Larry Flynt endorses Hillary Clinton

Larry Flynt is ready for Hillary.

“I’m endorsing Hillary Clinton for president, but I don’t think she needs my endorsement,” he told Bloomberg Politics’ John Heilemann, according to a report published Friday.


The man behind the Hustler publishing empire, who has long endorsed Democratic candidates, said the Supreme Court’s future makeup is what motivates him to back the former secretary of state in 2016.

“They wind up making the rules that everybody else lives by, and we’ve had a right-leaning court for half a century,” he said. “If Hillary gets in, chances are she’s going to have an opportunity to appoint two, maybe three justices to the court, and we could shift the balance there.”

Flynt said he knows that politicians like Clinton generally like to stay away from associating with him, and he said it does not bother him. Asked what feminist supporters might think of his endorsement, Flynt said he was sure Clinton does not approve of a lot of what he does for a living.

“Hillary doesn’t need no help from me,” he said. “All she needs to do is start fighting back” against “Clinton Cash” author Peter Schweizer, he added, comparing Schweizer’s book to what Jerry Falwell did against her husband in the 1990s.

“One of the biggest evangelists in the world put out a video accusing President Clinton of murder — [and Schweizer’s book] is the same kind of smear tactic,” he said.