OK, I see what's going on.
A little bit of checking reveals some perspective.
It appears this is all about hatred/fear of Hillary having another possible run in 2020, so it's never too early to crank up the Right Wing Propaganda Machine RWPM.
Now the latest fake story getting popular is the drinking thing.
Here's part of a story on the nonsense from the
Washington Post:
"“I think you should call her and sober her up some,” wrote Clinton campaign Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri in an email to campaign chair John Podesta on Aug. 8, 2015, at about 4:30 p.m. on a Saturday — a remark that was interpreted as being about Clinton.
Sure, “sober her up” could just as easily refer to mood — based on context, the emails come days before Clinton turned over her private email server to investigators — and not a literal status of inebriation.
But that ambiguity of a once-private conversation hasn’t stopped a growing group of people from passing around the exchange as proof that Clinton has a debilitating drinking problem — she was drinking in the afternoon! The National Enquirer, a tabloid that published a big “exclusive” in 2014 claiming Clinton was going to secret rehab, cited the email as proof they were right all along.
That, and an anonymously sourced post from True Pundit on connecting a “Drunk Hillary” rumor to her behavior in a Cory Booker video from a June campaign stop effectively launched this long-simmering tabloid and conspiratorial YouTube video fodder fully into the Trump Internet world.
Drudge dedicated its homepage recently to a montage of photographs of Clinton drinking..."
They even have a google trending graph tracking the popularity of theories about Hillary's health spiking around the time she had pneumonia, and lately the one about drinking. That explains why I never heard of this before.
The WP story makes a very good point. There is a huge difference between enjoying alcohol and being an alcoholic.
The stories are all innuendo. A great big Nothing Burger.
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