Former Secretary of State and failed rival to former President Donald Trump Hillary Clinton is effectively blaming Trump for two assassination attempts on him in July and on Sunday, saying that he should try to "calm the waters" to avoid further attempts on his life.
“This is such a terrible thing to happen twice in our country in a relatively short period of time, and it’s frightening to see violence being threatened and used in a political campaign,” Clinton told Katie Couric during a Monday interview.
Both President Joe Biden and Democrat presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris have repeatedly called Trump a "threat to democracy" and used other similar rhetoric, but Clinton chose to blame the victim for the violence against him.
“If he were really a leader, he should be doing what he can to calm the waters, not try to just continue to throw red meat out there to get people riled up," she said.
In Clinton's opinion, Trump is only an effective politician because he “keeps people agitated. He keeps people angry. He keeps people upset.”
“I think it helps to have some sense of history and to know that in many society’s political systems, people who have an ability to connect with the fears, and the insecurities, and the anger and the hatreds of people in their society are very effective demagogues,” Clinton said.
“I think what he has done is to open that door to that in our country,” she said, ignoring the rhetoric from the other side that has been completely overblown in how it describes Trump.
As if her comments about Trump haven't called her judgment into question enough, she went on to say that Harris has run a "near-perfect" campaign.
She considers herself as having passed the torch to Harris, who could now accomplish the goal Clinton had to become the first woman president, during her DNC speech last month.
"As the first woman major-party nominee in American history, Clinton said she “wasn’t sure how I would feel when another woman would be so close to breaking that glass ceiling – and I was thrilled,” she said.
“It’s not just breaking through the glass ceiling; it’s about what’s on the other side of the glass ceiling," she said.
Clinton was a failure of a candidate.
She and Harris have that in common even if they manage to fool almost half of the electorate.
No doubt, Harris is saying "no thanks" to that torch being passed, if she knows what's good for her.
