Hillary Clinton is making a mistake in suggesting she’d give a major role in her White House on the issue of the economy to Bill Clinton.
Trump has mocked the suggestion of putting the former president to work.
“How can Crooked Hillary put her husband in charge of the economy when he was responsible for NAFTA, the worst economic deal in U.S. history?” he tweeted.
And former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) suggested that the promise of such a major role for Bill Clinton suggests he is effectively running for a third term.
“The president of the United States has an actual job to create jobs, create wealth, create take home pay,” he said on Fox Business Network. “That’s Hillary’s job if she wants to be president. That’s not the first spouse’s job.”
Trump has gone out of his way to highlight the low points of the Clinton administration, including the former president’s infidelities. The Clinton campaign can expect those attacks to intensify in the fall.
There’s also always a danger of Bill Clinton going rogue, something that could also be a worry in a Hillary Clinton administration.
Democrats like to forget that Bill Clinton handed his successor a recession and played a leading role in inflating the housing bubble that crashed our economy 8 years ago.
Campaign officials sought to walk back the idea that the former secretary of State had any plans cemented for her husband and said it was premature to discuss potential roles for him or anyone else.
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/280447-clinton-world-criticism-of-bill-mind-boggling