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Former presidential candidate Hilary Clinton accused the Republican party of being too scared to remove President Donald Trump from office over his impeachment.

Clinton said GOP is unwilling to "entertain the seriousness and implications" of the charges against Trump and is "basically deriding" the case, including through some senators' refusal to call witnesses, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The former first lady, senator, and secretary of state, who lost to Trump in the 2016 election, was taking part in an audience Q&A on Saturday at the Sundance Festival, where her Hulu docu-series Hillary premiered.

Clinton praised the House managers for their "compelling, excellent" presentation of the evidence to the Senate trial, which began this week.

She said the managers weaved the evidence into a narrative that set the president's alleged behavior into the context of why the Founders had included impeachment in the constitution.

"I'm obviously realistic enough to understand that the House Republicans and the Senate Republicans don't want to hear this," Clinton said, "don't want to think hard about it, don't want to make a decision, and are going to probably default to basically deriding the casethey started that todayand then trying to move as quickly as possible without any more evidence being presented or witnesses called. I hope this will haunt them not only politically, but historically."

The president is accused of abusing his power by soliciting Ukraine's interference in the 2020 election to benefit his re-election campaign and obstructing Congress in its efforts to investigate.

According to the House case against Trump, the president conditioned a White House visit for Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskiy and $391 million of military aid on Kyiv announcing an unfounded investigation into former vice president Joe Biden.

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Trump denies any wrongdoing.

A two-thirds Senate majority is required to convict an impeached president. The Senate is currently controlled by a Republican majority and it is unlikely Trump will be removed from office.

When asked what her views on the impeachment hearings are, Clinton joked "do we have 35 hours?"

Clinton said impeachment proceedings could have been launched earlier against Trump, adding that she has "more than a passing familiarity professionally and personally" on such matters.

But Clinton praised House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for waiting to launch an impeachment inquiry despite criticism for doing so and pressure to move sooner.

"When Nancy repeatedly held the line, she was absolutely right because we had to build a case and we had to demonstrate as clearly as you could that the behavior threatened the security, the sovereignty, the integrity of our country and most particularly, our elections," Clinton said.

"So [House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam] Schiff's point that everybody should emphasize is that when you have a pattern of behavior that we saw in 2016 elections, once again being engaged in this election, it's not a retrospective.

"This is about what could happen in 2020, and I thought the House did a very professional, very careful job with it, and I've served with some of the Republicans who are still there in the Senate, and I find it absolutely beyond my understanding why they're so cowed, so terrified to do what most of them know they should do."

In a statement to Newsweek, Republican National Committee spokesperson Mandi Merritt said: "The only party that is 'terrified' is the Democrats because they know they can't beat President Trump at the ballot box, so they are throwing everything they have at this impeachment sham as their last Hail Mary.

"The American people see through this impeachment witch hunt and it will only backfire on the Democrats come November."

This article was updated with a comment by Mandi Merritt.

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I remember having an argument with the mother of a young girl during the 2016 election. She thought even a symbolic victory would be an important victory, because it was important for her daughter to have a woman president to look up to. I want her to see a woman president, she said, to help her believe that she could become a president herself.

Its an oft-touted argument for representation: children need role models successful people of their own gender or race in order to become successful in adulthood.

Its the same conversation we all had when the comic book movie Wonder Woman came out starring a former member of the Israel Defense Forces who vocally supported Israeli soldiers as they committed war crimes in Gaza in 2014. Its good for young girls to see strong women out in the world and on our movie screens, were told even if we are mostly watching that woman commit acts of violence.

Wouldnt it be better for your daughter, I asked, to see women acting with moral integrity? To be out in the world as compassionate and wise, rather than just powerful? I didnt get an answer.

We have a lot of powerful women for ambitious little girls to look up to these days. They are political leaders, captains of industry, writers, and politically conscious musicians and actors. The one thing they have in common is their willingness to use the feminist label to get ahead, with no thought to the damage they might do to the movement as a result.

Hillary Clinton is still trying to sell herself as a feminist icon as a gutsy woman, as she puts it in an interview she did to support the new four-part documentary about her life and career, Hillary, soon to debut at Sundance. She may have lost the election, but she is still trying to win the narrative by telling a story about a brave feminist leader who went up against a hopelessly misogynistic culture. She may not have become leader of the free world, in this telling, but she paved the way for generations to come.

Its an easy story to tell because she has so many co-authors. Many women drape themselves in the same feminist uniform, claiming to play solely for the womens team, hiding any number of gender crimes underneath.

When it comes to actually doing what is best for women, they shrug and plead helplessness. How could we have known? Clinton asks, when questioned in the same interview about her longstanding friendship and political relationship with alleged sexual predator Harvey Weinstein. Never mind the fact that Ronan Farrow has publicly accused Clintons publicist of trying to kill his first story about the accusations against Weinstein. Or that Lena Dunham has said she discussed Weinstein with Clinton in private. How could she have known? The interviewer didnt even bother to ask about the Clintons association with Jeffrey Epstein.

Neera Tanden a close associate of Clinton and president of the liberal thinktank the Center for American Progress has a similar history. She has thrust herself into public life as an example of a feminist leader, going on television and social media to decry the mistreatment of women in politics and culture, yet the organization she leads is rife with accusations of harassment, intimidation and censorship of its female employees.

The problem is not only in politics. Facebook is still throwing women at the media to hide its detrimental effect on our culture from mass surveillance to alliances with authoritarian governments to its involvement in the spread of propaganda during elections by paying Teen Vogue, a publication often touted for its progressive coverage of feminism and politics, to profile five of its female employees working to ensure the integrity of the 2020 election. Its scandal-rocked COO, Sheryl Sandberg, is still giving interviews about the importance of gender equality in corporate culture. While these women do find themselves criticized, occasionally canceled, they often find their way back into the centers of attention and power, rehabilitating their images by presenting themselves as some kind of feminist authority or cheerleader of women.

We have a mass media that is complicit in these feminist imaginings, happy to champion any self-declared leader looking to build a career. We have journalists too afraid of losing access to the ruling class to bother asking a follow-up question to an obvious lie. We have columnists too invested in the fantasy of a powerful woman because they dream of power themselves to want to offend or challenge hypocrisy. And too often, truly progressive and feminist voices find themselves shut out of the media discourse because their ideas and challenges would be inconvenient to the dominant corporate feminist narrative.

Outlets like the New York Times were happy to champion Clintons record of service to children, women, and families during her 2016 campaign, ignoring, for example, prison abolitionist activists trying to draw attention to her terrible criminal justice record and her infamous remarks about super predators. New York magazine was breathless in their support of a woman president. Rebecca Traister, author of a book about Hillary Clintons 2008 campaign called Big Girls Dont Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women, wrote before the 2016 election, I have wanted to pull a lever for a woman who is a strong Democrat since I was 9. And in order to continue supporting her woman candidate, she was happy to ignore Clintons hawkish, regime-change-eager approach to foreign policy.

The feminist thinkers and activists and writers who have been working on deeply un-photogenic subjects such as labor rights, abortion access, criminal justice reform, sex work legalization, homelessness and healthcare reform arent the ones penning op-eds and signing six-figure book deals, despite the crucially important work they are doing to improve womens lives. Its cute white girls.

The real issue of representation in our culture isnt that there arent enough visible powerful women. Its that what is represented in our culture as feminism is actually corporatism. A truly feminist leader one who believes in fighting for all women and not just her rich friends, who is concerned with the dignity of all lives and not just her personal ambitions, who is not swayed to lower her standards or sell out to corporate interests in exchange for power would be a genuine shock to the system.

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Hillary Clinton got candid about Bill Clintons affair with Monica Lewinsky.

In the third episode of Hulus Hillary documentary series titled The Hardest Decision, Hillarys decision to stay married to her husband was examined especially after he confirmed his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Some believed she chose to keep their marriage for cultural and political reasons, but Hillary has already spoken up.

Bill was adamant that nothing had happened between him and Lewinsky that rose above the level of flirting. Hillary confessed that she was convinced with what her husband told her.

However, when she learned that he was about to admit his sexual relationship with Lewinsky she was hurt. In fact, it shockingly came to a point when she didnt want anything to do with her husband.

"I was just devastated. I could not believe it. I was so personally just hurt, Hillary admitted (via The Daily Beast).

While Bill was facing the issue, Hillary wanted to get away from Washington and head to Marthas Vineyard. She admitted that at the time, she didnt really speak with her spouse.

I still didnt talk to him. I didnt want anything to do with him. He spent a lot of time I guess playing golf and talking to a couple of his friends.

The then-first family was photographed walking across the White House lawn to board the helicopter to Massachusetts. Chelsea was between her parents and she was holding Bill and Hillarys hands. Hillary became teary-eyed when she opened up about the moment. She admitted that by holding their hands together, she felt that their daughter was trying to keep them together and when she did that, she admitted that it was incredible. She added that the gesture was so strong and wise.

Friends and aides had a theory that Hillary was aware of Bills affair, but she lied to protect him. However, they unanimously said that she was blindsided and devastated about the whole thing.

In related news, last month, Hillary was unrecognizable in her glamorous new look when she watched Aint Too Proud: The Temptations Musical at The Imperial Theatre with her husband. An expert explained that her youthful look was due to the cosmetic procedures she underwent.

Former US president Bill Clinton and first lady Hillary Clinton in January 1999, when he was on trial in the Senate for lying to investigators in the Lewinsky sex scandal Photo: AFP / JOYCE NALTCHAYAN

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FOX Business contributor and Fox Nation host Tammy Bruce says Hillary Clinton should continue her slew of comments against people she dislikes.

Former Secretary of State and 2016Democraticpresidential nominee Hillary Clinton stood by her alleged friendship with disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein as the former filmmakers accusers gathered at a New York court forhis rape and sexual assault trial.

The former first lady was asked during an interview with The Hollywood Reporterif she regretted her lengthy association with Harvey Weinstein.

Then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and producer Harvey Weinstein attend the TIME 100 Gala on April 24, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images for TIME)

She responded with a question of her own:

How could we have known? He raised money for me, for the Obamas, for Democrats in general, she said in the interview, published earlier this week. And that at the time was something that everybody thought made sense. And of course, if all of us had known what we know now, it would have affected our behavior.

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Weinsteins New York trial surrounds allegations that he forcibly performed oral sex on a womanin his apartment in 2006 and raped a budding actress in a BigApple hotel room in 2013. More than 100 women havereportedly accused him of sexual assault or misconduct.

As the trial commenced Wednesday, a prosecutor told the court the now 67-year-old had taken calls from former President Bill Clinton while he was with one of his female accusers. Prosecutors went as far as showing a photograph of Weinstein rubbing elbows with Clinton.

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Weinstein has been photographed withthe Clintons in the past, and has donated thousands of dollars to the pair, including to the failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, according to OpenSecrets.org.

His trial continued Thursday morning.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Among other revelations, a new authorized docu-series about Hillary Clinton reveals what was said behind the scenes during her 2016 run for The White House.Photo: Mandel Ngan (AFP/Getty Images)

They say that a dog who brings a bone will carry a bone.

In an upcoming docu-series, Hillary Clintons 2016 running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine reveals that Barack Hussein Obama called President Trump a fascist during a phone call.

President Obama called me last night and said: Tim, remember, this is no time to be a purist. Youve got to keep a fascist out of the White House, Kaine recalled the Forever President telling him in a clip included in the Hulu series, Hillary, according to NBC News.

Anne Holton, the Virginia senators wife, was also reportedly present during the call. Kaine added that Obama knows him and he knows that I could tend to err.

I echo that sentiment, Clinton replied, then putting her hands to her chest and saying, But thats reallythe weight of our responsibility is so huge.

For those who dont know, fascist governments have been historically known to be militaristic, and racist.

So, among his many nicknames, Obama The Oracle may be apropos four years later.

The Disney-associated streaming platform will launch the four-episode docu-serieswhich premiered Saturday at the Sundance Film FestivalMarch 6.

NBC reports that the director Nanette Burstein confirmed in an email that the Kaine clip was recorded by a camera crew hired by the Clinton campaign at an unknown date and time.

The project is the same one where Clinton was talking greasy about Sen. Bernie Sandersthe formidable political rival many believe cost her the 2016 election.

Last week, the Hollywood Reporter revealed that Clinton said that the senator from Vermont was in Congress for years. He had one senator support him. Nobody likes him. Nobody wants to work with him.

He got nothing done, she furthered. He was a career politician. Its all just baloney, and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it.

So now we know what the former secretary of State, New York senator and First Lady said about Sanders.

Only time will tell what she really had to say about Obamawho some believe cost her the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008.

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