It’s truly amazing how many coincidences follow the Clintons around. And somehow, they always seem to work to Bill and Hillary’s political and/or financial advantage.
Consider the latest: The Wall Street Journal reports that Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s PAC gave some $500,000 (and steered $175,000 more) to a state Senate candidate whose FBI-official husband later helped oversee the probe into Hillary’s private email server.
Not only did McAuliffe’s organization provide the money to Dr. Jill McCabe, he personally recruited the political novice to make her first (ultimately unsuccessful) bid for office. And he did so just five days after word of Clinton’s unique server “situation” broke publicly.
Now, McAuliffe isn’t just the governor of Virginia — he’s as close as anyone can possibly be with the Clintons.
He chaired Hillary’s 2008 presidential campaign, is a top fundraiser for her current effort and co-chaired Bill’s 1996 re-election campaign — which, incidentally, was hit with record-setting fines for taking illegal foreign contributions.
McAuliffe not only sat on the board of the Clinton Foundation (whose donors have given $18.4 million to his gubernatorial campaigns), but he personally guaranteed the $1.35 million loan that enabled Bill and Hillary to buy their Chappaqua mansion.
As for McCabe’s husband, he was promoted twice — eventually becoming the agency’s No. 2, which put him on the executive team overseeing the Clinton probe, which recommended no criminal charges.
Officials say there was no conflict because by the time the email investigation began, his wife’s campaign was over. Perfect timing, in other words.
A McAuliffe spokesman says any insinuation that his role was tied to anything but local politics “is ridiculous.”
Maybe so. But convenient coincidences and the Clintons seem to go hand-in-hand. As Yogi Berra used to say, “That’s too coincidental to be a coincidence.”