Hillary’s Only Child Tries to Help Mom

Chelsea Clinton is 36 years old, but she’s America’s eternal youngster. A shy teenager in Americans’ minds — one who seems happy and relieved to stay in the background in support of her mega-watt parents — she is a grown woman.

She’s married and has two young children.

The Clinton combine moves on, churning up even the principles of those who devote their professional lives to serious topics like rape.

In the final minutes of the first presidential debate, Donald Trump stopped short of unleashing the firepower he had at the ready for his opponent. Had he aimed squarely at Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, she would have been shelled with a rapid-fire barrage of facts about her husband’s many extramarital affairs and infidelities over the years.

Some of these were not just consensual affairs, of course — they were alleged gropings, unwanted physical advances, and even rape. Yes, rape — a topic that modern feminists and liberals are always begging America to get more serious about.

No means no. Except, of course, when a Clinton is the perpetrator.

In the Clintons’ case, the combine keeps moving on, churning up even the principles of those who devote their professional lives to serious topics like rape.

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Trump was poised to bring all of Bill Clinton’s past nastiness up on the debate stage Monday night. But he thought about that eternal teenager in the audience — Chelsea Clinton. And he held back. He showed the restraint and dignity that so many liberals have claimed is not humanly possible for him.

This writer admired that greatly, as did so many other Americans. We remember Chelsea Clinton as a young girl, struggling with frizzy hair — just as so many of us did. She pushed up her glasses on her nose and held tightly to her mother’s hand — just as we did. My parents, always avid, inside-the-Beltway consumers of all things political, taught me that children are to be left alone when their address is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

In an interview with Cosmopolitan published Tuesday, Chelsea Clinton was asked what she thought of Donald Trump’s comments that he didn’t mention Bill Clinton’s indiscretions during the presidential debate — out of respect for her.

Trump should speak for all Americans and ask for a full accounting of Bill Clinton’s shady, abusive past.

“Candidly, I don’t remember a time in my life when my parents and my family weren’t being attacked, and so it just sort of seems to be in that tradition, unfortunately,” she told the publication. But then she really let loose.

“And what I find most troubling by far are Trump’s … continued, relentless attacks on whole swaths of our country and even our global community: women, Muslims, Americans with disabilities, a Gold Star family. I mean, that, to me, is far more troubling than whatever his most recent screed against my mom or my family [is].”

Hold on a minute. No one — including a family member, who is now a grown woman — should perpetuate the lie that any inquiries into Clinton law-breaking activities are unfair attacks.

Trump should speak for all Americans and ask for a full accounting of Bill Clinton’s shady, abusive past — something he’s suggested he may do in the second debate. It’s relevant. He’s the spouse of a major candidate — the spouse of the candidate who repeatedly says she is all about women’s rights.