President Obama made a joke at the Gridiron Dinner that gutted the Republican dreams of a Hillary Clinton email scandal.
The Gridiron dinner is closed to the press. There are no TV cameras allowed, and only a few pool reporters are allowed inside to cover a portion of the dinner, but a joke that President Obama made spoke volumes about the Clinton email “scandal.”
The president joked that he was once the young tech savvy candidate, but, “Hillary has a server in her house! I didn’t even know you could have one of those. I am so far behind.”
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If the Clinton email scandal were thought to be a serious matter, President Obama would not have been joking about it. The Republicans are going to be working overtime in an attempt to turn Hillary Clinton’s emails into something that they can use in 2016, but the reality is that the White House knows that the Republican hysteria is a waste of time. Most of the media, even if they refuse to admit it publicly, are aware that the Clinton emails are a space filler until they have a presidential campaign to write about.
No one, except for the Republican Party, is taking this story very seriously. Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush were not in attendance at the dinner, but on a night that was full of Washington insider jokes, the truth that the Hillary Clinton emails are a scandal about nothing managed to sneak into the closed door party.
President Obama gutted the latest Republican attempt to generate a Hillary Clinton scandal that will stick with voters as a joke, as it looks like Democrats will be getting the last laugh in 2016 if Republicans continue to chase the political equivalent of fool’s gold in 2016.
Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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