Hillary Clinton called President Trump and his administration a “clear and present danger to the future of our country” because of their desire to change reality and facts to fit their message.
Clinton said that feeling first started during the inauguration when then-White House press secretary Sean Spicer took to the podium to lie on Trump’s behalf about the inauguration being the most attended and most watched inauguration in history.
“And I felt very uneasy about that inauguration. I’ve been to a bunch of them. I’ve been when people I supported won and people I supported lost. But this was different,” Clinton said.
“This was not a normal inauguration. And then it was made even more surreal with the claims about the crowd size and the introduction of alternative facts. And then I started thinking,’Whoa. This is much more than just transfer from a two-term Democratic president to an unusual but, you know, Republican president.’ And I just couldn’t really grasp how big a challenge they intended to pose to facts and evidence and reason.”
Clinton would later say the White House’s messaging and fights against journalists and experts are dangerous for the country.
“The stakes of what we face in this time are just profound. And I said before, and I will repeat it here, I think that this president and the people who serve him on this alternative reality track are posing a clear and present danger to the future of our country,” she said.
But, it was Spicer’s press conference — one in which he lampooned himself at the Emmy Awards Sunday night — claiming Trump’s inauguration was the most attended in history that bothered Clinton the most.
She said it was easily observable to everyone that Trump’s inauguration simply didn’t have as big a crowd as former President Barack Obama had at either of his inaugurations. And yet, the White House seemed to want to impose their own version of reality on events.
“When I saw that I thought, you know, this is much, much bigger than any transfer of presidential power that I’m aware of in recent history, because of the assumptions that the new administration was operating on and the brazenness of their attempt to distort reality and impose their version of facts and truths on all the rest of us despite what we saw with our own eyes,” she said. “That bothered me greatly.”
