Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lashed out at President Trump after the United States reported the coronavirus death toll surpassed 100,000 earlier this week.
Writing to Twitter on Thursday, Clinton criticized the president for sharing a controversial video by Cowboys for Trump before accusing Trump of failing to respond to the coronavirus appropriately.
“Over the last 24 hours, the 100,000th American died of COVID-19 on Trump’s watch,” Clinton tweeted. “He’s spent the last 24 hours sharing videos that begin ‘The only good Democrat is a dead Democrat’ while complaining Twitter’s censoring him. We need a real president.”
Over the last 24 hours, the 100,000th American died of COVID-19 on Trump’s watch.
He’s spent the last 24 hours sharing videos that begin “The only good Democrat is a dead Democrat” while complaining Twitter’s censoring him.
We need a real president. https://t.co/bqnPUACScf
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) May 28, 2020
On Wednesday, Trump shared a video that showed Cowboys for Trump founder Couy Griffin saying that “the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat.” Griffin followed up the comment by saying he only meant it in a “political sense.”
Clinton, who lost to Trump in the 2016 election, has been critical of Trump through every step of the coronavirus pandemic. On March 17, Clinton mocked the president’s America First policy platform by saying he had achieved that very goal as the U.S. led the world in coronavirus cases. On May 5, she said U.S. citizens would “suffer” after Trump announced his plans to wind down the White House Coronavirus Task Force.
On May 23, the New York Times dedicated its entire front page to mark the coronavirus death toll.
