Clinton says Trump’s threats ‘should scare every American’

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Americans, regardless of their politics, should fear “certain forms of intimidation” from former President Donald Trump, who is certain to be the Republican presidential nominee this fall.

in podcast episode On Democracy Docket’s “Defending Democracy,” which aired last Friday, Clinton sharply contrasted President Trump and President Biden, saying that the current president “is not flamboyant, but he has been aggressively attacking people at rallies and online. “We are modeling responsible leadership.” We don’t execute people or threaten to put them in jail. ”

“Threats like the ones we hear from Donald Trump should frighten all Americans,” said Clinton, the Democratic candidate who lost to Trump in the 2016 presidential election.

Clinton characterized her 2016 opponent as an “authoritarian” and offered her views on the threat Trump poses to the organization.

“Because with authoritarians, you don’t know which side of the bed they’re going to wake up on, you don’t know who they’re going to be angry with today, and somebody’s basically offering business to a relative to take bribes. There’s some other talent out there that’s trying to destroy one business in favor of another,” she said.

“They’ll never know because they don’t believe in the rule of law. They don’t believe in institutions, so if you give them a chance to be more unfettered than he was in his first term, he’ll give himself “As we were trying to figure out what we could do, and there were actually some people around him, to restrain him, it would all go away,” Clinton said.

“If he were to come back near the White House, it would be like having a dictator. I don’t say that lightly.”

The Trump campaign did not respond to requests for comment. The Hill has also reached out to Clinton’s office for further comment.

Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden are the presumptive candidates of the major political parties in the 2024 presidential election this November. According to national pollsters at Decision Desk HQ/The Hill, President Trump (45.3 percent) leads Biden (44.4 percent) by less than 1 percentage point, which is within the margin of error for most polls. is.