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Sunday, May 17, 2026

Byron York's Daily Memo: A guide to Clinton dirty tricks - Washington Examiner

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A GUIDE TO CLINTON DIRTY TRICKS. Hillary Clinton, the former first lady, Secretary of State, and 2016 presidential candidate, is deflecting again. Recent revelations from a federal investigation have suggested that her campaign engaged in dirty tricks in the race against Donald Trump six years ago. Those revelations, of course, come on top of earlier disclosures that she engaged in what might be called the ultimate dirty trick, the Steele dossier, in the same campaign.

Now that there is some attention being paid to these matters, Clinton is lashing out against Trump and some media outlets. In a speech in New York last week, she said, "By the way, they've been coming after me again in case you might have noticed. It's funny, the more trouble Trump gets into, the wilder the charges and conspiracy theories about me seem to get." Clinton referred to prosecutors in New York who are trying to find charges to level against Trump about the accounting valuations of his properties. "So now, his accountants have fired him and the investigations draw closer to him, and right on cue, the noise machine gets turned up," Clinton said. "Fox leads the charge with accusations against me, counting on their audience to fall for it again. And as an aside, they're getting awfully close to actual malice."

By throwing in the phrase "actual malice," which is the legal standard for defamation involving a public figure, Clinton appeared to be threatening a libel suit against Fox News. It...



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