Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that former President Trump is “the only person I can say was better four years ago” after facing legal troubles.
“After multiple indictments and subsequent $500 million civil liability, Donald Trump is about the only person who can say he was better off four years ago,” Clinton said. said in the post X, formerly known as Twitter.
Trump’s 2016 presidential rival’s comments come as the former president’s lawyers indicated in a court filing Monday that Trump will not be able to secure $464 million bail in a civil fraud case in New York. This follows. He said his lawyers spent “countless hours negotiating with the world’s largest insurance companies” and approached 30 companies to support the bond.
“The judgment amount exceeds $464 million, including interest, and few bond companies would consider a bond amount approaching this amount,” Trump’s lawyers wrote.
In a post on Truth Social Monday night, President Trump expressed his distaste for bail in the wake of civil fraud charges.
“The scale of the bond set by Democratic club-controlled judges is on corrupt racists.” [New York Attorney General Letitia James’] “Illegal witch hunts are unconstitutional, un-American, unprecedented, and virtually impossible for any company, including successful ones like mine,” President Trump said. wrote.
“Bonding companies have never heard of bonds of this size and do not have the capacity to issue such bonds,” he added.
Clinton’s comments could also be an allusion to new Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley, who said in a recent interview that America is better off now than under Trump. Whatley was trying to make the case that the country is worse off under President Biden’s leadership than it was under the Trump administration four years ago.
“At the end of the day, this comes down to a very simple contrast between President Trump and President Biden,” Whatley said. “Was you richer four years ago than you are now? The answer across this country is no. That’s right. ‘”
“We will now be better off under President Trump than we were under President Biden,” he stumbled.
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