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Hillary Clinton criticized her fellow Democrats over what she described as a decades-in-the-making failure to protect abortion rights, saying in her first extended interview about the fall of Roe v. Wade that her party underestimated the growing strength of anti-abortion forces until many Democrats were improbably taken by surprise by the landmark Dobbs decision in 2022.

In wide-ranging and unusually frank comments, Mrs. Clinton said Democrats had spent decades in a state of denial that a right enshrined in American life for generations could fall that faith in the courts and legal precedent had made politicians, voters and officials unable to see clearly how the anti-abortion movement was chipping away at abortion rights, restricting access to the procedure and transforming the Supreme Court, until it was too late.

We didnt take it seriously, and we didnt understand the threat, Mrs. Clinton said. Most Democrats, most Americans, did not realize we are in an existential struggle for the future of this country.

She said: We could have done more to fight.

Mrs. Clintons comments came in an interview conducted in late February for a forthcoming book, The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America.

The interview represented Mrs. Clintons most detailed comments on abortion rights since the Supreme Court decision that led to the procedure becoming criminalized or restricted in 21 states. She said not only that her party was complacent but also that if she had been in the Senate at the time she would have worked harder to block confirmation of Trump-appointed justices.

And in a blunt reflection about the role sexism played in her 2016 presidential campaign, she said women were the voters who abandoned her in the final days because she was not perfect. Overhanging the interview was the understanding that had she won the White House, Roe most likely would have remained a bedrock feature of American life. She assigned blame for the fall of Roe broadly but pointedly, and notably spared herself from the critique.

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Bette Midler raised eyebrows on Sunday when she asked people to imagine what would have happened if Hillary Clinton had claimed the 2016 election was stolen.

Can you imagine what would have happened if Hillary Clinton had claimed the election was stolen? Midler posted on X Sunday evening.

The remark, seemingly out of the blue from the legendary singer and actress whose career in Hollywood and on Broadway has spanned more than five decades, immediately attracted criticism as well as a fact-check.

Critics pointed out that Clinton is on the record questioning the results of the election she lost to former President Donald Trump.

There was a widespread understanding that this election [in 2016] was not on the level, Clintonsaid in October 2020 during an interview onThe Atlanticspolitics podcast,The Ticket. We still dont know what really happened.

Theres just a lot that I think will be revealed. History will discover, Clinton continued. But you dont win by 3 million votes and have all this other shenanigans and stuff going on and not come away with an idea like, Whoa, somethings not right here. That was a deep sense of unease.

Just two months earlier, in August 2020, Clinton said Joe Biden, then the Democratic presidential nominee, should not concede the upcoming 2020 election under any circumstances because she believed this is going to drag out, and eventually I do believe he will win if we dont give an inch, and if we are as focused and relentless as the other side is.

During the same interview, the former secretary of state also called Trump a puppet of [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and said he did not have the temperament to be president.

Social media users were quick to point out Clintons comments to Midler.

She did for like years, one X userwrote.

She is still saying 2016 was stolen. Who you kidding? posted another.

One userremindedMidler that the actress herself hadquestionedthe results of 2016.

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Trumps getting us all used to the idea that he can pardon himself for his part in Russian interference in the election. The colossal balls on this guy! How can he even walk without clanking? Midler posted in 2018.

Trump has repeatedly claimed the 2020 election was stolen due to ballot fraud exacerbated by an increase in mail-in voting during the pandemic.

In recent months, however, Trump and Republicans have encouraged voters to take advantage of mail-in voting when necessary.

Last month, Trumptold supporters that ABSENTEE VOTING, EARLY VOTING, AND ELECTION DAY VOTING ARE ALL GOOD OPTIONS.

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Appearing last week on Morning Joe, Hillary Clinton lamented what she views as the ignorance of students protesting the war in Gaza. The host, Joe Scarborough, asked her about the sort of radicalism that has mainstream students getting propaganda, whether its from their professors or from the Chinese Communist government through TikTok. Ms. Clinton was happy to oblige. I have had many conversations, as you have had, with a lot of young people over the last many months, she said. They dont know very much at all about the history of the Middle East or frankly about history in many areas of the world, including in our own country.

Ive taught students at the college level for 12 years, most recently at New York Universitys journalism school. Ive also seen and heard the assumptions made about them by some of their elders administrators, parents and others. So its no surprise now to hear protesters described as spoiled and entitled kids or delicate snowflakes who cower in their safe spaces and dont believe in free speech. Billionaires like Ken Griffin, Bill Ackman and, of course, Donald Trump as entitled as anyone have been particularly vocal in their disdain, calling the students in one instance whiny and demanding that they be punished for protesting. Representative Mike Lawler, a Republican from New York, even suggested that TikTok should be banned in part because youre seeing how these kids are being manipulated by certain groups or entities or countries to foment hate on their behalf and really create a hostile environment here in the U.S.

Whether they realize it or not, Ms. Clinton, Mr. Lawler and the rest are engaging in a moral panic about Americas youth that is part of a larger effort to discredit higher education in general. That effort includes fearmongering about diversity programs and critical race theory. But it starts with students.

In the current panic, the protesters are described as somehow both terribly fragile and such a threat to public safety that they need to be confronted by police officers in riot gear. To justify the police departments excessive response at Columbia University, Deputy Commissioner Kaz Daughtry showed Newsmax viewers a large chain and a book with the title Terrorism that had been recovered from one site of protest. The former was a common bike chain Columbia sells to students and the latter was part of Oxford University Presss lovely Very Short Introductions series, which covers topics from animal behavior to Rousseau and black holes.

There are some obvious partisan factors at work here: Staunch support for Israel among Republicans, for instance, and the long-running right-wing insistence that elite universities are liberal indoctrination camps. But recent research reveals a significant generational divide as well. A recent YouGov poll found that 45 percent of people ages 45 to 64 strongly opposed the protests, as did 56 percent of people 65 and older. By comparison, only 12 percent of 18-to-29-year-olds strongly opposed them, and 21 percent of people ages 30 to 44.

Its not just about Gaza; similar age gaps emerged in response to protests after the murder of George Floyd, too. Eighty-seven percent of adults ages 18 to 34 supported the protests in June 2020, according to Gallup, while only 54 percent of adults 65 and older did. And just 3 percent of the older group had participated in the protests, while 26 percent of the younger group had.

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Former President Donald Trump relished a very interesting day after his defense team roughed up Michael Cohen, the star witness in the hush money case against the presumptive GOP nominee.

A gag order bars Mr. Trump from talking about witnesses in the case. But he seemed pleased with how the cross-examination of Mr. Cohen, his lawyer-turned-accuser, unfolded on Thursday. He also repeated his belief the case is politically motivated.

That was my crime I won an election I wasnt supposed to win against Hillary Clinton, Mr. Trump said, evoking the cases focus on actions near the 2016 election.

He said when he announced his 2024 campaign, it was a hot iron again.

Prosecutors allege Mr. Trump, using Mr. Cohen, paid $130,000 in hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016 and then concealed reimbursements to Mr. Cohen in an unlawful manner.

Mr. Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records.

His attorney, Todd Blanche, cast doubt on the veracity of Mr. Cohens version of events by pointing to an oddity in his testimony about a key phone call with Mr. Trump.

Records suggested the brunt of the call from Mr. Cohen to Mr. Trumps bodyguard, Keith Schiller, focused on a young prankster who called his phone, though Mr. Cohen insists the call included Mr. Trumps approval of the Daniels payment.

I think it was a very interesting day, a fascinating day and it shows what a scam this whole thing is, Mr. Trump said.

Mr. Trump said the trial and other cases are being rushed to ruin his campaign against President Biden.

You know, theyre trying to rush to get it done before the election so that they can harm me, so they can hurt their political opponent, Mr. Trump said.

Other cases against him may not go to trial before November, though the New York trial could reach a verdict before the month is over, or at least by mid-June.

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Last week Hillary Clinton appeared on MSNBC and expressed her opinions regarding the student protests happening around the country in response to the United States backing Israel, even after Israel has committed mass war crimes in the Gaza conflict.

She emphasized that young individuals lack knowledge about Middle Eastern history and many areas of the world [history], including in our own country.

I have had many conversations, as you have had, with a lot of young people over the last many months now, Clinton said. They dont know very much at all about the history of the Middle East, or frankly about history, in many areas of the world, including in our own country.

Clinton continued by asserting that the Palestinians would have an independent state if Yasser Arafat, the former leader of the Palestinian Authority, had agreed to a proposal put forth by former President Bill Clinton.

Its one of the great tragedies of history that he was unable to say yes, she said.

Notwithstanding the intricate historical context, there is no justification for Israels commission of war crimes in retaliation against Hamas war crimes.

Contrary to popular belief, the majority of these college protesters are anti-war, not pro-Hamas, as Clinton appears to presume.

Furthermore, Clintons argument remains ambiguous: are we expected to disregard the fact that indiscriminate Israeli bombings have claimed the lives of tens of thousands of civilians in Gaza and constitute a war crime according to International Humanitarian Law? Right now, experts consider the total death toll in Gaza to be around 35,000.

AIPAC has spent over $60 million since 1998 lobbying both Democrats and Republicans. They spent over three million dollars in 2023 alone lobbying the government to support Israeli.

Mearsheimer, along with Dr. Stephen Walt, wrote a book on this topic called The Israeli Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy.

They conclude in their book that the Israel lobby significantly influences U.S. policy in the Middle East. They contend that in the event of a successful lobby, Israel enjoys greater autonomy with the Palestinians, its adversaries are weakened, and the majority of the expenditures, reconstruction efforts, and financial obligations are covered by the United States. They also assert that the lobbys influence impairs the U.S.s relationship with allies and heightens the threat of global jihadist terror, and that its policies are not in the long-term interests of the United States or Israel.

This phenomena is not unique to Israel or Jews it can occur with any country that has domestic lobbying groups within the U.S. that represent it. Money is one of the the most significant factor that influences policy in American politics. The United States campaign finance system is among the most undemocratic in the world; in fact, some political scientists contend that it is an oligarchy ruled by the affluent.

Those with extreme wealth can spend unlimited amounts of money to influence elections and politicians, due to Supreme Court cases like Buckley v. Valeo and Citizens United v. FEC.

Campaign finance is one of the most logical explanations for Clintons remarks regarding this war.

The actions carried out by Hamas on October 7th were abhorrent and constituted a violation of the laws of war. However, this does not justify Israels acts that violate international humanitarian law by targeting non-combatant individuals. Clinton appears to be unwilling to acknowledge the fact that Israel is violating international human rights laws.

The pervasive impact of lobbying is presumably the rationale behind the unwavering military support of Israel by many political figures on the left and right.

Clinton must be aware that a very large number of people in Gaza were unlawfully killed.

Labeling young anti-war protesters as unintelligent is counterproductive in shaping the perception of Democrats among young individuals.

Furthermore, it is a deceitful ad hominem attack aimed at evading genuine discourse regarding international law.

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