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July 4, 2017

CHAPPAQUA Hillary Clinton surrendered to federal authorities onTuesday aftera nine-hour standoff involvinga series of tense negotiationsanda brief exchange of gunfire with Kazakh mercenaries. The former secretary of state was transferred to a federal prison facility in Cumberland, Md., where she will await trial on chargesof corruption,racketeering, treason, voter fraud, planning the Benghazi attack, associating with perverts, and disseminating"fake news."

FBI Director Louie Gohmert praised the operation as "a victory for justice," hours after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a 612-page indictment against the failed presidential candidate at a press conference in Washington. "Hillary Clinton embodies the tyranny our Founding Fathers fought to eradicate,"Gohmert said in a statement. "Congrats to President Trump for keeping his promise to LOCK HER UP" [emphasis in original].

Love Trump's Jail.

The FBIopeneda formal investigation into Hillary Clinton's criminal deviancein early June, days after Gohmert was sworn in as successor to James Comey, thedisgraced former director who was fired by the president in May. Comey's dismissal sparked protests across the country, as millions of angry voters took to the streets imploringPresident Trump to fulfill his campaign promise to imprison Hillary for her myriad crimes against the American people.

Many in the "fake news" media were stunned when Attorney General Sessions announced the indictment on Tuesday. During a subsequent briefing with Justice Department communications director Tomi Lahren, reporters broke down in tears and babbledhysterically about Hitler. Lahren mocked a failing New York Times correspondentwho tried to disrupt the briefing by commandeering "thepeople's microphone" before being dragged offby federal agents.

"Hillary's arrest is a defeat for the cucks inthe lamestream press who have devoted their lives to protecting acorrupt murderer," Lahren said. "She will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and shown no mercy."

It was the most highly-rated Justice Department briefing in history, according to President Trump.

DOJ communications director Tomi Lahren briefed the press on Hillary's arrest.

President Trump, along with Sessions and Gohmert, watched the standoff at the Clinton's Chappaqua estate via a live feed in the situation room and tweetedthroughout the ordeal.

Hillary's arrest is another the victory for the president, whose executive order authorizing the detention of journalists at Guantanamo Bay was recently upheld by the Supreme Court. Trump told Sean Hannity in a phone interview that Hillary's indictment would give Republicans the momentum they needed to passa "massive" tax reform plan, and allow him to "focus onbringing foreign terrorists to justice, as opposed to the domestic kind. We just locked up a big one."

Thousands of revelers gathered outsidethe White House to celebrate the occasion, while a handful of low-energy protesters looked on in dismay. White House officials said the president planned to invite GOPlawmakers to the Rose Garden on Wednesday for a "fabulous" ceremony featuring a full musical set performed by Mike Huckabee.

Mission accomplished.

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I once wrote a column in praise of competence. The object of my admiration was Walter Mondale, then running for president against Ronald Reagan. The presidents message was that it was morning again in America. Mondales message was that he was competent. He lost 49 states. He was Hillary Clinton even before she was.

The comparison is apt and sad. It came jumping out at me as I read Shattered, Jonathan Allen and Amie Parness new account of how Clinton managed to lose to Donald Trump, a man for whom the word competent is about as fitting as humble. She did it, the two tell us, by assembling a huge and unwieldy campaign apparatus, by fixating on data and not, unfortunately, on retail politics, and by not being able to adequately explain her use of a private email server, a historically trivial matter that came to symbolize her failings as a politician. She seemed inaccessible.

But Clintons great failing, the book not to mention the election itself makes clear, was her inability to fashion a message. She knew why she was running for president: It was her turn. But she could not say that. She could not merely say that she was prepared, a walking briefing book. Policies coursed through her body like blood cells. She knew everything. She was, in the famous formulation of Isaiah Berlin, a fox. Trump was a hedgehog. He knew just one thing: why he wanted to be president.

[Why Trump cant do what he said hed do]

Shattered is a cliche-clogged slog in itself. The authors made a deal with sources within Clintons campaign not to write anything until after the election and to treat what they learned as on background meaning the sources would not be named. This leads to a heavy drizzle of the words source and sources and, after a while, a certain resistance on the part of the reader: Who are these people? Even banalities are privileged: It was a very hard 10 days, a source says about some very hard days.

(Peter Stevenson/The Washington Post)

The other word that keeps coming at you is message. Clinton did not have one, and the search for a message preoccupied her staff. Oddly, and fatally, Clinton left it up to them to articulate why she was running. As a mental exercise, I tried to come up with a message myself: Hillary Clinton because shes not Trump is the best I could do. As it turned out, she could do no better.

Bernie Sanders, in contrast, knew why he was running, and his supporters knew it, too. He was something of a biblical figure. He wanted to smite the big banks and put some Wall Street heads on the end of a pike. It was, in his own way, a position paper.

As for Trump, he was going to make America great again never mind that he did not have a clue as to how. He had the unassailable confidence of the ignorant, unburdened by knowledge and complexity. He was successful, but lets not make too much of it. He drew three inside straights in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania and won them all by margin-of-error numbers. As he was at birth, he was lucky.

[Why so many people dont hear or wont accept what Hillary Clinton actually says]

When I wrote about Mondale, I felt sorry for the guy. I liked him. Hes smart and has a refreshing sense of humor. Whatever my feelings for him were, the camera did not agree. It showed a cold and somewhat distant Midwestern archetype. The same with Clinton. Ive had a few private moments with her and found her to be as her aides will always tell you fresh, irreverent and funny. She gets the joke. Alas, on TV none of that came through, as if she was hiding from the camera lest it reveal too much.

Clintons search for a message occupies much of Shattered. It is a sad trek because she was an oxymoron: a familiar figure who was seeking to appear fresh and, as she herself acknowledged, a politician with no gift for politics. I know that I engender bad reactions from people, and I always have, Allen and Parnes quote her as telling an aide. There are some people in whom I bring out the worst. I know that about myself, and I dont know why that is. But it is.

In the end, Clinton had it right. She was stuck with herself. It was good enough for most voters, but not for enough of them in those three key states. She lost, and a fool won. That, to us, ought to be the message.

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Hillary Clinton is back. Six months after her defeat, Clinton has waded into the middle of our postelection battles more quickly and more bluntly than any other losing candidate in modern times.

She has accused President Trump of pursuing what appears to be a commitment to hurt so many people. She called House Republicans healthcare bill shameful. She proclaimed herself part of the resistance. Shes traveling the country giving speeches. Shes reportedly organizing a new political action committee to raise money for Democratic causes. And shes writing a book to explain her side of the 2016 presidential campaign. She says she doesnt expect to run for president again. But she has been careful not to rule it out.

Clintons impulse to get back into the fight is understandable. Democratic politics has been the cause of her life, and shes surely entitled to work through her grief over the campaign. If her book turns out to be a candid self-examination of what went wrong a big if, based on her self-protective previous memoirs that could be healthy for her party.

But by moving so fast and so visibly, and by keeping the door open to another presidential campaign, Clinton risks harming not only her own image, but the anti-Trump resistance she wants to help.

Start with her interview last week with Christiane Amanpour of CNN. Asked to explain her loss to Trump, Clinton said she took absolute personal responsibility but then listed all the external spoilers she faced: FBI Director James B. Comey, Russia, WikiLeaks, the media and misogyny.

Although those items certainly belong on the list, she left out the missteps of her own campaign. Jim Comey didnt tell her not to campaign in Wisconsin, noted David Axelrod, who helped Barack Obama defeat her in 2008.

And Clinton reminded everyone that she didnt do as badly as it looks. I did win more than 3 million votes than my opponent, she said.

Meanwhile, she said she doesnt mind getting into Twitter wars with the president. Fine, she said. Better than [him] interfering in foreign affairs," Clinton said of the prospect Trump would tweet about her. "If he wants to tweet about me then Im happy to be the diversion.

Not a great strategy. I suspect Trump would like nothing better than endless verbal battles with Clinton, to remind his voters of the candidate they voted against instead of the ever-more-apparent flaws of the president they voted for.

Indeed, Trump took the bait after Clintons interview.

Comey was the best thing that ever happened to Hillary Clinton in that he gave her a free pass for many bad deeds! he tweeted. The phony Trump/Russia story was an excuse used by the Democrats as justification for losing the election. Perhaps Trump just ran a great campaign?

As for the new Clinton political action committee, Onward Together, its unlikely to convince Bernie Sanders voters that the party is devoted to campaign finance reform.

Other Democrats arent sure they need Hillary Clintons help to raise campaign money in the age of Trump. Jon Ossoff, the House candidate in suburban Atlanta, has raised millions without her.

The new super PAC, if thats what it is, would put the Clintons in the role of kingmakers, using money to help candidates they favor. And it will look suspiciously like a framework in the making for Hillarys still-not-ruled-out 2020 campaign.

So about that campaign, in case shes thinking about it: bad idea.

Its possible that Clinton doesnt really want to run again that shes simply trying to bolster her brand and maintain her influence. She knows shell get far more media attention for her book, her speeches, and anything else she chooses to say if she keeps the possibility of a presidential run alive.

But theres no reason to believe a third Hillary Clinton campaign would be easier or more successful than her first two. Rank-and-file Democrats arent clamoring for her to run. A Harvard-Harris Poll in March found the former candidate in fifth place with support from only 8% (ouch!) of her own partys voters after Bernie Sanders, Michelle Obama and Elizabeth Warren. The top choice, tellingly, was someone new, at 45%. Clintons presence in the center of any stage, moreover, could make it harder for talented young Democrats to rise to the top.

Hillary Clinton has more than earned her right to be a major voice in American politics. Shes smart and forceful on a raft of issues, from working-class job creation to foreign policy. But shes not great at running a presidential campaign. Shes tried twice, in races where she began as the presumptive front-runner, and lost both times. Thats enough.

Maybe its time she moved on to higher pursuits. Jimmy Carter lost a presidential election in 1980, Al Gore in 2000. They devoted themselves to causes they believed in: international peacemaking for Carter, climate change for Gore. Both won Nobel Peace Prizes. That wouldnt be a bad legacy even for someone who hoped to shatter a glass ceiling.

doyle.mcmanus@latimescolumnists.com

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This Sept. 26, 2016 file photo shows Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton during the presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y.(Photo: David Goldman, AP)

Unemployed Americans were more likely to vote for Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election -- but they were almost just as likely not to vote at all, according to a new surveyout Wednesday.

Per the survey, released by Express Employment Professionals, 35% of unemployed people voted for Hillary Clinton while 25% voted for Donald Trump. Another 34% said they didnt vote at all.

Still, they had mixed views on the Trump administration and policy issues.

While Democrats and Republicans seem to be polarized, the views of the unemployed appears to be much more mixed, Bob Funk of Express Employee Professionals said in a statement. Despite the political commentary, political opinion is not as black and whiteor red and blueas we are often led to believe.

The survey was conducted from March 14 to April 6 and surveyed 1,500 adults who were 18 or older and were unemployed but capable of working. People who were retired, choose to stay home are cant work because of long-term disability werent included in the survey.

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OnJune 8, HillaryClintonis scheduled to serve as the Class of 2017 commencement speaker at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, New York, where she will also be awarded an honorary degree. Theannouncementhas incited protests from several members of the Haitian community who plan to protest the speech and are pushing the colleges president, Rudy Crew, to rescind the invitation.

Every time theClintonsget in a bind, they run to the black community to whitewash their tarnished image, said Komokoda, the Haitian group protesting the speech, in a statement. AfterBill Clintonwas impeached for lying under oath in the Monica Lewinsky affair, he brought in Jesse Jackson and a host of black preachers to lead prayers with him at the White House. To divert attention from her deleted emails debacle,Hillaryhad Bill DeBlasios wife, Chirlane McCray, bring her to Brownsville, one of the most impoverished neighborhoods in Brooklyn, for a photo op with little black children. When newspaper editorials and cartoons were blasting her for her unending lies and demanding investigations and prosecutions, former New York City mayor David Dinkins brought her out for a keynote speech at his Dinkins Leadership & Public Policy Forum at Columbia University. Today, for her resurrection from a shameful defeat by the last person most reasonable people felt could ever be president of the United States, the dirty work falls to Rudy Crew.

TheClintonsrole in Haiti has incitedimmense criticism and has tarnished their relationship with the Haitian community. In 2010, Haiti suffered a massive earthquake. Several NGOs and the United Nations flocked to Haiti to help relief efforts, but their intervention came with several costs. In 2011, UN Peacekeeperscauseda massive cholera outbreak that killed at least 9,500 people and sickened 800,000 others. During this time,Bill Clintonserved as the United Nations Special Envoy to Haiti whileHillary Clintonserved as secretary of state. While theClintonFoundation has staunchly defended their role in Haiti, their involvement in the country has been far from successful. Many of the most notable investments theClintonshelped launch, such as the new Marriott in the capital, have primarily benefited wealthy foreigners and the islands ruling elite, who needed little help to begin with, wrote Jonathan Katz forPoliticoin 2015.

For Komokoda and many Haitians, theClintons epitomizeNGOs and corporations exploiting the crisis and relief efforts in Haiti for their own gain. Haitians also blame the Clintons for the controversial rule of former Haitian President Michel Martelly, who stepped down in February 2016 due to his record of corruption after the Clintons helped him get elected in 2010. TheWashington Postreported, Clintonreportedly pressured then-President Ren Prval with thelossof U.S. and international aid unless the election results were changed to fit the OASs recommendation. That recommendation handedthe election toClintonally Martellydespite the drastic irregularities and controversies associated with the election.Manolia Charlotin, a Haitian journalist based in New York, told theWashington Post,What does that mean as to her approach to foreign policy? To have a secretary of state visit a country, to make a stop, and as a result of that meeting, you have an illegal selection of leaders? How does that decision promote the American views of democracy?

The Haitians involved with Komokodadont want Hillary Clinton to exploit Medgar Evers students the way that the Clintons and foreign countries have exploited Haiti and its people for decades.

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