During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump’s pet name for Hillary Clinton was Crooked Hillary. It was accurate enough, considering the Russian Collusion Hoax she and her campaign conceived and executed with the help of the FBI and Obama administration to wreck Trump’s candidacy, and then his presidency.
But given her latest appearance on the Democracy Docket podcast with former campaign torpedo Marc Elias, Trump might have to adjust his sobriquet.
The woman who got away with storing classified emails on a private server and other shenanigans claimed that Trump wants to murder his political opponents and model himself after Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.
Maybe Clinton’s new name should be Crazy Hillary.
The Rant
Discussing Joe Biden’s age — he’ll be 82 when he takes office in January 2025 if he wins — Clinton noted that the dementia-stricken president might be old, but he’s also “effective” and “compassionate.”
As well, “he cares about people,” “wants to maintain our democracy,” and “will abide by the results of a fair and free election.”
That’s an odd charge coming from Clinton, who falsely and repeatedly claimed that Trump stole the election in 2016.
But then the Democratic Party’s scold went off the deep end to deliver a litany of lunatic claims about Trump.
Noting that Trump is “old,” Clinton said that “this man has been indicted 91 times, and do we really expect him to govern in a stable, appropriate, rules-based, respectful way?”
Clinton claimed the issues in the next election were too important to be left to Trump, who might not be “boring” but will indeed harm the United States internationally and rule like a madman:
You know, his bromance with Putin, and it was actually called that, I think, by the former prime minister of Australia, who said he saw Trump with Putin, and Trump was like, you know, just gaga over Putin because Putin does what he would like to do: kill his opposition, imprison his opposition, drive … journalists and others into exile, rule without any check or balance. That’s what Trump really wants.
But Trump won’t stop there, Clinton warned. His ultimate goal is setting himself up as the Supreme Leader, a strong man with zero opposition who whisks enemies away to be imprisoned or executed at will.
“He sees Putin, he sees Xi [Jinping], he sees Kim Jong Un in North Korea. Those are the people he is modeling himself after,” Clinton falsely claimed:
We’ve been down this road in our world history. We sure don’t want to go down that again. And especially when, in my view — having negotiated with Putin, and knowing that one of the reasons he went after me is because he knew I would, you know, deal with him in an appropriate way, and Trump would basically do whatever he wanted — it’s really important to think about what could happen to our world with Trump back at the White House — withdrawing us from NATO, not caring about what happens in Europe, our biggest trading partner, the place where we share values with; the idea that he wants Ukraine to fail; the idea that he doesn’t want us to be able to surveil our enemies. I mean, this is a very scary prospect.
Call It Projection
Clinton’s past remarks about Trump supporters suggests that she’s the would-be dictator.
In 2016, she called Trump supporters a “basket of deplorables.” They are an “irredeemable” group that includes the “the racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it.”
And just last year, in an interview with CNN, as The New American reported, Clinton strongly suggested to CNN leftist Christiane Amanpour that Trump supporters are part of a deranged, extremist “cult” that must be “deprogrammed.” And the deprogramming wouldn’t be voluntary — it would be “formal” — meaning forcible.
“We had very strong partisans in both parties in the past. And we had very bitter battles over all kinds of things,” Clinton said. “But there wasn’t this little tail of extremism, waving, you know, wagging the dog of the Republican Party as it is today.”
Continued Clinton:
And, sadly, so many of those extremists, those MAGA extremists take their marching orders from Donald Trump, who has no credibility left by any measure. He’s only in it for himself. He’s now defending himself in civil actions and criminal actions. And when do they break with him?
Because at some point, you know, maybe there needs to be a formal deprogramming of the cult members. But something needs to happen.
Amusingly, having claimed that Trump supporters must be “formally deprogrammed,” which would require imprisonment in reeducation camps, she called Trump’s political ascendancy a “classic tale of an authoritarian populist who really has a grip on the emotional, psychological needs and desires of a portion of the population.”
And again, she called his supporters hateful bigots. “Maybe they don’t like migrants,” she said. “Maybe they don’t like gay people or black people or the woman who got the promotion at work they didn’t get, whatever the reason.”
Or maybe they just didn’t like Clinton. And maybe they don’t like Biden.
As commentator Collin Rugg wrote, Clinton uttered her last remarks without the slightest trace of irony.
That’s because what she said, as X users wrote, is a classic case of what the headshrinkers call projection.
