Posted on 11/02/2026 4:40:06 AM PST by MtnClimber
Featured photo: Hillary Clinton’s official portrait as Secretary of State. U.S. Department of State, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Five days before the midterms, Hillary Clinton told Democrats what a new majority would do first. Not lower grocery bills. Not cheaper gas. Investigations.
On the Oct. 28 episode of High Stakes, the Vox Media podcast she co-hosts with Kara Swisher, Clinton predicted President Trump would soon face “a Democratic Congress trying to rein him in, hold him accountable, and investigate him, his administration, his family, his supporters and allies.” Then she added: “So buckle up. The election is just the beginning.” The remarks come at about the 1:12 mark of the episode, according to a published transcript and the Rothman Report’s account of the episode.
“His supporters”
Investigating an administration is Congress’s job, and Republicans did plenty of it under President Biden. But Clinton did not stop at the administration. She named Trump’s family, his “allies” and his “supporters.” More than 77 million Americans voted for Trump in 2024: 77,302,580, according to the Federal Election Commission’s official results. Clinton did not say which supporters she had in mind, or what they would be investigated for.
That vagueness is the problem. This is the same politician who said in September 2016 that “you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables,” according to Time. Now she is talking about a congressional majority that would go after the people around the president, five days before voters decide who controls the House. It is fair to ask whether “hold him accountable” means oversight or payback.
She also cited the idea from behavioral psychology that people “in what’s called the domain of loss” will “double down on risk,” and predicted Trump would “most likely launch more attacks on Iran.” She said Trump “has held Republicans hostage for a decade” and that the hostages would eventually decide to “take him on.”
Affordability as an afterthought
To be fair, Clinton did mention prices. She said Democratic leaders want to “start introducing legislation to deal with affordability” on day one, and she closed by calling affordability and corruption “the two big issues.” But in the same episode she named no specific bill on grocery prices, housing or energy. The investigations got the big line. The kitchen-table plan got a sentence. 
Voters have seen this movie. After Democrats took the House in 2018, the next two years were dominated by the Russia probe, impeachment and subpoena fights. Clinton is telling voters, in her own words, to expect the sequel.
If Democrats want to win on the cost of living, they should lead with the cost of living. Promising to investigate a president’s “supporters” is not an economic plan. It is a warning, and Clinton was honest enough to say so. Voters should take her at her word: buckle up.
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Watch out if the Dims win the House or the Senate.
The basket of deplorables....
Oh yes, I am sure that the hypocritical witch hunts will do nothing but good to the Democrat brand, eh?
She knows that if the House and Senate Remain Republican, the first Serious attempt will be made to make her pay for her crimes (and Obama).
The key difference between the two parties —
Our side has been saying “lock her up” since 2016, but we have done nothing to her (despite her many obvious crimes) and we will do nothing to her.
Their side, on the other hand, will try to destroy ordinary people for voting incorrectly or for donating small amounts of money. If you purchased a MAGA hat, they know about your crime and they WILL get you for it.
Wonder if Israel is going to help us out?
What? Hillary Clinton’s Midterm Pitch? “Investigate Trump’s ‘Supporters and Allies.”
Mmmmmm........Hillary hasnt sounded this politically prescient since that exciting day in 2016
when she bragged about “all the foreign leaders” supporting HER candidacy......... to stop Trump.
What? Hillary Clinton’s Midterm Pitch? “Investigate Trump’s ‘Supporters and Allies?”
Mmmmmm........Hillary hasnt sounded this politically prescient since that exciting day in 2016
when she bragged about “all the foreign leaders” supporting HER candidacy......... to stop Trump.
Can her ego withstand the notion of being irrelevant? If not, it is time for her to learn to cope with it.
She is not relevant. Not a viable candidate, not considered cool, not interesting, not a source for great wisdom, etc.
While she was Senator of a blue state and an ambassador, her notoriety and path to success was made possible by being Bill’s wife. Now she’s just an angry old woman watching President Donald J. Trump becoming one of the more consequential and memorable Presidents of our time. She’s watching her beloved Leftism flail around on the ground like an upset toddler.
I predict a VERY good day for Republicans tomorrow, an even better day for America.
Why would she worry now with the statute of limitations making everything null and void. Remember she said back in 2015 something to the effect of ID Trump wind we will all hang. Trump did nothing. No investigations on Hillary, Obama, and all the crap with Biden and the open border nothing was done to hold anyone accountable, why all of a sudden would Trump start draining the swamp after almost a decade of making those promises that went unfulfilled?
What? Hillary Clinton’s Midterm Pitch? “Investigate Trump’s Supporters and Allies?”
What? Hillary Clinton’s Midterm Pitch? “Investigate Trump’s Supporters and Allies?”
Hillary is in no position of power.
If she was, she would be dangerous. (Arkancides)
Investigations can’t be anything left to investigate on Trump the only reason the keep doing it is to dodge being investigated.
The teachers of fraud give lesson
She's not fooling anyone!
She's not fooling anyone!
Wow, her inner commie/dictatorship is really coming to the surface. Beleive them when they say stuff like this because they mean it. We are just now learning about how Biden targeted Conservatives big time. Sounds like she wants to take it even further. The left no longer hide their intentions to turnthis nation into a communist ruled nation
Endless investigations and how trials.
It’s the bread and circuses of totalitarian collectivist everywhere.
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