Every once in a while, I see the name Hillary Clinton spelled "Hilliary" Clinton, and the more you know about her, the more you understand that it's not a typo to spell it that way. It's just that she's a notorious teller of falsehoods (to put it mildly), dating all the way back to her days of being the First Lady of Arkansas.
While some of the whoppers are more obvious, like the treacherous ones she's told (and appears to have authorized to cook up) about "collusion" between Donald Trump and Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign, there have been others about her email server, her handling of the Benghazi matter, Whitewater, her claim that she really won in 2016, and the list goes on and on.
There are also the little ones she tells pretty much every day on social media, where the twice-failed presidential candidate and bitterly spiteful Democrat public figure conveniently limits replies to those whom she tags in her tweets, which is usually nobody, and those whom she follows.
The latest comes in the aftermath of the end-of-July announcement that a new grand ballroom will be constructed at the White House, starting in September. As we reported, President Trump had previously teased the news for weeks, but the details were finally made public last Thursday during a White House press briefing:
"The White House state ballroom will be a much-needed and exquisite addition of approximately 90,000 total square feet of innately designed and carefully crafted space with a seated capacity of 650 people," Leavitt told the press. "Which is a significant increase from the 200-person seated capacity in the East Room of the White House."
She said, over the last few weeks, Trump has held meetings with numerous departments to discuss design features and planning. Leavitt said he's also chosen McCrery Architects as the lead architect, which is based in Washington, D.C. She said the company is well known for "classical architectural design."
The White House also said construction should be completed "long before the end of President Trump’s term."
Not surprisingly, the Usual Suspects have lined up to criticize the project, with Hillary Clinton being among them. Her hot take was that it shouldn't be funded with taxpayer money at a time when Americans still have concerns about grocery prices:
The problem here is that it's not funded by taxpayer money. As White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt shared in the press briefing where the details were revealed, "President Trump and other donors have committed to donate funds necessary to build this 200 million infrastructure." Trump himself has also said he and private donors would be footing the bill.
Even left-leaning "fact check" site Snopes weighed in back on August 1st and found claims that the ballroom will be funded with taxpayer dollars sorely lacking:
However, we found no credible evidence that the Trump administration's proposed $200 million ballroom would be paid for using taxpayers' money.
Rather, both Trump and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump and private donors would pay for the project. The Rapid Response 47 X account, an official account of the Trump administration, wrote (archived) in a July 31 post that the project would be "fully funded by President Trump and other private donors — not taxpayers."
Though I know it's been said many times before, it's worth saying again: Don't go away mad, Hillary Clinton. Just go away. Please.
Editor's Note: The Trump administration is exposing Barack Obama and his administration's Russian Collusion Hoax.
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