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Hillary Clinton Compares Russian Election Interference To The 9/11 Attacks

Emily Zanotti

During an interview at the Atlantic Festival, failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton compared suspected Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election — an “attack” by a foreign power — to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Clinton addressed a variety of topics in her on-stage interview with Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, recycling a handful of excuses for her loss and accusing President Trump of embracing “white nationalism.” She also seemed to accuse the Trump campaign of taking part in an international “Vast Right Wing Conspiracy” to alter election results — a conspiracy that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s own year-long investigation has found no proof of.

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