What Do You Call a Mythomaniac? Hillary Clinton

By B.W. Durham

In psychiatry, mythomania is a disorder that presents as an excessive or abnormal propensity for lying and exaggerating, or to report incredible imaginary adventures as if they had really happened.

The Oxford Dictionary defines it as “an abnormal or pathological tendency to exaggerate or tell lies.” It also is called pseudologia fantastica and pathological lying.

I call it Hillary Clinton.

On March 15, 2016, at a town hall meeting on the campaign trail, Hillary claimed that the U.S. “didn’t lose a single person” in Libya during her term as Secretary of State. She’s got to be out of her mind! What about the four Americans killed in Benghazi in September 2012 by al-Qaida terrorists?

Hillary’s litany of lies has become a morbid tragi-comedy that she performs across America and around the world in her demonic quest to be the next U.S. President.

Morbid in the way that comedy can be ridiculous and offensive. And tragic because if Hillary is elected the consequences will be disastrous for our country.

Her continuous compulsion to falsify the truth, exaggerate and lie without remorse started to be tracked by Hillary watchers decades ago. During the Whitewater investigation in 1996, for example, the late New York Times columnist William Safire called her a “congenital liar.”

Safire said: “She is in the longtime habit of lying; and she has never been called to account for lying herself or in suborning lying in her aides and friends.”

Suborning has two definitions: “to induce secretly to do an unlawful thing” and “induce to commit perjury.”

There is no question in my mind that suborning defines Hillary.

List of Lies

I compiled a partial list of some of Hillary’s notorious lie that have been pointed out by major newspapers and news websites, and reported by political watchdog organizations. These include websites such as PolitiFact, which checks facts and rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials in American politics, and Louder With Crowder by Steven Crowder, a conservative columnist and podcaster.

The list is extensive and pathetic but worth reviewing here:

According to Hillary, she was named for Sir Edmund Hillary, the mountaineer who first conquered Mount Everest. Unfortunately, the fact is: She was six years old when he made the historic climb in 1953.

And you may remember when she returned from a visit to war-torn Bosnia in 1996, she proclaimed that she and her staff landed at an airport under heavy sniper fire and had to flee “with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.” But news videos of her arrival show Hillary walking calmly across the tarmac as she waves to onlookers.

Hillary claimed that her daughter Chelsea was jogging around the World Trade Center when the 9/11 terrorist attacks occurred. But, actually, Chelsea was safe in her apartment on Union Square almost three miles away.

More recently, and more heinous, Hillary blamed the terrorist attack on the American diplomatic installations in Benghazi in 2012 on “a disgusting video” made by an American and posted on YouTube!

In fact, she knew almost immediately from Department of Defense reports that it was an al-Qaida assault that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens. It had nothing to do with an American or a YouTube video. She not only lied about that — she had denied repeated requests from Ambassador Stevens for additional security weeks before the attack occurred. And she continued to lie about the cause, blaming the American’s YouTube video when she later met with the victims’ families!

Here are a few more of Hillary’s lies or half-truths, as noted by PolitiFact and Louder With Crowder, many of them asserted publicly in her campaign for President:

“You are three times more likely to be able to get a mortgage if you’re a white applicant than if you’re black or Hispanic even if you have the same credentials.”

“We now have more jobs in solar than we do in oil.”

“We now have driven (health care) costs down to the lowest they’ve been in 50 years.”

“I am the only candidate on either side who has laid out a specific plan about what I would do to defeat ISIS.”

ISIS is “going to people showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists.”

The Benghazi probe is “the longest-running congressional investigation ever.”

“Not one of the 17 GOP candidates has discussed how they’d address the rising cost of college.”

Hedge fund managers “pay less in taxes than nurses and truck drivers.”

“All my grandparents” immigrated to America.

The number of jobs created and people lifted out of poverty during Bill Clinton’s presidency was “a hundred times” what it was under President Ronald Reagan.

“I actually started criticizing the war in Iraq before he (Obama) did.”

“So that 2005 energy bill was a big step backwards on the path to clean, renewable energy. That’s why I voted against it.”

She claims to have been instrumental in the Northern Ireland peace negotiation, yet those actually working at the bargaining table say that Hillary was nowhere to be seen.

And another dandy — She asserted that the Clintons were “dead broke” when they left the White House. Really? In the first year after that the Clintons made $12 million and, today, their combined net worth has been estimated at more than $100 million.

Not Like Me

On the campaign trail she’s fond of telling people “I’m just like you.” I guess that would be true if all people in America were married to a past President…had a child educated in exclusive, private schools…flew everywhere in a personal jet …and made $225,000 per speech when appearing before Wall Street investment bankers.

In this essay I have not included a complete list of Hillary Clinton lies discovered by reporters and researchers — it is too long.

More recently, the FBI is intensifying its investigation of Hillary’s private home e-mail account for State Department communiques that allowed her to shirk federal record keeping policies. Some 60,000 e-mails were involved, including 30,000 she reportedly deleted.

Right now, the FBI is investigating whether computer passwords were shared among Hillary’s close aides — the agency wants to determine how sensitive intelligence crossed over between classified systems and her unsecured personal server.

Bryan Pagliano is the former State Department employee who helped set up and maintain Hillary’s private server at the house where she and Bill Clinton live. Pagliano has been granted immunity by the Justice Department, and he is revealing details about how and when Clinton and her aides accessed the server.

Depending on what Pagliano says, Hillary may be called for questioning by the FBI within a matter of weeks. How much of what she tells the FBI will be lies?

The fact is…Hillary failed to distinguish herself as an effective diplomat during her tenure as Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013. Serving in one of the most important jobs in the world, she accomplished very little, nor did she show effective leadership or have any significant diplomatic victories.

And…What about the millions of dollars that foreign governments contributed to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary was Secretary of State, including a $500,000 donation from the Algerian government — which may have violated U.S. government ethics policy?

Could there be a conflict of interest here?

To this day Hillary continues to blame an American and his YouTube video about Islam for the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, lying when she says that the video was responsible for the deaths of American there.

In the years since the attack, Hillary has continually misled America about who was responsible for the attack (i.e., al-Qaida terrorists), the real reasons for the attack and why our government denied repeated requests for security necessary to protect the Americans there.

And when it comes to Benghazi she hasn’t stopped lying even today, as noted in her remark this week that that the U.S. “didn’t lose a single person” in Libya during her term as Secretary of State.

And this woman wants to be our President.

In my opinion Hillary Clinton has no moral compass — she is amoral. She is not concerned about telling the truth or lying. She is only concerned with what will help her achieve her personal and political objectives.

Mythomania and Mythomaniac may be perfect descriptions of Hillary Clinton. Sociopath may be a better one. All three are accurate, I believe.

And when you consider she has a good chance of becoming our next President — it’s absolutely terrifying.

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