“At least he didn’t steal the silverware,” Texas Sen. Ted Cruz posted to X Tuesday lambasting Clinton.

Clinton’s X post quickly set off condemnation from conservatives reflecting on the 2001 furniture controversy, when the Clintons took an estimated $28,000 in White House furnishings provided by donors and paid $86,000 to the federal government for other gifts they received.

“Gifts did not leave the White House without the approval of the White House usher’s and curator’s offices,” the Clintons said in a 2001 statement. “Of course, if the White House now determines that a cataloging error occurred … any item in question will be returned.”

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“All of these items were considered gifts to us,” Hillary Clinton added at the time. “That’s what the permanent record of the White House showed. . . . But if there is a different intent, we will certainly honor the intention of the donor.”

Conservatives and Trump supporters were quick to remind former first lady Hillary Clinton about her 2021 furniture controversy with former President Bill Clinton.  (Getty Images)

Trump announced Monday that construction had begun on the ballroom, following months of the president floating the planned project to modernize the White House. The project does not cost taxpayers and is privately funded, the White House reported.

The 90,000-square-foot ballroom project is expected to accommodate approximately 650 seated guests, according to the White House.

“I am pleased to announce that ground has been broken on the White House grounds to build the new, big, beautiful White House Ballroom,” Trump said on Truth Social. “Completely separate from the White House itself, the East Wing is being fully modernized as part of this process, and will be more beautiful than ever when it is complete!”

Photos of the demolition crew dismantling the East Wing’s facade circulated on social media and in news reports. Clinton responded to the construction in a message rallying voters against Trump’s project.

“It’s not his house,” Hillary Clinton wrote on X Tuesday morning. “It’s your house. And he’s destroying it.”

The social media post included a screenshot of The Washington Post’s report, “White House begins demolishing East Wing Facade to build Trump’s ballroom,” accompanied by a photo of a demolition crew.

HILLARY CLINTON FIRES UP VOTERS AGAINST TRUMP’S WHITE HOUSE BALLROOM CONSTRUCTION: ‘NOT HIS HOUSE”

Other Clinton critics pointed to former President Bill Clinton’s sex scandal with an intern in their responses on social media, and others rehashed the Lincoln Bedroom controversy.

Bill Clinton and his administration fell under scrutiny in the 1990s for hosting donors for overnight stays at the White House, specifically theLincoln Bedroom, allegedly in exchange for campaign donations. The then-president denied selling out the room for donations.

The White House has started tearing down part of the East Wing to build the ballroom President Donald Trump wants added to the building.  (The Associated Press)

“Yes, between selling nights in the Lincoln bedroom to donors and her husband’s tutelage ofthe interns in the Oval Office, if anyone treated the WH as sacred it was the Clintons,” conservative writer Mark Hemingwaywrote on X.

“The ballroom will be spectacular… unlike your work in Haiti,” Eric Trump shot back at Clinton.

“Hi Hillary, Remind us, wasn’t it you who walked off with $28,000 in White House furniture when you moved out?” conservative influencer Benny Johnson posted to X. “And your husband who defiled the Oval Office during his presidency? President Trump’s funding a beautiful new ballroom out of his own pocket.”

TRUMP APPEARS ON WHITE HOUSE ROOF AMID TALKS OF HISTORIC RENOVATIONS

President Donald Trump announced Oct. 20, 2025, that construction had begun on the ballroom.  (Alex Brandon/The Associated Press )

“There’s literally a Clinton scandal for every tweet she sends,” Missouri Rep. Eric Burlison posted to X, accompanied by a screenshot of a news report on the Clintons taking an estimated $190,000 in gifted White House furniture when leaving office.

“A Clinton would never defile the White House,” former Trump staffer Alex Pfeiffer wrote.

“I remember when the Clintons stole the people’s furniture and tableware,” columnist David Harsanyi posted.

TRUMP BREAKS GROUND ON MASSIVE WHITE HOUSE BALLROOM PROJECT WITH PRIVATE FUNDING FROM ‘PATRIOTS’

“Almost every president of has done renovations to the White House including the Clintons who did a big spread in House Beautiful in 1993 about theirs–the East Wing façade is just that a façade, not part of the original structure and added in 1942 per Franklin D. Roosevelt,” conservative columnist Salena Zito wrote.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her husband, former president Bill Clinton.  (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

“What her husband did inside ‘our house’ is the real abomination,” Fox Business’ Dagen McDowell posted to X.

The ballroom construction comes after Trump made other updates to the White House, including installing two 88-foot-tall American flags and an overhaul to the White House Rose Garden.

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“President Trump is working 24/7 to Make America Great Again, including his historic beautification of the White House, at no taxpayer expense,” White House spokesman Davis Ingle told Fox News Digital Tuesday when asked about Clinton’s post and other Democrats criticizing the ballroom construction. “These long-needed upgrades will benefit generations of future presidents and American visitors to the People’s House.”

Fox News Digital reached out to Hillary Clinton’s office Wednesday morning regarding but did not immediately receive a reply.

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In September, former FBI Director James Comey, known for misusing his power against the president, was indicted for lying to Congress. I’ve been arguing for five years that Comey’s actions should be examined carefully, including the possibility of criminal misconduct.

In analyzing the prosecution of Comey, it’s important to review the facts that led to this moment. In July 2016, Comey’s FBI opened Crossfire Hurricane, a counterintelligence operation centered around whether Trump was colluding with Russia during his campaign. The genesis for this theory largely stemmed from the Steele Dossier prepared by Christopher Steele, who we now know was hired on behalf of the Clinton campaign.

HOW JAMES COMEY’S INDICTMENT COULD GO SOUTH FOR THE DOJ

Within a month of opening Crossfire Hurricane, Comey attended a meeting at the White House where then-CIA Director John Brennan briefed then-President Barack Obama, then-Vice President Joe Biden and other high-ranking officials on credible intelligence suggesting then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s campaign may have been behind the narrative that Trump was colluding with the Russians. A few weeks later, Comey also received a memo from the intelligence community supporting the idea that the Clinton campaign signed off on an effort to link Trump to Russia.

Former FBI Director James Comey is drawn in a courtroom sketch during his October 8, 2025, arraignment in Virginia. (Federal Court, sketch artist Dana Verkouteren)

Fast-forward to January 2017, the Russian subsource who provided the information for the Steele Dossier told the FBI that the information in the dossier was unreliable and nothing but hearsay. Despite this interview, Comey and others continued to apply for warrants against Carter Page, an official adviser to the Trump campaign.

One would think that alarm bells would go off in the FBI when the man primarily responsible for creating the document used to get a warrant in the FISA court had recanted the authenticity of the document. Apparently, this bombshell revelation in the bureau’s most high-profile investigation sat in the bowels of the FBI and never made it to Comey. I find that hard to believe.

TRUMP SAYS COMEY ‘PLACED A CLOUD OVER THE ENTIRE NATION’ WITH CROSSFIRE HURRICANE, REACTS TO INDICTMENT

At that time, the FBI clearly possessed exculpatory information exonerating Trump. Despite the fact that the DOJ and FBI have a duty to share exculpatory information and evidence that might undercut the reliability of a warrant application with the FISA court, they never did.

In 2020, Comey testified during a hearing I called as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee that he was never informed of the dossier’s lack of credibility and that the intelligence reports indicating the Clinton campaign was behind the Russia narrative did not “ring any bells.” I had a hard time then — as I do now—believing that the former FBI director was telling the truth.

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The other matter to consider is the Biden Justice Department’s persecution of Trump. Three days after he announced he would seek the White House in 2024, the Biden DOJ appointed Jack Smith as special counsel.

Within nine months of launching his campaign, Trump was indicted on 91 criminal counts across four separate jurisdictions—two of which were started by Smith. It is my firm belief that if Trump had decided not to seek the presidency in 2024, none of this would have happened. Many Americans agree with me that these indictments were politically motivated and that Smith was not a fair arbiter of the law.

COMEY INDICTMENT SPARKS FIERCE POLITICAL REACTIONS NATIONWIDE

It has been the DOJ’s long-standing policy to not charge political candidates before Election Day to avoid the appearance of impropriety. However, Smith obliterated this policy. Within a month before the 2024 election, Smith was allowed to publicly release a brief containing his own version of the evidence against Trump, and he was even allowed to release an unredacted version two weeks before the election.

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Smith not only went after Trump but also his allies in Congress. During their investigation, agents working for Smith obtained records from the phone calls I—as well as eight of my colleagues—made between Jan. 4-7, 2021. At that time, I was the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. These actions are an egregious violation of the Constitution’s separation of powers and should concern every American, regardless of their politics.

The common theme between Comey and Smith is that they cut corners and ignored procedures in their pursuit of Trump. Comey disregarded evidence exonerating Trump during Crossfire Hurricane, and Smith released damaging information about him just weeks before the 2024 election. These misguided investigations resulted in numerous indictments, flooded the media with negative stories about Trump and wasted millions of taxpayer dollars.

COMEY INDICTED FOR ALLEGED FALSE STATEMENT, OBSTRUCTION OF CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDING

Fortunately, the American people saw through these examples of weaponization by the DOJ and FBI, but Comey, Smith and others still inflicted great damage on our country. Their misconduct eroded trust in our institutions and threatened the Constitution’s fundamental principle of equal justice under law.

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These abuses by Comey and Smith come along with numerous other examples of Democratic administrations targeting conservatives, including the RNC, parents attending school board meetings, Americans going to church, the America First Policy Institute, among others. When you hear Republicans say the law has been weaponized against President Trump and his supporters, at least have some understanding of why we feel that way. To suggest otherwise defies reality and common sense.

I will join my Republican colleagues and fellow Americans in refusing to be intimidated. We will keep pushing to hold accountable those who were responsible for outrageous abuses of power in an effort to destroy all things Trump.

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Republican Lindsey Graham represents South Carolina in the United States Senate.

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