Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus says former President Bill Clinton’s activities are “fair game” for former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to answer if she runs for president in 2016.
“And if there are things that Bill Clinton has done that we don’t know about, politically or through business enterprise, that are questionable and/or illegal, then we ought to look into it and ask Hillary about it, too, because the presumption is that she’s gonna benefit from the successes of Bill Clinton, so I think it’s fair game,” Mr. Priebus told Buzzfeed.
Public polling shows Mrs. Clinton as the undisputed frontrunner to be the Democratic party’s presidential nominee in 2016 should she choose to run.
“I would say that the Monica Lewinsky stuff is a little stale and old, obviously,” Mr. Priebus said. “But if it turns out that there are things that are going on, and that we didn’t know about, he’s a public figure. He’s a former president. And they want to launch Hillary into the public eye. She deserves just as much scrutiny as anybody. And if Bill Clinton was up to things we find to be unscrupulous, I think that people ought to know about it.”
• David Sherfinski can be reached at dsherfinski@washingtontimes.com.
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