Top Democrat election denier Hillary Clinton took some backlash after she appeared to be giddy over the most recent indictment thrown at her 2016 nemesis — former President Donald Trump.
The former Secretary of State — who lost to Trump in 2016 and has since told everyone who would listen that he stole that election from her — was speaking with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow about the indictment out of Fulton County, Georgia, that alleged Trump and more than a dozen of his closest allies were “co-conspirators” in a coordinated attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
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Maddow had intended to interview Clinton about an article she wrote for The Atlantic titled, “The Weaponization of Loneliness,” but instead they started off with a conversation — and laughter — about the slate of indictments in Georgia.
“It’s always good to talk to you,” Clinton said to Maddow, “But honestly I didn’t think it would be under these circumstances. Yet another set of indictments …”
“If bad actors tell us falsely that every election is stolen and that the only way an election is trustworthy is that if they come out on top of it, it tells you something not just about that person but it wounds us as a democracy in a way that’s hard to repair,” Maddow went on to complain later in the segment — with no mention of how Clinton herself had done exactly that.
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Grabien founder Tom Elliott shared a super cut of Clinton essentially making the same claims that Trump is under fire for making:
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“Indeed. Hillary claimed the 2000 and 2016 elections were stolen — and questioned the legitimacy of the 2004 elections,” David Harsanyi noted.
“Kind of awkward to tell Hillary to her face that she’s a bad actor who wounded our democracy,” Seth Dillon added.
Sirius XM podcast host Megyn Kelly called the entire exchange “a disgusting display by both women on the set.”
Fox Business anchor David Asman asked, “Do we even need an explainer of why this is such a perfect combination of irony, hypocrisy, and projection?”
“The irony of watching Rachel Maddow and Hillary Clinton scold people for spreading conspiracy theories about stolen elections when they were the biggest Trump-Russian collusion hoaxers after the 2016 election,” Kevin Tober said.
The irony of watching Rachel Maddow and Hillary Clinton scold people for spreading conspiracy theories about stolen elections when they were the biggest Trump-Russian collusion hoaxers after the 2016 election. pic.twitter.com/ptBksdnCpZ
— Kevin Tober (@KevinTober94) August 15, 2023
The @OccupyDemocrats account on X ignored the giggles and suggested Clinton’s reaction had been “classy” — and focused solely on the fact that she later called the indictment a “sad” reflection of where America was as a society. “Trump would never have such a classy reaction,” they posted.