Bette Midler Gets Fact-Checked After Ask­ing, What If Hillary Clin­ton ‘Claimed The Elec­tion Was Stolen?’

Bette Midler Gets Fact-Checked After Asking, What If Hillary Clinton ‘Claimed The Election Was Stolen?’

Bette Midler raised eye­brows on Sun­day when she asked peo­ple to imag­ine what would have hap­pened if Hillary Clin­ton had claimed the 2016 elec­tion was stolen.
“Can you imag­ine what would have hap­pened if Hillary Clin­ton had claimed the elec­tion was stolen?” Midler post­ed on X Sun­day evening.

Can you imag­ine what would have hap­pened if Hillary Clin­ton had claimed the elec­tion was stolen?
— bet­temi­dler (@BetteMidler) May 19, 2024

The remark, seem­ing­ly out of the blue from the leg­endary singer and actress whose career in Hol­ly­wood and on Broad­way has spanned more than five decades, imme­di­ate­ly attract­ed crit­i­cism as well as a fact-check.
Crit­ics point­ed out that Clin­ton is on the record ques­tion­ing the results of the elec­tion …