Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton “defended her friend” Senator Dianne Feinstein this week, according to Time columnist Charlotte Alter. That isn’t particularly interesting. What is interesting is how lazy her defense was, and Alter’s apparent satisfaction with it.
Clinton reportedly bristled when Alter asked her about the 89-year-old senator’s condition, which had taken her away from the Senate for weeks earlier this year and stalled the nominations of some candidates before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Both Feinstein’s absence and her reemergence, which has confirmed rumors that her ongoing physical ailments are compounded by her apparent mental decline, have prompted pointed calls for Feinstein’s resignation from her fellow Democrats. But Democrats aren’t the problem here, Clinton said. Republicans are.
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