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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHillary's Prescient 'Karma' Observation
Secretary Clinton returned to Philly (Thursday) for a promotional event at the Academy of Music for her campaign memoir, What Happened. At the event, which was sold-out but not quite full, with an audience about two-thirds female, Clinton was interviewed on-stage by Philly native and best-selling author Jennifer Weiner.
Every day I believe more in karma, Clinton said to that, referring further to several men who shaped the narrative during the campaign who have since been sidelined in the wave of sexual harassment scandals...
While there were no protesters visible outside the venue, a heckler rose in his upper-deck seat near the end of the event and shouted Pizzagate is real!, in reference to the long-ago-debunked conspiracy theory about Clinton and other Democratic leaders supposedly running a child sex ring out of a Washington pizzeria.
The man, who was escorted out of the auditorium and later seen talking with Secret Service agents, was recognized by a PhillyVoice photographer as Howard Caplan, a local man known for holding Hillary for Prison and Pizzagate is Real signs on Roosevelt Boulevard and at local political events. Caplan has made news for a series of incidents in the last two years, including his storming of the Christmas Mass at The Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul last year, and his having been assaulted at a protest demonstration last summer.
Clinton responded to the interruption with a righteous rant against the Pizzagate theory "This is how deep the rot goes which noted that a man had opened fire in the pizzeria while trying to rescue children supposedly hidden in the restaurants allegedly nonexistent basement...
read: http://www.phillyvoice.com/hillary-clinton-returns-to-philly-to-talk-election-her-book-and-the-way-forward/
...not so coincidentally, it was Flynn's son who promoted and spread the 'Pizzagate' hoax. Karma, indeed.
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Hillary's Prescient 'Karma' Observation (Original Post)
bigtree
Dec 2017
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Iliyah
(25,111 posts)1. Top it off with t-rump and crew
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)2. "What goes around comes around."
Stupidity does tend to come back and bite you on the ass!
Gothmog
(145,694 posts)3. This makes me smile