Title: Hillary Clinton's Former Boss Says He Fired Her From an Investigative Position Because She Was 'a Liar' and 'Unethical'? - Truth or Fiction?
Headings: Hillary Clinton’s Former Boss Says He Fired Her From an Investigative Position Because She Was ‘a Liar’ and ‘Unethical’?
Hillary Clinton’s Former Boss Says He Fired Her From an Investigative Position Because She Was ‘a Liar’ and ‘Unethical’?
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Hillary Clinton’s Former Boss Says He Fired Her From an Investigative Position Because She Was ‘a Liar’ and ‘Unethical’? Posted on March 17, 2015
December 28, 2018
by Rich Buhler & Staff
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Hillary Clinton's former boss fired her for unethical behavior while she was working on the Watergate investigation. Rating
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High-profile politician Hillary Rodham Clinton has been dogged by rumors throughout her long career. One such rumor gained ground because it came directly from Jerome “Jerry” Ziefman, former counsel to the House Judiciary Committee, and it has been amplified in various forms ever since. According to the rumors, as a 27-year-old working on the Watergate investigation in the 1970s, Hillary Rodham Clinton was “fired” from her position for being a “liar” and “unethical.” However, none of this was true; pay stubs dug up by the Washington Post in 2016 clearly show that Clinton was not fired, but that her work there ended, like everyone else’s, when Richard Nixon resigned: Hillary Rodham Congressiona…
Despite the historical record showing otherwise, the claims persisted.