Hillary Clinton has sought to clarify her comments that she and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, were “dead broke” and “struggling” to pay two mortgages after they left the White House.
Mrs. Clinton’s book tour — which might be a practice run for a 2016 Democrat presidential campaign — for Hard Choices has developed into an apology tour after at least one major gaffe.
The dead broke comment made during the Diane Sawyer ABC News interview appeared to reveal the multimillionaire former Secretary of State as an elitist who is completely out of touch with ordinary Americans. As The Inquisitr previously reported, the Clintons have been criticized for what some believe are the exorbitant fees they charge for speaking engagements and the million dollar book deals they both secured to tell their stories.
Even former aide and current Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel challenged the dead broke claim in a public appearance with Hillary Clinton.
As the wife of an ex-president, Hillary Clinton lives in a bubble of 24-hour taxpayer-paid Secret Service protection and recently admitted that she hasn’t driven a car in nearly two decades.
Hillary Clinton enjoys the support of the feminist movement, but ironically, she owes virtually her entire career to the coattails of her husband, who was the attorney general and then governor of Arkansas before winning the presidency.
The Washington Post noted, “When Sawyer asked Clinton to detail a marquee accomplishment or signature doctrine as secretary, she gave no answer.” With regard to this form of struggling, pinpointing actual accomplishments at the State Department has been an area that Clinton herself and many of her supporters have previously struggled to identify.
In the Rahm Emanuel book-promotion joint appearance today, Hillary Clinton also wrongly claimed that Abraham Lincoln was elected Senator from Illinois while in reality he lost to Stephen A. Douglas in the historic campaign famous for the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
Do you think Hillary Clinton was anywhere near dead broke in the year 2001?