Xavier Becerra, the controversial secretary of health and human services, has hired longtime Democratic strategist Kristina Schake to lead the agency's "public education efforts" on COVID-19.
Schake is perhaps best known for encouraging Michelle Obama to make an "undercover" shopping trip to a Target in Alexandria, Va., where an Associated Press photographer just happened to be waiting with a camera. She is credited with helping the former first lady establish her brand as an "accessible everywoman."
Schake's efforts to do the same for Hillary Clinton in 2016 were not as successful, for obvious reasons. In her role as deputy communications director, Schake was tasked with showcasing the failed candidate's "self-effacing, warm and funny side," according to the New York Times.
The communications guru understandably struggled to capture this side of Clinton during the campaign. More often, Schake was forced to defend the candidate's failure to comply with federal law or the campaign's refusal to release transcripts of the paid speeches Clinton gave to Wall Street financial firms.
Efforts to portray Clinton as likable and down-to-earth were also complicated by events like the celebrity-packed fundraising concert in Manhattan that took place less than a month before Election Day. Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced Hollywood executive and convicted rapist, helped produce the event.
Schake and other members of the Clinton campaign were reportedly urged to stop associating with Weinstein in light of the producer's longstanding reputation as a sexual predator. Celebrity activist Lena Dunham, for example, said she warned Schake in 2016 that it was "a really bad idea for [Weinstein] to host fundraisers and be involved [with the campaign] because it's an open secret in Hollywood that he has a problem with sexual assault."
Dunham said Schake had been surprised by the warning and promised to raise the issue with Clinton's campaign manager, Robby Mook. Regardless of whether the concerns about Weinstein were discussed among senior members of the campaign, no actions appear to have been taken in response.
Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill did not deny Dunham's claim about warning Schake and other campaign officials but questioned why the actress "would tell them instead of those who could stop [Weinstein]."
Days after losing the election, Bill and Hillary Clinton had dinner with Weinstein in part to discuss a documentary TV show about her campaign. Hillary has repeatedly insisted she had no idea that Weinstein was a notorious pervert.
"How could we have known?" Clinton asked the Hollywood Reporter in 2020 when asked about her relationship with the disgraced producer. "He raised money for me, for the Obamas, for Democrats in general. And that at the time was something that everybody thought made sense."
According to journalist Ronan Farrow, who wrote one of the first stories documenting the allegations against Weinstein, the sex pest tried to use his relationship with the Clintons to thwart his reporting. Farrow said his efforts to secure an interview with Hillary Clinton in 2017 prompted a call from Merrill, who expressed concern about the "big story" Farrow was working on about Weinstein's predatory history.
Clinton's team "tried to cancel the interview … over the Weinstein stuff," Farrow said.
Clinton Body Man: Bill Visited Pedophile Island, Had Affairs During Obama Admin
Wed Dec 2, 2020
Daniel Greenfield
Doug Band was Bill Clinton's body man, but that doesn't fully describe it. For a while, Band essentially ran Clinton's life. He's also created with the Clinton Global Initiative which turned into the infamous Clinton Foundation.
Except that Jeffrey Epstein also claimed credit for it.
Band built Clinton Inc. into a huge international enterprise. And then got forced out by Chelsea Clinton. (Chelsea is probably the heroine in this story.) Epstein had Band's name in his little black book and Band had flown on the Lolita Express. But now Band has some unhappy tales to tell about the Clintons.
Most of these tales have to do with how much Band gave up for the Clintons and how Chelsea cut him out. Frankly, who cares. But it's the Epstein stuff that is getting people's attention.
Clinton made more than two dozen trips on Epstein’s jet around this time, Epstein’s flight logs show. In January 2003, according to Band, Clinton visited Epstein’s private Caribbean island, Little St. James. Band said it was one of the few trips he declined to go on in his time with Clinton. A Clinton spokesperson said the president had never been to the island and provided detailed travelogue entries of the period in question that did not contain a visit.
Except that the Clintons have been lying about Bill's travels on the Lolita Express for a long time.
Former President Bill Clinton was a much more frequent flyer on a registered sex offender’s infamous jet than previously reported, with flight logs showing the former president taking at least 26 trips aboard the “Lolita Express” — even apparently ditching his Secret Service detail for at least five of the flights, according to records obtained by FoxNews.com.
Clinton’s presence aboard Jeffrey Epstein’s Boeing 727 on 11 occasions has been reported, but flight logs show the number is more than double that, and trips between 2001 and 2003 included extended junkets around the world with Epstein and fellow passengers identified on manifests by their initials or first names, including “Tatiana.” The tricked-out jet earned its Nabakov-inspired nickname because it was reportedly outfitted with a bed where passengers had group sex with young girls.
Band, who seems to have plenty of ties to Epstein is now trying to associate Chelsea with Ghislaine Maxwell, which at this late date can't help be anything but spite, but he does have a few grenades to throw.
Band told Clinton that he believed he was allowing Chelsea to destroy Band’s reputation because, deep down, Clinton was guilty for the pain his infidelities had caused the family. Then Band said the unsayable: If Clinton wanted to have girlfriends, he should divorce Hillary and move on with his life. “It’s the honorable and right thing to do,” Band recalled saying. Clinton listened in cold silence, biting his lower lip.
That's in 2011.
Gabriel Sherman doesn't seem to keen on nailing down the details of just what Band is saying here, but it sounds like Bill Clinton was still cheating on Hillary during the Obama administration and previously when Hillary Clinton was in the Senate.
Consider the timeline here. The 2012 election is coming up. Once Obama secures a second term, Hillary moves to begin her campaign planning for 2016.
Having this leak would have been bad for Hillary's political plans.
Sherman doesn't follow up on the obvious question here. But this is the media. And even though the Clintons are toast, and even though this whole piece is damaging to the Clintons, he never actually clarifies what Bard is alleging.
Clinton gang insider spills sleazy secrets, savages Chelsea
By Thomas Lifson
It begins. With no prospect of Bill or Hillary Clinton resuming high office, one former key insider of the Clinton Machine is spilling his guts and telling very unflattering stories about the family business. Doug Band, who began as a White House intern, moved on the become “body man” and then key aide, went on to mastermind the post-presidency enrichment of the Clintons and (not incidentally) himself. But around 5 years ago, there was a great falling-out, predictably mostly about money, and now he has unburdened himself from various sleazy secrets of the Clinton empire with a series of interviews that has resulted in long article in Vanity Fair authored by Gabriel Sherman.
I urge you to read the whole thing if you are interested in finally hearing some of the dirt that was such a huge part of the family of grifters that moved from Arkansas to the nation’s capital. But if you are in a hurry, The UK Daily Mail and the New York Post select pieces of gossip to focus on, with Brit paper highlighting Bill’s sabotage of Hillary’s 2008 presidential campaign and Chelsea’s suck-up to Ghislaine Maxwell to obtain access to yachts and cool homes, while the NYP focuses on Band’s rivalry with Chelsea and his disparagement of her abilities and her trading in her name.
Nobody comes out looking good here, which is exactly what one would expect from this bunch of crooks and schemers. Copyright concerns prevent me from excerpting as many sections as I would like. I will focus on Chelsea because if there is to be a future to a Clinton political dynasty, Chelsea will be the standard-bearer.
Band’s allies say he is the victim of a whisper campaign by Clintonworld rivals—Chelsea Clinton most of all—who were jealous of his favorite-son status and business success, which, they point out, has continued after he cut ties with the Clintons. “Doug’s made a lot of money. Was the Clinton connection helpful? One hundred percent. But it discounts how smart Doug is,” a Clinton donor said. The source was one of many Clintonworld insiders who would only speak on background. “The split is real and it is deep. There’s nothing in it for me to get in the middle of it,” a longtime Clinton adviser said, offering an explanation I heard echoed in my reporting. (snip)
In the spring of 2011, Chelsea Clinton, then 31, became vice chairman of what would be the renamed Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation. After a peripatetic career that included stints at McKinsey, a hedge fund, and NBC News, it was as if she had finally claimed her birthright as heir to the family dynasty. (snip)
Clintonworld sources told me that Chelsea grew to resent Band. “Chelsea hated Doug because he was like a son to her father,” a Clinton friend said. Band took offense that Chelsea treated him at times like hired help. It was a combustible mix that was about to explode into personal grievance. “As a board member, Chelsea had a responsibility to ask questions about Foundation activities she didn’t understand or had reservation about. For some reason, Doug seemed to resent that,” a Clinton spokesperson said.
Around the time Band launched Teneo in June 2011, Chelsea summoned Band and his cofounder Declan Kelly to the Clinton office in Harlem. Band walked in to find Bill flanked by Chelsea and her husband, financier Marc Mezvinsky. According to Band, Chelsea said Band’s $2.5 million offer to put her dad on Teneo’s advisory board wasn’t enough. She wanted Band to give her and Mezvinsky an ownership position in Teneo. To Band, it felt like a shakedown. “I thought she was kidding or deeply sick,” he told me. Band looked across the table at Bill, but he sided with Chelsea. Band refused to give up an equity stake. The meeting ended badly. A Clinton family spokesperson denies that Chelsea asked for equity. (snip)
Chelsea heard from foundation officials that Band was “hustling” donors to become Teneo clients behind Bill’s back. Band heard that she accused Band of planting a Page Six item about troubles in her marriage, which he denied. Band, meanwhile, told foundation staff that Chelsea was vastly underqualified to be in charge. He found it especially galling that Chelsea accused him of cashing in on his Clinton connections when, in his view, Chelsea benefited far more from her famous last name. He told people she got paid $1.2 million by NBC, not $600,000 as was reported. She had a driver, security, a $10 million apartment, a wedding that cost $5 million, and traveled on private planes. “Every job she received was based on her name,” Band said, still vexed. “Mine was based on my reputation, experience, and what I had done.” (A Clinton spokesperson denied Chelsea was paid $1.2 million by NBC.) (snip)
Chelsea had ties to Epstein and Maxwell, Band said; he showed me a photo of Bill and Chelsea posing with Epstein and Maxwell at the King of Morocco’s wedding. Chelsea remained friends with Maxwell for years after the press revealed Maxwell was a close associate of Epstein’s. For instance, Chelsea invited Maxwell to her 2010 wedding at the Brooke Astor estate in Rhinebeck, New York, after Epstein had pleaded guilty in Florida to procuring sex from a minor.
“Ghislaine had access to yachts and nice homes. Chelsea needed that,” Band told me.
A Clinton family spokesperson said Chelsea was on friendly terms with Maxwell because of a mutual friend (Gateway computer founder Ted Waitt) and only took one yacht trip with Maxwell in 2009: “It wasn’t until 2015 that Chelsea became aware of the horrific allegations against Ghislaine Maxwell and she hopes that all the victims find justice. Chelsea was friendly with her because of Maxwell’s relationship with a dear friend. When that relationship ended, Chelsea’s relationship with her ended as well.”
In late October 2011, Band instructed Bill Clinton’s office to bar Maxwell from all Clintonworld events as a way of driving a wedge between Maxwell and Chelsea. “I knew in telling everyone to stop including Ghislaine that Chelsea and her father would be very angry. It made it harder for them to justify being close to her,” Band said.
But keep in mind that omerta still governs many of the more central schemers in the Clinton machine, because they made peace with the Obama Machine, and now have or aspire to insider roles in what they assume will be a Biden presidency. People like John Podesta and Rahm Emanuel. I suspect most of them will go to their graves before they tell the truth.
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THE GRIFTERS:
HILLARY CLINTON AND HER SERIAL RAPIST HUSBAND
https://hillaryclinton-whitecollarcriminal.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-grifters-did-hillary-and-billary.html
“The couple parlayed lives supposedly spent in “public service” into admission into the upper stratosphere of American wealth, with incomes in the top 0.1 percent bracket. The source of this vast wealth was a political
machine that might well be dubbed “Clinton, Inc.” This consists essentially of a seedy money-laundering operation to ensure big business support for the
Clintons’ political ambitions as well as their personal fortunes.
The basic components of the operation are lavishly paid speeches to Wall Street and Fortune 500 audiences, corporate campaign contributions, and donations to the ostensibly philanthropic Clinton Foundation.”
"But what the Clintons do is criminal
because they do it wholly at the expense of
the American people. And they feel
thoroughly entitled to do it: gain power, use
it to enrich themselves and their friends.
They are amoral, immoral, and venal.
Hillary has no core beliefs beyond power
and money. That should be clear to every
person on the planet by now."
Patricia McCarthy
THE FINAL DAYS OF HILLARY CLINTON: MISTRESS of the SWAMP, GLOBAL BRIBES SUCKER and LOOTER OF THE POOR
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/05/hillary-clintons-last-days.html
“If the Constitution did not forbid cruel and unusual punishment, the sentence I would like to see imposed would place both Bill and Hillary Clinton in the same 8-by-12 cell.” ROBERT ARVAY – AMERICAN THINKER com
DICK MORRIS:
On America’s First Family of Crime….. NO! Not the Bushes again!
Clinton global hucksterism – Selling out America like they sold out the Lincoln Bedroom.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2015/06/-morris-how-bill-clinton-duped.html
THE SHADY POLITICS OF HILLARY CLINTON and her PAY-TO-PLAY MAFIA
http://hillaryclinton-whitecollarcriminal.blogspot.com/2018/09/had-hillary-clinton-won-election-left.html
The left cared nothing about that bit of collusion.
Hillary and her campaign aides have long been involved with Russia for reasons of personal gain. Clinton herself got $145 million in donations to the Clinton Foundation for allowing Russia to take over twenty percent of all uranium production in the U.S. Her campaign chairman, John Podesta, is reaping the financial benefits of being on the board of a Russian company, Joule, which he did not disclose. PATRICIA McCARTHY
Had Hillary been elected, the Clinton Foundation would be raking in even more millions than it did before. She would be happily selling access, favors and our remaining freedoms out from under us. PATRICIA McCARTHY
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