The network newscasts have shown no interest in an ex-Secret Service agent’s unflattering portrayal of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s time at the White House. Gary Byrne, author of Crisis of Character, appeared on Fox’s Hannity, Monday, but has been all but invisible on ABC, CBS and NBC.
Talking to Sean Hannity, the 29-year law enforcement veteran revealed, “She gets angry at things that are policy issues that, you know, take time to fix, and she's got this attitude where she wants things fixed right now, immediately. She screams and yells at people.”
He repeated a story about Mrs. Clinton throwing a vase at her husband:
GARY BYRNE: So the vase story is I came in one morning to go to work early, came in and worked out. And then as I headed over to the post, I ran into house residence workers that were going home. And they said, Oh, you better go over and see your buddy. We had a problem last night. So I went over to the mansion post on the ground floor, and I said, What's going on? I heard something happened. They said, you know, Mr. and Mrs. Clinton had this horrendous fight. It was so loud that the staff people on the ground had walked away, you know, from the elevator shaft. The sound was coming down. And then they heard a crash, and then when it was investigated, they saw a broken vase on the floor. Now, this has been reported to be not true, and they reported it, that a lamp was thrown. Well, a lamp wasn't thrown. A vase was.
Byrne, who is also an Air Force veteran, has not appeared on NBC’s Today, the NBC Nightly News, ABC’s Good Morning America, World News, CBS This Morning or the CBS Evening News. The book was discussed on ABC’s The View, June 7.
Unsurprisingly, co-host Whoopi Goldberg dismissed, “It's amazing. And, you know, so there will always be folks that are coming out with books and stuff. Co-host Joy Behar justified Hillary Clinton throwing a vase at her husband:
JOY BEHAR: Well, it was the '90s. You know, her husband is going after an intern and of course she's mad. I would have thrown the entire set of dishes at him. You know what I mean? Of course she's angry with him, if it's true.
A partial transcript is below:
Hannity
6/27/16
10:05pm ETSEAN HANNITY: Tonight, in a Hannity exclusive, it's the book that everyone is talking about. Former Clinton White House Secret Service officer Gary Byrne -- he reveals what Hillary Clinton is really like behind closed doors when the cameras are not rolling. He details Hillary's horrible temper.
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SEAN HANNITY: And welcome to Hannity. And tonight, his highly anticipated tell-all should be making the Clinton campaign very nervous tonight. In his brand-new book, "Crisis of Character," a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate. Gary Byrne details what the Clintons are like far away from the public eye. Now, he has a lot to share, so let's get things started. Joining us now in an exclusive is former Secret Service officer Gary Byrne. How are you? Good to see you, sir.
GARY BYRNE (author of Crisis of Character): Thank you, Sean.
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HANNITY: ... You talk about why you wrote this book. You said, What I learned from the Clintons firsthand the hard way is important. In 2016, she's running again. And you feel compelled to tell the story because you -- because why? Let me ask that.
BYRNE: Because I want Americans to know what the real Clinton administration is like. Mrs. Clinton is not a leader. She's a very, very angry person all the time. She's -- I've seen many instances that I talk about in my book, "Crisis of Character," where she displays this holier than thou attitude, Do as I say, not as I do. She's a dictator. She comes across as a dictator. I've seen her berate many people, and myself included. And I've never seen any example that would lead me to believe that she could lead this country.
HANNITY: You know, you describe a woman that is very phony. In other words, you talk about how she'd tell you to go to hell or tell another agent to go blank himself.
BYRNE: Correct.
HANNITY: ... And how she threw a bible at a Secret Service officer or agent.
BYRNE: Agent.
HANNITY: Agent.
BYRNE: Yes, sir.
HANNITY: OK. And the vase story, which we'll get to in a minute.
BYRNE: Right.
HANNITY: But if the cameras were on, she was close to Bill, but it was manufactured, it was not real.
BYRNE: Absolutely.
HANNITY: Camera goes off, different person.BYRNE: Yes. Yes.
HANNITY: And if she had guests, she'd say, Oh, he's my favorite Secret Service guy.
BYRNE: She actually did that to me one time when she berated me about an hour before over something, and then introduced me to this tour from Arkansas, a group of people that were getting a special tour, and told them what a wonderful — I was her favorite officer and patted me on the back, and almost to the point where I -- like, I almost believed her. But I knew what the truth was. I had seen this behavior before.
HANNITY: You said, A nd with Hillary Clinton's latest rise, I realized her own leadership style, volcanic, impulsive, enabled by sycophants, disdainful of the rules set for everyone else, has not changed a bit. A lot has been made about temperament, and the temperament of a president.
BYRNE: Yes.
HANNITY: You're describing someone by far that does not have control of her emotions or temperament.
BYRNE: Yes. She exhibits some very dangerous behavior, as I would describe it. She gets angry at things that are policy issues that, you know, take time to fix, and she's got this attitude where she wants things fixed right now, immediately. She screams and yells at people. And there's procedures. You know, government is -- government is very bogged down with rules and regulations. And so yes, there's many examples that I cite in my book where she blows up at people. Like I said, she's blown up at me before and agents and her staff.
At one time, I saw her staff so afraid to tell her about a mistake that was made. They weren't upset about the waste of the mistake, of ordering the wrong invitations. They were terrified that someone was going to have to tell Hillary Clinton that there was a mistake made....
BYRNE: Correct. She -- their relationship was -- seemed so strained and volatile at times. And she -- she would continuously berate people, as I mentioned before. But she was like two different people. Again, she would be polite and nice to everybody when the cameras were on, and then when they were off, she was just cold, distant.
HANNITY: Seconds later.BYRNE: Almost instantly. I mean, that's what I've experienced quite a few times.
HANNITY: Yes. All right, you tell a couple of stories. And I think the audience would want to hear them.
BYRNE: Sure.
HANNITY: One story is the vase story.
BYRNE: Sure.
HANNITY: The other story is the blue glove story.
BYRNE: Right.
HANNITY: And I think they give some insight into what you saw on a regular basis.
BYRNE: Sure. So the vase story is I came in one morning to go to work early, came in and worked out. And then as I headed over to the post, I ran into house residence workers that were going home. And they said, Oh, you better go over and see your buddy. We had a problem last night. So I went over to the mansion post on the ground floor, and I said, What's going on? I heard something happened. They said, you know, Mr. and Mrs. Clinton had this horrendous fight. It was so loud that the staff people on the ground had walked away, you know, from the elevator shaft. The sound was coming down. And then they heard a crash, and then when it was investigated, they saw a broken vase on the floor. Now, this has been reported to be not true, and they reported it, that a lamp was thrown. Well, a lamp wasn't thrown. A vase was.
