Hillary Clinton calls Trump a ‘clear and present danger’ to U.S.
By Abbey Marshall
Politico
September 26, 2019
Hillary Clinton is calling President Donald Trump a “clear and present danger” to the U.S. amid the latest scandal engulfing his administration, and says that her defeat in the 2016 presidential election was like “losing to a corrupt human tornado.”
In an interview with Jane Pauley that will air this weekend on “CBS Sunday Morning,” Clinton gave her assessment of Trump when asked whether it was now harder for a woman to be elected president.
“Well, I hope not, and I don’t think so — because the objective is to field whoever is the strongest candidate to defeat Donald Trump,” she said in an excerpt released on Thursday. “Because Donald Trump right now poses a direct threat, a clear and present danger to the institutions of our government, to the rule of law, to our standing in the world.”
Clinton said she supported impeachment proceedings against the president because of what has come to light this week from a whistleblower’s complaint about a call Trump had with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine. During that conversation in late July, Trump sought Zelensky’s help in getting dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden, a leading candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
“My view is that, given the latest revelation, which is such a blatant effort to use his presidential position to advance his personal and political interests, there should be an impeachment inquiry opened,” Clinton told Pauley in the interview, which took place on Tuesday just hours before Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the House was launching formal impeachment proceedings.
The upcoming interview included Clinton’s daughter, Chelsea, and was tied to publication of their new book, “The Book of Gutsy Women,” which profiles more than 100 trailblazing women — from the abolitionist Harriet Tubman to Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old climate activist.
Since his 2016 victory, Trump has continued to attack Clinton, including over her use of a private email server when she was secretary of state. Clinton pushed back in the CBS interview, comparing her experience to what Biden is facing now.
“The most outrageously false things were said about me,” Clinton said. “And unfortunately, enough people believed them. So this is an effort to sow these falsehoods against Biden.
“And I don’t care if you’re for the [Democrats] or you’re a Republican, when the president of the United States, who has taken an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, uses his position to in effect extort a foreign government for his political purposes, I think that is very much what the founders worried about in high crimes and misdemeanors.”
3 comments:
I believe that Hillary is actively (though very much in the background) positioning herself to ride in and save the day in the event that the Democrat-Socialist convention crashes and burns. Right now that is far from an impossible scenario. It is possible that she and her acolytes really believe that her health would allow her to finish out a term but not actually RUN for the nomination. They think that if she can just manage to stay vertical until the election she will win more or less by default and thereby become the second female president (after Edith Wilson) in the history of the republic.
She should be happy she's not wearing an orange jumpsuit and sitting in a cell somewhere.
Prison health care is really pretty good now. Maybe they could find out why she keeps passing out and falling down. (Maybe she is a closet alky.)
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