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Hillary Clinton in blistering new attack on Trump: 'Our democracy is in crisis'
The Manchester Guardian ^ | September 17, 2018 | Ed Pilkington in New York

Posted on 09/17/2018 2:32:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Hillary Clinton has unleashed a blazing attack on Donald Trump, accusing the man who beat her in 2016 in the race for the White House of cruelty, negligence, corruption, dishonesty, racism and malevolence that have combined to put democracy in America into crisis.

In an afterword to the new paperback edition of her book on her 2016 presidential election defeat, What Happened, Clinton makes her most excoriating takedown yet of Trump’s character and actions since he took office. The essay, published on Monday by the Atlantic, accuses the sitting president of undermining basic democratic values and positioning himself as a tyrant.

In unconstrained language, Clinton charges her former presidential rival with a raft of traits she suggests is anathema to the healthy workings of democracy. He has shown “unspeakable cruelty” over family separation at the Mexican border; “monstrous neglect” of Puerto Rico that led to almost 3,000 deaths; and of “breathtaking corruption” involving his administration’s conflicts of interest and ethics violations.

“Trump and his cronies do so many despicable things that it can be hard to keep track,” she writes, concluding that “right now, our democracy is in crisis … There are no tanks in the streets. The administration’s malevolence may be constrained on some fronts – for now – by its incompetence. But our democratic institutions and traditions are under siege.”

This is not the first time that the former first lady and two-time presidential candidate has spoken out about Trump. In June she told the Guardian that the president was acting as a dictator might in a “third-world banana republic”; and in July she told a conference in New York that his ambivalent stance on the threat posed by Russian interference in US elections was “deeply disturbing”....

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: New York; Campaign News; Issues; State and Local
KEYWORDS: hillary; trump
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1 posted on 09/17/2018 2:32:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Shut up, hater of the USA and evil person.


2 posted on 09/17/2018 2:33:33 PM PDT by madison10 (Pray for President Trump.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Not democratic values...trump undermines democrat values


3 posted on 09/17/2018 2:34:33 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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4 posted on 09/17/2018 2:35:35 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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but she couldn’t give more details because the Reporter was at the top of some Stairs ,LOL


5 posted on 09/17/2018 2:36:00 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Our Republic has been under siege since Usurpation Day, January 20, 2009

Barack Obama is NOT a natural born citizen

Not one of our elected or appointed stood for the Constitution.


6 posted on 09/17/2018 2:36:01 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s time to round up these traitors, Mr. President, before they take you out.


7 posted on 09/17/2018 2:36:58 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Jeff Sessions IS the insurance policy)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Thanks to vile evil leftists like you Hitlery; we are seeing some political rough patches but we will overcome.

Ever notice how ‘vile’ and ‘evil’ both have the same letters and make one think of leftists?


8 posted on 09/17/2018 2:37:25 PM PDT by Boomer
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Hill needs to up the rhetoric and start dropping the f-bomb all over the place.

A winning strategy for November.


9 posted on 09/17/2018 2:37:35 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WHY AM I NOT 50 POINTS AHEAD..let’s just have California and New York decide elections..why the heck not..the rest of the country, well their vote is meaningless..the only votes that matter are Commie votes..Dear Hillary, go back to bed with your colostomy bag and catheter, no one gives two sh*ts what you think


10 posted on 09/17/2018 2:37:47 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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Project much, Felonia?


11 posted on 09/17/2018 2:38:21 PM PDT by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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Sounds like a whole lot of projection to me.


12 posted on 09/17/2018 2:38:29 PM PDT by taxcontrol
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< our democratic institutions and traditions are under siege.” >

darn right they are. "democratic" has become full red communist. So we're taking the REPUBLIC back from the "democratic" mob-rule loonies.

13 posted on 09/17/2018 2:38:31 PM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

And on top of that you have this loony Clinton lady claiming some sort of authority.


14 posted on 09/17/2018 2:39:06 PM PDT by Shark24
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“cruelty, negligence, corruption, dishonesty, racism and malevolence”

There she goes again, projecting her most egregious characteristics.


15 posted on 09/17/2018 2:42:05 PM PDT by Huaynero
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It is NOT a democracy. It is a Federal Republic.

Democracy: Two wolves and one lamb deciding “What’s for lunch?”

Federal Republic: Excise taxes are applied uniformly without regard to wealth or income. Direct taxes and votes are apportioned according to population.


16 posted on 09/17/2018 2:46:06 PM PDT by TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed (Yahuah Yahusha)
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we do not have a democracy, HilLIARY

we have something sick that, thanks to you and Obama and SorozNazi and a few more traitors, imho, like Kerry....
is right on the verge of a commie/Nazi style dictatorship

and we are NOT supposed to have a democracy, anyway
our Founders realized well, wrote extensively about just how dangerous a democracy would be for USA...they were mostly very well read, educated people and they were quoting history and all the way back to the most famous of the Greek philosopher, teachers

our Founders gave us a republic (NOT a democracy!)...
a republic, HilLIARy... and as was said then,
“if we could keep it”

well, you and your co-conspirator dictatorship type Ah*les have taken it away from us 2009-2017

but we definitely are NOT supposed to have a “democracy”.. nor would you ever permit us to have even THAT if you ever got your butt in power... it would be a pure dictatorship just like O was working to “transform” USA into

so stop talking about “democracy”


17 posted on 09/17/2018 2:48:53 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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Hillary... “If I lose we will all hang.”

Define all.......


18 posted on 09/17/2018 2:49:30 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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Enjoy it folks. You’re watching her go down. It’s Shakespearesque.


19 posted on 09/17/2018 2:50:07 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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20 posted on 09/17/2018 2:50:17 PM PDT by maddog55
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