In a recent interview on the podcast “Democracy Docket” with lawyer Marc Elias, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claimed that Trump wants to model himself and his second term after the rules of dictators abroad like Kim Jong Un of North Korea and Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin. Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends Weekend” slammed Hillary for those claims shortly after she made them, calling them “completely insane.”
In that podcast interview, for reference, Hillary said, “Putin does what [Trump] would like to do. Kill his opposition, imprison his opposition, drive journalists into exile, rule without any check or balance. That’s what Trump really wants. And so we have to be very conscious of how he sees the world because in that world, he only sees strong men leaders. He sees Putin, he sees Xi, he sees Kim Jong Un in North Korea.”
Continuing, she claimed, “And so we have to be very conscious of how he sees the world because in that world, he only sees strong men leaders. He sees Putin, he sees Xi, he sees Kim Jong Un in North Korea. Those are the people he is modeling himself after and we’ve been down this road in our, you know, world history. We sure don’t want to go down that again.”
She also alleged, “My view, having negotiated with Putin, and knowing one of the reasons he went after me is because he knew I would 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 in the White House.”
Fox News host Will Cain, responding to Hillary’s claims, said, somewhat bewildered, “People genuinely believe this stuff.” Continuing, he said, “They genuinely believe that he would kill his opposition. A threat to democracy, like this is the last election. But this is why they believe this stuff, because someone like that says that. And by the way, the checks and balances she talks about, I’m sorry, but this is another entry into the canon of, you know, accuse others of the sins you commit.”
Turning from Hillary’s comments to his views of the Biden presidency and Democrats, Cain continued, “The Democratic party has undercut checks and balances, not President Trump. The Democratic Party has said ‘pack the court.’ The Democratic Party has threatened the Supreme Court of the United States. The Democratic Party uses the executive branch to enforce or not enforce laws pad by Congress when it comes to, you know, for example, the border. Checks and balances are the number one threat to the party right now, and the party means Democrats.”
Take a look at the reaction from the ‘Fox and Friends’ panel below:
Kayleigh McEnany, responding to Cain, said, “It is so toxic, it is so destructive, that language. And, I wonder what Hillary Clinton does all day, because I’ve got to believe maybe she just sits around and watches MSNBC. Because “Morning Joe, “Joe Scarborough, had a similar comment four weeks ago, maybe six weeks ago. He said that Trump would execute generals, he said Trump has talked about using Seal Team Six to execute political opponents.”
She continued, explaining the connection she sees between Hillary’s comments and MSNBC, saying, “So, when I heard this, that was the exact language used on MSNBC, very similar, but except, this is coming from someone who was the Democratic nominee. How incredibly irresponsible! You expect that from a left wing hack morning host, not from someone like her.”
Watch Hillary’s original comments here:
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