Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accused President Trump of selling out U.S. diplomats amid accusations that the president delayed military aid to Ukraine in an attempt to force an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden, who currently leads the pack of 2020 Democrats.
Clinton gave a speech at an awards ceremony for women in U.S. foreign service at Georgetown University on Friday. She used the opportunity to take a few shots at Trump, who beat her in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
“He has turned American diplomacy into a cheap extortion racket,” Clinton told the crowd. “He has denigrated, and let’s be honest, stabbed in the back the career foreign service officers who serve bravely and selflessly no matter the politics of the administration that they are working under.”
“Now sadly, we’ve known who Donald Trump is for some time now. We knew he was a corrupt business man who cheated people,” Clinton added. “We knew that he and his campaign invited foreign adversaries to tamper with our elections. And now we know that in the course of his duties a president, he’s endangered us all by putting his personal and political interests ahead of the interests of the American people.”
Trump’s July phone call with the Ukrainian leader is at the center of an intelligence community whistleblower complaint. Both the transcript of the call and the contents of the complaint were released this week, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that House Democrats are launching a formal impeachment inquiry.
