Bill Clinton calls Ethel Kennedy the 'cat's meow' who would 'flirt' with him in bizarre funeral eulogy

Bill Clinton made an odd joke about Ethel Kennedy at her funeral on Wednesday

By JON MICHAEL RAASCH | 17 October 20241/2

Former President Bill Clinton had a bizarre moment while eulogizing the late Ethel Kennedy before a crowd of influential politicians and Kennedy family members. During his remarks at the Kennedy matriarch's funeral Wednesday afternoon in Washington, D.C., Clinton revealed to the crowd what he really thought of Robert Kennedy's widow.

'I thought your mother was the cat’s meow,' Bill said about the late 96-year-old.'She would flirt with me in the most innocent ways,' he continued to cautious laughs from the audience.

Former president Bill Clinton speaks at a memorial service for Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Robert F. Kennedy, at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, DC, USA, 16 October 2024.

The former president pressed on, seemingly making another joke about how she had 11 children. 'I remember once I said 'you know we're not at replacement population anymore and all the politics are anti-immigrant, what are we gonna do?'' 'We need more people like you,' he recounted joking to Kennedy about her large brood.

Ethel, who died aged 96 on Thursday last week following a stroke, was surrounded by family members when she died in a Boston hospital.In total, she had 34 grandchildren, and 24 great-grandchildren in addition to her own 11 kids, her son Robert Kennedy Jr. posted on X last week.

RFK Jr. attended the event with his wife Cheryl Hines despite his cozy relationship with Donald Trump and his phone sex affair with a journalist Olivia Nuzzi. The former presidential candidate, who has since backed Donald Trump, has reportedly been on the outs with his family due to his support for the Republican, which some Kennedy's likened to a 'betrayal.'

However that beef may have been quashed, at least slightly, when RFK Jr. and Hines attended at private ceremonyfor Ethel Kennedy on Monday in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

On Wednesday, President Joe Biden and former Presidents Barack Obama were in attendance in addition to the huge Kennedy clan. Former Presidents Donald Trump and George W. Bush, meanwhile, were not spotted at the funeral.

Clinton, who has had his fair share of salacious headlines regarding his scandal with Monica Lewinsky and later reported connections to Jeffrey Epstein, did not shy away from landing the line about his past flame with the Kennedy. The moment, though light-hearted, is sure to raise eyebrows after Clinton has had a series of awkward moments. The joke told by Clinton got some modest laughs from the audience.

Earlier this week he came under fire for having his facts wrong when trying to blame Trump for the death of 22-year-old college student Laken Rileywho was murdered while jogging at the University of Georgia in Athens. The Democrat claimed Trump stymied a bipartisan bill on the border.

However,it turned out to be an extraordinary gaffeas the migrant Jose Ibarra actually entered the United States from Venezuela illegally in September 2022 under the Biden-Harris administration. He was arrested for the murder of Laken Riley on February 22 after being vetted and released by the current administration.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13967849/bill-clinton-reveals-ethel-kennedy-flirt.html

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'[Kamala Harris] is the only candidate who has actually endorsed a bill that would hold down immigration any given year to a certain point and then made sure we gave people a decent place to live, didn't divide people from their children. And we did total vetting before people got in. Now, Trump killed the bill,' he stated.

'You got a case in Georgia not very long ago, didn't you? They made an ad about it, a young woman who had been killed by an immigrant?' Clinton asked.

Clinton spoke about the issue immigration and Riley's high-profile murder on the campaign trail for Vice President Kamala Harris in Georgia,but mistakenly inferred that Harris's past support of the bill would have prevented the death of Riley, which it wouldn't have given the timing disparity.

Additionally,earlier this year Bill Clinton was described in newly-unsealed court documents as 'a key person' in the lives of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, who enjoyed a 'close relationship with the pair'.

The former president has long insisted that his connections to Epstein were on a professional basis, to aid the work of the Clinton Foundation.

He insisted in 2019 that during his four trips on Epstein's private jet, in 2002 and 2003, he was always accompanied by a retinue of staff and Secret Service agents.

But court documents from June 2016 - part of a defamation suit filed against Maxwell by one of Epstein's victims, Virginia Roberts - paint a different picture, after another document saw Epstein accuse Clinton of 'liking them young.'

Roberts, in her filing, is seeking permission from the judge to force more people to sit for a deposition, to bolster her case.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13967849/bill-clinton-reveals-ethel-kennedy-flirt.html

There is something seriously wrong with Clinton, I'm surprised his unit hasn't fallen off yet.

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Trump's top 5 jokes from the Al Smith Catholic Dinner.

He saves the best for last – for Chuck Schumer.

From Collin Rugg

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yeah I don't understand why they have this jab fest every year. Especially in the CC

Dan Bongino: LIVE WIth President Donald Trump (Ep. 2353) - 10/18/24

I totally forgot about this, Dan interveiwed him face to face in NYC with PDJT started at 9:30 am, today.

It starts at 2:05length 1:15:23

https://rumble.com/embed/v5gvmay/?pub=4

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Actually starts at 32:15 minutes, Trump comes in

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Dan starts out with a question if Trump is going to clean out the agencies, and DPJT answering that will be another attack like Project 2025, Dan should be careful about that.

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If Trump doesn’t have a strong Senate committed to his vision, his second term will be sabotaged

Sen. Mike Lee By Sen. Mike Lee Fox News October 16, 2024 5:00am EDT

Mike Lee: If you want someone with a vision for America, support Trump

Beyond Words

With the election on the horizon, America’s eyes are glued to battleground states. Days after the national election, however, a new battleground will emerge in the United States Senate. Even if Donald Trump wins the White House, he could quietly lose his ability to govern in the Senate.

With Sen. Mitch McConnell stepping down, Senate Republicans will choose a new leader for the first time in 18 years this November. With this decision, we have an opportunity to decide how the Senate conducts business going forward – and the ability to either strengthen or undermine a second Trump term.

The Stakes

Should Trump win a second term, he will have only four years to implement his agenda and reverse the tide of radical progressivism swamping our government and weakening our country. With the uncertainty of 2026 midterms and the inevitable legislative lethargy during campaign seasons, those four years for lawmaking suddenly become much shorter. We cannot afford to lose any time in energetically passing America First policies.

The Divide Within

Practically all Senate Republicans understand that four more years of recycled Biden policies would be a disaster for millions of Americans and their families. But not every Republican in Congress is aligned with Trump’s vision for the country. Some see themselves as stewards of a more moderate brand of conservatism. Still others disagree on policy areas from trade to immigration to foreign policy.

The Path Forward

How Senate Republicans choose to conduct business going forward – and whom they choose as a leader – will determine whether those disagreements lead to infighting that foils President Trump’s agenda, allowing Democrats the upper hand in policy battles. If we hope to quickly pass a legislative agenda that will make America great again, we need to find a way to resolve and overcome these differences.

Even with a Senate majority, Republicans will probably lack the 60 votes needed to pass most legislation, including crucial spending bills that define what the executive branch can and can’t do. Trump’s second term could turn into a series of compromises that accomplish little.

Moderates will be tempted to join Democrats to pass funding bills that tie Trump’s hands. Per usual, the uniparty will write these bills in a backroom, load them up with swampy priorities and hold the government hostage with shutdown threats unless Trump and his allies back down.

To avoid the gridlock of business as usual, it is imperative that we structure the Senate in a way that gives individual senators real legislative power, not just lip service. We must be able to amend bills, debate issues openly, and advocate for conservative priorities in a meaningful way. Earlier this month, in a letter to my Senate Republican colleagues, I offered a few practical proposals to get there, which I will summarize here.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/unnoticed-election-could-determine-future

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First, we should resolve our differences through votes on amendments. Most Americans would be shocked to learn that their senator often cannot offer amendments to legislation. Since former Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid centralized control of the legislative process in the early 2010s, it has been common practice for the majority leader to block all other senators from offering amendments.

The best way to resolve inevitable disagreements is to allow senators to vote on amendments to legislation. This process allows us to see whether various proposals have enough support to pass. Rather than throwing together massive take-it or leave-it bills, we can build consensus by crafting the legislation, provision by provision, on the Senate floor until we reach consensus. This is how the Senate was intended to function, as it did until recent years.

Second, we must have time to consider legislation. Going forward, the Senate majority leader should establish an annual schedule for considering funding bills. With a reasonable schedule, Congress and the White House will have advance notice to consider and refine proposals for how to fund the government while tackling the bloated administrative state.

When we must consider omnibus funding legislation, which funds the entire government in one bill, we should debate and amend it on the Senate floor for at least four weeks. Those of us planning to advance Trump priorities in such legislation can offer and refine those proposals until they have enough support to pass. The negotiation would happen in the open, rather than in a backroom between House and Senate leadership.

Third, Republicans must be organized to strategically advance our agenda. Senate Republicans should ask our next leader to offer clear goals at the start of each year to be ratified by our whole conference. This will help to focus our firepower to advance the policies hardworking American families have been promised.

As an extension of this, the Republican leader should present a strategy to achieve victories on every piece of must-pass legislation. We can mitigate infighting by focusing on a shared strategy.

As a last line of defense against Democrats gaining the upper hand, Republican leadership should whip for or against a bill only after first getting the support of a majority of our conference. This protects us from being pressed into funding harmful Democratic policies, as often happens when must-pass legislation is up against a critical deadline.

The Bottom Line

The bottom line: If President Trump doesn’t have a strong Senate committed to executing his legislative vision, his second term will be sabotaged. His appointees could be left unconfirmed, his policies undermined, and his power to govern steadily chipped away by a weak and divided Senate, quietly handing his opponents the victory they couldn’t win at the ballot box. The consequences would be devastating – not just for his second term, but for the country.

A reformed and functional Senate will be essential for translating a Trump victory into real, lasting change. If we want to make America great again, we need a Senate that can lead again.

Republican Mike Lee represents Utah in the United States Senate. He is a member of the Judiciary Committee and serves as chairman of the Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights Subcommittee.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/unnoticed-election-could-determine-future

We’re Desperate’: Socialists, Muslims Band Together To Deny Harris The White House

REAGAN REESEWHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT October 17, 20247:01 PM ET1/2

If 75% of the roughly 200,000 Muslim Americans in Michigan cast their vote on November 5, Vice President Kamala Harris will be virtually guaranteed to lose the state and its critical 15 electoral votes.

That’s what one activist group in the state, Drive for 75, believes. And to achieve it,Rex Nazarko and his organization are barnstorming mosques, hosting voter promotion sermons and knocking on thousands of doors across the state.

“What was a guarantee for [a Harris loss] to happen? We tried with different percentages and different turnouts, and with the 75% number, again, accounting only for the Muslim community, not other communities, not other allies, not other progressives.It essentially guaranteed a 99.9% likelihood of the vice president losing the election in Michigan, if 75% of [the community turned out],”Nazarko told the Caller, explaining that they ran numerous mathematical simulations to inform their strategy.

“We ran that simulation 10,000 times, and almost every time that was the case. So that’s how we got the Drive for 75 call to action and idea,”he explained.

Though Harris hasn’t faced nearly as many pro-Palestinian protestors as President Joe Biden, efforts to thwart the Democrats’ presidential aspirations haven’t disappeared. Muslim Americans told the Daily Caller they are working to push their community to vote for Green Party candidate Dr. Jill Stein, or even in some cases former President Donald Trump, in an effort to hold Harris accountable for how she and Biden have handled the Israel-Hamas war.

“[The Muslim American community] lost their faith in the Democratic Party and the Democratic administration, so they’re out to kind of hold them accountable. And I don’t want to necessarily say punish, but it is also a punishment vote, in a sense. I think that they’re desperate. We’re desperate. It’s also a vote of desperation. You know, we want to see an end to this bloodshed and this genocide as soon as possible,” Nazarko told the Caller.

The Michiganders who spoke to the Caller acknowledged Trump might not have the Israel-Gaza policy the community hopes to see, but their effort is more focused on punishing the current administration than about who they could vote into office.The movement is also about sending a message to politicians that their voice cannot be ignored, Democrat Khalid Turaani, co-chair of the Abandon Biden campaign in Michigan, told the Caller.

“We’re hoping that, whether Republicans or Democrats, will not take our vote for granted. So if it is [spoiling Harris’s chances], I hope it teaches not only the Democrats but the Republicans that, you go against your voters, you go against people as well. You continue to support a genocide, you’re going to lose,” Turaani told the Caller.

Before Biden dropped out of the race for the White House, his primary victory was stunted by a large protest vote across several key swing states, including Michigan. Campaigns like “Abandon Biden” pushed Arab and Muslim Americans to vote for the “uncommitted” ballot option in protest of his Gaza policy. And while 81.1% of Democratic primary voters chose Biden, 13.3% — more than 100,000 people — chose the uncommitted option.

In light of Biden exiting the presidential race,Abandon Biden switched its name to Abandon Harris, even though the vice president has indicated she would be tougher on Israel than her boss.

“She parrots the same line of ‘well on Oct. 7’ and okay, there has been more than 50,000 deaths. Two-thirds of them are women and children and she can’t get past ‘well on October 7.’ And we feel that this callous disregard to the lives of Palestinian civilians and the destruction of not only their infrastructure, the entire place in Gaza has been decimated, and and she just continues to parrot the same line. Meanwhile, continuing to support the Israeli assault and the Palestinian civilians and their lives and their buildings and their every aspect of their lives is under assault,” Turaani told the Caller.

https://dailycaller.com/2024/10/17/kamala-harris-michigan-abandon-jill-stein-gaza-uncommitted/

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“This administration represented by Biden and Harris continues to support that.The other thing is the fact that every effort to stop the genocide has been thwarted by this administration,” Turaani continued.

To cost Harris the state, not every Muslim American is expected to vote for Trump. In fact, some groups told the Caller they expect the community to not vote for either. Just five days ago, Abandon Harris threw its support behind Stein, who also has the backing of some socialist groups in the U.S due to her anti-capitalist economic positioning.And the Green Party seems to know its bid could spoil Harris’ candidacy.

“We need to be clear about what our goals are, we are not in a position to win the White House. But we do have a real opportunity to win something historic.We could deny Kamala Harris the state of Michigan,” Kshama Sawant, a former Seattle City Council Member and self-described socialist, said to cheers at a recent rally for Stein.

A spokesperson for the Stein campaign referred the Caller to Abandon Harris’s endorsement, adding that it “outlines Muslim support for the campaign.”

“We’ve conducted an internal informal poll, we’ve cross-referenced with other polls taken in the state and nationwide, and we’ve been speaking to thousands of community members for the past weeks. The sentiment seems either Jill Stein or third-party, and then Trump and then Harris is at the very bottom. So if we just get the community out, we know that the natural distribution of both is going to fall towards that third party,” Nazarko told the Caller.

Vice chair of the 12th Congressional District Republican Committee, Stephanie Butler, who lives in Dearborn and is married to a Muslim, told the Callerthat a deciding moment for the Muslim community in Michigan was former Vice President Dick Cheney’s endorsement of Harris.

“Here’s the new thing going around, people are saying that, ‘hello, she’s been endorsed by Dick Cheney.’ That tells you everything you need to know about this woman: that her intentions are war,” Butler told the Caller. But a few weeks out from the election, some are still worried that the community may choose to stay home rather than go out to vote amid their anger.

“I feel like a majority of Muslims will vote for Jill Stein. There are a small portion that will vote for Trump,” Hassan Chami, a Dearborn resident, told the Caller.“The issue is, I fear that a lot of people may not want to vote at all. And if that’s the case, Kamala maybe can win Michigan.”

To address the concerns, Drive for 75 is blitzing the Muslim community. The effort currently has a civic representative and team captains assigned to each mosque that are building a sub team of volunteers and who each will be responsible for providing materials and election updates to 50 contacts within the community.Currently the plan is being implemented in 25 mosques, but will be expanded into more.

Within those mosques and other community centers, Drive for 75 is hosting turn out the vote events and using social media and text messages to push Muslim Americans to the polls. In the final two weeks of the election cycle, Drive for 75 expects to knock on 10,000 doors.

“Muslims are family-oriented and family-centered. We’re relying on the large networks that community members have to encourage one another,” Nazarko told the Caller.

Though polls show the race neck-and-neck in the state,there is a confidence among the community about what to expect. “There’s no way [Harris] can win Michigan,” Butler told the Caller. “There’s just no way.”

https://dailycaller.com/2024/10/17/kamala-harris-michigan-abandon-jill-stein-gaza-uncommitted/