Despite the diminished role of former President Bill Clinton in the Democratic Party, he made a ‘cogent argument’ against overcoming President Trump’s coronavirus pandemic on the second night of the Democratic National Convention, ‘anchor of Fox News Sunday ‘Tuesday.
After pointing out that Clinton has played a featured role at every Democratic convention since 1988, Wallace noted that “things have changed for Bill Clinton and his status in the party. The #MeToo movement, people look back on the Monica Lewinsky- scandal in a very different way, his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, and he seemed to be a much less diminished figure – until he gave this speech.
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“It was only five minutes. Like I said, it was carpet beforehand,” Wallace said. “But I thought he was making a more cogent argument … about how Donald Trump abused the coronavirus than what I’ve heard from anyone.”
In his remarks, the former president declared that the US “has just 4% of the world’s population, but 25% of the world’s COVID cases. Donald Trump says we lead the world. Well, we are the only major an industrial economy that has tripled its unemployment rate. ”
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Wallace then recalls one of Clinton’s most effective convention speeches back, his address in 2012 in Charlotte where the case was made for the reelection of Barack Obama.
“After the 2012 speech, Barack Obama called him the ‘secretary of explaining things,'” Wallace recalls. “And even today, even in this diminished role, Bill Clinton is still the ‘secretary of explaining things.'”
