New York Daily News

TV spin doc to Hil’s rescue!

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Maybe Hillary Clinton is right, and there is a vast right-wing conspiracy. And a left- and a middle-wing conspiracy, too. If not, then Hillary Clinton has the worst timing in the universe, and the vast other wings have the best.

Maybe that’s really the reason lady-in-waiting-to-be-President Clinton took time out from shaking hands and pointing to people in the audience she doesn’t know to visit with fictional spin doctor Olivia Pope on the set of “Scandal” Tuesday.

While this election season is so insane it could only happen in fiction, it’s tragically real and Pope is unfortunat­ely fake.

What in hell would the character played by Kerry Washington (right) – who, not coincident­ally, had an affair with the fictional President and is now scheming with his wife for her bid to run – do for the scandal-scarred Hillary that the Clinton’s vast leftwing arsenal of spinners hasn’t been able to do?

First off, Pope — not Hillary — would put out the idea that you don’t have to be a conspiracy nut to see that the day before every primary or caucus a boatload of Clinton misdeeds, and possible indictable evidence gets — oops — publicly released. Or — oops — leaked. These don’t

get out weeks before mind you, but thisclose to thisclose.

Pope would, in an “exclusive” interview with The Washington Post, and another to BuzzFeed, point out things like how just two days before the Iowa caucuses, the State Department announced that seven classified Clinton emails had been found in 22 documents.

Pope would tweet: Coincidenc­e or conspiracy?

The spin doctor would make sure that every TV pundit would note how odd it was that just one day before the New Hampshire primary, the FBI’s general counsel, James Baker, released a letter he’d sent to Judicial Watch, confirming that there was, in fact, an investigat­ion into Clinton’s private email server.

Pope would tweet: “Coincidenc­e or conspiracy?”

She’d hit the Sunday TV circuit and bring up the fact that again — just hours before the Nevada caucuses — the State Department dumped an astounding 562 emails from Clinton’s private server — 64 of which, they noted, had been classified.

Pope would tweet: “Coincidenc­e or conspiracy?”

The spinner would guest on “The O’Reilly Factor” to ask why, just days before the South Carolina primary, Jeffrey Sterling (the former CIA agent convicted of leaking classified info) gave an interview to The Washington Post to say that Clinton was given an “almost apologetic pass,” while regular Joe whistleblo­wers end up convicted.

Pope would tweet: “Coincidenc­e or conspiracy?”

And today? Today Ms. Pope would be on TV more often than the Karz4Kidz commercial to ask just why the State Department chose today to release the rest of Clinton private server emails. Pope would tweet: “Coincidenc­e or conspiracy?”

Damn! That Pope is good. Problem is, even damned good Olivia Pope wouldn’t be able to keep making chicken salad out of chicken s---.

Somebody’s bound to end up in the can.

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