Here’s what we know: The news involving Hillary Clinton was flying hard and fast last week. And the mainstream news media is so in-the-tank for Clinton it’s growing barnacles.

So let’s see if we can run down some of last week’s adventures and revelations that the mainstream media won’t put together for you, and find a common denominator among them all.

Clinton’s Campaign Pays to Cause Violence at Trump Rallies

One of the main themes of the general election has been the notion that Trump’s rallies are violence-filled exercises in extremism. What we learned from the first Project Veritas undercover videos is that the violence was instigated by paid operatives of Hillary Clinton. Her people boasted about it. They are also seen on the tape saying knowledge of their dirty works went all the way up to Hillary. This should be no surprise. The tactics used were straight out of Saul Alinksy’s Rules for Radicals, and Hillary Clinton is nothing if not a disciple of Alinksy. But what we lack in surprise we should make up with horror.

Think about it: A major candidate for president of the United States is deliberately instigating violence in the American streets. In Chicago, that instigation led to riots that injured two Chicago policemen, among others. Blue Lives Matter? Black Lives Matter? For Hillary, apparently only the White House matters.

During Wednesday night’s debate, Hillary neither denied nor defended herself against the charge. Instead, she again accused Donald Trump of inspiring violence. Accusing your enemy of what you yourself are doing is just another of Alinky’s Rules.

Exposing National Security Secrets

During the debate, Hillary Clinton managed to share with our enemies America’s response time to a nuclear attack! Military experts immediately worried that she had just spilled an extremely sensitive national security secret. Remember the saying “Loose Lips Sink Ships”? Loose Lips should at least sink a candidacy, especially if it’s a candidate who, according to FBI Director James Comey, was “extremely careless” when handling national secrets. She didn’t need a computer server this time. Just a few seconds of air time.

Speaking of Hillary’s mishandling of classified information, a video emerged of Hillary lecturing State Department staffers in 2010 of the dangers of such carelessness. Either Clinton believes rules don’t apply to her or she is unaware of what she is reading into a camera. Neither bodes well for a potential commander-in-chief.

The “Quid Pro Quo” to Protect Hillary

While we’re on the subject of the FBI and classified emails, notes from the FBI’s criminal investigation of Clinton revealed an appalling effort by Undersecretary of State, and former Clinton underling, Patrick Kennedy to pressure the FBI to change the classification of one of the most highly classified emails found on Hillary’s server.

The FBI had been begging Kennedy for months to allow more FBI agents overseas. Kennedy ignored the requests. Suddenly, Kennedy calls up out of the blue with what the FBI notes specifically call a “quid pro quo” offer. Basically, Kennedy said he’d give them those agents they wanted, if they did him this little-itty-bitty favor: Downgrade the classification on one of two emails found on Hillary’s private server that the FBI had flagged. Downgrading the email would not only keep it from the public, it would give Hillary more cover for her lie that there was no classified email on her server. Not coincidentally, the email had to do with Benghazi.

The State Department and the FBI deny there was any “quid pro quo” because there never was a deal. There never was a deal because when the FBI agent saw that the email involved Benghazi, he told Kennedy to take a flying leap.

“Mr. Fix It” Meets the Possibility of Blackmail

With the mainstream media’s joy at digging up all the abundant dirt on Donald Trump, you’d think a cover story from the people who exposed John Edward’s affair in 2008 would generate at least some attention. Apparently not, if the target is Hillary Rodham Clinton. On Wednesday, the National Enquirer released a detailed story from a self-described Hollywood “Mr. Fix It,” who says that from 1994 to 2008, he covered up a dozen or so lurid incidents involving both Bill and Hillary Clinton, including Bill’s romps with a hooker caught on tape and Hillary’s dalliances with both men and women.

You can read all about it in the grocery line.

“Oh, but that’s just sex. That’s just her personal life,” we’ll hear. (As if somehow her personal life is less relevant than Trump’s.)

Wrong. Far more important is the implication of the story. For six of the years Mr. Fix It says he cleaned up the Clintons’ messes, they were the President and First Lady of the United States. Meaning, if even one of those stories is true, Hillary Clinton behaved in a manner that could have exposed the U.S. government to blackmail.

As did her careless use of a private server.

This gets us to the common denominator linking all these above stories together.

Hillary’s Self-Interest Over the Security of the Nation

The one theme running through just this one week of stories is that time and time again, Hillary Clinton puts her needs and desires over the security and safety of the United States. Her ambition comes before America, her power over “We the People.”

These recent revelations alone spell out how completely Hillary Clinton has betrayed the public trust. However, The Stream ‘s Nancy Flory lays out how this pattern of betraying the public trust goes back to the early 1970s, when she was fired from the Watergate Committee.

We’re Not Done Yet …

Among last week’s other Clinton moments:

1. WikiLeaks revealed that the Clinton Foundation pays women drastically less than it pays men, despite the fact that she has used such disparity statistics for years to paint corporate America as sexist.
2. Pay-to-Play: WikiLeaks also revealed Hillary Clinton agreed to attend a meeting in Morocco if Morocco kicked in $12 million to the Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative. In the email, her aide and BFF Huma Abedin grumbled, “She created this mess and she knows it.” Huma could have said the same about the Clinton campaign bus that illegally dumped fecal matter into a city sewer.
3. Project Veritas also released a second video showing Clinton operatives scheming on ways to commit massive voter fraud. When Donald Trump said in the debate that given such evidence as the video he would have to wait and see before accepting the election results, Clinton expressed shock and horror. Yes, a woman who served in the administration of a man birthed in the Chicago machine, expressing horror over the possibility of voter fraud.

Finally, the notes released by the FBI show that Hillary Clinton was so rude and “contemptuous” of her State Department security detail that senior agents refused to work with her. (They also resented being put in significant danger just for a photo op during a trip to Jakarta.)

If Hillary Clinton has that much contempt for people willing to take a bullet for her, how much more contempt does she have for voters she’s never met?