'Parallels to Trump apparent' in Bill Clinton’s new memoir: ex-DOJ lawyer

24 November 2024

Former President Bill Clinton's new memoir, Citizen: My Life After the White House, hit bookshelves earlier this week.

In a review published by The Guardian Sunday, former Department of Justice attorney and ex-President George H. W. Bush campaign staffer Lloyd Green submits that Clinton's latest work "will be remembered for its omissions."

Although the former president mentions his 1998 affair with then-22-year-old intern Monica Lewinsky, Clinton remains "silent about other women who accused him of sexual misconduct – Paula Jones and Juanita Broaddrick – but gingerly rehashes Trump’s Access Hollywood moment and proliferating allegations of groping," Green notes.

"As for [Jeffrey] Epstein, the financier and sex offender who killed himself in jail in New York in 2019, and whose links to Trump are perennially discussed, Clinton pleads ignorance," the ex-DOJ attorney adds.

Green emphasizes "parallels to Trump are apparent" in Clinton's memoir.

"At the end of his first term, the 45th president gave get-out-of-jail-free cards to cronies and the connected. Charlie Kushner, father of Jared Kushner, was one who benefited. So did Paul Manafort, Roger Stone and Steve Bannon. A robust pardon pipeline emerged with an ultimate audience of one. Trump will soon wield the pardon power again."

The former president even mentions his wife, ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clnton's two presidential runs.

Speaking to the first, in 2008 against former President Barack Obama, Bill Clinton writes, "Obama’s best decision was to start his campaign early with a full 50-state strategy, something Hillary’s campaign had to develop after she strengthened her leadership team in February. But she never really caught up.”

He continued, "As for 2016, Clinton pins his wife’s loss on James Comey, the FBI director who investigated her private email use; WikiLeaks, which released Democratic emails; and Vladimir Putin, who capitalized on such scandals in order to boost Trump."

Green's full review is available at this link.

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