Upcoming book hammers Clinton over temperament, says she has a ‘volcanic’ leadership style

(Clinton.news) In politics it’s all about timing, and that is especially true when it comes to political literature. So it’s not surprising that a book critical of likely Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is about to hit stores and online sellers in a few weeks. What is surprising is who wrote it.

As reported by Fox News, the title, “Crisis of Character,” was written by former Secret Service officer Gary J. Byrne, who was “posted directly outside President Clinton’s Oval Office,” he says in a 285-page book that paints the former first lady as dismissive of rules and irregular in her personality.

Fox News reported further:

While some extracts have already been released on the Amazon.com preview page, the New York Post reported Monday that Byrne claims Clinton is too “erratic, uncontrollable and occasionally violent” to become commander-in-chief. 

Byrne describes Clinton as switching quickly from friendly to angry in a moment, and repeatedly screaming obscenities at her husband, the Secret Service, and White House staffers. Secret Service agents even had to consider what to do in case the first lady attacked the president physically, Byrne claims.

“Hillary Clinton is now poised to become the Democratic nominee for president of the United States, but she simply lacks the integrity and temperament to serve in the office,” Byrne wrote, according to the Post.

“From the bottom of my soul I know this to be true. And with Hillary’s latest rise, I realize that her own leadership style — volcanic, impulsive, enabled by sycophants, and disdainful of the rules set for everyone else — hasn’t changed a bit.”

Ironically, just last week Clinton accused the presumptive Republican nominee, Donald Trump, as being “temperamentally unfit” for the nation’s highest elected office.

In Amazon.com’s preview of the book, Byrne said he remembered an alleged argument between the first couple during the summer of 1995, which is detailed in Chapter 1, “The Vase.” Byrne said a vase was demolished during a very vocal argument and, the following morning, the president had “a shiner, a real, put-a-steak-on-it black eye.” The president’s personal scheduler, however, allegedly told Byrne that really the eye was just the result of Clinton’s allergy to coffee.

Others who are critical of the first lady say the book just highlights her unsuitability for the office of president.

“It’s about them having a separate set of rules or not having to follow the rules, and there are basic questions of character … in how they treated others and how they treated their colleagues,” Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union, told Fox News.

Byrnes’ account of the vase and a combative relationship between the former first couple during their time in office is by far not the only one. As noted by The Washington Times in April 2015, former White House reporter Kate Anderson Browner, in a book released last year, claimed some similar things.

“There was blood all over the president and first lady’s bed,” she wrote in, “The Residence: The Private World of the White House.” “A member of the residence staff got a frantic call from the maid who found the mess. Someone needed to come quickly and inspect the damage. The blood was Bill Clinton‘s. The president had to get several stitches to his head.”

At the time, the president insisted he had merely hit his head on the bathroom door during the night.

In another chapter in her book, White House florist Ronn Payne recalled another argument between the first couple.

“He was coming up the service elevator … as the Clintons argued viciously with each other. … [H]e heard the first lady bellow ‘goddamn bastard!’ at the president – and then he heard someone throw a heavy object across the room.” she wrote. “The rumor among the staff was that she threw a lamp. The butlers, Payne said, were told to clean up the mess. In an interview with Barbara Walters, Mrs. Clinton made light of the story … ‘I have a pretty good arm … If I’d thrown a lamp at somebody, I think you would have known about it.’ … ‘You heard so much foul language’ in the Clinton White House, [Payne] said. …”

She went on to write that, for about 3-4 months in 1998, after the Monica Lewinsky affair became public, “the president slept on a sofa in a private study attached to their bedroom on the second floor. Most of the women on the residence staff thought he got what he deserved.”

Sources:

WashingtonTimes.com

FoxNews.com