“Hillary Clinton’s Controversial Response to Trump’s Second Assassination Attempt: Blaming the Victim?”
In a career that’s splashed a stain across American politics for more than three decades, Hillary Clinton has rarely made herself, or her fans, look worse.
The woman whose lies tried to destroy President Donald Trump’s time in the White House used a public appearance Monday to blame Trump for his reaction to violent attempts to end his life.
And her liberal audience laughed — and lapped it up.
In an interview Monday in Washington to promote her new book, “Something Lost, Something Gained,” the former first lady, secretary of state, and Democratic nominee for president weighed in on Sunday’s foiled assassination attempt on Trump in Florida with words that offered lip service to the idea that violence has no place in politics — but then effectively accused Trump of stoking the violence himself.
Clinton was speaking after journalist Katie Couric asked for her reaction to a social media post-Trump published on Monday that declared that leftist rhetoric “has taken politics in our Country to a whole new level of Hatred, Abuse, and Distrust.”
The words are objectively true — and any American who hasn’t been in a coma in over the past decade knows it.
But truth has never been one of Hillary’s top concerns.
“It is so regrettable that the former president would take what is a genuinely terrible event — someone stalking a former president and current candidate — and turn it into, as he did with that tweet that you just read, a political attack on his opposition and literally everybody else who does not support him.
“It really does come down, once again, to everything — everything — that he talks about is about himself.”
But as bad as that was, the run-up was worse, as Clinton listened to Couric’s question, smirking for the audience, and the crowd laughed like they were at a comedy club instead of discussing a man’s attempted murder.