March 22, 2018
EXCLUSIVE: Bill and Hillary Clinton have 'AT LEAST a one-way open marriage' claims their veteran pollster - who compares them to Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright in House of Cards
• Mark Penn served as a pollster for Bill Clinton in the 1990s and chief strategist for Hillary's 2008 presidential campaign
• He claims that the former First Couple have 'at least a one-way open marriage'
• He even references Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright's characters on the hit political drama House of Cards, where the first couple 'have numerous partners
• Penn opens up about the Clintons in his upcoming book, Microtrends Squared: The New Small Forces Driving Today's Big Disruptions
• He also criticized Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, saying 'elite' and 'highly educated' voters often asked him why Hillary Clinton was so unlikable
• Penn says two-thirds of Americans hate her and two-thirds hate Donald Trump
• And he pours cold water on claims Russia hacked the election through Facebook which Hillary has listed as one of the reasons she lost
By Kelly Mclaughlin For Mailonline
Dailymail.co.uk
The Clintons have 'at least a one-way open marriage', their former veteran pollster claims in his new book - in which he also bashes Hillary's 2016 presidential campaign.
Mark Penn, who served as a pollster for Bill Clinton in the 1990s and chief strategist for Hillary's 2008 presidential campaign, says that the political couple's open marriage was possibly 'not by choice'.
He even references Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright's characters on the hit political drama House of Cards, where the fictional first couple, Frank and Claire Underwood, 'have numerous partners, including one who sleeps at the White House'. (An apt comparison! Like the Clintons, the Underwoods literally got away with murder. - De )
Penn opens up about the Clintons in his upcoming book, Microtrends Squared: The New Small Forces Driving Today's Big Disruptions.
'It's not hard to conclude that Bill and Hillary Clinton didn't have at least a one-way open marriage,' he writes. 'Perhaps it was not by choice, but the stories accumulated over the years until the fact of it became apparent.
'There was also no question that at the same time their relationship was so deep and enduring. If this was the model of the first couple, what did it mean for the rest of the country?'
Penn claims that open marriages are 'perfect' for Hollywood stars and other A-listers, pointing out that it could be 'more stable' than having serial marriages.
'Hollywood usually does as Hollywood writes. For example, Frank and Claire Underwood in House of Cards have numerous partners, including one who sleeps at the White House, as they pretend to ignore it. There seems to be a rage of jealousy under the surface.'
He adds: 'These open marriages are based less on sex and more on love, creating additional meaningful relationships that are part of the marriage in some ways and that may come and go, revolving around the couple, which still serves as the core unit.'
Bill and Hillary Clinton married in 1975 and have one daughter, Chelsea, together. (Conjecture! Chelsea is as homely as her mother, but she looks nothing like Bill. I can usually see characterstics of both parents in the offspring, but I see no Bill in Chelsea. - De)
Their marriage has long been fraught with rumours of affairs and sexual harrassment accusations against Bill Clinton.
Among the scandals was Gennifer Flowers, whose 12-year affair with Bill during his time as attorney general and governor of Arkansas wrought havoc on his presidential bid in 1992.
Bill denied the affair in a Sixty Minutes special in 1992 during which Hillary sat by her husband's side silently supporting his protestations of innocence.
'You know, I'm not sitting here, some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette,' Hillary said. 'I'm sitting here because I love him, and I respect him, and I honor what he's been through and what we've been through together.
'And you know, if that's not enough for people, then heck—don't vote for him.'
Clinton ally and friend Betsey Wright later coined the term 'bimbo eruption' when referencing Flowers and Bill's other affairs.
Bill didn't acknowledge his affair with Flowers until years later, in 1998.
In 1998, a news report emerged that then-President Bill Clinton had an affair with Lewinsky, who was a White House intern.
At the time the affair began between the president and his intern in November 1995, Clinton was 49 years old and Lewinsky was a 22-year-old White House employee.
It set off the explosive scandal which came to define the latter years of his presidency.
Clinton would initially deny having sexual relations with Lewinsky in a sworn deposition back in January of 1998, going so far as to claim that the two were never even alone together in the White House.
Unknown to him at the time, Lewinsky had already revealed to Linda Tripp that the two were together nine times between that first encounter and March of 1997, and engaged in oral sex multiple times.
The affair became public one day after Clinton's sworn testimony, at which point Tripp gave tapes of Lewinsky admitting to her relationship to Kenneth Star, who at the time was pursuing the Whitewater controversy and Clinton's alleged sexual harassment of Paula Jones, a former Arkansas state employee.
Clinton continued to deny reports that he had relations with with the brunette from Beverly Hills even after the report broke, famously saying: 'I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky' in a nationally televised White House news conference.'
Months later, he admitted to the affair and claimed that his definition of sexual relations differed from that of others.
Clinton has since been accused of sexual harassment and assault by four other women.
After the Lewinsky scandal, Hillary was forced to issue a statement reaffirming her commitment to Bill.
Her recent book, What Happened, is filled with messages of love and admiration toward Bill.
Later in Penn's book, the pollster opens up about Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, saying that 'elite' and 'highly educated' voters often asked him why Hillary Clinton was so unlikable, and yet still found Bill acceptable.
'Many elites continued to hold former president Bill Clinton in high regard - despite a checkered history with women - while assuming a crude audiotape would be the end of Donald Trump,' Penn writes.
He blames the disconnect between the elite and the working class that 'led to the populist revolution of 2016 and the silent overthrow of the elite guardians', like Hillary Clinton.
Penn writes that Clinton blaming her election loss on Russian meddling led her 'elite voters' into a state of denial.
He writes: ''Today you can sit down with an impressionable elite - a Harvard-educated lawyer, for example - and they know with absolute certainty that somehow Trump was laundering money with the Russians in exchange for help in the election.
'They have no evidence for these claims and yet they 'know' it just as strongly as elites once believed the earth was flat.
'So did the Russians need money? How, when $2.4billion was spent on the election campaign, would $100,000 worth of Facebook ads make a difference?
'It's illogical, and yet perhaps 40 per cent of those reading this paragraph have come to believe it, based on reports of completely classified un-knowable information. They just know it.'
Penn claims that while two-thirds of the country did not like either presidential candidate, it was the 'elite' liberals who led Trump into office because they thought Clinton's win was inevitable.
He writes: 'And even in the aftermath, impressionable elites remain on the edge of their seats, in a world of Russian conspiracies and James Comey missteps, still waiting for the deus ex machina to bring the tragedy of 2016 to a close.
'But these, as well as other blinders, are just ways of denying the sea change of the rebellion of 2016.'
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