Col­umn: Hillary Clinton’s Con­spir­a­cy Priv­i­lege

Column: Hillary Clinton’s Conspiracy Privilege

It’s hard to watch the inces­sant gav­el-to-gav­el cov­er­age of the Don­ald Trump tri­al in Man­hat­tan with­out feel­ing like you’re trav­el­ing in a time warp back to 2016. We’re back reliv­ing the “Access Hol­ly­wood” tape and talk of how Trump would have nev­er been elect­ed except porn star Stormy Daniels accept­ed a six-fig­ure check to keep qui­et.
The rich­est vein of hypocrisy on this adul­tery-man­gles-elec­tabil­i­ty ques­tion flows through the Clin­tons. Hillary Clin­ton appeared on MSNBC’s “Morn­ing Joe” to denounce Trump for squash­ing the bim­bo sto­ries. It was typ­i­cal­ly shame­less. She said: “I think the defen­dant, the for­mer pres­i­dent, knew exact­ly what he was doing when he went to such great lengths to try to squash, bury, kill sto­ries, pay off peo­ple, because he under­stood the elec­toral sig­nifi …