Bill Clinton gave a meandering speech at the Democratic convention last month in which he attempted to humanize his nominal wife, Hillary Clinton. He offered an extensive timeline of their lives together, but for whatever reason decided to skip over a few years in the late 1990s.
Since then, the former president hasn’t been heard from much, although he will reportedly make a stop in Napa Valley sometime this month to raise money. After that, he’ll start preparing for the annual Clinton Global Initiative conference in September. This year’s event will feature a keynote address from Bon Jovi.
Clinton typically does some press interviews during the conference, but they aren’t exactly hard hitting affairs. Given the growing controversy surrounding the Clinton Foundation, which includes several FBI investigations, there will be no shortage of questions for responsible reporters to ask the former president at next month’s conference. But will they even get the chance to ask?
By our reckoning, Bill has not given a sit down interview to anyone in almost a year (Noted plagiarizer Fareed Zakaria lent him a friendly ear during last year’s CGI extravaganza).
Some are now wondering if Bill, the man who wants to be co-president of this country, plans to take any questions from the press at all.
Bill’s role in a potential Hillary Clinton administration ought to deserve special scrutiny, given his ties to the Clinton Foundation and the fact that he has been cagey about how his relationship to the foundation would change if Hillary is elected president.
Bill has been asked about these issues before, and he’s gotten pretty testy and given ridiculous answers to reasonable questions.