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.
"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."
Clinton's intervention is likely to fall on deaf ears among diehard Trump supporters, who have dismissed her public comments as the bleating of a loser.
Trump won the 2016 election by 304 electoral college votes to Clinton's 227, although much to his chagrin she won the popular vote, polling almost 3m more votes than he did.
Clinton breaks down her critique of Trump into five categories, the most incendiary of which is her depiction of him as a racist who is guilty of venting hate speech.
"Assault on the rule of law." Clinton accuses Trump of behaving as though he were above the law, saying that a "Leader who refuses to be subject to the law is a tyrant, plain and simple".
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/17/hillary-clinton-trump-essay-what-happened-afterword
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.
"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."
Clinton's intervention is likely to fall on deaf ears among diehard Trump supporters, who have dismissed her public comments as the bleating of a loser.
Trump won the 2016 election by 304 electoral college votes to Clinton's 227, although much to his chagrin she won the popular vote, polling almost 3m more votes than he did.
Clinton breaks down her critique of Trump into five categories, the most incendiary of which is her depiction of him as a racist who is guilty of venting hate speech.
"Assault on the rule of law." Clinton accuses Trump of behaving as though he were above the law, saying that a "Leader who refuses to be subject to the law is a tyrant, plain and simple".
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/17/hillary-clinton-trump-essay-what-happened-afterword
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