The Cheek and the Checks
29th September 2019
Every now and then a piece of good writing manages to creep into National Review. I guess Rich Lowry has to sleep sometime.
Sometimes whataboutism is healthy. At an awards ceremony this weekend, Hillary Clinton said that Donald Trump had “turned American diplomacy into a cheap extortion racket.”
I’m trying to imagine a worse person to deliver this message. The Clinton Foundation excepted millions of dollars from foreign governments just when Hilary Clinton was secretary of state under Obama. Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Australia, Norway, and the Dominican Republic all gave.
September 29th, 2019 at 19:17
He did pretty well, except for confusing “excepted” with “accepted.” I guess the standards have fallen.