Hillary Clinton isn’t the only person cashing in on her lies.
An online retailer was selling an 11.5 inch plush pant-suited “Lyin Hillary Doll” for the low, low price of $24.99, until the site – www.LyinHillaryDoll.com – sold out the day after the election.
The doll will “tell 18 unbelievable tales” including “Not a single one of my emails was classified,” “I don’t believe I ever lied – to the public,” and “When I got off the plane in Bosnia I had to dodge sniper fire.”
Now, at least one of the dolls is triggering Clinton supporters to vent their offense at an elderly couple in Smithfield, Rhode Island.
Tony Polseno Jr., the 81-year-old proprietor of Pleasant View Orchards, learned this week that not everyone appreciates the doll’s humor. Polseno received the Lyin Hillary doll from a customer as a gift and hung in from a hook in his store next to a Donald Trump Make America Great Again Sign, only to find out later it created a controversy among Clinton supporters online, the Providence Journal reports.
Several folks took Facebook and Yelp customer reviews to badmouth Polseno, who doesn’t use computers at the shop where he’s sold apples, pumpkins, donuts, fudge, flowers, honey and other goods for more than four decades.
“I cannot support a bigoted business such as this one. Having a doll of Hillary Clinton, secretary of state, with a noose around her neck? That is not only so disrespectful but misogynistic and hateful,” Yelp user Ellie B. posted. “ … Please patronize the good folks. Hate does not deserve their money.”
A “doll of a presidential candidate being hung” is “offensive and not appropriate for children – or really anyone,” Amanda L. posted to the site.
Another man called Polseno’s store “all the way from Key West” to leave a rude message on the store’s answering machine.
“You should be ashamed of yourselves for having a doll hanging,” the caller said, according to the Journal. “I hope your business goes down.”
Polseno told ABC 6 he meant no offense by the doll, or how it’s displayed.
“I just put it up there, I don’t know,” he said.
Polseno told the Journal he “didn’t mean to hang it by the neck.”
“They’re making it look like I want to hang people. I don’t do that,” he said. “We don’t want to be mean. We don’t want to offend anyone.”
Regardless, Polseno and his wife, Camella Polseno, are no fans of Clinton.
Camella Polseno said she “wanted to punch” the “Lyin Hillary doll” because of what the presidential candidate represents.
Clinton “represents the elite,” she said, while Trump “represents the middle class, the upper middle class.”
Trump also “represents no slaughtering, not aborting babies,” Camella Polseno told the Journal. He “represents hope.”
“That gentleman that made that terrible phone call to us – they have to know, my husband is 81 years old,” she said. “We’ve been in business almost 47 years. We contribute a lot of tax money to the town. We contribute a lot of tax money to the state. For him to say he hopes our business goes down, I think is just very deplorable.”
Tony Polseno said he’s not too concerned about the potential impact on his business.
“Don’t worry about putting me out of business over a doll,” he said. “They’ll need an axe.”
A customer service person for LyinHillaryDoll.com told the Journal the dolls “sold out the day after the election.
“The only thing we’re doing now, if it doesn’t work or someone wants to return it, we will accommodate them,” the man said. “It’s a gag. It’s a joke. It’s funny. For those who want to poke a little bit.”
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