Questions aside, the Bill Clinton – Loretta Lynch story will have zero impact on the election (HRC )
Bill Clinton spoke socially with Attorney General Loretta Lynch for awhile yesterday morning after he realized they both happened to be at the same airport at the same time, and republican leaders immediately tried to spin it as being evidence of some kind of phony larger controversy in which Hillary Clinton is about to be “indicted” on one imaginary charge or another. Cable news immediately bit on the topic, but then almost as quickly moved on once it realized no one in the mainstream cared. And yet a day and a half later, some Hillary Clinton supporters are still debating what the whole thing meant.
Some among Hillary Clinton’s own support base have been making the argument online that Bill Clinton should have realized that chatting with the Attorney General in any context would open the opportunity for the republicans to pretend that he was somehow trying to influence the outcome of an FBI investigation of which Hillary has never been a target and in which Lynch has never been a participant, and therefore he should have avoided any interaction with her at all costs.
Other Hillary supporters have argued that asking Bill Clinton to be that paranoid is unreasonable, and that if he has to avoid being seen with Loretta Lynch, then perhaps he has to avoid being seen with Barack Obama or any of the other people whom the republicans might be able to rope into being a part of the imaginary “FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton” despite the sheer number of times in which the FBI has clarified that Hillary is not being investigated.
Even as that internal debate has played out within Hillary’s own base over the past day and a half, the story largely disappeared from cable news within the first few hours. It received a few obligatory mentions during the evening news shows, but by this morning it was such a dead story that the republicans were forced to quickly play their final card of pushing Lynch to make a statement affirming that she has no intention of interfering with any investigation of any kind. Because this is a Friday heading into a holiday weekend, almost no one heard her statement. And because she got it out of the way now, it means the republicans have no more cards to play on this story next week once the American mainstream is ready to resume paying attention to the news.
In other words, in terms of impact, the whole thing is over already. Those who obsessively hate Hillary Clinton may still be kicking the story around by this time next week for their own amusement, but it’s now clear that the story will have no impact on anyone whose vote is yet to be decided. That means it’s up to Hillary’s supporters to decide whether they want to continue theoretically debating the sageness of Bill’s decision to meet with Loretta Lynch, or if they’re now ready to move on from a story that ended up quickly going nowhere, in favor of focusing on storylines that can still impact the election.
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