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Robert Aderholt Published 6:39 p.m. ET May 11, 2017 | Updated 14 hours ago

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Democrats seem to have a love-hate-love-hate-love relationship with former FBI director James Comey.

When Comey opened the investigation into Hillary Clintons basement email server, he become persona non grata in the Clinton camp.

Then fast-forward to July 2016, when Director Comey announced that he would not prosecute Clinton. Suddenly, Comey was like the prodigal son who had come home. Democrats heaped praise on him for his courage to do the right thing.

But like most summer romances, this one was headed toward a hard breakup come fall. On Oct. 28, Comey announced that he had reopened the investigation into the Clinton email scandal and, again, Clinton supporters were crying foul. As recently as May 2, USA TODAY reported that Mrs. Clinton was publicly blaming Comey for her loss to now-President Trump.

Now just a week later, Democrats and the press can find nothing but glowing superlatives to heap on the former director. Does anyone think that if Hillary Clinton had been elected last fall that she would not have dismissed Comey from his post? And she likely would have fired him much sooner.

OUR VIEW:Comey is now a GOP problem

Meanwhile, the premise that the Russian government cast votes for millions of Americans is preposterous.

Did the Russians advise the Clinton campaign to ignore Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin? Did the Russians advise the Clinton campaign to spend resources in red states they had no real chance of winning, such as Texas and Arizona? Did the Russians advise the Clinton campaign to ignore the advice of former president Bill Clinton, who urged his wifes team to focus more on the everyday challenges of blue-collar Americans?

I believe if a psychologist were examining most Democrats and many in the news media, he or she might come to the conclusion they are going through the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.

Its clear, we are still a long way from the last step on that list.

Rep. Robert Aderholt, a Republican, represents Alabamas 4th congressional district.

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Hillary Clinton attended a private dinner at the home of Haim and Cheryl Saban on Thursday night at an event that sources described as a thank you to 2016 campaign donors and an introduction to her plans to launch a political group, Onward Together.

Sources said that the gathering was for about 40 to 50 people, including a number who were major donors during her 2016 presidential campaign. Haim Saban was one of Clintons most prolific donors in her 2008 and 2016 presidential runs, giving directly to her campaign and to a SuperPAC supporting her candidacy, Priorities USA Action.

Hillary and Bill Clinton are both in Los Angeles for the graduation of her nephew, Zach Rodham, from USC, sources said.

This was Clintons first visit with supporters in Los Angeles since the 2016 election.

Politico reported last week that Clinton was building a political group to help finance organizations working on the resistance to President Donald Trumps agenda. The name of the group, Onward Together, was a nod to her campaign slogan Stronger Together.

The Sabans gave more than $12 million to Priorities USA Action to support Clintons campaign, according to records from the Federal Election Commission.

The Clintons wrote a congratulatory letter to Haim Saban in March, when he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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Another Clinton Foundation pay-to-play scheme has been revealed by a foreign government.On May 11, Circareported, The Office of Bangladesh Prime MinisterSheikh Hasina confirmed to Circa that Mrs.Clintoncalled her office in March 2011 to demand that Dr. Muhammed Yunus, a 2006 Nobel Peace prize winner, be restored to his role as chairman of the countrys most famous microcredit bank, Grameen Bank. Yunus nonprofit through the bank Grameen America donated between $100,000 and $250,000 to theClinton Foundationand Grameen Research donated an additional $25,000 to $50,000. The exposure is one of the most overt examples of pay to play bythe Clinton Foundation. The deputy press secretary of the Bangladesh prime ministers office told Circa that Hillary Clinton, while serving as U.S. secretary of state, phoned Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in March 2011 insisting she not remove ClintonFoundation donor Dr. Muhammad Yunus from his position as managing director of Grameen Bank.

The Associated PressreportedYunus met withClintonthree times and talked with her by phone during a period when Bangladeshi government authorities investigated his oversight of a nonprofit bank and ultimately pressured him to resign from the banks board. Throughout the process, he pleaded for help in messages routed toClinton, and she ordered aides to find ways to assist him. This new disclosure reveals that HillaryClintonintervened on Yunus behalf herself. Hewas eventually removed from his position in 2013.

In May 2012, the Bangladesh government was investigating the bank and Yunus for financial mismanagement and allegations that Yunus diverted bank funds to his private enterprises. The Daily Callerreportedin April 2017 that Clinton State Department aides threatened the Bangladesh prime minister with an IRS audit of her son, Sajeeb Wazed Joy, who is a United States resident. They threatened me with the possibility of an audit by the Internal Revenue Service. I have been here legally for 17 years and never had a problem. But they said, Well, you know, you might get audited, Wazed Joy told the Daily Caller in aninterview.They would say over and over again, Yunus has powerful friends, and we all knew they were talking of Secretary Clinton. Everybody knew it was Mrs.Clinton. Former Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni told Daily Caller there was likely a correlation between the World Bank denying a $1.2 billion loan to Bangladesh and pressure fromClintonsState Department.

Thisisnt the first timea Clinton Foundation pay-to-play scheme has cometo light. Emails exposed by Wikileaksrevealed that Ukrainian billionaire Victor Pinchuk directlyleveragedhis donations of $10 to $25 million to the Clinton Foundation for access to theClintons, and the Moroccan government made adealfor a meeting with Hillary Clinton in exchange for their donations to the nonprofit. While Clinton served as secretary of state, sheplacedClinton Foundation donor Rajiv Fernando on an intelligence board he held no qualifications to serve on until reporters asking questions forced his resignation days later. Since the Clintons have lost much of their political power after the election, foreign governments have begun reducing or rescinding their annual donations to the foundation, and more revelations from foreign leaders are likely to be exposed now that the political risks for speaking out have diminished.

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On Election Night 2016, at approximately 7:45 p.m.,Steve Schalewas at an Orlando brewpub.

The Democratic strategist opened his laptop to review his states election returns.

Its in real bad shape, Schale toldHillary ClintonpollsterJohn Anzaloneand campaign consultantJim Margolisin a phone call.

What the f**k are you talkingabout, Anzalone asked disbelieving, according toShattered,ariveting look behind the scenes ofthe Clinton campaign.

Shattered is now the No. 1 non-fiction book on theL.A. Times best-sellerlist,and sits at No. 2 on The New York Times best-seller list.

Trumps numbers werent just big, they were unreal, say co-authorsJonathan AllenandAmie Parnes.

They write:

In rural Polk County, smack-dab in the center of the state, Hillary would collect 3,000 more votes than Obama did in 2012 but Trump would add more than 25,000 to Mitt Romneys total. In Pasco County, a swath of suburbs north of Tampa-St. Petersburg.

Trump outran Romney by 30,000 votes. Pasco was one of the counties Schale was paying special attention to because the Tampa area tended to attract retirees from the Rust Belt folks whose political leanings reflected those of hometowns in the industrial Midwest.

In particular, Schale could tell, heavily white areas were coming in hard for Trump.

A couple of paragraphs later, Allen and Barnes note:

Youre going to come up short, Schale told Margolis and Anzalone.

The book also reports Schale set off an alarm bell unnecessarilyin the eyes of some of Clintons senior aides.

They demanded to know what data he was using to determine that the race was over so early.

As the worldwould learn, of course, Schale was right.

Despite polls saying otherwise, and despite a supposed surge in Latino voters in early voting that was to be the hidden weapon to bring Clinton a victory in Florida,Donald Trumpwon the Sunshine State by 1.2 percentage points.

When it was clear that Trump would win Florida, other states began falling in line, setting off one of the greatest political upsets in U.S. history.

In an email Thursday, Schale told FloridaPolitics.com:

The first returns from Pasco were horrendous, and I initially thoughtshe was done, but very quickly, urban counties came in, and she waswell ahead of all the benchmarks.

She was also doing wellinplaceslike Seminole, and her absentee numbers in places like Sarasota and Pinellas were looking fine. Margolis and Anzalone called me at about7:15to ask if I was seeing the samething they were, and I confirmed thatI was, and I was cautiously optimistic.

By about7:45, the bordercounties on I-4 those around the urban ones started to reportmorecompletereturns, and it became pretty clear, when combined with less than robust Election Day returns from the base counties, that shewould not go into8 p.m., when the Central time zone counties report,with a big enough lead to offset what was going to happen there.

Icalled those guys back, to tell them she was going to be short in Florida, and the book basically takes it from there.

In Shattered, the authors report that when the Clinton camp learned they would probably lose Florida, they also heard they were losing in North Carolina. They were keystone states for two of Hillarys three paths to victory.

A short time later, Bill Clinton called Craig Smith, the first person hired forClintons1992 campaign, and the co-founder of Ready for Hillary,the super-PAC formed at the beginning of 2013to support a Clinton presidential run.

FromShattered:

Sorry to be the one to tell you, Smith said in an Arkansas drawl echoing the former presidents, but were not going to win Florida. Bill hung up and called GovernorTerry McAuliffe, who was eager to depart Virginia for the victory party at the Javits Center. Dont bother coming, Bill told him.

According to a post on hisblogafter the election, Schale said Clinton had a roughly four-point edge inearlyvoting and vote-by-mail tallies going into Election Day.

Trump won by 360,000 votes 13 points more than enough to overtake Clintons early vote lead.

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Steve Schale on the night the lights went out on Hillary Clinton in Florida - SaintPetersBlog (blog)

Hillary Clinton is coming to next months publishing convention.

The former presidential candidate, secretary of state and US senator will speak June 1 at BookExpo, the publishing industrys annual national gathering, convention officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

The hour-long event is being billed as An Evening with Hillary Rodham Clinton and will take place at the Jacob Javits Center, the site for BookExpo. Officials declined to say whether Clinton will give a speech and/or be interviewed onstage.

Clinton, the first woman to run as a major party nominee for president, will likely discuss the book of essays she has planned for September. The book, currently untitled, is expected to touch upon her loss to Donald Trump. In recent speeches and tweets, Clinton has openly criticized Trump and reflected on the election, stating that misogyny, Russian interference and the FBI played roles in her stunning defeat.

Clinton has long been popular in the solidly Democratic community of publishers, writers and booksellers, and both she and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, have been guests at BookExpo.

She was first lady when she spoke at the 1995 convention to promote her debut book, It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us, and Bill Clinton was featured in 2004 when he previewed his memoir My Life. In 2014, Hillary Clinton made a brief appearance at the convention, meeting privately with booksellers to discuss Hard Choices, her memoir about her years as secretary of state

This years BookExpo runs May 31-June 2 and will be immediately followed by the fan-based BookCon. Featured speakers will range from Stephen King to retired astronaut Scott Kelly.

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