President Trump on Wednesday mocked Hillary Clinton for saying the 2016 election was “stolen” from her, rather than acknowledge her failure to campaign in the Midwestern state of Wisconsin.
The president adopted a vacuous facial expression to mimic Clinton. “Hillary Clinton is still going up, ‘Ahhh, I think they stole the election,'”Trump said at a campaign rally in Panama City, Fla. “But no, she lost. She lost,” he said. “The next time she’s gotta go to Wisconsin to campaign.”
Trump paused to allow the crowd to chant “lock her up!” before complimenting the relative savvy of former President Bill Clinton, whose advice to tend to the Midwest was reportedly rebuffed by a millennial adviser to his wife.
“In all fairness her husband Bill, who is a good politician, they didn’t listen to him,” Trump added. “He said, ‘You better go to Wisconsin, you better go to Michigan. I’m seeing a lot of things out there … I see a lot of Trump-Pence signs’ … And they sorta said, ‘What the hell does he know?’ But he’s a pro, he’s a pro.”
Trump said his opponents “keep trying to take” away his election victory, a claim he often associates with special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
During an event in Los Angeles on Saturday, Clinton said she lost the 2016 election because it was “stolen” from her.
“You can run the best campaign, you can even become the nominee, and you can have the election stolen from you,” Clinton said, expressing concern about Russia’s potential role in the 2020 election.
