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   During his 1992 campaign for the presidency, Bill Clinton was   
   fond of promising America, “You get two for the price of one,”   
   indicating Hillary Clinton would act as his co-president.   
      
   But the nation got much more than it bargained for, as the top   
   power couple brought a load of baggage with them into the White   
   House from their days in Arkansas.   
      
   After the Clintons moved into the presidential mansion, the   
   political scandals multiplied – from use of the IRS and FBI to   
   target political opponents to stalking and harassing subjects of   
   Bill Clinton’s sexual advances and even attempts to loot   
   taxpayer-funded items from the White House. Americans also   
   witnessed capers such as Travelgate, Chinagate, Filegate and   
   Pardongate.   
      
   Bill Clinton’s sexual escapades and subsequent impeachment by   
   the U.S. House of Representatives on charges of perjury and   
   obstruction of justice consumed more than a year of American   
   public life and bitterly divided the nation.   
      
   In the years since the memorable Clinton presidency, Hillary has   
   brought America Emailgate and the Benghazi scandal, among   
   others. New developments in the Clinton Foundation scandals   
   emerges almost daily.   
      
   Now, it’s Hillary’s “turn” to be president, according to her   
   Democrat supporters.   
      
   But in 2015, America is still apparently suffering from “Clinton   
   fatigue.” Results from a Quinnipiac poll published in April   
   revealed between 49 and 56 percent of voters in three   
   significant swing states – Colorado, Virginia and Iowa – believe   
   Hillary is neither honest nor trustworthy.   
      
   Even former California Democratic Party Chairman Bill Press told   
   WND that controversies surrounding Hillary should convince   
   members of his own party an uncontested coronation of Clinton as   
   the party’s 2016 nominee for the White House is a very risky   
   idea and should encourage other Democrats to throw their hats in   
   the ring.   
      
   Sen. Marco Rubio, a Republican candidate for president, said   
   Sunday he believes voters will reject Hillary because of the   
   “cloud of constant scandal she brings to the political process.”   
      
   Rubio told Fox News Sunday, “Unfortunately, both under her   
   husband’s presidency, her time in the Department of State, her   
   campaign for the president last time and even now, there seems   
   to be this cloud of constant scandal and things that distract us   
   from the core issues of the moment.”   
      
   Hillary’s “drama” could become a distraction, Rubio warned, at a   
   time when the stakes are high for America in the 2016 election.   
      
   “I just think that at this hinge moment in our history, where we   
   are asked to make a transition from the past into this new   
   future, with all the challenges and the opportunities of our   
   time that we really – the American people are not at a point now   
   where they are going to be supportive of more drama surrounding   
   the political process,” he said.   
      
   In 2003, ABC News’ Barbara Walters referenced numerous Clinton   
   scandals from Whitewater to Travelgate and the death of Hillary   
   law partner Vince Foster in an interview with then-Sen. Clinton.   
      
   Walters asked Hillary, “How did you get in this mess where your   
   whole credibility is being questioned?”   
      
   Hillary’s response: “Oh, I ask myself that every day, Barbara,   
   because it’s very surprising and confusing to me.”   
      
   With Hillary making another run for president, don’t get caught   
   up in the lies and spin! In “Hillary Unhinged: In Her Own   
   Words,” find out who the true Hillary is with this raw and   
   humorous collection of quotes that pitilessly underscores her   
   hypocrisy   
      
   With the prospect of another “two-for-one” Clinton presidency   
   looming, is America ready for a repeat of the Bill and Hillary   
   “drama” in the White House?   
      
   If, as psychologists say, “The best predictor of future behavior   
   is past behavior,” then a fresh look at the top 20 scandals   
   involving Hillary is in order.   
      
   17) Hillary laughs about defending child rapist   
      
   Hillary Clinton in 1975, the year she defended 41-year-old   
   Thomas Alfred Taylor, who had been accused of raping a 12-year-   
   old child   
      
   As WND reported, Hillary explained her defense of a child-rape   
   suspect as just part of the job. But she hasn’t explained her   
   laughing about his passing of a lie-detector test, which   
   “destroyed” her faith in such evaluations.   
      
   “Once I was appointed I fulfilled that obligation,” she said in   
   an interview with Mumsnet, a U.K. community of parents providing   
   and sharing information on a variety of subjects and issues.   
      
   In the video she is asked, “As a lawyer, you defended the rapist   
   of a 12-year-old girl, calling the victim ’emotionally unstable’   
   and saying that girls have a tendency to ‘exaggerate or   
   romanticize sexual experiences especially when they come from   
   disorganized families.'”   
      
   Comments?   
      
   Clinton said: “When I was a 27-year-old attorney doing legal aid   
   work at the law school where I taught in Fayetteville, Arkansas,   
   I was appointed by the local judge to represent a criminal   
   defendant accused of rape. I asked to be relieved of that   
   responsibility. But I was not and I had a professional duty to   
   represent my client to the best of my ability, which I did.   
      
   “He later pled guilty to a lesser included offense. When you’re   
   a lawyer you often don’t have the choice as to who you will   
   represent, and by the very nature of criminal law there will be   
   those who you represent you don’t approve of, but at least in   
   our system, you have an obligation and once I was appointed, I   
   fulfilled that obligation.”   
      
   However, she did not address the reports of unearthed recordings   
   in which she almost boasts of knowing of her client’s guilt and   
   laughing about the case. The tapes reveal her discussing the   
   case of Thomas Alfred Taylor, then 41, who was accused of raping   
   a 12-year-old in Springdale, Arkansas, on May 10, 1975.   
      
   “It was a fascinating case, it was a very interesting case,”   
   Clinton said on the tape. “This guy was accused of raping a 12-   
   year-old. Course he claimed that he didn’t, and all this stuff.   
   … I had him take a polygraph, which he passed – which forever   
   destroyed my faith in polygraphs.” She laughed at the statement.   
      
   Listen to the audio of the interview. (Warning: Description of   
   the case may disturb some listeners):   
      
   The Washington Free Beacon report on the recordings also   
   confirmed she was laughing several other times while discussing   
   the case, including “when discussing the crime lab’s accidental   
   destruction of DNA evidence that tied Taylor to the crime.”   
      
   Published profiles of the case reveal that Clinton’s strategy at   
   the time was to attack the 12-year-old. She submitted an   
   affidavit that said she was told the girl was “emotionally   
   unstable” and was viewed as having a “tendency to seek out older   
   men and engage in fantasizing.” She claimed the child “in the   
   past made false accusations” and she exhibited “an unusual   
      
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