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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Content: 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. A piece written by Dan Calabrese (a conservative columnist, founder of the now-defunct Northstar Writers Group, and editor-in-chief of HermanCain.com) appeared in countless forwarded emails and was given a boost by talk radio host Rush Limbaugh, and so this especially persistent rumor was born: At first, he was impressed, but in time Zeifman soured on her. He began, as he wrote in a 1996 book, to suspect her of collaborating with Democratic Senate aides loyal to Ted Kennedy. Their supposed aim was to keep the lid on the Watergate investigation out of fear Nixon would expose the “crimes of Camelot,” a phrase that appears in the book’s title. There are other subplots in his farfetched conspiracy theory, and other conspirators, including Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino — but little evidence for any of it.