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Showing Original Post only (View all)Ron Johnson: Hillary Clinton Planned To Get Emotional To Evade Questions [View all]
I think she just decided before she was going to describe emotionally the four dead Americans, the heroes, and use that as her trump card, the senator tells BuzzFeed.
posted on January 23, 2013 at 3:41pm EST
WASHINGTON The Republican senator whose aggressive line of questioning prompted an eruption Wednesday from Hillary Clinton during a hearing on the Benghazi attacks suggested her angry outburst was just a dodge.
Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson pressed Clinton on why her office wasn't able to immediately discover whether the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. consulate in Libya were executed by terrorists or spontaneous protesters. He repeatedly asked her why she didn't pick up the phone that day and find out the facts, to which Clinton eventually responded sharply, "With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. What difference, at this point, does it make?"
"I'm not sure she had rehearsed for that type of question," Johnson told BuzzFeed Wednesday afternoon, after the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. "I think she just decided before she was going to describe emotionally the four dead Americans, the heroes, and use that as her trump card to get out of the questions. It was a good way of getting out of really having to respond to me."
He said it was clear, at other points during the hearing, that Clinton was working off a set of talking points, but that his questions "got under her skin" because "they're just so common sense."
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http://www.buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppins/ron-johnson-hillary-clinton-planned-to-get-emotio
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Ron Johnson: Hillary Clinton Planned To Get Emotional To Evade Questions [View all]
DonViejo
Jan 2013
OP
He doesn't need to plan that. All he has to do is to wake up every morning. POOF - instant asshole!
11 Bravo
Jan 2013
#11
How was she supposed to "pick up the phone and find out facts" which were not known?
yellowcanine
Jan 2013
#7
Ron Johnson...Another Consequence of Not Getting Our Base Out to Vote in 2010
BlueDemKev
Jan 2013
#14
It would be so nice if Wisconsin had a woman beat him in his 2016 election.
LiberalFighter
Jan 2013
#17
Hillary Clinton: Ron Johnson Planned to be a Dumbass Just to Piss Me Off (nt)
Jeff In Milwaukee
Jan 2013
#21