Gary J. Byrne has devoted his life, and risked it, to serve his
country — as a member of the US Air Force, a uniformed White House
Secret Service officer, and a federal air marshal.
And he believes it is his
patriotic duty to do anything he can to prevent Hillary Clinton from
becoming president of the United States.
As someone who guarded the Oval Office during the Clinton presidency,
Byrne, in an exclusive interview with The Post, tells how he witnessed
“the Clinton machine leaving a wake of destruction in just about
everything they do.”
He says he has also seen
Hillary’s “dangerous,” abusive, paranoid behavior.
“It’s like hitting yourself with a hammer every day,” says Byrne,
pounding a fist into his open hand, of the former First Lady’s explosive
anger.
In his new book, “Crisis of Character: A White House Secret Service
Officer Discloses His Firsthand Experience with Hillary, Bill, and How
They Operate,” out Tuesday, Byrne makes no apologies for his
anti-Clinton motivations.
“ ‘America first’ is in my blood,” he writes, sounding very similar to another presidential hopeful.
Byrne says he wants Americans to “vote [their] conscience,” but
pledges to make sure “they have all the information that they need.”
For one, he thinks the Clintons’ own behavior bred an immoral White House culture.
Byrne revealed to The Post during the interview that Clinton staffers used cocaine on the job.
“There were some drug issues,” Byrne says. “Some people would come in
to work in the morning, and they were barely walking, they would drop
stuff off at the office, and go to the restroom where they would come
out minutes later happy as a clown.”
He also exposes the “jogging list” for the first time.
“In the beginning of his first administration, when President Clinton
was jogging outside, women who were dressed as if they were going
clubbing or working out, started showing up at the southeast gate,”
Byrne explains. “The agents . . . would get the women’s names, and run
them to see who they were. If the women wouldn’t cooperate, they would
be ushered out of the jogging group.
“Agents … insinuated that this list was used by President Clinton to try to meet these women,” Byrne says.
The book details how the president had as many as three mistresses
during the same time period, including former Vice President Walter
Mondale’s daughter, Eleanor, who Byrne once discovered “making out on
the Map Room table” with Bill Clinton.
What bothered Byrne more than the infidelity was the way Bill Clinton
programmed the entire White House to accommodate his cheating ways.
Hillary, meanwhile, was a human minefield. The Secret Service was
convinced Hillary posed a physical threat to her husband, and even gave
him a black eye, Byrne writes.
She also cursed out her security detail, and she and Bill would often
try to evade the Secret Service, making it difficult to protect them
and putting agents at greater risk, Byrne says.
But what sticks most in Byrne’s mind is the personal destruction the
Clintons wrought in his own life – the fear and turmoil he had to endure
as authorities subpoenaed and harassed him as they investigated the
Monica Lewinsky scandal.
It all could have been avoided, Byrne maintains, if Bill Clinton had simply told the truth.
Byrne’s revelations have come under fire recently, with some critics
doubting he had the access to the Clintons he claims he had, and that
his book details do not align exactly with his testimony to prosecutors
nearly two decades ago.
Hillary Clinton’s spokesman has ripped the book, telling Page Six
“Gary Byrne joins the ranks of Ed Klein and other ‘authors’ in this
latest in a long line of books attempting to cash in on the election
cycle with their nonsense. It should be put in the fantasy section of
the book store.”
“Anybody who asserts that what I’m saying is not true,” Byrne says,
his voice cracking with emotion, “they don’t know any better or they’re
flat-out lying.”
Yet, he confesses, “I’m not completely comfortable telling the story, but I am telling it.”
He says a number of people could vouch for his access, including
George Stephanopoulos, the former Bill Clinton communications director;
John Podesta, Hillary’s campaign chairman, who worked in the Clinton
White House; and Jennifer Palmieri, Hillary Clinton’s current campaign
communications director, who worked near Byrne in the White House.
As for his testimony during the Ken Starr investigation, Byrne — who
never signed a nondisclosure agreement with the Secret Service — says at
the time he gave narrow answers to specific questions, as instructed.
“[I]f my testimony wasn’t true, I would end up doing seven years,” he says.
To prove he’s being truthful, he says, he’s willing to undergo a polygraph test — if Hillary takes one too.
Byrne says he is not committed to Donald Trump, despite sharing his slogans.
“The only thing I’ve ever heard about Donald Trump,” says Byrne, “was
that he built a lot of buildings and he gave a lot of money away to
charity.”
But, he says, he will never vote for a Clinton.
“I know what the public image of the Clintons is and I know what the real image is,” he says. “And the real one’s dangerous.”
Source: New York Post
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