You’ll laugh at who MSNBC brought to whine about Trump’s alleged affair

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It's hard to watch the incessant gavel-to-gavel coverage of former President Donald Trump’s trial in Manhattan without feeling like you're traveling in a time warp back to 2016. We're back reliving the "Access Hollywood" tape and talk of how Trump would have never been elected except porn star Stormy Daniels accepted a six-figure check to keep quiet.

The richest vein of hypocrisy on this adultery-mangles-electability question flows through the Clintons. Hillary Clinton appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" to denounce Trump for squashing the bimbo stories. It was typically shameless. She said: "I think the defendant, the former president, knew exactly what he was doing when he went to such great lengths to try to squash, bury, kill stories, pay off people because he understood the electoral significance of them."

The cast of "Morning Joe" treated Clinton as a therapist for their Trump angst, and no one interrupted and asked about all the squashing, burying and killing of stories that Hillary Clinton engaged in when she and Bill Clinton first sought the White House in 1992.

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On the cusp of the Gennifer Flowers allegations breaking in January of that year, Hillary Clinton was telling Margaret Carlson of Time magazine, "My marriage is solid, full of love and friendship, but it's too profound to talk about glibly."

But after Flowers asserted she had a 12-year affair with Bill Clinton, Hillary and Bill appeared on "60 Minutes," and Hillary claimed women being questioned about their relationship with Bill were her friends. "We reached out to them. I met with two of them to reassure them they knew they were