMBERS
Clinton says polls in key states did not serve her.
'I think polling is going to have to undergo some revisions in how they actually measure people,' she told the Codecon convention.
'How they reach people. The best assessments as of right now are that the polling was not that inaccurate, but it was predominantly national polling and I won nationally.'

Too much history: Obama's two terms put her at a disadvantage, Clinton says




BARACK OBAMA
Clinton has two beefs with Obama: one of them being that he won two terms. Clinton says that succeeding an incumbent is almost impossible for a Democrat.
'No non-incumbent Democrat had run successfully to succeed another two-termer since Vice President Martin Van Buren won in 1836,' she writes in What Happened.
And in May she told the Codecon conference: 'I was swimming against an historic tide. It's very difficult historically to succeed a two-term president of your own party, because you know, we're itchy people, we like change in American, and I get it.'
On Tuesday she told NPR: 'It's really difficult to succeed a president of your own party who has served two terms. That is a historical fact. So I think it would have been tough for Democrats.'
But she also says his response to the Russian campaign of interference wasn't enough.
'I do wonder sometimes about what would have happened if President Obama had made a televised address to the nation in the fall of 2016 warning that our democracy was under attack,' she writes in What Happened.



WHITE WOMEN
'I believe absent Comey, I might've picked up 1 or 2 points among white women,' she told Vox on Tuesday.
'White woman... are really quite politically dependent on their view of their own security and their own position in society what works and doesn't work for them.'


THE NEW YORK TIMES
The newspaper was blamed as early as May at the Codecon conference in Rancho Palos Verde, California.
She singled out its managing editor Dean Baquet - the paper's most senior editor - and said of coverage of her email issue under his direction: 'They covered it like it was Pearl Harbor.'



JOE BIDEN
Biden could have run against her and didn't. But Clinton writes: 'Joe Biden said the Democratic Party in 2016 'did not talk about what it always stood for—and that was how to maintain a burgeoning middle class.'




'I find this fairly remarkable, considering that Joe himself campaigned for me all over the Midwest and talked plenty about the middle class.'

Enabled 'Crooked Hillary': Clinton does not appreciate Bernie Sanders' performance

BERNIE SANDERS
'His attacks caused lasting damage, making it harder to unify progressives in the general election and paving the way for Trump's 'Crooked Hillary' campaign,' she writes in What Happened.
'I don't know if that bothered Bernie or not.'
And she has used a series of interviews to advance the theme, telling the Pod Save America podcast that she behaved better than Sanders when she lost to Obama in 2008 by conceding when she knew she couldn't win.
'Once it was over, it was over and I quickly endorsed President Obama,' she said.
'I didn't get anything like that respect from Sanders and his supporters.
'And it hurt, you know, to have basically captured the nomination, ending up with more than 4 million votes than he had – but he dragged it out.'



BERNIE BROS
'Some of his supporters, the so-called Bernie Bros, took to harassing my supporters online. It got ugly and more than a little sexist,' she writes in What Happened.
She told NPR: 'We saw a lot of that during the primaries from Sanders supporters, really quite vile attacks online against women who spoke out for me, as I say, one of my biggest support groups, Pantsuit Nation, literally had to become a private site because there was so much sexism directed their way.'



PEOPLE WANTING CHANGE
'I thought, at end of day, people would say, look, we do want change, and we want the right kind of change, and we want change that is realistic and is going to make difference in my life and my family's life and my paycheck,' she told Vox.
'That's what I was offering. And I didn't in any way want to feed into this, not just radical political argument that was being made on other side, but very negative cultural argument about who we are as Americans.'



MISOGYNISTS
Asked by CNN's Christine Amanpour at the Women for Women International event in new York in May if misogyny was to blame she said: 'Yes, I do think it played a role.'


TELEVISION EXECUTIVES
'When you have a presidential campaign and the total number of minutes on TV news, which is still how most people get their information, covering all of our policies, climate change, anything else was 32 minutes, I don't blame voters,' she told The View on Wednesday.
'They don't get a broad base of information to make decision on.
'The more outrageous you are, the more inflammatory you are, the higher the ratings are.'

NETFLIX
Hillary does not do Netflix and chill - or if she does, she doesn't find it very relaxing.
'Eight of the top 10 political documentaries on Netflix were screeds against President Obama and me,' she claimed at the Codecon convention.

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In the crosshairs: Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook is blamed by Clinton


FACEBOOK
'If you look at Facebook the vast majority of the news items posted were fake. They were connected to as we now know the 1,000 Russian agents who were involved in delivering those messages,' she told Codecon.


TWITTER
Usually mentioned in the same breath as Facebook, the micro-blogging site is seen by Clinton as one of the reasons for her loss.
She told the Codecon convention in may that Trump had a method in his tweets.
'They want to influence your reality. That to me is what we're up against, and we can't let that go unanswered,' she said.



CONTENT FARMS IN MACEDONIA
'Through content farms, through an enormous investment in falsehoods, fake news, call it what you will - lies, that's a good word too - the other side was using content that was flat out false,' she told the Codecon convention in May.
'They were conveying this weaponized information and the content of it, and they were running, y'know there's all these stories, about y'know,
and you know I've seen them now, and you sit there and it looks like you know sort of low level CNN operation, or a fake newspaper.'




CAMPAIGN FINANCE
'You had Citizens United come to its full fruition.' she told Codecon in May.
'So unaccountable money flowing in against me, against other Democrats, in a way that we hadn't seen and then attached to this weaponized information war.



THE MEDIA
Among her many criticisms of the media generally is an attack in What Happened on anyone publishing leaked material.
'American journalists who eagerly and uncritically repeated whatever WikiLeaks dished out during the campaign could learn from the responsible way the French press handled the hack of Macron,' she writes.
Now president Macron had a massive tranche of his emails hacked and released shortly before the French voted.
Many outlets did not report on their contents.



STEVE BANNON AND BREITBART
'Provided the untrue stories,' she told the Codecon convention in May.




THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
'I set up my campaign and we have our own data operation. I get the nomination. So I'm now the nominee of the Democratic Party. I inherit nothing from the Democratic Party,' Clinton said told the Codecon convention in May.
'I mean, it was bankrupt. It was on the verge of insolvency. Its data was mediocre to poor, nonexistent, wrong. I had to inject money into it.'



THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
The Republicans were far better prepared for a campaign than the Democrats she claimed, when it came to money and data, telling the Codecon convention: 'So Trump becomes the nominee and he is basically handed this tried and true, effective foundation.'



CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA
The data-targeting firm ultimately owned by Robert Mercer, the billionaire Breitbart backer, and his family, is said to have targeted voters to drive them away from Clinton.
'They ultimately added something and I think again we'd better understand that. The Mercers did not invest all that money for their own amusement,' she told the Codecon convention.



WOMEN PROTESTERS
The massive demonstrations in Washington and other cities in the wake of the election were organized as an immediate response to Clinton's shock defeat.
But that did not stop Clinton from writing in What Happened: 'I couldn't help but ask where those feelings of solidarity, outrage and passion had been during the election.'

Pointless ambush: Clinton's grievance against Lauer goes back to September 7, 2016, when he questioned her and Trump back-to-back

MATT LAUER
The NBC Today show anchor quizzed both candidates at a 'commander-in-chief forum' on board Intrepid in New York.
But Clinton - who went first in the back-to-back interviews, complained about Lauer focusing on her secret server and whether it raised questions over her trustworthiness.
'Lauer had turned what should have been a serious discussion into a pointless ambush. What a waste of time,' she writes in What Happened.
Her anger grew even more as she watched as Lauer 'soft-pedaled' Trump and failed to go after him as aggressively.
Clinton writes: 'Trump should have reported his performance as a contribution in kind'.




WHITE VOTERS
'White voters have been fleeing the Democratic party ever since Lyndon Johnson predicted they would,' she told Vox.




DEMOCRATIC DOCUMENTARY MAKERS
'We're not making the documentaries that we're going to get onto Netflix,' she told Codecon.
She was asked by the interviewer: 'This is because Hollywood isn't liberal enough?'
'No, it's because Democrats aren't putting their money there,' she replied.




BENGHAZI INVESTIGATORS
The attacks on the U.S. diplomatic compound in the Libyan city of Benghazi on September 11, 2012, happened when Clinton was Secretary of State. It claimed four American lives, and was the focus of intense investigation by Congress.
On Wednesday Clinton told the Today show: 'Take the Benghazi tragedy - you know, I have one of the top Republicans, Kevin McCarthy, admitting we're going to take that tragedy - because, you know, we've lost people, unfortunately, going back to the Reagan administration, if you talk about recent times, in diplomatic attacks.
'But boy, it was turned into a political football. And it was aimed at undermining my credibility, my record, my accomplishments.'





VOTER SUPPRESSION
Suppressing hr voters was named on Wednesday by Clinton as one of the major factors in her defeat in her interview with Matt Lauer and Savanah Guthrie on the Today show as she rattled off a laundry list of grievance.
'What was at work here?' she said.
'In addition to the mistakes that I made, which I recount in the book, what about endemic sexism and misogyny, not just in politics but in our society, what about the unprecedented action of the FBI director, what about the interference of an adversary nation, what about voter suppression?'
It was a return to a theme - she suggested it was a problem in Wisconsin in an interview in May with New York magazine.
'I would have won had I not been subjected to the unprecedented attacks by Comey and the Russians, aided and abetted by the suppression of the vote, particularly in Wisconsin,' she said.
'Republicans learned that if you suppress votes you win.'

It was him too: Senate Republican leader is blamed by Clinton

MITCH McCONNELL
The Senate majority leader is accused of stopping the Obama administration from revealing what Clinton says the Russians were up to, helping tip the balance against her because he did not want a third successive Democratic term in the White House.
'Mitch McConnell, in what I think of as a not only unpatriotic but despicable act of partisan politics, made it clear that if the Obama Administration spoke publicly about what they knew [on Russia], he would accuse them of partisan politics, of trying to tip the balance toward me,' she told the New Yorker Wednesday.





THE SUPREME COURT
Clinton claims the Supreme Court watered down the Voting Rights Act at the Codecon convention.
'You had effective suppression of votes,' she said.
i was in the senate when we voted 98-0 under a Republican president, George W Bush, to extend the Voting Rights Act and the Supreme Court says 'oh we don't need it any more' , throws it out, and Republican governors and legislatures began doing everything they could to suppress the votes.'
Clinton appears to be referring to Second 4(b) of the Act being ruled unconstitutional by the court in 2013, because it relied on out of date data which meant it was not in line with the 15th Amendment.





FATHERS, HUSBANDS, BOYFRIENDS, AND MALE BOSSES
Clinton says that James Comey's actions in re-opening the FBI investigation allowed men to influence their wives or girlfriends.

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'Women will have no empathy for you because they will be under tremendous pressure - and I'm talking principally about white women - they will be under tremendous pressure from fathers, and husbands, and boyfriends and male employers, not to vote for 'the girl',' she told NPR.
And she told Vox that the men had taken the Comey letter and convinced their partners not to vote for her.
'You know, all of a sudden, the husband turns to the wife, 'Pshh, I told you she's going to be in jail. You don't want to waste your vote',' she said.
'You know, the boyfriend turns to the girlfriend and says, 'She's going to get locked up. Don't you hear? She's going to get locked up.''

 

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AND P.S... THERE'S ONE VERY NOTABLE ABSENTEE FROM HER GRIEVANCE LIST: ANTHONY WEINER
The pervert husband of her aide Huma Abedin is likely to go to prison - but Clinton has said zero to blame him for losing.
If he had not been sexting an underage girl, the FBI would never have stumbled across the cache of Abedin's archived emails when they seized his computer and Comey would not have re-opened the secret server investigation.
DailyMail.com revealed the serial sexter's texting 'relationship' in September, and Weiner will be sentenced later this year.
Prosecutors accepted a plea deal and are urging that he receive a prison sentence. Weiner wants to avoid jail time, claiming that he is changed and that he will deal with his demons on probation.
Abedin is currently divorcing him and they appeared together in court in Manhattan Wednesday, hours after Clinton's confidante had watched in the studio as the presidential loser list her grievances on The View.

Conviction: Serial texting pervert Anthony Weiner is going to federal prison - but he is not being named as one of the people to blame for Hillary Clinton's defeat



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what- no global warming

 

[Willie99]

Not sure why she's complaining about low information voters, they are the backbone of the Democratic party
A coalition of special interests who only vote for their personal benefits

The epitome of ignorance