Hillary Clinton is not handling the 2016 loss as well as she could.
After a brief self-imposed exile nearly four years ago, the two-time failed presidential candidate emerged from seclusion to embark on what seems like an endless national tour to convince anyone who will listen that she was robbed of the presidency. Her national tour has also included her calling for Trump administration officials to resign as well as for Congress to investigate the president.
But it is not personal, she claims. She is just a concerned patriot.
Clinton’s most recent act of definitely-not-personal anti-Trump commentary came this week in the form of her suggesting special counsel Robert Mueller did not do his job properly. Her supposedly impartial assessment of the special counsel’s two-year investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, which included 40-plus agents, 2,800 subpoenas, 500 executed search warrants, and 500 witness interviews, is based on its failure to come back with conspiracy charges against President Trump.
“Imagine … that you had one of the Democratic nominees for 2020 on your show, and that person said, you know, the only other adversary of ours who is anywhere near as good as the Russians is China,” Clinton said Wednesday in an interview with MSNBC’s chief promoter of the Russian collusion theory, Rachel Maddow. “So why should Russia have all the fun? And since Russia is clearly backing Republicans, why don’t we ask China to back us?”
Clinton added, “And not only that, China, if you’re listening, why don’t you get Trump’s tax returns? I’m sure our media would richly reward you.”
The failed presidential candidate’s comment is a reference to when Trump joked in July 2016 during a press conference, “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.” Democratic National Committee staffers and Clinton’s own campaign chairman were hacked later by Russian operatives.
“Now,” Clinton continued, referring to her China hypothetical, “according to the Mueller report, that is not conspiracy because it’s done right out in the open.”
“[I]f you’re going to let Russia get away with what they did and are still doing,” she grumbled, why not “have a great power contest and let’s get the Chinese in on the side of somebody else.”
Clinton also said Attorney General William Barr should resign, calling him the “president’s defense lawyer.” She added that Barr “is not the attorney general of the United States in the way that he has conducted himself.”
All this comes just days after Clinton called on Congress to continue investigating President Trump for possible collusion with the Kremlin, even though the Mueller report specifically failed to “establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.”
Amazingly enough, after all of this: The years of backbiting from the sidelines, calling on Congress to continue investigating Trump, calling on Barr to resign, etc., Clinton bragged to Maddow, “I’m living rent-free inside of Donald Trump’s brain.”
Yes, Trump is clearly the one obsessed in this equation.
Mmm-hmm.
