It’s hard, but you have to feel sorry for Hillary Clinton; she is he only one who doesn’t know that it’s all over.

She had this thing in the bag — twice — and both times she let it get away from her. She will never be president

Everybody knows it, except her, which is extraordinary. What is also extraordinary is that she does not even seem to know why she is not the president of the United States.

Instead of accepting her fate and making the most of it, she roams the country and the world moaning about the injustice of it all. Can’t you see that she should be president, that she was robbed? Are you all deplorables?

It is a wonder that, while in Europe peddling her book “What Happened,” she did not file a complaint with the International Court in The Hague.

Surely, those judges would have listened to how the Russians colluded with Donald Trump to steal the election.

Maybe she just might have to run for president again. Maybe she could do the country and the world a favor by defeating Trump in 2020 when he seeks a second term.

And although she would be 73, she would be spry, although she stumbles now and then, as old folks do. Still, the third time never fails, they say.

But she has to stop embellishing her stories, like coming under sniper fire when landing in Tuzla in 1996, when the truth is story enough. Or telling whoppers about how a video caused the radical Islamist terrorists attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi.

Or how all those emails she turned over to the FBI keep popping up, and how she knew nothing about the U.S. turning over 20 percent of its uranium to Russia when she was secretary of state, or about paying for the Russian dossier on Trump.

Hillary, in London, broke her toe the other day. But instead of just saying that she stubbed her toe, Hillary being Hillary, explained: “I was running down the stairs in heels with a cup of coffee in hand. I was talking over my shoulder and my heel caught and I fell backward.”

First of all, Hillary does not wear high heels. And who runs down stairs holding a cup of coffee while talking to someone behind you? And if you fall coming down the stairs, don’t you fall forward rather than backward?

It is a small point, to be sure, but it is also telling. Hillary Clinton is a serial embellisher. She has embellished her way through life, and it has almost gotten her to the White House on her own.

In her mind she deserves the prize, if only for the hard road she has traveled and the trouble she has endured.

Although understandable, her first defeat was tough enough. She lost to a phenomenon. Barack Obama was a slick and smooth newcomer who came out of nowhere in 2008 to wrest the Democrat nomination and the presidency away from her.

Then in 2016, when she was thinking about rearranging the furniture in the Oval Office — and what she would do with the sofa Bill used for his escapades — along came Trump, the clownish braggart from New York who upset everything.

Hillary became unhinged.

While she said she was “shocked and appalled” at the sexual rape and assault charge leveled at her friend and campaign contributor Harvey Weinstein, she compared Weinstein to the “sexual assaulter” in the White House.

She was not talking about her husband Bill Clinton, who used to spend time on the Oval Office couch with White House intern Monica Lewinsky and was accused of sexual assault by several women.

Weinstein’s behavior, Clinton said in a London interview, “cannot be tolerated anywhere, whether it’s in entertainment (or) politics. After all, we have someone admitting to being a sexual assaulter in the Oval Office.”

That would President Trump, not husband Bill.

The interviewer brought up her book, in which she dismissed three women — Jaunita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey, and Paula Jones — who accused Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct. Trump brought up the women’s allegations during the campaign.

“You kind of dismiss them. Was that the right thing to do?” she was asked.

“Well, yes,” Clinton replied, “because that had all been litigated.”

When she finally becomes president (which is never), the first thing she is going to do is litigate Bill Clinton’s Oval Office couch.

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