Hillary Clinton’s criticism of President Donald Trump’s White House UFC event drew swift backlash from conservatives, who accused the former first lady of selective outrage by invoking scandals from her and her husband’s time at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Clinton, who lost to Trump in 2016, first slammed the UFC idea last month before posting Sunday that the White House is “not his house” but “our house,” while promoting merchandise benefiting groups and candidates she said would “respect the form AND the function of the people’s house.”
“Remember, during today’s literal cage match on the White House grounds: No matter what, it’s not his house. It’s our house. Get a hat, coaster, or sticker to support groups and candidates who will respect the form and the function of the people’s house,” she wrote in a post that had a disclaimer blocking most replies.
Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., was one of many critics who sounded off by retweeting Clinton’s post — making light of President Bill Clinton’s salacious behavior with intern Monica Lewinsky in that same People’s House.
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“They literally rented out the Lincoln Bedroom and don’t forget Bill’s activity in the Oval Office,” Burchett said. “The vandalism that went on when you left was also well-documented.”
Clinton’s husband famously denied having “sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky,” at a January 1998 press conference during the heat of his independent counsel probe over the largely unrelated Whitewater real estate matter.
Retired Lt. Col. Buzz Patterson, who said he carried Bill Clinton’s nuclear football, sharply criticized Hillary Clinton over her UFC comments.
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“I was the Air Force [lieutenant colonel] who carried the nuclear football for your husband inside that ‘people’s house’ you’re suddenly so precious about. I saw it all up close for two years,” Patterson said.
“While Bill was getting b— j— in the Oval Office from an intern and groping female Air Force enlisted crew on Air Force One. You lecture about ‘respect for the institution’ while your husband lost the nuclear codes. And when you finally slinked out in 2001? You and your crew trashed the place—vandalism, theft, the GAO confirmed it. Sit down, b—–, the adults are back in charge.”
“Woman who stole White House furniture has something to say about ‘our house’,” remarked conservative watchdog Judicial Watch’s Tom Fitton.
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The official Republican Party account simply suggested Clinton “sit this one out.”
As for claims lodged by Patterson and others against the former first lady, a Government Accountability Office investigation requested by then-Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga., estimated $15,000 in damage to the White House, according to news reports at the time.
Barr had claimed that the administration treated the building “worse than college freshmen checking out of their dorm rooms.” The GAO concluded that some “pranks” were clearly intentional, which would constitute a criminal act, while Clinton’s supporters said the damage was commensurate with that of prior administrations, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Bill and Hillary Clinton Foundation and Bill Clinton’s office for comment.
