It's 2018. That means Hillary Clinton officially can't do anything else. She can't do any of the things she really wants to do. Like...
1. Call her a liar
2. Send Arkansas State Troopers to put a horse's head in her bed
3. Have her surrogates swarm the morning shows to accuse her of being part of a vast right-wing conspiracy
So she's getting with the program in the usual surreally awkward way that only serial harassers and Hillary Clinton seem to have mastered.
Not only was the adviser, Burns Strider, not pushed out — he thrived after her campaign, landing a senior role at a super PAC preparing for her next presidential bid. In that job, he exhibited the same kinds of inappropriate behavior toward women who worked there, particularly two young female subordinates.
In at least three separate instances between 2007 and 2015, women who worked for the Clinton campaign or the pro-Clinton PAC said that Strider, 52, harassed them at work...
Senior aides on the campaign wanted to fire him, according to three officials with knowledge of the process, but Hillary Clinton decided against doing so.
Don't worry, Hillary Clinton is on this.
On Friday evening, Clinton tweeted that she had called the woman who made the 2007 complaint to tell her “how proud I am of her and to make sure she knows what all women should: we deserve to be heard.” Of the 2007 events, Clinton wrote that she was “dismayed when it occurred, but was heartened the young woman came forward, was heard, and had her concerns taken seriously and addressed.”
If nothing else, Hillary has no shortage of chutzpah. But it beats claiming that she evolved on sexual harassment. Strider is clearly still part of Clintonworld. Hillary overrode her own people to protect him.
Now the allegations here are far milder than against Bill. No one is accusing Strider of sexual assault. And Hillary Clinton waved that off.
So this comes as no surprise.
The only question is why even bother. Hillary Clinton is done. It would have probably been smarter for her to stonewall and ignore the story. But clearly she still wants to play a role in Dem politics.